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Undercover investigative journalism is a technique that journalists use, but they normally operate under oversight when using such techniques.

For example, at the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/editorial-standards/guidelines-on-integrity.html

Masquerading

Times reporters do not actively misrepresent their identity to get a story. We may sometimes remain silent on our identity and allow assumptions to be made — to observe an institution’s dealings with the public, for example, or the behavior of people at a rally or police officers in a bar near the station house. But a sustained, systematic deception, even a passive one — taking a job, for example, to observe a business from the inside — may be employed only after consultation between a department head and masthead editors. (Obviously, specific exceptions exist for restaurant reviewing and similar assignments.)

Or the CBC Radio's guidelines at http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/reporting-to-canadians/acts-and-policies/programming/journalism/consumer-reporting/

Clandestine Methods: Principles

In journalism, clandestine methods include: recording a scene or statements with hidden technical devices; conducting an interview without first identifying oneself as a journalist; asking someone else to gather information on our behalf using any of these methods; and using concealment techniques when we gather digital information.

Since we are aware that unwarranted use of clandestine methods could impair the credibility of our reporting, we will ascertain beforehand that the method chosen clearly serves the public interest and is lawful. We will consult appropriate editorial management on the method we propose to use and its purpose; as well, whether material will be gathered mainly for research on the subject or for publication in our report.

Different journalistic organizations will of course have different standards, but they nevertheless recognize that deception can cause harm and investigations that utilize deception should be subject to stricter scrutiny in order weigh the potential harms to the subjects and to the field of journalism against the benefits to the public.

I'm not saying that the inquiry isn't at least partially motivated by political reasons, but that part of the IRB's involvement is due to Boghossian bypassing the protocols that were in place that would have allowed the university to make a determination on whether his research met their required ethical standards. Saying that journalists do it too is not an excuse because even journalists are held to a similar, albeit weaker standard.

Put away your bedtime stories. You're repeating horseshit.

A news-tier source refuting the idea that it started in the way you suggest.

Now, let's move on to the other problem. We'll assume an alternate reality where that was the case, that it started in response to that. That claim wasn't a lie. You're full of shit. Rather, it was a lie in the sense that as stated, it was wrong (which makes it a convenient meme for sure), but the substance of it was not wrong.

If you could read words, you would see that Totilo himself acknowledges that something to this effect happened. He is handwaving the allegations for two reasons: First, it wasn't a review. Second, they had a "professional" relationship at the time. 2 weeks later, it was romantic, but not before the coverage. Supposedly.

He also only specifically wrote about the Kotaku coverage, which was a single article. His investigation amounted to talking to Grayson directly and that was the end of it.

Two articles from before the Kotaku article:
https://archive.is/WtK25
https://archive.is/QwJbc

And let's not forget that he saw fit to cover her again, this time disclosing that they had dated briefly, but somehow not mentioning the financial support.

It was not a weak angle. Tell me what the fuck you would expect of an overly corrupt media. I suppose they'll investigate themselves and find that they've done wrong? The simple, undeniable fact is that they abused their platform and that happened regardless of what you and your warm fuzzy feelings about massive herds of misogynists does for you.

I don't pretend to know what happened at 4chan, but what's incredible is that you think you know more than anybody else about it. How do you know those things?

Just Like how in the U.S. the Department of Transportation is cutting and gutting into businesses that want to create roads and charge people to use them because you know, they're Gov't funded so can undercut these businesses even to the point of providing roads that can be travelled on for free cause they can just use funds given to them and don't need to charge the users.

No i do not see how the CBC is exceeding their funding mandate. probably because i've actually you know, read it. maybe you should give that a go too.
below is an excerpt from the CBC Site which i find relevant:
 

"...the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as the national public broadcaster, should provide radio and television services incorporating a wide range of programming that informs, enlightens and entertains; ...the programming provided by the Corporation should: ...be made available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means and as resources become available for the purpose,

it would seem that they are doing exactly this.

The Full Broadcasting act is available here
I am unable to find anything in it that makes it seem that the CBC would be exceeding their funding mandate.

Plus, the CBC being a Crown Corporation, is run by the state and funded by tax dollars, which also allows for many unfair advantages - They're claiming non-proft, getting the tax break, and being funded by tax dollars to begin with, don't even need to be profitable or self-sustaining, and is, as a result, undercutting big media.

Contrary to what people here (who really will just say anything to avoid just coming out and saying that all this hoopla is because they want things for free), might insist, this is a huge dick move by the CBC, and they have every reason to be pissed.

How is it a dick move to do precisely what they were set up to do?
from their mandate:

The 1991 Broadcasting Act states that...
"...the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as the national public broadcaster, should provide radio and television services incorporating a wide range of programming that informs, enlightens and entertains; ...
be made available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means and as resources become available for the purpose, and ...

this would seem to be the most efficient means to provide this service.
the fee was negotiated and agreed to. you can't change your mind afterwards unless you hold that right as part of the initial agreement.

Canada has decided as a country that they wanted to set up a body to make entertainment available to all its citizens the CBC is doing that in the best way possible. sorry if you don't like that but well, deal with it.

And all this talk about innovation is patently absurd, you'll see these very same people in any other thread arguing about how "blah blah blah ON A TABLET" is invalid and not innovative, but now, "blah blah blah, BUT FOR FREE" is the be all, end all of innovation?

1. They're not trying to patent a model for free distribution of music.
2. Their distribution method is not exactly the same as big media, only free.

Hi, Interestingly, there was an investigation about those banks in canada recently and here are the results : 1 - The blood quantity that are saved in private banks would save a child up to 10 kilograms (about 20-25 pounds), so, a child of about 18months. So it's totally useless to pre-pay for years. 2 - Public banks have HIGH conservation standards, lot higher than private banks.The problem with private banks is that you never know if it's a good one or a bad one. public banks have all the same quality standards. plus, most hospitals NEVER take blood from private banks because of random quality standards. if you can understand french, here is the investigation : http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/la_facture/2011-2012/Reportage.asp?idDoc=208988

Recently a consumer interest show in Quebec did a report on private cord banks.
One of the big sticking point is that the window of actual usefulness is relatively short as there is only a small quantity of stem cells available, and usually once someone is over 50kg there is not enough stem cells for treatment.

Here is the link in french
http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/la_facture/2011-2012/Reportage.asp?idDoc=208988

Agreed. Private cord banks are pure scam, abusing of vulnerable parents who do not want to take any risks ("a small price to pay for peace of mind").

Public cord banks, on the other hand, save lives. Stem cells can be taken from a donor, not just from umbelical cords. Hema Quebec is a good example of an efficient public bank, imho.

Not to mention that it is unlikely that a single umbelical cord would be enough to save a life. A person under 50kg may require up to the equivalent of 3 or 4 umbelical cords. (ref, in french)

http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/la_facture/2011-2012/Reportage.asp?idDoc=194638 (video)

In this case there is the CBCs own mandate "actively contribute to the flow and exchange of cultural expression" http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/about/mandate.shtml and nothing does that more than the creative commons which does it freely.

In relation to Canadian law there is also this "(ii) encourage the development of Canadian expression by providing a wide range of programming that reflects Canadian attitudes, opinions, ideas, values and artistic creativity, by displaying Canadian talent in entertainment programming and by offering information and analysis concerning Canada and other countries from a Canadian point of view," http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/B-9.01/page-1.html#anchorbo-ga:l_I-gb:s_3. In one fell swoop they have excluded all Canadians who make use of and contribute to the creative commons and they have effectively barred CBC from contributing to the creative commons in contravention to the law that governs the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

In this case not only should the illegal contract get overturned but the criminals that signed it should be fired.

Montreal claims ~30000$CAD per kilometer of street. http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Montreal/2009/12/21/003-Deneigement-Outremont-Plateau.shtml?ref=rss

This news item published today in French on the national news network made me aware of the Songswriters Association of Canada's proposal of 5$/month/Internet user for unlimited legal download of any music on any media. It is a very interesting read which includes several pertinent references and statistics (whatever stats are worth). On this page, you'll find support for the proposal from the Canadian Music Creators Coalition. It's nice to see pressure on the CRIA coming from many fronts. I don't know the SAC's importance in the industry, but since it made the national news, maybe it's not completely irrelevant.

(And by the way, MENTIONING moster-cable among audio pros is a faux-pas in and of itself). Expensive digital cables are a HUGE ripoff, because jitter is largely a consequence of the source, rather than the transmission... and a well-made (yes, just look at it) $10 digital cable is going to sound no different from the $1000 MIT insanity.

So true. A consumer care TV show up here made a report about stores like BestBuy and al. trying to sell you cables costing several hundred dollars. They even went to a lab to have the cables analyzed and tested, and it showed that a $0.99 HDMI cable bought on eBay performed no worse than a $250 monster cable.

See (and watch) the report here (French, search for the words "câble numérique" or scroll about 80% down the page).

My source for reputable news on the internet is from a television's website.
Canada's french CBC website www.radio-canada.ca is a jewel for this and I'll take their article's over most other web sites.
Very professional, lists link to article's sources. Gives access to clips of the reports and so much more. It's way better than the english CBC's website.

As for english news. I tend to read off of the BBC's website. Mainly because it's RSS links are on my firefox by default.

This is funny... Because a few days ago Quebec announced that it had decided to follow the US and that the gov of Qc was trying to convince Ontario and New Brunswick (that are also in EST). Radio-canada reported it (in French)

Podcasts of news (and other) shows are also offered by public radio stations such as the BBC, CBC and SRC.

Télévision Radio-Canada, the french equivalent of CBC TV, has been putting a TV show called Enjeux, a social issues TV show, online for the last 4 years. It's a really good show. Too bad the recent budget cuts by our government in state-financed television is going to cut the number of episodes from 22 to 8 next year. For the non french impaired, click here. It has most of the episodes online.

The masters will be offered in the Sherbrooke University in Quebec: http://www.usherbrooke.ca/

I am currently studying in Quebec city in the province of Quebec in Canada and most people have a hard time speaking or understanding english although many of our books are written in english. It is the same situation in Sherbrooke where the Ubisoft campus will be located so it is pretty sure that the courses will be in french.

reference in french.

I too listen to CBC radio.

My fave for news is indeed Radio One (690 kHz in Vancouver), but for music I prefer La Chaine culturelle, the French version of Radio Two. Some really cool music, now on the air in Vancouver (90.9 MHz).

This stuff is also all on DAB (the CBC/Radio-Canada networks are all on the same multiplex), one of the better-kept secrets of Canadian broadcasting. The transmitter on Mount Seymour is line-of-sight from my apartment, so I get good reception.

...laura

Wrong. Most Region 1 DVD have been translated in Quebec. Why I know ? Because they keep the same (Quebec) actor to dub Hollywood celebrities in every movies, and I recognize them. It's funny to watch Brad Pitt but hear Alain Zouvi (a totally different type of actor) speak.

Feel free to point to specific movie whose translation have been done in Europe, though.

Good news for all. link

Here is an old clip documenting the hippie movement in Torono that shows a young William Gibson.
I am sorry to say that is in WMV format.

The file can also be found here: http://ms.radio-canada.ca/archives/English/hippie1 9670904et1.wmv

Thanks Boingboing.net

I saw recently a documentary that explained how they make artificial snow. (the complete video documentary -in french, sorry, no babelfish! - is here) And what they said is that the more filthy is the water, the better will be the artificial snow. Usually ski centers use non-treated river water for their snow cannons.

According to Radio-Canada (sorry just in french), a witness heared the shooter screaming "He took my job!"

So maibe it's just a good ol' non-terrorist shooting in LA...

I just saw Céline and her manger/husband on TV speak of this (lucky me, I was zapping around on tv and just stumbled on a rerun of her press conference).

It was mostly René Angelil doing the talking (the manager/husband), and he was...not clear.

What he said is that the CDs sold in europe can break your computer (to wich Céline said "Ouch, that's gonna cost 'em"), its only sold that way in europe, for now, but might come to america soon. Then he said there are two sides to this story, the first part is that music makes you feel a lot of emotions are is very important in people's lives and not everyone can afford CDs because they are a bit expensive, especially for teenagers. The second part is that authors and singers and producers need to get paid, and the big companies meet every year and they are working on technology for music that can be downloaded that will get paid for, but the technology isn't ready. So in europe they are much more agressive, but this technology might come to america soon.

So, he's not being clear at all...and this is loosely translated from french, but that's pretty much what they said about it.

So, to summerise: These copy-protected CDs might break their fan's computer, and they feel this is harsh. They wished that people could listen to their emotionally-charged songs for free, but they want to get paid.

So...if people actually PAY for the CDs, its ok to break their expensive computers?

1) How do you know that there isn't some sentience behind asteroids? I think we should all listen to Jack Handey: "Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet." Plus, "When Armageddon comes, it would be good to be an Olympic athlete, because running real fast and jumping over stuff could come in handy." Wise, wise words.

2) I get your point about the MIRVs. I kicked butt on the early levels, but once those missiles started splitting, man my Atari joystick couldn't move fast enough to shoot 'em all down. And for the record, it took more than 1 or 2 missiles to knock out all your bases...

3) I still think the US should've hired Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase and sent them to Afganistan again. Not only do they have field training, but they've been on the ground in Pakistan are quite resourceful, and they also have had some success in defending the US from nuclear attack. They could've found bin Laden by now, and figured out an Asteroid Defense Plan...

For Canadian French people:

Pour les Canadiens Francais:

Here are a few links:

http://home.ican.net/~alexng/can.html
http://www.elections.ca/
http://cbc.ca/election2000/

The french version of the CBC's web site is formatted differently, imo, better:
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/polit.asp