“As a matter of fact, you can wrinkle up and lose all your hair and gain a bunch of weight and you will still get to retire on air. Women? Not so much.”
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Tamara Taggart blasts ‘boys’ club’ media industry
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Longtime Vancouver media personality Tamara Taggart is not holding back on sexism in the media industry in a new podcast appearance.
Longtime Vancouver media personality Tamara Taggart is not holding back on sexism in the media industry in a new podcast appearance.
In the latest episode of Mo Amir’s This Is Vancolour podcast, the former CTV anchor and one-time Liberal MP hopeful reflects on her time in media, nearly two years after being ousted from CTV alongside her former co-anchor Mike Killeen.
“I needed that space. That two years has provided me with a new perspective on what that was like outside of the bubble. And let me tell you, it’s really difficult to think about all the things I’ve experienced,” she said, noting that she now feels “positive for the first time in a long, long time.”
Without naming specifics, Taggart goes on to discuss toxic work environments: “When you are in the middle of that hurricane, you don’t know. So it’s not until you get out of it, and spend time away from it, and then talk to other people that were in there with you and you can together go, ‘Oh my gosh.’
“There was a lot of trauma in there for a lot of people in this hurricane,” she tells Amir.
Taggart also called out the media industry for being “a boys’ club” where “all the big decisions are being made by men,” and highlighted the double standard for men and women in broadcast.
Tamara Taggart on the set of CTV’s flagship news show with co-anchor Mike Killeen in 2014. The pair were fired two years ago.
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“The white male broadcaster has a very long life. Very long life,” she said, adding that men don’t deal with the same level of public criticism as women do about physical appearance, clothing and hair.
“As a matter of fact, you can wrinkle up and lose all your hair and gain a bunch of weight and you will still get to retire on air. Women? Not so much.”
Taggart argues that it’s been ingrained into our culture “that women have to look pretty and attractive and well put together” whereas, “there have been plenty of dishevelled men on air.”
“It makes him, you know, eccentric,” she said.
“It’s definitely a tougher road for women in media still, and I’d like to think that if women had been in charge this entire time, newsrooms would not be shrinking.”
Other topics covered in the hour-plus-long podcast touch on Taggart’s 2012 cancer scare and her experience running for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party during the most recent federal election.
PM Justin Trudeau introduces Tamara Taggart as the Vancouver Kingsway Liberal candidate at a rally on Sept. 11, 2019. Taggart would fail to unseat Don Davies in the NDP stronghold in the October election.
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“That experience of nearly dying was truly what changed it for me, because there was a moment when the surgeon was talking to me in pre-op and I remember thinking to myself, there’s a very good chance I’m not going to wake up from this. There’s a very good chance this is it,” she said, adding that her last CT scan is scheduled for June 2020, after which she hopes to “break up” with her oncologist.
“Gosh, I don’t want to get emotional here but, you know what, that doesn’t leave you. I don’t think about cancer every day or nearly dying every day. I don’t have to because I have this — something in me changed in that moment.”
Taggart first landed at CTV, then known as Vancouver Television, in 1997. She later spent time on CTV’s weather desk before being named a CTV News at Six co-anchor with Killeen in 2011. The pair were fired from CTV in 2018.
This is Vancolour’s Episode 64 featuring Taggart can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher or on the official website.
Arrest made in false fire alarm
A Guelph male has been charged in relation to a false fire alarm activation at Guelph General Hospital earlier this year.
Early on January 27, the male had a verbal dispute with hospital security and ran through the hospital, pulling a fire alarm and smashing a window. On Tuesday he turned himself in to Guelph Police.
An 18-year-old Guelph male is charged with making a false alarm of fire and mischief under $5,000. He will appear in a Guelph court October 4, 2022.
Male held after missing court
A Guelph male who missed a court date on charges including carrying a weapon for a dangerous purpose was rearrested Tuesday.
Guelph Police Service officers were on patrol downtown just before 11 a.m. when they spotted a male known to be wanted. The male tried to flee as officers approached but was arrested a short distance away. A search incident to arrest revealed a driver’s licence which had been reported stolen in 2018.
A 50-year-old Guelph male is further charged with failing to attend court and possessing stolen property. He will appear in a Guelph bail court Thursday.
Driver suspended after traffic stop
A Guelph male was taken off the road for three days following a traffic stop Tuesday night.
Just after 10 p.m., a member of the Guelph Police Service stopped a vehicle in the area of Willow Road and Dawson Road. The driver was asked to provide a breath sample into a roadside screening device and registered an Alert, indicating a blood-alcohol level between 50 and 100 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams.
A 30-year-old Guelph male faces several Highway Traffic Act charges and had his licence suspended for three days.
Total calls for service in the last 24 hours – 211
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A new study published in the academic journal Current Opinion in Psychology offers a path forward for parents who are searching for better ways to navigate the nascent world of adolescent social media use.
The authors argue that it is possible for parents to put guardrails in place that reduce pre-teen and adolescent anxiety and depression resulting from social media overconsumption, as well as minimize the negative effects of cyberbullying.
Here is an overview of their recommendations.
Recommendation #1: Familiarize yourself with the different styles of social media parenting
It should come as no surprise that parents vary widely in the way they manage their children’s social media use. According to the authors, there are four general approaches parents take when monitoring their teenagers’ social media use. They are:
- Autonomy-supportive. This approach provides a developmentally appropriate rationale for social media rules and takes adolescents’ perspectives seriously.
- Autonomy-restrictive. This approach provides rules in a strict and harsh way, without much respect for adolescents’ perspectives.
- Inconsistent. This strategy, or lack thereof, occurs when parents randomly vary in their restrictions, regulations, or discussions of social media.
- Permissive. This approach avoids guidance and discussion and provides limited restrictions or rules.
There are other styles as well. Some parents practice ‘social media surveillance,’ in which they keep tabs on adolescents’ media use — for example, by using tracking software, holding adolescents’ social media passwords, or checking adolescents’ social media profiles. Researchers break social media surveillance down into two sub-categories: ‘authoritarian surveillance’ (e.g., accessing adolescents’ social media accounts and passwords) and ‘nonintrusive inspection’ (e.g., browsing their profiles).
There are also cases of ‘co-use,’ where parents and children use social media together.
Before attempting to refine your social media parenting style, it is important to reflect upon your current social media stance and how it may be perceived by your child or children. Are you autonomy-supportive or autonomy-restrictive? Are your rules inconsistent or permissive? Do you co-use social media with your child? Do you practice some form of social media surveillance?
Recommendation #2: A stricter approach may be a better approach
While there is no ‘right answer’ to the question of how to parent in the age of social media, a preponderance of the data suggests that more active approaches lead to better outcomes than passive approaches.
The authors state, “Overall, studies find that adolescents report less problematic use when parents use more parental monitoring, restrictive or active mediation, or strict internet and smartphone rules.”
There is also evidence to suggest that adolescents spend less time using social media when parents implement an autonomy-supportive approach. Other evidence reveals that teens exhibit more anxiety and depressive symptoms when parents use a more autonomy-restrictive style to restrict adolescents’ social media use and fewer symptoms when parents implement an autonomy-supportive style.
In other words, there is something to be said for creating a family environment in which social media dialogue between kids and parents is a supportive, two-way street — but while maintaining strict rules to limit overconsumption and problematic social media activity.
Of course, there are counterarguments to this line of thinking. One study published in Frontiers in Psychology, for instance, found that a more restrictive stance on social media access was associated with a heightened risk of social media addiction. What this should illuminate is that while some approaches on average work better than others, individual circumstances should be taken into account when developing your own social media monitoring strategy.
Recommendation #3: Stay informed. As social media evolves, so will the guidance.
Many big questions have yet to be answered. For example, it is still unclear whether the type of social media your child is using (be it online, on a smartphone, for gaming, etc.) influences how you, as a parent, should manage it. It’s also unclear how quickly the negative effects of social media overconsumption on a child’s well-being can be undone. Can parents expect a rapid turnaround in a child’s behavior after shifting course, or do the negative effects linger for some time?
More research is needed to address these important questions.
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Media Advisory: Premier Furey to Announce Additional Measure to Address Recruitment and Retention of Physicians – News Releases – Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
The Honourable Andrew Furey, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, will announce an additional measure to address recruitment and retention of physicians today (Tuesday, August 16) at 2:15 p.m.
He will be joined by the Honourable Tom Osborne, Minister of Health and Community Services, Dr. Sohaib Al-Asaaed, Post Graduate Medical Education Associate Dean, and Dr. Mikaela Murphy, a second-year family medicine resident.
The availability will take place in Room M5M101, Faculty of Medicine, St. John’s Campus, Memorial University.
The availability will be streamed live on Facebook.
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