William Kaplan, in today’s Globe and Mail, on the media’s reaction to Stephen Harper’s limited campaign access, and restriction to only five questions per day:”The only astonishing thing is that the media are taking it. They are playing along, acceptin…
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Terahertz: Canada.com-It’s time to talk about abolishing the monarchy
I got another piece published on the front page of Canada.com in the “Real Agenda.” This time I argue that it’s time to due away with the monarchy. It’s time to talk about abolishing the monarchy The power of our Prime Minister’s Office has been growing in leaps and bounds since Trudeau sought to centralize […]
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: We get 30 cents back – People for Corporate Tax Cuts, Canada
People for Corporate Tax Cuts – Canada
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: My Fellow Canadians: Where do you get your news?
Do you get paper delivery each morning? Read the national, provincial or local headlines from newspapers at work? Catch up on the news from papers left at Tim Hortons?
Do you instead get your news from the airwaves, via radio? From TV? Or online, from…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: My Fellow Canadians: Where do you get your news?
Do you get paper delivery each morning? Read the national, provincial or local headlines from newspapers at work? Catch up on the news from papers left at Tim Hortons? Do you instead get your news from the airwaves, via radio? From TV? Or online, from traditional or alternative news magazine
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: My Fellow Canadians: Where do you get your news?
Do you get paper delivery each morning? Read the national, provincial or local headlines from newspapers at work? Catch up on the news from papers left at Tim Hortons? Do you instead get your news from the airwaves, via radio? From TV? Or online, from traditional or alternative news magazine
Continue readingMadLibMadLib: Harper: The Campaign Answer Express Lane
There’s nothing worse than seeing a really great price on an item in the weekly flyers that includes that worst of the small-print caveats “limit 5″ per household or some-such. In this election cycle we have found ourselves with exactly that, in candidate form. It’s no surprise that Mr. Harper
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Why is a senior media personality threatening a 21 year old university student?
On March 28, 2011, the following tweet appeared on the Twitter account of a local Saskatchewan talk show host. My question is: Why is a senior media personality publicly threatening the newly elected president of the University of Regina Students U…
Continue readingCan Democracy and Censorship co-exist?
Censorship comes in many forms, and usually when it is included in a discussion about democracy it mean Government censorship and the control of information. In this case, I am not talking about Government control of the media, but rather about media censorship/control of the information Canadians have in this, their 41st general election. Here is […]
Continue readingAre We Equals?
In celebration of International Women’s Day:
A bit cheesy with the 007 theme, but I really appreciated the statistics on women performing 2/3 of the world’s work but receive only 10% of pay and own only 1% of land.
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Continue readingMaking Sense of that St Kilda / 17 Year Old Girl Debaucle
I’ve avoided reading many news pieces about that whole 17 year old girl and nude photos of St Kilda Saints footy players affair as I felt like too few were questioning the manner in which it was reported that she obtained the photos. Of course, after the initial reports were published, the players implicated denied […]
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: Galactic Ruler Xenu Hires a Lawyer
There once was a guy who wrote sci-fi short stories for pulp magazines. Then one day he wrote this story:75 million years ago, the earth was over-populated with 186 billion people, so its ruler rounded up most of the people and put them in volcanoes an…
Continue readingStraight Outta Edmonton: Ethnic Media in Edmonton
Like Mack, I am also interested in local media. However, my interest has more to do with Edmonton’s media diversity, rather than the evolution of local journalism and media in general.My primary interest is in the differences between small, community b…
Continue readingStraight Outta Edmonton: Ethnic Media in Edmonton
Like Mack, I am also interested in local media. However, my interest has more to do with Edmonton’s media diversity, rather than the evolution of local journalism and media in general. My primary interest is in the differences between small, community based media outlets and mainstream sources, and what these
Continue readingStraight Outta Edmonton: Ethnic Media in Edmonton
Like Mack, I am also interested in local media. However, my interest has more to do with Edmonton’s media diversity, rather than the evolution of local journalism and media in general. My primary interest is in the differences between small, community based media outlets and mainstream sources, and what these
Continue readingRight of Center Ice: He actually did what?!: Energizing politics and other unacceptable antics
Do not adjust your television set. We are firmly in pre-election mode. The majority of CPC talking-boxes may reject this claim (even though their own fund raising material say otherwise) but Peter MacKay isn’t going to dance to the party tune. Today while speaking to the media in Winnipeg, MacKay
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Simplistic Interpretation of Female Support Shift
I take exception to Keith Baldrey’s simplistic interpretation of why female voters will play a key role in the next BC election – not that they will, but why their support may be shifting from the NDP to the Liberals.
According to Baldrey (chief political reporter for Global BC – oh dear!), one of the pillars pushing women’s support away from the NDP is "the brutal take-down of a female leader…
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Charles McVety was for Censorship before he was Against It
Charles McVety, the best spokesman for the Conservative Party a partisan Liberal could ever hope for, has come out against censorship despite being for it.
Continue readingJulian Assange thinks I’m “valueless and inane”.
A vehement supporter of freedom of information, I’ve been defending Assange whenever the hot topic of his arrest comes up. Today was the first time I’ve questioned my support for the Wikileaks founder. In an attempt to defame the world famous outlaw, journalists have been on a mad hunt for anything they could use to […]
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