Our vacuous right wing in Canada screeching about non-glowing coverage of their team. A non corporate news source is one of the hallmarks of a democratic society. We should be giving more money to the CBC not less in the age of corporate media and fake news. Somedays it
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Global Climate Strike
The global climate strike inspired by Greta Thunberg and other young leaders concerned about their futures, is underway. #climatestrike just starting to build in #Melbourne, I'm sure we will see this build and build over the next hour. pic.twitter.com/lcjACJKRke — Stephen Torsi (@STorsi) September 20, 2019 Can we talk about
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: What’s Going On?
Half of the kitty cats just walked by to sniff my hand only to keep walking as I started to pet them, so they wouldn’t be mistaken as being too interested in more petting. Charlie just came up to me again, and left when I tried to pet him. In
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Why Canadian media won’t call post-Brexit protests ‘pro-democracy demonstrations’
If there are riots in Britain after the hard Brexit Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party cronies have scheduled for Halloween, will mainstream media in Canada describe them as “pro-democracy demonstrations” as they do when similar violent outbursts take place nowadays in Hong Kong or Moscow? On the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Greg Wilpert interviews Julia Wolfe about the contract between soaring incomes for CEOs, and stagnant ones for workers. And David Cooper observes that everybody benefits from a fair minimum wage. – Christopher Cheung points out that the presence – or absence – of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Podcast on Sunday
Jeff Cliff interviewed me for his Facebook Live stream on Sunday. We discussed Saskatchewan politics, media, blogging, censorship, and the Amazon Fires. For instance, I can link to Facebook, but people trying to link here from Facebook are told my blog doesn’t meet Facebook’s “Community Standards”. If you can figure
Continue readingI Vote CBC
Well informed citizens are essential to a healthy democracy. In ancient Athens, usually considered the first democracy, citizens who wanted to hear the latest news and views went down to the public square or Agora. The Agora, also known as the Forum of Athens, was the place for doing business
Continue readingThings Are Good: Talking Truth About Climate Change Matters
Canadians will be voting this fall in a federal election and one party is running with the mantra that reality isn’t real. Specifically that our current climate crisis doesn’t exist and that climate change as a concept is false. How anyone can vote for such an unethical party is beyond
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Oh, dear, what can the matter be? They promised to bring us a pretty ‘Blue-Ribbon,’ but all they deliver is cant!
Once upon a time, your blogger worked for a famous newspaper publisher who announced one day that since we journos hadn’t had a raise for a couple of years we could expect a small one in six months. There was a caveat, though. We would only get the raise if
Continue readingPolitics – Toronto Lawyer | Omar Ha-Redeye: CBC Interview About Liberal Leadership
Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed by CBC News at Mitzie Hunter’s launch for leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta discourse may still be mired in climate change denial, but the rest of the world is moving on
Public discourse in Alberta may still be mired in climate change denial, but the rest of the world is changing and changing fast. Even the New York Times, which along with much of the mainstream media in the United States could be accused until recently of seriously underplaying the climate
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Postmedia seeks new editor for Edmonton Journal – what became of the old one?
Postmedia is now advertising for a new editor-in-chief for the Edmonton Journal and the Edmonton Sun. It may come as something of a surprise to Edmonton readers that English Canada’s largest newspaper corporation is seeking “a dynamic, innovative journalistic leader to oversee the editorial vision and content of Postmedia’s Edmonton
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Journalists who are UCP members are not the problem; media companies that publish nothing but conservative views are
There was a fine old to-do on social media Friday night when a Toronto journalist revealed that a high-profile Postmedia columnist known for her enthusiastic support of Jason Kenney had been a member of the United Conservative Party at a key time during the Alberta premier’s rise to power. A
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: CBC, Change the Debate
CBC has a history of providing a substandard democracy experience for its owners, the Canadian public. Over a decade ago I organized a Regina protest in front of CBC Saskatchewan to object to the broadcasting corporation’s exclusion of Elizabeth May from the leaders debate. Years later she managed to win
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Fake News vs Traditional Media
This article by the CBC is excellent. It walks through a number of scenarios, definitions and instructions on how to spot ‘fake news’. Just one problem: they forgot to point the spotlight at themselves and friends in traditional media. It’s a good article, but of course, doesn’t mention how traditional
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Nick Falvo writes that Alberta would be far better served implementing a tax system more in line with the rest of Canada’s provinces to increase revenue, rather than slashing social supports in the name of illusory budget balance. And the Globe and Mail’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Susie Neilson discusses the growing health gap between the rich and the rest of the population in the U.S. And Ricardo Tranjan writes about the unfairness of an Employment Insurance system in which people with the most precarious work pay a higher
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood offers an electoral primer for voters who want to avert a climate breakdown in this fall’s federal election. And Paul Wells takes a look at the Cons’ undercooked nothingburger of a climate plan, while Hilary Beaumont notes that it’s actually
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Speaking The Truth
CBC and other media need to recognize the following as true if we’re going to advance as a society. It’s likely to make them, and you, uncomfortable. Growth isn’t automatic and easy. – Canada has committed genocide against First Nations people. I wrote for @washingtonpost about the failure of the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The NDP has released its Power to Change climate plan, including steps to create green jobs and give effect to Indigenous rights while meeting emission reduction targets needed to contribute to the international fight against climate breakdown. And Christo Aivilis offers his first
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