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The Canada Protocol
Version control in text-based projects can be a nightmare. Almost anyone can edit a Word doc or some Powerpoint slides. Draft numbers go to infinity. Plus one. The solution? The Canada Protocol.
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Arts Journalism
Cultural Exchange: CBC Radio links Canadians from shore to shore
It's 1928, and the Canadian government is in a panic. It's issued radio licenses to Canadian stations since 1922, but most Canadians are turning their dials to American programming. What to do? A royal commission on the future of broadcasting was convened, and eight years later, after a brief incarnation as a state-owned national broadcasting network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. was born. Its mandate: to reflect Canada to Canadians.
Arts Journalism
Talent, timing land Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Philadelphia Orchestra
In this city he is known simply as Yannick, while American journalists seem to be plumping for YNS. Whatever the appellation, last month's announcement that 35-year-old Quebecker Yannick Nézet-Séguin would be the eighth music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra was kind of a big deal.
Arts Journalism
Muslims, Christians, Kurds, music: WikiLeaks finds a connection
"What do you get when a U.S. Army band plays an Eastern Orthodox wedding hall in a Yezidi town with Arab, Christian and Kurdish musicians under the watchful gaze of the Barzani patriarch, a crucifix, and the Iraqi flag, plus a banner celebrating the anniversary of an anti-Saddam uprising?"
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