Associated Press: “US home prices up 9.3 pct., most in nearly 7 years”
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The show was staffed up and set to launch with great fanfare Monday morning on 94.1 FM. That frequency already is licensed and used by the CBC for simultaneous broadcast in Saskatoon of the network’s provincewide AM signal, with the morning show out of Regina. The plan was to use that place on the FM dial, at least in the mornings, for live local broadcasting. As of Monday, Saskatoon no longer would be the biggest city in Canada without a local morning show on CBC radio.
The plan went sideways this week because the network forgot to apply for the requisite federal broadcast license.
h/t Rob
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*I swear, it’s like sipping from a firehose some days.
h/t Mike in Montreal
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The [Toronto Star] story had a central theme: renters are victims. Screwed. And the investors who own those condos are the screwees. […]
Of course, as I’ve proven time and again, reality is something quite different. Most investor-landlords are lucky to break even on their condos, usually in negative cash flow because market rents simply can’t cover financing, condo fees and taxes – let alone give a return on invested equity. In other words, someone like KLM renting a unit for $1,625 is being subsidized by the delusional twit who actually owns the place, even with a mortgage at sub-3%. They’re also avoiding the looming disaster of a condo market meltdown – a story now getting almost daily coverage.
How could a smart young professional not figure this out? Unless she has zero real estate knowledge?
As I walked through the airport, powered up my phone and checked out the latest anguished comments to this tormented blog, I suddenly realized who Kerri Lynn McAlister really is. She’s a plant.
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As it turns out, KLM is also a newspaper writer and industry spokesperson.
h/t Colby Cosh
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Oh, Shiny Pony!
Look! A poll!
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The NRA must be thanking its lucky stars that a bumbling amateur like Barack Obama is in the White House instead of the arch-politician Maureen Dowd…
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“How confident was the Sydney Morning Herald that the Boston bombers were associated with the Tea Party?”
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Wired – “Luckily, our science writers of the 1990s were wrong about almost everything.”
h/t Kelley
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BBC: Thanks for your email and please accept our apologies for the delay in replying. We try and stick as closely as possible to the words used, so, in this case we used ‘Jewish claims’ in the short space available for headlines to summarise his comments.
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And another where journos may preen in peace. MT @acoyne Seriously, why couldn’t there be a separate Twitter just for trolls?
— katewerk (@katewerk) April 20, 2013
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“The editorials that appear in this space represent the opinion of The StarPhoenix.”
So if you were of a mind to cancel your subscription, this would be the day.
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“But for most, it was the best job they could find.“
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Not Watching For The Asteroid
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The Gosnell trial: When Media Bias Becomes News Suppression