Gordon Hoekstra and the Vancouver Sun present another episode in the ongoing series, Shilling for Corporate Canada: Enbridge is a Canadian success story: “Patrick Daniel, its president and CEO… earned $8 million in 2010 in salary, bonuses, stock options and other compensation, … self-proclaimed environmentalist, he proudly boasts of owning
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Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Vancouver Sun practices conscious deceit
Elmer Derrick and Enbridge VP Janet Holder IS IT TRUE ELMER DERRICK IS “THE” GITXSAN HEREDITARY CHIEF? Commentary by Merv Ritchie, Terrace Daily, Dec. 11, 2011 This is the claim recently made in a commentary Elmer Derrick submitted and had published in the Vancouver Sun, “Elmer Derrick is the hereditary
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Majority supports Keystone XL, or do they?
Wetland oil spill – Evi, Alberta Vancouver Sun headlines: U.S. majority supports controversial Keystone XL pipeline project: poll “A majority of U.S. voters still support TransCanada Corp’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline as the Obama administration again weighs whether to approve or scrap the project, according to a new poll. “Rasmussen
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Vancouver Sun: FAIL!
On the left you can see yesterday’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after more than 60 First Nations annouced they will not allow the Enbridge pipeline through their territories, on the right you can see today’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after one First Nation annouced they support
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Advocates not reporters
Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret, Craig Welch, Seattle Times environment reporter, Nov. 30/11 “A decade before this fall’s salmon-virus scare, a Canadian government researcher said she found a similar virus in more than 100 wild fish from Alaska to Vancouver Island. “Canadian officials never told the public or
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: On media, a reader’s contribution
Ms.Photo Op,Mentzelopoulos,Muir,Waldner Here’s an excerpt from the Vancouver Sun that ran Nov 22nd about the hiring of the husband of the minister of corporate priorities by the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA), and the link to the full story: “VIHA president Howard Waldner, in an interview from Toronto, said he
Continue readingGregor Robertson’s stunning 23 point defeat of NPA’s Suzanne Anton
Leading up to last night’s overwhelming defeat of Suzanne Anton, you’d have believed the result would be reversed. Based on the highly-biased reporting in Vancouver’s two daily newspapers – both Postmedia – Anton was practically a shoo-in to defeat the more liberal Robertson. At the heart of Anton’s – and
Continue readingCanadians have a jaundiced view of journalists
The Vancouver Sun thinks it may be because of the Murdoch phone hacking scandal in the UK. Mmmm, about that 90% of the media endorsed Stephen Harper’s Cons last federal election. Not even in the most totalitarian countries does one party receive that kind of media support. Think that might also have something to . . . → Read More: Canadians have a jaundiced view of journalists
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The Vancouver Sun thinks it may be because of the Murdoch phone hacking scandal in the UK. Mmmm, about that 90% of the media endorsed Stephen Harper’s Cons last federal election. Not even in the most totalitarian countries does one party receive that k…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Liberal scorn for sustainability
Before joining the Vancouver Sun, Fazil Mihlar was Senior Policy Analyst at The Fraser Institute. In his years with the newspaper’s editorial board, Mihlar has continued to serve philosophical goals of the reactionary foundations that finance his for…
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