Assorted content to end your day. – Toby Sanger posts about the OECD’s findings on inequality in Canada, with this particularly jumping out as to how much less progressive our tax system is now than it was two decades ago: Taxes and benefits play a smaller role in reducing inequality
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The Sixth Estate: Margaret Wente and the Importance of Being Deluded
I was going to give Globe & Mail‘s resident imbecile Margaret Wente a pass, in honour of the Sabbath, but I’ve decided that her column this weekend is so horrifically brain-dead stupid that I shouldn’t let it go without at least making some comment. At this point we really should
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Margaret Wente Does Statistics
…but rather poorly, I’m afraid: If the Justice Bureau’s figures are “the best,” and good enough for Pinker, why does Wente cast doubt on them when a women’s group cites them? She fails to recognize that the data on the AAUW’s website are taken from the Justice Bureau at all…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On virtuous choices
Margaret Wente’s latest isn’t that far off of my criticism of most of her reactionary pablum. And the fact-checking of her column is entirely deserved. But she does manage to highlight an important choice, even if she rhetorically assumes exactly the w…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Margaret Wente and the Occupy Movement
Oh my Con Majesty. I see that Margaret Wente is channelling her inner Marie Antoinette again, and declaring that the members of the Occupy movement shouldn’t blame the rich. They should blame themselves.Ms. O’Gorman is in a fix. But I can’t he…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Canadian Governments Lack Political Courage?
On Friday, Chantal Hebert published a provocative column in the Toronto Star arguing that Canadian politicians are populists who lack “political courage” and, in the wake of the last courageous decision to create our new Constitution in 1981, have preferred to engage in meaningless populist grandstanding while the Supreme Court “takes the lead” in deciding […]
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: In Trashing "Occupy" Movement, Margaret Wente Quotes Some John
…not even related to the "Occupy" movement. Media culpa has the dets. This being an opinion columnist thing seems pretty easy. You don’t need to use facts at all.
Continue readingTo all those slamming the Occupy movement as one where nobody has jobs
This piece of historical snark from Canadian Cynic via Sister Sage’s Musings says it all:Stand back and admire the brush strokes of the hypocrisy of those who chastise the Occupy movement. The truth is that the media elite so critical of the Occup…
Continue readingNow, Peggy Wente, It’s Not Nice to Slam An Ideological Sister Like Kathy Shaidle
Vintage Peggy Wente. She does prove that she is, indeed, Chrissie Blatchford’s sob sister, along with Tash Kheiriddin. Peggy, of course, misses the point of the #occupy movement. What a bitter woman she is!
“Why should artists have to work instead of just making art?”
Peg asks one occupier. Who knew Kathy Shaidle . . . → Read More: Now, Peggy Wente, It’s Not Nice to Slam An Ideological Sister Like Kathy Shaidle
Continue readingthe reeves report: Supreme Court of Canada to help clarify what constitutes hate speech
The Supreme Court of Canada is being asked to draw the line between what constitutes free speech and what crosses the faint line into hate mongering. The case against William Whatcott, an unabashedly anti-homosexual Lutheran proselytizer in Saskatchewan, will have lasting implications about where Canadians and Canadian courts should draw the line between protecting what … Continue reading »
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Media Culpa On Wente And Electric Cars
Another bad column, another takedown:We expect regular eco-trashing and McGuinty-bashing from Ms. Wente, but there is an election going on in Ontario, and it behooves the Globe and Mail to provide readers with facts relevant to his policies. In additio…
Continue readingImpolitical: On green job schemes
As a counter to Margaret Wente today, “Message to McGuinty: Most green-job schemes have been miserable failures,” who relies in part for her view on a New York Times report of last week, I suggest the following reading: “Absurd NY Times Story on Green …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Support The Strikes To Defend Pensions
Usually even the mention of Margaret Wente’s name can ruin my day but her article in today’s Globe & Mail is actually not too bad in terms of laying out the terms of the strike and lock-out at Canada Post and Air Canada respectively. Of course, in …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Margaret Wente Has An Eye For Good Prose
When she sees some, she takes it.
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