I came across this image for the CBC. I think it was for an event that was sold out. However, as soon as I saw it, I thought how appropriate.There is a bit of angst over the future of the CBC, with poor Stephen Harper losing sleep over…
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A Different Point of View....: ‘Mother Corp’ funding:Harper starts to take aim at the CBC!
The CBC-hating Harper Conservatives are quick off the mark to get the debate going about whether the public broadcaster is of “good value” to Canadians.Today’s Globe and Mail reveals that Senator Irving Gerstein has asked Conservative supporters …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Bullies Go After the CBC. Again.
I have never understood why the Cons hate the CBC so much. Why the grotesque teabaggers at Fox News North spend so much time hissing and spitting at it.Or why senior Con operatives use CBC hate to whip up their rabid supporters, and sque…
Continue readingPample the Moose: John A.: Birth of a Country
Last night, the CBC aired John A.: The Birth of a Country, a dramatization of the eight years of Canadian political history leading up to the formation of the Great Coalition government of 1864 – the government which ultimately drove the Confederation …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janet Bagnall discusses Canada’s steadily-growing income inequality:In the last 20 years, the income of 80 per cent of Americans has stagnated while that of the richest one per cent has nearly doubled. …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Refreshing
No, there’s nothing particularly surprising in the NDP strategy reported by Laura Payton. But isn’t a pleasant change that the official opposition actually has such a thing?
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Ted Morton says everybody does it? Well, stand up straight Alberta, and listen to your mother!
Do what your mama tells you! Below: My Mom, circa 1937; Ted Morton; Charles Rusnell.It’s been a few hours now since a CBC investigative reporter revealed that front-running Conservative leadership candidate Ted Morton used a fake name on a real gover…
Continue readingImpolitical: Polling on the CBC’s budget
This just looks like plain old seeding of the ground for CBC budget cuts. A poll conducted by Abacus Data for QMI news agency appears in their pages today. QMI are no friends of the CBC, they have pursued thousands of access to information requests fro…
Continue readingOur liberal media XXVXX: CBC shills for the tar sands again.
Whenever I read or hear another right-winger whine about the CBC or the ‘liberal media’, I laugh out loud. Witness CBC’s Mark Gollom’s propaganda on behalf of Alykhan Velshi and the tar sands, bravely but dubiously taking down five of Daryl Hannah…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Conservative leadership candidates have high-speed rail line brainwave: All aboard for environmental and financial disaster!
Stand back! A high-sped rail car gets ready for the rocket-ride to Calgary. Below, alternatives models, and leadership candidates Doug Horner and Alison Redford.
RED DEER
Uh oh! The idea of a high-speed passenger rail link between Edmonton and Calgar…
Continue readingLaw is Cool: How not to sue Dragons’ Den
Every time I see the Dragons belittle a sweating contestant from their raised TV studio platform that reminds of Olympus I catch a breath. It’s not Jerry Springer but what if one of the scorned pitchers loses it and throws his heavy business idea right at a Dragon’s head? Thankfully, I’ve never seen such a […]
But I Thought The CBC Had a Two Year Cooling Off Period With Ex-Politicians-Juxtapose!
I know I’m going to need to be heavily sedated after writing the first sentence, but I find myself in agreement with the Blogging SupposiTory resident McCarthyist, BC Blue today. I am asking the same question he is today:
Why is CBC allowing Stockwell Day to break their 2 year cooling off policy?
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Continue readingDuceppe to CBC
Oh man, this is really going to piss off the right! LOFL! Stephen Tayor’s going to have to bring out the mops for all the cranial matter exploding over at Blogging Tories.
MONTREAL – Former Bloc Quebecois head Gilles Duceppe said he doesn’t think there is anything controversial about an ex-soveregnist leader working at . . . → Read More: Duceppe to CBC
Continue readingLeDaro: Amanda Lang of CBC: The Financial Expert
Lately, Amanda Lang has been a regular on several CBC-News shows. She has her own show with Kevin O’Leary and quite often she hosts the National, the nightly news program.
I will say Ms. Lang is fairly attractive, but I don’t understand her fascinat…
Continue readingknitnut.net: Kathleen Petty
I listen to Kathleen Petty on the Ottawa Morning Show on CBC radio every morning. Just for a little while…from the time I wake up til the time I get up. Maybe half an hour or so.
The last time I remember feeling any kind of attachment to a radio personality was as a little […]
Continue readingScience versus Photo Ops
I was watching the cbc news this morning. I find it very sad to witness the decline of that once proud public broadcaster. The cbc used to provide some fine investigative journalism. It’s one story in particular that caught my eye today however, that speaks to the disconnect between government and the media . . . → Read More: Science versus Photo Ops
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Free Water for Fracking: B.C. Government Gives 20-Year Withdrawal Permit to Talisman
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British Columbia is providing the gas industry with 78 million cubic meters of free water each year, according to a recent CBC article. That water,…
Scott's DiaTribes: Sunmedia’s business model – attack the CBC
A brief observation: Wherever I turn, whether it be Ezra Levant’s raving on in the Sun tabloids, or Brian Lilley on SunTv, or even David Akin on Twitter questioning CBC policy or standards (which I find amusing by the way – since it’s David’s news organization who withdrew from the Ontario Press Council so that any minimum outside supervision of how it conducts its activities would be removed. No nasty oversight for them on press ethics or practices, but let’s bash others for theirs – talk about holier then thou), it’s become clear that the raison d’etre for SunMedia is to attack the CBC – for anything remotely trivial.
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Continue readingTrashy's World: Now don’t slam me for saying this!
The Heritage robot, James Moore, has said that the CBC isn’t immune to Strategic and Operating Review cuts – and this has the Twittersphere et al squawking mightily. While I do strongly support the MotherCorp, I don’t see any reason why it should be immune from the same review that my and all government Departments […]
Continue readingImpolitical: Cuts versus spending blitzes
Tony Clement commenting on today’s Conservative spending blitz which included cash for an airport, a donut manufacturer and a pork plant among many announcements today and in coming days: Treasury Board President Tony Clement said the blitz was fully i…
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