Kony 2012

Newsmakers

Prince William plays doctor, Alanis Morissette goes to Broadway and Bailey the bison takes a ride

The trouble with ‘Kony 2012’

Celebrated Canadian author M.G. VASSANJI on Africa’s missing voice in the viral video media storm

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The Scrum

Kevin Newman, Craig Oliver, Dan Gardner, Gloria Galloway and yours truly discuss Air Canada, the NDP leadership race and Kony 2012 on CTV’s Question Period.

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The Kony 2012 Vanity Project

Watching the first four minutes of Kony 2012, the viral online video by Jason Russell, co-founder of the NGO Invisible Children, I thought I had clicked on a faulty link and was seeing a film-maker’s vanity project about himself, or his young son, or Facebook, or something other than Joseph Kony, the gargoyle who has run the Lord’s Resistance Army of child soldiers for the past three decades.