Leader of the Official Opposition shared Fox News BS in Parliament. Premature PP blew it.He got tricked by far-right Fox News propaganda and declared a terrorist incident when a spectacularly bad driver caused an explosion at the US border.#cdnpoli https://t.co/SU7xb3GKe1 — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) November 23, 2023 " the
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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Adam Bienkov highlights the evidence from the UK’s COVID-19 inquiry which has demonstrated the utter neglect for public health from Boris Johnson and the political system around him, while Andrew Nikiforuk offers a reminder that the pandemic is still roiling around us. And Tinker
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Narcissism has They/Them Pronouns – I shouldn’t have to ‘look’ non-binary for my identity to be respected
Ah, to be a fragile bulb in a society filled to the brim with hammers. Let’s go on a adventure in the very difficult and challenging life of Julia Wright. Her experiences are… illuminating. “Last year, I attended a conference where everyone wore name tags. I had proudly and visibly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Red Pen Of Justice – YMCA Regina’s Campaign to Erase Women
The CBC seems utterly transfixed (ha!) on erasing women from the public sphere. The CBC news headline from cbc.ca. “YWCA Regina stands by trans woman giving keynote speech at [a Woman’s] award event amid backlash” We are going to go through the article and highlight what the YWCA aka
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Evelyn Lazare discusses how the refusal of the powers that be to act to mitigate an ongoing pandemic is only ensuring that its effects will be worse and longer-lasting than they need to be. And Emily Moskal reports on a promising new type
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta premier hides behind lawsuit that hasn’t happened to dodge reporters’ difficult questions
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith hid behind a lawsuit that doesn’t exist yesterday to avoid answering reporters’ questions about her sympathetic telephone chat with an unsavoury political ally facing criminal charges. Premier Smith’s controversial telephonic interlocutor, Artur Pawlowski (Photo: Facebook/Artur Pawlowski). If this gambit proves anything, I suppose, it’s that there’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: CBC – The Power of Drag (grooming)
Unsurprisingly the CBC seems to be completely on board with uncritical reporting of Drag Queen story hour and how men in woman-face wearing sexualized clothing and make up interact with children. One truth about male child sex predators is this – They always go to where their prey is. Whether
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Conservatives and the CBC
Pierre Poilievre has trotted out a recurrent theme in Conservative election platforms—he will “defund” the CBC. (Is “defund” a steal from woke-speak?) This is hardly surprising. The CBC is the only national mass medium that isn’t owned by the corporate sector, a generally conservative and excessively influential entity. Here in
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Challenge accepted: Premier throws down the gauntlet with defamation accusation; CBC picks it up
On Wednesday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith threw down the gauntlet, accusing the CBC of defamation and demanding that the corporation retract and apologize for its Jan. 19 report someone on her staff sent emails to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service challenging how it was handling cases stemming from last year’s
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: A great teacher retires
No one has taught Canadians more about nature and science generally than Dr. David Suzuki. He has now announced that, after 44 years at the helm, he is retiring from his chief educational instrument, the CBC program The Nature of Things. Suzuki has a strong academic background, obtaining a PhD
Continue readingExcited Delirium: CBC: Engaging in Click Bait?
Click bait belongs to the likes of Fox News and the National Enquirer, not Canada’s public national broadcaster. The post CBC: Engaging in Click Bait? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Prices, Inflation and Greed & How to Use Abandoned Malls
Just another day of price hikes and shoulder shrugs for monopolies in Canada … The post Prices, Inflation and Greed & How to Use Abandoned Malls first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Moe’s Dropping Numbers
"I am going to stay out of telling them [protesters] what to do," said Sask. Premier Scott Moe of the ongoing demonstrations in Ottawa, Windsor and Coutts. "It certainly is going to get everyone's attention…and it isn't for me to judge ultimately whether they should or not." pic.twitter.com/ZwTVKxGHSE — Power
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Dismissed by CBC Ombudsman, Commissioner’s complaint about story shows ‘Alberta Inquiry’ all but down for the count
One Alberta story that didn’t get nearly enough attention in the past few days, and none at all from mainstream media, was Alberta Inquiry Commissioner Steve Allan’s risible complaint to the CBC Ombudsman that the broadcaster’s journalists hadn’t treated him fairly. Commissioner Allan’s gripe with two CBC investigative reporters, which
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: A Vote Compass surprise
Being a sucker for surveys, I couldn’t resist the Vote Compass survey on the CBC News website. The survey purports to locate your position on the political landscape relative to the various parties. The landscape refers to the issues foremost in the current election. Vote Compass was developed for the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Fred Hahn writes about the importance of government investment in times of crisis to make up for what people can’t afford – or are understandably scared – to spend. Erica Natividad reports on the millions of Canadians who have no fallback plan if
Continue readingThings Are Good: Wild Animals Keep our Cities Clean
CBC’s ecological science show is taking an unorthodox look at the vermin and critters in our cities by showing how they help us. On Jan. 31 The Nature of Things will air the episode, trailer above, all about how animals have adapted to urban environments and how those animals end
Continue readingAlberta Politics: That’s embarrassing! Alberta’s court filing in carbon tax fight says NDP carbon tax did no harm
The linked weekend revelations that the NDP’s carbon tax had no meaningful negative impact on Alberta’s economy and that 40 per cent of Albertans received carbon-tax rebates larger than the tax they paid were ill timed from the government’s perspective. After all, the CBC’s report on Saturday of what the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Transitory Records #nlpoli
In dealing with one aspect of the business of getting Carla Foote from Executive Council to The Rooms, deputy minster Ted Lomond suggested to The Rooms CEO that he delete the email in which Lomond had forwarded a proposed draft of a letter. cbc.ca/nl ran a story on it Monday
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: And who is suing whom?
It came as a surprise to learn that the CBC has filed a complaint with the courts claiming that the conservative party has infringed on CBC copyright. I am not sure yet if I find it more amusing or concerning. In a career as a writer, I must admit that
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