Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Post for business. This is not the first non-U.S. edition of the news site, but it is the first to produce the content in partnership with an established...
Journalist Chris Hedges Argues With CBC’s Kevin O’Leary: ‘This Sounds Like Fox News And I Don’t Go On Fox News!’
A contentious interview about Occupy Wall Street given last week on Canadian network CBC’s The Lang & O’Leary Exchange is going viral. The program’s host Kevin O’Leary went after Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Chris Hedges‘s sympathetic views of the protest, calling him a “left wing nutbar.” “If you want to shut down every corporation, every bank,...
A Canadian Oil Ad Vexes the Saudis
An ad produced by a Canadian oil sands advocacy group lambasting Saudi Arabia’s human rights record has prompted threats of legal action from the Saudi government.
YouTube Movie Rentals in Canada, Too
Apparently it's Web video international expansion day: A few hours after Hulu opened for business in Japan, YouTube has started offering rental movies in Canada (last year, Netflix headed north, too). Last spring, Google's video site beefed up its barely-there U.S. rental service with more offerings from big studios, though a note from the site...
