Today the CBC turned over documents to the Commons ethics committee “under protest”: In a speech before the National Press Club Foundation, CBC President Hubert Lacroix confirmed what NDP House Leader Joe Comartin had already revealed to the House of C…
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Impolitical: The Conservatives’ strained relationship with the rule of law continues
The parliamentary law clerk has written a strong opinion on the legality of the Conservative push at the ethics committee to compel CBC to provide documents to the committee while the CBC is in the midst of a court dispute over those documents with the…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Paul Wells speculates as to what comes next for the Harper Cons once their first set of legislation is rammed through a majority Parliament. But as Wells notes, we shouldn’t get sidetracked as to where those …
Continue readingIrony alert. Contempt party accuses CBC of contempt.
Well if anyone should know contempt, it would be a Conservative. Oh and you can forget that whole legal matter of the appeals process. That’s just for Conservatives.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Since when did the Tories worry about contempt of parliament?
CBC in contempt of Parliament if it doesn’t produce documents Access Committee requests: Del Mastro
Continue readingpolitics on CAPS LOCK: I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M GOING TO LIVEBLOG THE SASKATCHEWAN ELECTION AND NEITHER CAN MY FAMILY
IT’S A GOOD THING I DON’T KNOW AN AWFUL LOT ABOUT THE SASKATCHEWAN ELECTION BECAUSE IT SEEMS TOO DEPRESSING TO THINK ABOUT. ALSO THE KIDS ARE UPSET THAT THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH THEIR OLD FRIENDS FROM MCMURRAY WHO ARE VISITING AND SHANNON WILL NOT ABIDE ANY
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: CBC Pat On The Head
There there CBC, it’s okay. The Conservatives are going to put you out onto the street anyway. If you can’t be fair during an election, Don’t expect the public’s protection. You’re so busy spinning a tale, The truth was missed, soon you’re for sale. The CBC was so busy running “gotcha journalism” they forgot to […]
Continue readingSun Media whines about expenses of Harper-appointed CBC boss
Hey Fox News wannabes, perhaps you would be better suited to complaining about the CBC if you didn’t go after Stephen Harper-appointed Hubert Lacroix. He’s only doing what the Conservatives do – living lavishly at the taxpayers’ expense.
Continue readingImpolitical: Dean Del Mastro: Judge, jury and information commissioner
What is going on at the ethics committee under Dean Del Mastro’s leadership deserves plenty of sunlight. From a Liberal release this afternoon: Liberal Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics critic Scott Andrews made the following statement today on…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The CBC’s 75th Anniversary – Part of What Canada Is.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is an integral part of Canadian culture. Canada’s national broadcaster helps bring the nation together and provide a common media space for Canadians to interact and share their ideas together. Canadians are so very lucky to have a public broadcaster to provide a voice of relative sanity in the cluttered media […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- I’d think it’s long past the time where any informed observer could cling to hope that the Harper Cons see good government as a goal worth pursuing. But Dan Gardner points out the role that Parliament …
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Take Off, Eh?
As a Halloween treat, Ezra Levant attempts to be funny by masquerading as an obnoxious “Barge Delahunty” intruding on a Rob Ford look-alike (who knew?) in a series of increasingly awkward encounters. I have to admit that this parody had … Continue reading →
Continue readingthe reeves report: Tension mounting between CBC and Quebecor
Tension is mounting between Canada’s public broadcaster and Quebecor Inc. over access to information requests made to the CBC, and what Quebecor Inc. President and CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau is calling a “smokescreen” around how the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation spends its tax-payer funded budget of $1.1B. Peladeau and others have been calling for the CBC … Continue reading »
Continue readingTrashy's World: So Rob Effing Ford is the worst person in the world?
Um, I dunno about that. There are worse. Yet Keith Olbermann thinks REF takes the gateau. The U.S. television personality and political pundit mocked Mr. Ford on the “Worst Person in the World” feature of his CurrentTV show, which aired Oct. 28. “The new conservative executive [of Toronto] has had a rough start, but never […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Susan Riley comments on Brian Topp’s mention of raising taxes as a necessary price of greater equality and better social programs:(H)owever reasonable, limited or incremental (Topp’s) plan turns out to …
Continue readingOlbermann’s worst person in the f’ing world: Rob Ford
You knew the US media would not let a momentous occasion like Rob Ford’s freakout at Marg Delahunty and 911 dispatchers to go unnoticed. Keith Olbermann is the first US TV pundit to jump on the ridiculousness of Toronto’s wimpy mayor. He won’t be the l…
Continue readingTO police chief Bill Blair wades in the Rob Ford pool. Muddies the waters.
You have to admire Bill Blair for being a loyal soldier but after the G20 fiasco, does anybody really believe anything Bill Blair says any more?As for the 911 tape being released, I guess with the complaint lodged by the 911 dispatcher, it is inev…
Continue readingImpolitical: "Canadians expect their government to respect their fundamental rights and freedoms"
Two things here today on freedom of the press and privacy rights.Dean Del Mastro and his Conservative confreres on the access to information parliamentary committee are trying to get up into CBC’s business – to an even greater extent than they already …
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Rob F–king Ford v. Marge Delahunty
Talking to a group of reporters at his extracurricular gig as a high school football coach, Canada’s least popular mayor delivers his latest bullshit version of events concerning a recent encounter with the crew from CBC’s satirical 22 Minutes program. … Continue reading →
Continue readingRob Ford gives the CBC all the ammo it needs to fight the Conservative/Sun Media juggernaut
The battle between the Conservatives/Sun Media against CBC is all but over. With Rob Ford’s cowering in the face of sweet Newfoundlander Marg Delahunty and simpering defence of his attack on 911 dispatchers, the CBC has all the weapons it needs to show…
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