A few days worth of news from the NDP’s leadership campaign… – Niki Ashton appealed to NDP members to consider the need to build among younger voters. – Co-campaign manager Jamey Heath took to the opinion pages in defence of Nathan Cullen’s joint nomination proposal. But I seem to recall
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Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Calling a spade a spade
CBC Legislative Bureau Chief Stephen Smart reports fully and fairly when his wife’s employer is in the news. Well, at least that is what CBC says. As intelligent skeptics, we should ignore their words and judge their actions. Consider a current example. The employer of Mr. Smart’s wife, known here
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Del Mastro: ‘Robocalls? Sure. Ridings exist? You’re crazy.’
On a February 28th episode of CBC’s Power & Politics Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro announced his party was investigating the Robocall Scandal; on that same show he went on to say he was not only not aware of possible fraud in a certain riding, but that he was unaware
Continue readingToronto Maple Leafs: America’s Team?
I don’t have much time for Don Cherry, Brian Burke or the Toronto Maple Leafs. I like even less Hockey Night in Canada whose warped coverage of hockey is not only bad TV but totally lacking in any real sense of perspective. Last night a panel of ‘experts’ reamed rookie
Continue readingPower & Politics question of the day: "Does ‘Vikileaks’ undermine Liberal credibility on robocalls?" When will this false equivalence end?
CK of Sister Sage’s Musings has a wonderful post asking why Bob Rae apologized for Vikileaks. Good question but what hit me hardest about the post was this gem regarding a poll question from Evan Solomon’s Power & Politics. The question asks: “Does ‘Vikileaks’ undermine Liberal credibility on robocalls?” What? That
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Yas A., Kagan Goh and Carmen Aguirre: Monday at 6pm on COOP Radio
Monday night at 6pm on The Rational on COOP Radio [livestreamed], 102.7fm in/around Vancouver: Yas A with another instalment on Italian political song writers. Alnoor Gova interviews Kagan Goh and Imtiaz Popat about the world television premier of their documentary Stolen Memories on Sunday, March 4th at 9pm on OMNI
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Now Rebecca Scott is the only Press Secretary
I’ve made a fair issue of the conflict of interest CBC Legislative Bureau Chief Stephen Smart faces when reporting on Premier Photo-Op and her government while he shares pillows each night with Rebecca Scott, Premier Clark’s Deputy Press Secretary. Wayne Williams, News Director, CBC News British Columbia, said this in correspondence
Continue readingRob Maguire: Shake things up with snail mail
Disclaimer: I’m not talking about direct mail campaigns here. I figure you can come up with much more interesting ways to waste money on your own. I was listening to the always interesting Spark radio program on CBC Radio yesterday, and they were discussing A Month of Letters, an open
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber on the long-gun registry: welfare state social engineering, or what?
Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber, in naval costume, gets off some potshots with a Glock, or something. Below: Another shot Brent in a military getup. Note the flag, I swear I dragged this photo straight off his website without even passing it through Photoshop! Remember guys, when you’re looking down
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lazy Loitering Louts
In light of the Occupy movements, younger people will find this vintage video from Vancouver, very vivid. You have to wait until the very end too for a killer video joke. The mayor, pictured in 1968, passed away yesterday at age 85. His vision lives on in the 1%. ==
Continue readingJames Moore should apologize to Sun News’ Kris Sims
“Hi, I’m Kris Sims. I used to be a journalist.” He called her a “pawn” of QMI and Pierre Karl Peladeau. He should have called her a pawn of the Conservatives. Sims is not so much an agent provocateur of state broadcaster Sun News as she is a compatriot of
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Twitter Wars: Ditchburn vs Levant
Pictured: Ditchburn (left) and Levant (right) Who knew Canadian Media Twitter Wars could be fun? Who knew that was even a thing?! Well it is. And it’s spectacular! Let me set the scene. Jennifer Ditchburn, who works for the Canadian Press, writes a story about government bureaucrats posing as new
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fake News
Fox News says, “Why didn’t we think of that!” as they smack their foreheads collectively. Sun News is the premier, cutting edge, dishonest, fake news station on Canadian cable. Eat your heart out Jon Stewart and Colbert! And Sun doesn’t even have to be funny to run their fake version
Continue readingSun News Network + Jason Kenney = frothy mixture
If you ever wanted to combine the worst of Conservatism – that frothy mixture of deceit, barely-veiled racism and amoral opportunism – look no further than the perfect marriage of the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism and Fox News North. Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to pose as new Canadians for a citizenship reaffirmation
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carol Goar notes that the Cons’ decision to mess with retirement security may be just the type of issue to rouse voters who had been lulled to sleep by promises of stability – which seems more plausible than Chantal Hebert’s theory that
Continue readingSun News Network + Jason Kenney = frothy mixture
If you ever wanted to combine the worst of Conservatism – that frothy mixture of deceit, barely-veiled racism and amoral opportunism – look no further than the perfect marriage of the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism and Fox News North. Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to pose as new Canadians
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: CBC pained by public reaction
Jennifer McGuire is general manager and editor in chief of CBC News. Today, with no shortage of hubris, she posted a defence that attempts to explain the broadcaster’s determination to act against recommendations of CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe by continuing the appointment of Stephen Smart, husband of Premier Clark’s Deputy
Continue readingImpolitical: Reimagine CBC
A new effort that coincides with the Conservatives’ renewed attack on the public broadcaster as Parliament has resumed: “Reimagine CBC.” Leadnow.ca is driving the idea: From the digital revolution to political pressure and potential budget cuts, the CBC is under enormous stress and journalism in Canada is in crisis. (Just
Continue readingThe Equivocator: The Conservative Attack on the CBC Continues
Today was the first session in the House of Commons of 2012. During QP 3 Conservative MPs subbmitted anti-CBC petitions. The three MPs were: Colin Carrie (Oshawa.) Brian Jean (Fort-McMurray – Athabasca.) Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew – Nipissing – Pembroke.) The CBC needs defending. As Liberals we can’t just take this
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Time for BC’s media to admit its conflicts
When the media notes conflicts of interest in the business of politicians and community leaders, the reporting is immediate and relentless. Ask Glen Clark or Bill Vander Zalm. However, when conflicts involve fellow journalists, disinterest and silence is usual. So we have people presenting news that affects industries that pay
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