Tim Hortons Is Hiring!! (Must Speak Tagalog)
Tim Hortons Is Hiring!! (Must Speak Tagalog) Up the street from me, Tims has only foreign workers. Down the street from me, it also has, more or less, foreign workers.…
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Reflecting on Ralph Klein
On the far-right CBC Rex Murphy program the other day, Rex was inviting Canadians to call in and join in on his hagiographical paean to his idol. He bagged a…
What is the best NHL logo–response
http://zorgreport.blogspot.ca/search/label/Sports%20-%20Hockey (you have to scroll down) ( Well, I had meant to put this simply as a response to my own post. However, googleminds does not allow more than a…
Tom Flanagan’s Workday
Tom Flanagan’s Workday 8:23 Hoo well. Gotta get up again, tell all those worthless losers to get out there and get a job. 8:25 Whoa, I just dreamed I was…
Zorg Report 2013-02-11 06:24:00
The ever-incredibly depressing Jian Ghomeshi treedux Well, once more into the breach. There was 2011, there was 2012, and now there is 2013. It is as if I just have…
Why There Is No Left, Left (and Francis Fukuyama)
((Perhaps like Francis, I bit off more than I could chew. I started this post and set it aside for a while, but still I decided to finish and post.…
Obama’s New Girlfriend: (her name is Sandy)
I am growing so, so, so weary of pundits saying that Sandy was a blessing for Obama because it gave him a chance to “look presidential.” He wasn’t looking presidential.…
Zorg Report 2012-11-04 05:20:00
CHLPA Self-Interested Rogers Sportsnet Media Goes All Out to Mock Potential Canadian Hockey League Players Association (but it’s probably an idea whose time has come, and eventually will come) TV…
The Lougheed Legacy: Christy Clark, and a Divided and Uncompetitive Nation
The Lougheed Legacy: Christy Clark, and a Divided and Uncompetitive Nation You will note that I did not make this post at the time of Peter Lougheed’s death and the…
An All-Sports Radio Station in Canada! The time has come. Or gone. Or was here but went. Or is never going to happen. Pity.
Still, it would be a nice idea, sometime. Precis/Abstract: Sports radio in Canada had a unique, unfulfilled opportunity to cover the spectrum of sports. With media concentration, the unfulfilled opportunity…
Zorg Report 2012-07-07 07:51:00
CTV.ca throttles down online content to support advertisers Canada’s CTV network, whose employees constitute a notable source of funding for the federal Conservative party, has now begun throttling back its…
The Alberta Disadvantage – Alberta Reinforces Socialist Liquor Monopoly
The Alberta Disadvantage – Alberta Reinforces Socialist Liquor Monopoly (For many; ok just some like me, but in actuality for all since monopoly inception.) Those who read this blog (me)…
Zorg Report 2012-05-02 08:23:00
Alberta Votes, Redux: How Danielle Smith and the Wildrose Managed to Lose Huge Pollsters, Pundits, the Media, and Academics Ironically Make Danielle Smith Lose Election I chose the word “manage”…
Alberta Votes . . . for Mugabe Again!
Alberta Votes . . . for Mugabe Again! Pollsters, Pundits, and Academics Amazed; Blame Voters for Being Unvoterly Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Soviet Union, Equatorial Guinea, Castro—strange bedfellows…
Air Canada – do you want it, or do you want to live?
My local CBC radio station led this morning with: “Air Canada: do we need it?” I guess that’s a rhetorical question, like, “use of your left hand; do you care?”…
Graham James coaches the Canadian Hypocrites – who win the Immoral Cup
Let me see if I get this. Graham James was a junior hockey coach, trainer, etc., who worked for years in the Canadian hockey system. He had remarkable success, and…
Obnoxious British accents – Americans Can’t Get Enough
Why is it that Americans have become so drawn, in this twilight of their empire, towards cockneyesque abrasive annoying British accents? One hears it more and more, every day. Time…
Sleepin’ Forzanis
Sportchek – a business going sideways, fast. A close friend was talking about getting some new shoes lately, and that made me think back on Sportchek, a business that used…
Fixed Elections, F**ked Democracy
Ensuring dictatorships, as in Russia, one step at a time. Of course, political scientists have already dilated at endless length on this subject, so far be it from me to…
Dreams and Questions (ongoing)
Why do actors in Canadian tv commercials seem to turn up and be in every second ad for a while, and then disappear? I mean, yes, there are some who…