cycling, coping and moving beyond cocoon-bubble

[lph]

My journalist friend passed away Dec. 28 suddenly... but he had noted that teh washington post has been doing more consistent solid reporting of late. (Some stuff is still, oh, celebrity kinds of things...)

This infographic has been making the rounds -- and getting good feedback from people I respect
(here's a link that prob'ly will look better

Yep, based on a similar overview I've started following Wall Street Journal and The Hill. Both to balance out my own bias (and that of all my friends), but also in an effort to understand more. The comment sections are very useful, reasonable people who disagree politely are a great resource for learning new things.

[shootingstar]

As mentioned earlier, I skim Washington Post daily for past 2 months.

From Canadian perspective/news media: Globe and Mail (national news), National Post (a little more right wing), Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star and my city's newspapers online.. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) website (they have tv, radio also). I do regional news skimming since I've lived in 3 different cities and sometimes there are different regional differences.

This is Canada's rate of rejection for cases heard by the Immigration and Refugee Board, it is Canadian federal government tribunal that hears cases of people wanting to claim asylum/refugee status:

In 2015, more than 6,400 claims referred to the Immigration and Refugee Board were either rejected (5,332) or withdrawn (1,085), according to data the board provided to Global News http://globalnews.ca/news/3268281/as..._campaign=2014