Iraq Debate: The Center Of Gravitas Shifts
…to Jean Chretien. Mind you, I’m not particularly set in my opinions re Canada’s contribution to the fight against ISIS. These thoughts still apply, more so, perhaps, now that the…
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Dead Mouse In McDonald’s Coffee Story: A Brief Note
The only way it could have gone unnoticed the whole time is if it fell in the pot, drowned, and then sank to the bottom. And that takes awhile; mice…
Randy Hillier Turns On His Own
Three would-be leaders of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives made obeisance to the Ontario Landowners Association last weekend, horrifying their caucusmate who helped found the group.Christine Elliott, Vic Fedeli and Lisa MacLeod,…
Life In Scarborough: Got Me Some Ford Nation Hoodys!!!
My bus crapped out around Lawrence & Warden. The bus-driver kicked us all off due to mechanical difficulties, and told everyone the next 54 was coming along any minute. After…
What Post Media Bought, When They Bought Sun Media
Part of any sale or purchase it that of good will. They buy the title with the assumption that they are buying, in this case a newspaper (s) that are…
Bernie Farber On Ezra Levant And The Jewish Tradition
My favorite bit:All too often Levant cloaks himself in his Jewish heritage as a true defender of Jewish values, in contrast to those he refers to as the “official Jews,”…
Canoe.ca All In French?
It is (though you can ask for a translation)! It defaults to “http://fr.canoe.ca/”;” http://eng.canoe.ca/” dead ends. Has Quebecor abandoned English Canada after the sale of thei5r English properties?
Sun News Network In Final Death Throes
Huffpo Canada has some information about the big sale that I haven’t heard elsewhere. In particular, what happens to the Sun News Network, which was not part of the deal.…
Rex Murphy Whips It Out
His vocabulary, to show everyone how big it is. PS. The link works, but you don’t have to read. Although I think somewhere about paragraph three Rex deploys a 12…
Wind Popular Farms In Ontario
Only Forum, but: More than one half of Ontario voters approve of wind farms in rural areas (56%), while 3-in-10 disapprove (31%) and one tenth don’t have an opinion (13%).…
Why Not Bomb ISIS?
Nine planes for six months; no ground fighting. Why not? As a matter of history, many things went wrong with the Arab Spring, but the nature of The West’s commitment:…
News You Can Luze
#CRTC sides with Rogers in carriage dispute over Sun News Network http://t.co/tHOY8dRTud— Steve Faguy (@fagstein) October 2, 2014 #CRTC: Rogers “set-top-box data that showed that #SunNews consistently ranked at or…
Ezra’s Apology, An Early Draft
Yesterday afternoon, we learned Brian Mulroney called Liberals to say Sun Media will apologize tomorrow for offensive rant by @ezralevant vs @JustinTrudeau. #cdnpoli— Robert Fife (@RobertFife) September 28, 2014 Today…
Sun News Prepares To Grovel
RT @RobertFife: Brian Mulroney called Liberals to say Sun Media will apologize tomorrow for offensive rant by @ezralevant vs @JustinTrudeau— National Newswatch (@natnewswatch) September 28, 2014 If you’re thinking WTF…
Rumor: Harper To Bail On Failing Gov.
From Bourque: …in recent days, a number of key Conservatives in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver have confided to Bourque they envision a late-winter announcement that the PM will step…
Die Media Die: New Round Of Layoffs At Sun Media?
,,,at the Ottawa Sun, in specific: It pretty much leaves the cleaning staff to run the place, perhaps a precursor to selling or shutting down. Pretty soon there won’t be…
Live Coverage Of Doug Ford Scarborough Focused Virtual Town-Hall: Dofo Might Remove Bicycle Lanes
Via my twitter feed. A bit of real news contained therein, perhaps. Whoa. Doug Ford live call. He’s telling me Chow/Tory going to put street cars down middle of road…
Justin Vs. Ezra
An interesting bit of tactics. In fact, it would be just swell if Canadians thought of you as the typical, modern conservative, @ezralevant. Anything we can do to help?— Gerald…
Guilty Plea in Rehtaeh Parsons Case
The news, which as far as I can tell Canadas’s major news organizations have yet to mention , is here. As to the controversy around Anonymous’ efforts to keep this…
Die Media Die: Quebecor Ready To Dump T.O. Sun
…and other Sun Media media products:“To be honest, if somebody was to call me , I would certainly listen,” he said. “We understand that it is a declining business.” And…