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  Tony Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tony Parsons (Canadian journalist): news anchor for Global TV in Vancouver.
Tony Parsons (Nonduality): British speaker and author of The Open Secret and other works on the subject of nonduality.
Tony Parsons (British Guitarist): formerly guitarist of heavy metal band Iron Maiden
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Parsons   (127 words)

  
 Tony Parsons (Canadian journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He came to Canada in 1948 and was raised in Sarnia, Ontario with his five siblings.
A short time later, Parsons jumped at the opportunity to fill the 6:00 anchor spot on CHAN (aka BCTV) in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he has held that position for almost 30 years.
This article about a Canadian journalist is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Parsons_(Canadian_journalist)   (199 words)

  
 Corporate Living Magazine
Tony mustered his courage and returned to CJCS to embark on a career that has endured for half a century and made him one of the most familiar faces on our television screens.
Tony covered the west coast from the Yukon to California on behalf of CTV and enjoyed the challenge of reporting to the nation; also appearing frequently on The National and Canada AM.
Tony relates that he has struggled with clinical depression, a condition that is quite common and has finally been addressed by the medical community.
www.corporate-living.com /tony_parsons.php   (1553 words)

  
 Articles by Date -- Older Articles -- ZNet Iraq Watch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
We have to vindicate the right of a criminal to break into houses, of a rapist to brutalise at will, of a torturer to inflict agony on any victims he has the power to torment.
Canadians are not being served as well as they should be, even by their own public media.
However, outside the reports being generated by journalists in bed, I mean, embedded with the military, the corporate media continues to churn out its steady dose of pro-intervention propaganda.
www.zmag.org /CrisesCurEvts/Iraq/media_analysis.cfm   (609 words)

  
 Tony's Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Tony has written both the Foreward to this book but also the concluding chapter or Afterward.
Tony wrote this book as an update of the original 'Why Does Chris do that?' which was published by the National Autistic Society in the United Kingdom.
Tony Attwood is a clinical psychologist, practicing in Australia; he specialises in Asperger’s Syndrome and has become one of the foremost authorities on the issue.
www.tonyattwood.com.au /publications.htm   (15109 words)

  
 The Americans, Transcript of Broadcast by Gordon Sinclair
It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.
An electronic version of "The Americans,'' which was originally broadcast by the late Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair, was e-mailed under the guise of a recent editorial -- despite the fact Sinclair died in 1984 and wrote the script in 1973, toward the end of the Vietnam War.
Canadian broadcast journalist Betty Kennedy, who was a friend of Sinclair's, told Reuter he wrote the radio speech in response to reports that the American Red Cross was on the verge of bankruptcy.
k4a4.com /tribute-usa.htm   (6261 words)

  
 Sound Bytes Music Reviews, Short Cuts Page 5: Rudy Bonneville Birkins McMeen Renovators Harrison 2NU Black and Blue ...
There are echoes here of Mason Williams, Seventies Lightfoot ("The Canadian Railroad Trilogy" or "Don Quixote" come to mind), The Who ("Magic Bus"), The Allmann Brothers, Alan Parsons, Todd Rundgren, and the later Beatles (or perhaps Wings).
Starting off with "Acadian Saturday Night" by folk icon Stan Rogers, the listener is led from east to west and south to north across the country and to world cultures as disparate as Madagascar, the highlands of Vietnam, the merengue of Latin America, and traditional Sufi poetry.
Although it is not available to the general public, Festival Distribution is to be commended for assembling this broad compilation of Canadian folk music and for their continuing support of talented Canadian artists.
communication.ca /soundbytes/shortcuts/shortcut5.html   (4381 words)

  
 RTE Radio 1 - The Tubridy Show
In her capacity as a Canadian journalist, our guest has been a frequent visitor to Iraq and has seen the effects of sanctions and Saddam - she has also seen how liberation or invasion - depending on your point of view - has changed Iraqis.
Ross' alter-ego, journalist Paul Howard, who distances himself from Ross by claiming to be "as working class as curry sauce and processed cheese slices" joined us in studio to talk about the new book.
Ryan spoke to Cassandra Jardine, mother of five and journalist with the Daily Telegraph about her easy to use guide which gives sensible advice on the practicalities and psychology of encouraging a talent, while keeping your child happy and well-balanced.
www.rte.ie /radio1/thetubridyshow/1053285.html   (5681 words)

  
 CHAN-TV (BCTV) re News Item (RCMP Investigation of Premier Clark)
Tony Parsons: The raid on the Premier’s house is the link between two separate but parallel police investigations.
The complainant was unsatisfied with the broadcaster’s response and requested, on April 10, that the CBSC refer the matter to the B.C. Regional Council for adjudication.
Broadcast journalists will always display respect for the dignity, privacy and well-being of everyone with whom they deal, and make every effort to ensure that the privacy of public persons is infringed only to the extent necessary to satisfy the public interest and accurately report the news.
www.cbsc.ca /english/decisions/decisions/1999/991014a.htm   (3758 words)

  
 azerbic - Antonia Zerbisias - Toronto Star Blog: September 2005
I went to jail to preserve the time-honored principle that a journalist must respect a promise not to reveal the identity of a confidential source.
Mykola Veresen is a veteran journalist and respected television broadcaster in the Ukraine.
That is the historical tradition of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and I expect no less than it continue this tradition of respecting its workers and their union.
thestar.blogs.com /azerb/2005/09   (11993 words)

  
 Canadian Business Press - Events (2005 KRW Awards Recipients)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Sponsor: Canadian Heritage / Patrimonie canadien - The Canadian Heritage portfolio was created in 1993 to consolidate policies and programs that maintain Canada's cultural sovereignty and promote Canada's identity.
Its strategic approach is (a) to enhance pride in Canada, (b) to contribute to Canada's economic growth and prosperity, (c) to protect Canada's heritage, (d) to ensure access to Canadian voices and Canadian space, (e) to encourage participation in and contribution to Canadian society, and (f) to make government more responsive.
Sponsor: Canada Post Corporation - Canada Post Corporation is in the business to serve all Canadians, businesses and organizations through the secure delivery of messages, information and packages to any address in Canada and the world, at a level and quality of value that makes customers want to repeat the experience.
www.cbp.ca /eventsPages/KRW05.asp   (2007 words)

  
 Stand up for America
Those who are against the war admire Britain because we had a peace march where one million people filled the streets.
THERE is a school of opinion in America that believes the war could have been over by last Christmas if Tony Blair had not been so keen on proceeding through the correct diplomatic channels.
An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan.
www.electricscotland.com /familytree/standup8.htm   (1185 words)

  
 Trudy Beyak Wins Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Speaking in a record breaking awards crowd of 1,200 on Wednesday night at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, Beyak said she felt it was an incredible honour to be a journalist, but, even more importantly to share the poignant stories of people living in her community.
Beyak faced a wall of silence when she began digging into the story, because the Canadian Food Inspection Agency was pressuring farmers not to speak to the press.
Canada AM journalist and now Canada’s Consul General to New York City, gave the keynote address, encouraging journalists everywhere to “think thoughts other them those we are used to thinking.” She said the media should move away from a tendency to report what’s interesting to “what’s important.”
www.bcalive.ca /artman/publish/article_757.shtml   (401 words)

  
 Canadian prelude?
The land, currently designated as a provincial park, was expropriated from the Chippewa Nation during World War II for an army base.
It was supposed to have been returned to the Chippewa at the war's end but - much like the Raglan golf course - that part of the deal was forgotten by the federal Canadian authorities for more than 50 years.
Not surprisingly, Ipperwash became a cause célèbre for the Chippewa, who were determined to regain control of their land, especially the burial grounds of their ancestors.
www.converge.org.nz /pma/pr290605.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Books | 2001: a literary odyssey
Hornby's How To Be Good (Viking) charts the course of a north London marriage, while Parsons's One For My Baby (HarperCollins) mines the valuable emotional seam of men and children again, with the tale of a widowed man who learns to love again with a single mother.
Journalist Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures With Extremists (Picador) is the result of extensive and sometimes hair-raising travels in search of fundamentalists and groups committed to extreme beliefs.
The aim of the list is to provide high-quality biographies and histories that are, well, short, given that the average busy professional of 2001 has neither the time nor the briefcase space for weighty tomes.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4110958-106765,00.html   (1409 words)

  
 How CanWest Helped Elect Campbell and Company :: thetyee.ca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Tony Parsons concluded his piece with these words: “The main casualty of this controversy could be the party perceived to have the closest ties to the BCTF.”
Unfortunately, it's probable that most Canadians are unaware of the extent of the Canwest empire,and the extent of newsroom and editorial interference practised by co. owners, the Aspers.
Hard to think of any respectable journalist going to work for Canwest knowing he is nothing more than a copy editor for the Liberals.
thetyee.ca /Mediacheck/2005/06/06/CanwestCampbell   (11637 words)

  
 EdinburghGuide.com :: View topic - The 21st Edinburgh International Book Festival Program 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
We are immensely proud and delighted to welcome the great Nobel prize-winner Toni Morrison to the Book Festival for the first time; and to be bringing Scotland’s greatest living writer, Muriel Spark, back to her home city - the best birthday present we could wish for.
Two leading journalists who witnessed the carnage at close hand, and strove to interpret it for a disbelieving domestic public, reflect on what they saw and what we should have learned.
An award-laden foreign correspondent who has reported from over 50 countries, notably alerting the world to the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s, Michael Buerk is renowned as a BBC presenter as well as a pioneering and courageous reporter.
edinburghguide.com /edgforum/viewtopic.php?t=1303&...   (2483 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Rumors of War (Shame on You!)
ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting - the mass murder of thousands, live on television.
The Americans" found its way into the online world where many took it for a recent reaction by a Canadian journalist to the horror that had just taken place.
An Ode to America," a September 2001 piece by a Romanian journalist.
www.snopes.com /rumors/shame.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Airstrip One: British foreign policy as if the national interest mattered
This is the title of Tony Judt's review of five recent texts in the New York Review of Books examining the rationale, the exercising and the prospects of American power now and stretching far into the new century.
I'm suspicious of journalists who hold themselves out as military experts (John Humphreys is another example) and I suspect that a lot of the commentary is based on his belief that cities are better than the country.
The first piece of evidence for the defence is a good Euro-knocking piece from "notably left-of-centre British journalist Tony Parsons".
www.airstripone.blogspot.com /2003_03_01_airstripone_archive.html   (11957 words)

  
 Rumor Control
British journalist Tony Parsons penned an article chiding Brits for their attitude towards the
A Canadian policeman was suspended for traveling to New York to help search for survivors of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Tony Kern, a former USAF Lieutenant Colonel, authored a letter about what America can expect in a war against terrorists.
www.coping.org /911/rumors/content.htm   (2777 words)

  
 Home
For a newspaper that brandishes its rationality, its faith in human intelligence, “which presses forward”, in the small print on its contents page, this was one of a series of disconcerting encounters.
Streetwise Opera is the creation of Matthew Peacock, a music journalist who got fed up with walking past homeless people and feeling helpless.
Now, new books by a San Francisco journalist and a Connecticut scholar illuminate the two major streams of the 1960s spiritual revolution: the emergence of an alternative spirituality counterculture with a dizzying succession of novel gurus, revelations and rituals; and the dogged perseverance of established, mainstream religious institutions.
www.nonduality.com /news_archive_october_to_december_2003.htm   (13757 words)

  
 Vancouver magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
“Parsons has the remarkable ability to be watchable despite his total lack of charisma.
She gets an 8, but only because Baywatch is off the air.” » “Good has the Cronkite edge Tony lost three years ago.”
“Hanomansing gives the impression that he knows all and judges all.” » “Top-notch journalist, but as a reader she’s just too nice.
www.vanmag.com /0112/weighing.html   (370 words)

  
 The Rap Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
This is as much a political thriller as it is a mystery, centered on the bloody power struggle for the Egyptian throne between Cleopatra and her brother, Ptolemy.
Ex-cop and gambling scams expert Tony Valentine, after chasing his son to Las Vegas, is called upon by the owners of a huge new casino to teach them how big-time scams are done.
Yet for some reason, the one that's left the most indelible impression upon me is a left-field candidate from a young Canadian author who boasts a colorful history, having spent much of his life wandering around the world in search of a wide variety of experiences.
www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/rapsheetjune04.html   (12298 words)

  
 Alan's News: August 2005
But my case may be instructive � if not for her, then for less-famous journalists who may confront grand jury investigations, including all those bloggers who make the traditional, fuzzy definition of journalism less traditional and more fuzzy.
If the role of journalists is to make power accountable, then there is virtually no journalism going on in the United States.
It is expected to draw top journalists, media advocates, celebrities and political leaders for a public conversation on the state of the First Amendment and Judith Miller's case.
alansnews.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_alansnews_archive.html   (8213 words)

  
 Welcome to Stirling-Rawdon
Harry Silver is ready to try again at "living happily ever after", but it won't be easy while juggling his ex-wife, current wife and assorted children.
Canadian author Jane Urquhart's new novel “ A Map of glass” weaves two parallel stories between present day Prince Edward County and the 19 th century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario.
A Young Adult Canadian Book Award winner, “ before wings”, by Beth Goobie is a love story, a mystery and a heartfelt prayer.
www.stirling-rawdon.com /whats_new_archive_0205_0905.htm   (1637 words)

  
 Welcome to Tony Fletcher's iJamming!
Tony's daily musings are posted on this page.
JANUARY 6-12: Interpol in concert, Tony Fletcher's Top 10 Albums and Singles of 2002, More on Joe Strummer and The Clash, Fever Pitch and Bend It Like Beckham.
Tony Fletcher's debut novel HEDONISM is out now.
www.ijamming.net /2004/02Feb9-15.html   (4253 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | Critics | In search of inspiration
Cameron is, according to her press release, an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, cartoonist and composer.
Her work is frequently taught 'in theological degree programs' and in 'tiny clusters in the jungles of Panama'.
I would be naive to suggest that it might be more productive just to get up half an hour earlier and write your novel, since Cameron most assuredly writes her Morning Pages and has also, don't forget, written 17 books.
books.guardian.co.uk /critics/reviews/0,,768717,00.html   (587 words)

  
 CMW 2006
The mandate of the MMF is to guide and enhance career development of Canadian managers by providing education, lobbying support and networking opportunities.
Expect everything to be on the table - from CANCON levels to Canadian talent development to multiple licensing and low-powered radio.
Featuring some of key players from within the Canadian Industry, this session is not to be missed if you want to tap into the Canadian Music Market.
www.cmw.net /cmw2006/conference_panels.asp   (9069 words)

  
 How Big Media Covered the Teachers' Dispute :: thetyee.ca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The organizational agenda could be seen in the framing Tony Parsons applied to his stories.
Fill out a complaint form, the station has to respond to you which is a cost to them, you can then accept their response or appeal it which is a further cost.
I thought Rod Micklebourgh's (sp?) who has written on the labour beat when there was such a thing in Canadian media, was balanced, but I would urge GandM editors to consider sending Gary Mason back to the minors until he realizes there are not supposed to be home-town team rooters covering labour issues.
thetyee.ca /Mediacheck/2005/10/31/BigMediaTeachers   (10586 words)

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