Airport wants to connect REM to VIA
Aéroports de Montréal is agitating to get the REM that goes to the airport to extend to the Dorval VIA Rail station.
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Francesco 11:22 on 2020-02-05 Permalink
I noticed that this is a line for line translation of the article in L’Actualité, or vice versa. I’m wondering if it’s based on a PR…? Either way more evidence that journalism is dead in Quebec.
Francesco 11:24 on 2020-02-05 Permalink
…I mean the Gazette article is a line-for-line translation! Sheesh it IS a PR.
JoeNotCharles 18:04 on 2020-02-05 Permalink
I’m not sure where you’re getting Gazette and L’Actualité, but the CTV News and La Presse articles linked here are both credited to “The Canadian Press / La Presse Canadienne”, so yes, they’re from the same source – but that source isn’t a company press release, it’s a news feed, which is standard practice. You’ll see stories credited to “Canadian Press” or “Associated Press” with only minor rewrites all the time.
Kate 19:24 on 2020-02-05 Permalink
I sometimes do that, linking CP stories in English and French that are substantially the same (sometimes edited differently) so people can read it in whichever language they prefer. When i’m really on, I’ll point it out. But thanks for this, JoeNotCharles.
Kevin 13:23 on 2020-02-06 Permalink
We really do need high school classes on how mass media works.
It should go along with how elections work, what are the different levels of government and what they do, etc…
Blork 14:48 on 2020-02-06 Permalink
What Kevin said. I can’t believe this stuff isn’t included in the curriculum already. (Or is it? Isn’t there some kind of “civics” class in schools?)
When I was 12 and growing up in Nova Scotia we had a class on media. I think it was built-into a larger class (“social studies” or whatever) and I think it was somewhat experimental. Anyway, it was great! It was all about mass media (print, TV, etc.) and it covered all the angles including different types of media bias and all that. Sounds complex but it was designed for 12-year-olds and it was really effective. It gave me both a skeptical eye on media as well as an appreciation for its social value.
Why don’t all kids get that?
Ian 16:05 on 2020-02-06 Permalink
Maybe there’s no mass media studies in elementary & high school in part because one of the most biggest and oldest elementary and high school textbook publishers in Quebec is owned by Quebecor (Les Éditions CEC). Don’t teach your grandma to suck eggs, as the saying goes.