Chinese Canadian Post editor says she was fired over Chan critique

The Globe and Mail's Craig Offman  writes:

"The editor-in-chief of a Chinese-language newspaper says she was forced out of her job for publishing a column that criticized the conduct of Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan.

"In a statement released to The Globe and Mail, the former editor of the Chinese Canadian Post, Helen Wang, said she was ousted after the Toronto-based periodical received complaints from the Chinese consulate in Toronto and pro-Beijing groups that back the minister."

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Evan Solomon has new gig on radio

Evan Solomon has landed a new gig hosting a one-hour political talk show on SiriusXM Canada, CP reports.
The satellite radio company says the show, called ‘Everything Is Political: Campaign 2015 with Evan Solomon,’ will premiere Thursday at 6 p.m. and will follow the run up to the federal election in October.
Solomon anchored CBC News Network’s daily political series “Power & Politics” and CBC Radio’s weekly “The House” until CBC cut ties with him in June.
SiriusXM says the show will air on Thursdays in August before airing daily on weekdays in September until Nov. 5.

Chris Hyndman, CBC lifestyle show host has died

Chris Hyndman, CBC lifestyle TV show Steven and Chris has died, a spokesman for the public broadcaster confirmed.
He was co-host of the show with Steven Sabados, who was also his real-life partner.
They were co-stars of the original Designer Guys show in 1999 as well as Design Rivals and So Chic before launching their afternoon talk show.
Hyndman was in his mid-40s.
A 2013 profile of Hyndman and Sabados by Xtra, then Toronto’s gay newsmagazine, called them “Canada’s gay-lifestyle TV guru couple” whose show Steven and Chris was “a bona fide hit for CBC” and aired in more than 70 per cent of the market on ABC’s Live Well Network.

Mexican news photographer found slain

A photographer for the Mexican investigative magazine Proceso, who had fled his home state after being harassed, was among five people found slain early Saturday in an apartment in Mexico City, according to the magazine.

The body of Ruben Espinosa, who collaborated with Proceso and other media, was identified by a family member at the morgue Saturday afternoon, Proceso reported. .

Espinosa had recently gone into self-exile from the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, where he felt under threat.

He was found dead with four women, three of whom lived in the apartment in the middle-class Narvarte neighborhood near the center of the city, according to the Mexico City prosecutor's office.

Maclean's on the debate -- worth a read!

Excerpt:
"The Maclean’s debate will be the first in the history of Canadian elections that is not organized by several television networks pooling their resources as a consortium. It will not be the last. The consortium model made sense when broadcast technology was exotic and cost a mint. It still makes sense for the networks, but there is no need for anyone else to grant them a permanent oligopoly. Already, other news organizations—and, in the case of the Munk Debates, a different kind of organization entirely—have announced they’ll welcome leaders in debates this year, too."
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