Breathless smear merchants on King Street manufacture another “scandal.” Hilarity ensues. And then Sue Ann’s readers show their class …
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U.S. doctor urges colleagues not to perform transvaginal ultrasounds
Guest Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds – Whatever: ‘via Blog this’ It is our responsibility, as always, to protect our patients from things that would harm them. Therefore, as physicians, it is our duty to refuse to perform a medical procedure that is not medically indicated. Any medical procedure.
Continue readingThe Ethical Oil Spokespuppet Smear
A little bauble I ran across today … I can’t say for sure whether Ezra and Kathryn are faithfully represented, as I’ve never met them in person, but … snerk. (h/t Jymn) Related posts: Let Freedom Rain: “National Necrophilia Week”: Ezra Levant wears orange wig, drinks Orange Crush. Mocks Layton’s
Continue readingSure. Private-sector involvement in police work. | #areyououtofyourfuckingminds
Via a helpful reader, one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen this week: I don’t know Joe Couto, and I’m sure he’s a perfectly decent guy in real life, but this is on behalf of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. How many ways do you want this
Continue readingSaskboy and Jymn rub The Globe’s nose in #RoboCon | #cdnpoli
RoboCon: Journalism Failure at the Globe – UPDATED | Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: “And what’s the reason that John Ibbitson, a professional journalist for a national newspaper, treats Giorno with so much respect and kid-gloves that he talks him up as some sort of non-lying politician, while a nobody blogger in
Continue readingRob Ford’s mayoral trajectory | #TOpoli
Yeah, yeah, I know. Originally I thought this was a good representation of George Smitherman’s campaign, but I’m an environmentalist, and I believe in recycling, and given Mayor Stupid and Brother Dumbfuck’s handling of the transit file (subways, subways everywhere … ) Related posts: Oh, look: everything Team Ford touches
Continue readingHarper and the electoral fraud scandal | #cdnpoli
You know, I really want to believe this thing will grow uglier and get out of control. Massive, systematic and coordinated misinformation, all with the express purpose of disenfranchising voters? If this doesn’t throw the results of last May’s federal election into doubt, then God knows what will. Alison’s been
Continue readingWolverines, meat tuxedos, and vivid comparisons | via @CanadianCynic
… this was not a mistake. Starting a land war in Asia is a mistake. This is akin to wearing a meat tuxedo and gravy-scented aftershave to a wolverine convention. ‘via Blog this’ Canadian Cynic and Rev. Paperboy discuss legal strategy. It saddens me that CC’s return to the blogosphere
Continue reading@ToewsVic has brought this humiliation upon himself | #cdnpoli
… with his contemptible, sanctimonious hypocrisy. With regard to @Vikileaks30, the sordid details of Toews’ personal life were not “leaked.” They were set out in documents available to anyone with reasonably effective research skills. There was no breach of the law, so there’s nothing to investigate. I can’t really improve
Continue readingOne Town’s War on Gay Teens | #uspoli #lgbt
One Town’s War on Gay Teens | Politics News | Rolling Stone: “Asked on a radio program whether the anti-gay agenda of her ilk bore any responsibility for the bullying and suicides, Barb Anderson, co-author of the original “No Homo Promo,” held fast to her principles, blaming pro-gay groups for
Continue readingThe post-partisan plea: it’s now or never | #lpc #ndp #cdnpoli
Some weeks ago, I urged Canada’s two main opposition parties to set aside their differences and work together for the greater good. Perhaps “urged” isn’t the right word. But I’m moved to reiterate by recent events, including the internal machinations of both the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party
Continue readingOnce again, time to play … Let’s hear from another Sun reader!
Source here. Strictly speaking, I have doubts about the authenticity, as this guy can actually spell. Related posts: Electro-Motive: Foreign corporation takes Canadian tax dollars, fucks over Canadian workers | #cdnpoli The Sun’s effect on our national conversation is obvious, but what about the Globe? BCL catches @SueAnnLevy rewriting history,
Continue readingElectro-Motive: Foreign corporation takes Canadian tax dollars, fucks over Canadian workers | #cdnpoli
… while Harper’s thumb stays firmly planted up his ass. Montreal Simon and Owen Gray have already flagged this, so I can’t really add much. But hey, I could be wrong, so please — let me know if I’ve left anything out. Related posts: Liberals, NDP, whoever. I don’t care
Continue readingPolice accountability in Toronto | #G20
From the Globe: The Office of the Independent Police Review Director concluded constables Michael Adams, Babak Andalib-Goortani, David Donaldson, Geoffrey Fardell and Oliver Simpson used excessive force after tackling Mr. Nobody to the ground. The report concludes that charges should be laid, too, but apparently because it’s taken more than
Continue readingSame-sex marriage blows up in Harper’s face | #cdnpoli #lgbt
Sweet, sweet irony. Or is it poetic justice? Don’t care, really. Either way, there’s a week’s worth of schadenfreude watching Harper squirming on this. Here’s a guy who redefines the words “control freak.” In fact, I believe I read somewhere on the intertoobz that his picture comes up when you
Continue readingLiberals, NDP, whoever. I don’t care what we call them | #cdnpoli
The Tyee – This Year, Put the Country Ahead of the Party: ” … with the election of Stephen Harper, everything changed. No prime minister in Canadian history has come to power with such a ruthless determination to implement an agenda so at odds with the interests of the country
Continue readingOh, and while we’re busy demonizing the #Occupy movement … | #classwarfare #cdnpoli
Daily Kos: I See What Occupy Vancouver Did There…And It’s Brilliant: ‘via Blog this’ At the Daily Kos, Ed Murray shines the light of reason on the corporate media’s theme-O-the-week: The media’s latest attempt to undercut the message of Occupy movements all across the globe is by touting the “cost”
Continue readingMedia culpa catches Wente being sloppy again | #journalism
Media culpa: Margaret Wente, Math and Christianity: More factual/attribution errors?: ‘via Blog this’ What’s that? Wente being sloppy with numbers? Wente being shoddy and haphazard with attributions? I’m shocked. Shocked. Maybe we should chill out a little, though. It’s not as if she’s writing about anything incendiary, like white people
Continue readingFiscal demonization of @OccupyTO continues on CTV | #classwarfare
Like clockwork, the corporate media are swinging into action. Or perhaps like robots. Either way, the narrative is being reinforced and amplified. Just now on CTV a “news” report is pegging the cost of Occupy at something over $714,000. Police, EMS, landscaping, etc. Cue the manufactured resentment and the divide-and-conquer
Continue readingHow The Globe channels the 1 per cent | #Occupy #classwarfare
Managing Occupy protest cost city $1-million, city says – The Globe and Mail: ‘via Blog this’ It’s masquerading as “objective” “news,” but in fact it’s anything but. Note how Canada’s National Fishwrap steers the discourse: the whole story is about how much money the city of Vancouver had to spend
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