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• — Editorially-Driven Community-Based Journalism

     (Monday, 17 August 2009 02:12)

  We're getting a lot of new sign-ups, so I've decided to write a bit about what we hope to achieve content-wise and organizationally here at Hotbox.

  First of all, for those new and old alike — welcome to the site! We've done a lot lately to make the software much more usable and have plans to provide multi-platform mobile functionality for content submission in the future. Please bear with us as we work out the few remaining bugs in the system; what we're doing is a little at the eRead More...

• — Why my Shambhala kicked ass

     (Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:51)

  This was my second year attending Shambhala and every year gets better and better.

  In particular, this time 'round was especially enjoyable as I camped with the rest of the Hotbox editorial staff (Unfortunately excluding CA Editor Xander Harding, who was stuck in Calgary due to work) and knew twice as many people as I did last year. We ran a tight ship up in Camp Hotbox and talked to many of you while there; thanks to everyone who dropped by!

  The weekend started out witRead More...

• — Old Media for New Media Readers

     (Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:02)

  So, apparently Old Media is dying. The following clip from this week’s Daily Show very enthusiastically discusses some of the difficulties traditional forms of media currently face. More after the jump.
  
  
  
  Is Print a dead medium? Much evidence points to that conclusion; between the massive delays caused by a print publishing cycle (Daily newspapers have a lag time of about 12-24 hours; weeklies can have a lag time of up to six days. Magazines are produced months befoRead More...

• — Petition Against Bill C-32 (download and share)

     (Friday, 05 June 2009 19:56)

  WE THE UNDERSIGNED:
  
  

  
  Are appalled with what we see as the federal government’s attempt to limit the choice of responsible adults. Bill C-32 is an egregious affront to our personal freedoms and an irrational attempt to control youth smoking for the following reasons:

  
  
  

  
  1. Flavoured tobacco wraps and the “little cigars” so deplored by the legislation are already heavily controlled through the existing Tobacco Act and countless pieces of provincial anti-smoking legislatRead More...

• — Call to action: Bill C-32 must be stopped

     (Thursday, 04 June 2009 14:14)

  Fred at The Next Level made me aware of a recent bill that just finished its committee reading in Canadian parliament. If passed, it will have dire reprecussions for the entire Canadian cannabis community.
  
  
  
  

  SUMMARY
  This enactment amends the Tobacco Act to provide additional protection for youth from tobacco marketing. It repeals the exception that permits tobacco advertising in publications with an adult readership of not less than 85%. It prohibits the packaging, importation fRead More...