communications

Sean Spicer has the craziest job in the Trump administration

Some of Canada’s top political communications experts on what it must be like trying to manage Donald Trump’s message

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Thomas Mulcair at the CEP convention

Thomas Mulcair’s speech to the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada convention in Quebec City last Tuesday. (Mr. Mulcair’s remarks begin around the 6:30 mark.)

5 Canadian space inventions (that aren’t the Canadarm)

Canadian innovations have played a major role in space exploration, almost from the very beginning

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So many people to say nothing

The Hill Times tallies the number of people employed by the government for the purposes of “communications.”

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That’s a lot of gazebos

Postmedia tallies $10.5 million in spending on news conferences since the Conservatives took office.

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The telecom contrarian

While its rivals snap up television assets, Telus is sitting out the latest wave of convergence. Has it saved itself billions, or put its future in peril?

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Shaking up the news world

WELLS: With the PM’s former press czar at the top, will “Canada’s Fox News” be conservative? or Conservative?

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What goes on here (II)

Over the last few days, the Canadian Press has published a three-part series (here, here and here) on government message control. Taken together it is perhaps most instructive as documented evidence of how massive and consuming the operation of “communications” has come to be.