Today, the Globe gets a copy of this: “Paul Godfrey memo to staff.” Long story short, Postmedia newspapers are having great difficulty financially. Precious advertising dollars are going to online competition and print media is feeling the effects. This is not a new development for print media, we’ve been hearing
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CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Canada Crime Bill C10 hunger striker takes protest to Parliament Hill
MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, May 6, 2012 – Today marks the 53rd day of my indefinite hunger strike against Canada’s new draconian crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly omnibus crime Bill C10. My name is Obert … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Canada Bill C10 hunger strike update: Ottawa Hydro has cut me off
I feel as though I’ve been wrenched from the light of the world and exiled to the heart of darkness. My friends, I just want to let you all know that we’ll not be able to stay as connected as … Continue reading →
Continue readingImpolitical: Financial disclosure for bloggers and others
Noted in the Globe, this headline is, shall we say, a little misleading in the Canadian context: “Why don’t political bloggers want us to know who’s funding them?”The vast majority of Canadian political bloggers receive bupkus for blogging. It is simply not the case that there are bloggers actively denying
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New song & video: "You Cheatin’ Cons"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, the whole robocalls election fraud scandal’s been getting pushed to the back burner. The F-35 fiasco and Lifestyles of the Rich and Bev Oda are taking priority. Thing is… the election fraud issue is probably our most troubling problem. It goes straight to the heart
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New song & video: "You Cheatin’ Cons"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, the whole robocalls election fraud scandal’s been getting pushed to the back burner. The F-35 fiasco and Lifestyles of the Rich and Bev Oda are taking priority. Thing is… the election fraud issue is probably our …
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New song & video: "You Cheatin’ Cons"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, the whole robocalls election fraud scandal’s been getting pushed to the back burner. The F-35 fiasco and Lifestyles of the Rich and Bev Oda are taking priority. Thing is… the election fraud issue is probably our most troubling problem. It goes straight to the heart
Continue readingImpolitical: An assessment of the op-ed pages of the nation
Left-wing media bias? Doesn’t look like it… From The Sixth Estate, “how guest space gets allocated on the op-ed pages of the nation’s major newspapers”: 1. Business associations, consultants, and free-market think tanks — 21% 2. Conservative politicians and insiders — 16% 3. Progressive NGOs, unions, and environmentalists — 12%
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: CBC’s Power & Politics… after the budget cuts
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I cobbled up another video. This time, I’m takin’ a shot at the budget cuts to the CBC. It’s kinda long so I won’t blather on too much about it. Here it is:
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: CBC’s Power & Politics… after the budget cuts
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I cobbled up another video. This time, I’m takin’ a shot at the budget cuts to the CBC. It’s kinda long so I won’t blather on too much about it. Here it is:
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: CBC’s Power & Politics… after the budget cuts
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I cobbled up another video. This time, I’m takin’ a shot at the budget cuts to the CBC. It’s kinda long so I won’t blather on too much about it. Here it is:
Continue readingImpolitical: Exposing the fakery matters
On the news of the fake citizenship reaffirmation ceremony hosted at Sun News at the urging of Jason Kenney’s office, Chris Selley of the National Post concluded this about the episode last week: “But that’s just the usual stuff and nonsense. I don’t see how any of it makes a
Continue readingImpolitical: The fake citizenship ceremony
“The minister is using his office like casting central…,” said Denis Coderre. While he’s at it, could Kenney cast a better individual in the role of minister, please? Original report. Of course this was worth reporting and the vigorous reaction by Sun News shows how seriously they’re taking it. And
Continue readingImpolitical: Late night astroturfing
This Topp team member should probably have been identified as such on Sun News’ report from this evening. At the end of a report which featured David Akin interviewing Brian Topp on his tax plan, and following an interview with Mike Moffatt, Akin read off some comments received on Facebook.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: My deflating optimism about the NDP leadership race
For a while, I was feeling very energized about the NDP leadership race. We on the left were going to get six months or so to have a real and refreshing discussion of values and policies about where to go from here. With a relatively new One Member One…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Defending the Burqa
The Netherlands is the next country in the domino chain, following France and Belgium, in which it is likely they will ban the burqa in all public places. There are many arguments against such a ban that fall very much in line with typical liberal val…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: McGuinty’s immigrant pledge is simply bad politics
McGuinty has recently made an election pledge to provide $10,000 dollars in support for businesses that hire immigrants. Regardless of what one might think about the policy itself, it is a tactical error in a political campaign and will almost certainl…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: More Shameless Progressive Conservative Attack Ads
Looks like the PC`s have bought another slew of advertising for Google search terms with almost any combinations including “Liberal Party” or “Ontario Liberals” and the like having an on-top PC ad linking to the website www.liberalreview.ca.
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Impolitical: Timely question on Harper’s intentions on foreign ownership of Canadian media
Geoff Stevens wonders: “Will Harper open door to foreign-owned media?” Specifically, he wonders whether Rupert Murdoch’s empire might make its entree into Canada. The quiet meeting between Harper and Murdoch in New York in March 2009 is noted as are th…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Western media coverage of the recent border protests around Israel
Consider this Globe and Mail story detailing the protests met with deadly force that have occurred on the Israeli border in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon. It does an acceptable job of detailing the basic facts for those unfamiliar with them, but I want to l…
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