When I read a tweet from @AZerbisias just now with this bit of journalistic news, I thought ahah, Coyne didn’t go to a progressive news outlet – that proves he’s a Conservative hack. Then I was reminded of other few journos whom I have respect – Kady O’Malley for one –
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Linda McQuaig gets it. Occupy signals a new era.
Occupy has been starved for meaningful commentary from the press corps. Most of what has been published varies from haven’t-got-a-clue to total bullshit. Most journalists need to be told what to write. Occupy has kept its beliefs and goals close to the vest. It hasn’t been easy without a roadmap for a
Continue readingLinda McQuaig gets it. Occupy signals a new era.
Occupy has been starved for meaningful commentary from the press corps. Most of what has been published varies from haven’t-got-a-clue to total bullshit. Most journalists need to be told what to write. Occupy has kept its beliefs and goals close to the vest. It hasn’t been easy without a roadmap for a
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: A gun registry case for mandatory minimum penalties
The Toronto Star is reporting that the Harper government has reinforced its efforts to strip Canada’s national police service of its independence. Removing the RCMP’s communications independence is the just another indication yet that Conservatives want a police force that serves the party and not the people. We were immediately
Continue readingTake off, eh?: Water, water everywhere…
A report has singled out Ontario as the only province to get an “A” grade for its water protection efforts. It’s worth pointing out that the group in power in Ontario at the time of the Walkerton debacle are closely linked with the gang currently in Ottawa, who have received
Continue readingTake off, eh?: Water, water everywhere…
A report has singled out Ontario as the only province to get an “A” grade for its water protection efforts.It’s worth pointing out that the group in power in Ontario at the time of the Walkerton debacle are closely linked with the gang currently in Ott…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Worth reading. Worth correcting.
This morning, the Toronto Star published an interesting article on the impacts of the Tory war on vulnerable Canadians long gun registry repeal bill.I won’t repeat the core of the story. Suffice to say it is discussed here, here, here, and here.B…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Excellent Column From Rick Salutin
As I have written elsewhere, in my view there are few Canadian columnists who can match or exceed the depth and range of intellect consistently reflected in the work of The Star’s Rick Salutin. In today’s piece, entitled Drawing inspiration from the …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tim Harper on the One-Year Anniversary of U.S. Steel’s Hamilton Lock-out
We are approaching the one-year anniversary of U.S. Steel’s lockout of the workers from its Hamilton plant; the lockout would seem to be in contravention of the guarantees that the company undertook when seeking approval from the Harper government for …
Continue readingTwo powerful Star columns on Islamophobia. The new anti-Semitism. Tactics of Islamophobes.
Haroon Siddiqui hits these columns out of the park. Much needed to be said but our media has been reluctant to shout out the obvious.
‘Islamophobia: The new anti-Semitism‘
Just as the Muslim world turned against the U.S. and Europe, Americans and Europeans turned against Muslims, including their own minorities, nearly half of . . . → Read More: Two powerful Star columns on Islamophobia. The new anti-Semitism. Tactics of Islamophobes.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Time For A War On Error
Although I rarely reprint items from the newspaper in their entirety on this blog, occasionally someone says something so succinct and insightful that I can’t resist. Roman Haluszka from Newmarket has the lead letter in today’s Star that underscores t…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: With Persichilli Appointment, PM Harper Shows Quebec The Political Middle Finger, Embraces The Ethnic Vote
Quebec will not be a priority for the Conservative Canadian Prime Minister during the next four years of his comfortable majority rule. That was the message Stephen Harper sent with his appointment this week of Angelo Persichilli as the new director of…
Continue readingWhat’s this I hear about Tony Clement? Surely it can’t be true?
“Funneling requests for taxpayer-funded projects in his riding directly through his political office in Huntsville”? Can’t be. Must be that commie Toronto Star doing the digging and reporting facts again. Conservatives – call out Sun and Post medi…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Artist Franke James has Harper quaking in fear
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If Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is this frightened, then we can only assume that the visual artist from Toronto, Franke James, is THAT scary!
As reported most recentl…
Fern Hill Unleashes More Online Hellfire
Way to go, Fern! As you might remember, Fern Hill, the political blogger at DAMMIT JANET! was the instigator of what Chris Selley dubbed the “online hellfire” which was unleashed on Tim Hudak last week following Fern’s post on his que…
Continue readingLet’s see… how to start… um… *ahem*… okay… It was a dark & stormy night…
…and fern hill was kicking ass all over the place! W00t! DJ has the links that tell the entire tawdry tale. And while we’re giving props to those who deserve, how about an honourary scoop of freshly-minted dogpoop to the Toronto Star, supposedly Canada’s Flaming Liberal Newspaper of Record, for refusing to publish even a Letter […]
Continue readingYes, BC Blue, Dean Skoreyko, Toronto Star Just Ain’t a Classy a Paper as, Say, The Toronto Sun?
It’s been awhile since I’ve verbally bitch slapped a blogging supposiTory. I’m going back to it, because, well, they just lend themselves to it. BC Blue Dean Skoreyko, Come on Down! You’ve just been the next contestant of a Ck verbal bitch slapping.
We all remember BC Blue, don’t we, boys ‘n’ girls? . . . → Read More: Yes, BC Blue, Dean Skoreyko, Toronto Star Just Ain’t a Classy a Paper as, Say, The Toronto Sun?
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Toronto Star Readers Speak Out On Police Abuses
I have written before about how much we are enjoying our subscription to The Toronto Star, one of the few newspapers that still seems to be doing the job that the press traditionally performed: keeping the public well-informed and reminding the powers-…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Judge Excoriates Cops As Thugs, Expresses Content Superiors Who Conceal
Yesterday I posted some of the comments made by Justice Allen upon sentencing two Toronto police officers to a year of house arrest for beating a Cabbagetown man in 2009. Today there are further comments in The Star by the Superior Court Judge, includ…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Judge: Police Have A Culture That Rejects Accountability
Those were the words of Justice Elliot Allen as he sentenced two Toronto police officers to one year of house arrest for beating a Cabbagetown man in 2009. As is the usual practice when one of their own is under judicial scrutiny, the courthouse was p…
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