HillTimes: There are an estimated 1,500 communications staffers working in ministers’ offices and departments, including 87 in the PMO and PCO. (And don’t forget Sun Media, Postmedia, editorial board at Globe & Mail and 90 percent of the media.) Soon after Mr. Harper won power, the Prime Minister’s staff started
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How can opposition battle Harper’s War Against Information when there’s no battle plan?
HillTimes: There are an estimated 1,500 communications staffers working in ministers’ offices and departments, including 87 in the PMO and PCO. (And don’t forget Sun Media, Postmedia, editorial board at Globe & Mail and 90 percent of the media.) Soon after Mr. Harper won power, the Prime Minister’s staff started
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: If we’d heeded Tom Kent in 1981, our democracy would be healthier today
Tom Kent, chair of the Royal Commission on Newspapers, 1981. (Canadian Press photo). Below: The cover of the 1981 Royal Commission report; Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber. Today we mark the passage of Tom Kent, the man who got it right about the state of Canada’s news media and was
Continue readingThe Sun’s effect on our national conversation is obvious, but what about the Globe?
It’s a straightforward question: what are people talking about? What’s capturing their attention and imaginations? Public conversation. Nothing gives you a better sense of a community or a society than gauging what people are talking about. (24/7 on Ki…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Aaron Wherry profiles how some of the NDP’s youngest MPs won a place in office, and the work they’re doing now that they hold the role.- It isn’t the kind of endorsement against type that would have the largest…
Continue readingQMI news flash: Sunshine Girl graduates to cover of Hustler.
I find it first of all to be a strange bit of braggadocio from the ever serious news organization that is Sun Media. But it’s the comments from the Sunshine Girl about her imminent Hustler cover spread that give the whole thing that touch of class th…
Continue readingPoor Pierre Karl Peladeau. Playing the victim again. Paranoid, too.
Most likely spurred by the facts presented by the CBC about Quebecor’s welfare habit, the media chain’s chief came out firing today against the ‘state broadcaster’. Problem is, Peladeau came off wimpy and whiny, somehow befitting a news chain known for its self victimization and pouting. Not only that, there was a whiff of paranoia . . . → Read More: Poor Pierre Karl Peladeau. Playing the victim again. Paranoid, too.
Continue readingPoor Pierre Karl Peladeau. Playing the victim again. Paranoid, too.
Most likely spurred by the facts presented by the CBC about Quebecor’s welfare habit, the media chain’s chief came out firing today against the ‘state broadcaster’. Problem is, silver spoon Peladeau came off wimpy and whiny, somehow befitting a news ch…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Fighting back
It’s probably been nothing more than a matter of time before a few more of the institutions in crosshairs of the Cons and their allies started fighting back rather than hoping to lay low for four years. And the CBC’s brilliant takedown of Quebecor – ju…
Continue readingKevin O’Leary under fire for hatchet job on Chris Hedges. Sun Media rides to the rescue
You won’t find the Sun tabloid chain – no stranger to hatchet jobs – siding with the ‘state broadcaster’ often. But when it comes to the Bill O’Reilly attack dog of the CBC, Sun can make an exception.
(I’m pretty sure Sun has also recently deified Don Cherry in light of the flack he’s . . . → Read More: Kevin O’Leary under fire for hatchet job on Chris Hedges. Sun Media rides to the rescue
Continue readingAnother step down the Conservative evolutionary scale. Sun runs homophobic McVety ad. Bonus Shaidle charm offensive.
Conservatives have a very well defined hierarchy of idiocy. The National Post is about midway down the pack, excelling at Disingenuous, Lacks Moral Clarity and Will Do Anything to Further a Conservative Meme. Not to mention the bottom of the pack for Empathy.
Then you have Sun Media. It’s right there in the basement, . . . → Read More: Another step down the Conservative evolutionary scale. Sun runs homophobic McVety ad. Bonus Shaidle charm offensive.
Continue readingOntarians, Are You Getting a Sense of Deja-Vu?
It seems that Timmy Hudak is pulling a Stevie Spiteful. When in doubt, bring out the evul coalition bogey man!
Speaking at a Toronto hockey arena, Mr. Hudak repeatedly lumped the other two parties together and suggested any alliance would inevitably lead to higher taxes in the province. He said such a coalition . . . → Read More: Ontarians, Are You Getting a Sense of Deja-Vu?
Continue readingAnd Now, Introducing the Witness for The Harpercon Prosecution, Fox News North!
Boys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons want to hold a parliamentary hearing regarding the future of the CBC, basically. And guess who their star witnesses will be? Yup! You guessed it! Pierre-Karl Peladeau, Ezzy Levant, and of course, king McCarthyist of the CBC watch, Brian Lilley-white. Oh yeah! Like they’re going to reliable, impartial . . . → Read More: And Now, Introducing the Witness for The Harpercon Prosecution, Fox News North!
Continue readingImpolitical: The Conservatives make a witness list
Interesting list here, to put it mildly: “Peladeau, Von Finckenstein, Sun Media journos to testify before committee on CBC.” It’s bad enough that multiple representatives who abhor public funding for the CBC will be given a platform. Why 3 of them? I c…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Saudi Arabia and Ethical Oil Group Go Head to Head Over Ads
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The controversial Ethical Oil ads, which enjoyed an exclusive run on the Oprah Winfrey Network at the end of August, have earned a new enemy: the …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Simon Enoch rightly criticizes the Cons’ fair-weather commitment to democracy in the wake of a fairly resounding vote on the part of Canadian Wheat Board members to preserve the institution and its single-des…
Continue readingTar sands dirty oil = "fair-trade coffee and free-range chicken"?
Dark Daughta has a video of Naomi Klein talking about the corporate branding of ‘ethical oil’. Klein does a masterful job of deconstructing the big money PR machine’s efforts to paint the polluting tar sands as the next coming of christ.It made me thin…
Continue readingEditors of Sun Media Would Like To Rename Labour Day–After a Union Buster–Quelle Surprise!
Well, Boys ‘n’ girls, you had to know that was coming. The editors don’t like unions or the working class for that matter. In fact, they sooo despise them, that they appear to want to rename Labour Day–after–get for it–George Brown, a union buster hisself.
Only Sun Media and the rest of the . . . → Read More: Editors of Sun Media Would Like To Rename Labour Day–After a Union Buster–Quelle Surprise!
Continue readingCo2 Art: Bigotry within Our Borders
Canada’s chronic illness, the reciprocal bigotry infecting two of its three founding nations, is threatening to lurch into pandemic status under the Harper Conservative majority.
Until anglophone and francophone Canadians get over their apparently unc…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: More Shameless Progressive Conservative Attack Ads
Looks like the PC`s have bought another slew of advertising for Google search terms with almost any combinations including “Liberal Party” or “Ontario Liberals” and the like having an on-top PC ad linking to the website www.liberalreview.ca.
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