It’s A Confession
In the wake of Rachel Notley stepping down as leader of the Alberta NDP, the geniuses over at National Post decided to publish an "opinion" piece that tries to lay…
Canadian media
It’s A Confession
In the wake of Rachel Notley stepping down as leader of the Alberta NDP, the geniuses over at National Post decided to publish an “opinion” piece that tries to lay…
A Glaring Omission
Anyone who may read this blog regularly knows that, for a number of reasons, I am not a fan of Justin Trudeau and his government. However, I give him top…
Jody Wilson-Raybould, The Media Created Seinfeld Scandal, And When There Is No There There (Plus Podcasts!)
Some thoughts and political potshots. It is getting to the point where commenting about Jody Wilson-Raybould on Social Media is getting too toxic. The subject itself is so very divisive…
MP’s Tweet sets off teapot tempest as Trump’s tabloid crony David Pecker exits Postmedia board
It’s interesting that the presence of David Pecker on the board of Postmedia Network Inc. only became a topic of public debate after he left the largest publisher of daily…
Tiger Williams’ Disgrace
Let me be clear. I have not been a fan of hockey since I was a boy, when only six teams constituted the NHL. However, I am struck by the…
Conrad Black is right: The media is full of baloney about the president!
PHOTOS: Presidents Donald J. Trump of the United States and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the 2017 G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany (Photo: Kremlin.ru, Wikimedia Commons). Below, the great…
Canadian newspaper industry advances on Ottawa, hands out, awash in red ink and democratic platitudes
PHOTOS: Stop the presses! … I mean the losses! Put me through to the red ink department … I mean the tax department … Actual Canadian newspaper owners may not…
Succession planning: what do we do when the great Canadian newspapers die off?
PHOTOS: Never mind the world. Who will save Canadian democracy now? With apologies to Superman. Below: Joseph Howe in his prime, and with his ottoman; the author, holding forth while…
Why is the Globe and Mail the only Canadian news agency to implement SecureDrop?
Why is the Globe and Mail, as of March 4, 2015, the first—and the only—Canadian news agency to implement SecureDrop? One would think that more Canadian news agencies would have…
A good-news story in Canadian media/journalism news: Sun…
A good-news story in Canadian media/journalism news: Sun “News” Network, aka Fox News North, aka the Conservative Broadcasting Corporation, aka Harper TV, aka Scum Spews is finally shutting down due…
Stephen Harper’s Terror Story and the Lies the Media Told Us
You think you know the story. You've seen the pictures on TV a million times. Over and over again.You've seen how the media have tried to explain what happened, and…
Scotland, Gaza, and the Shameful Silence of So Many Canadians
I spent my last day in Scotland in this beautiful highland forest with Sébastien and a group of friends, taking turns leaping into the icy waters of a deep gorge.Celebrating…
Media stenography: The CBC can’t bring itself to call Hudak’s plan what it is
If you haven’t heard, Hudak’s so called Million Jobs plan is more like a 75,000 jobs plan, based on an obvious mistake that meant most of his numbers were multiplied…
The Blindness of the Media, and the True Nature of Stephen Harper
It's the question that haunts me the most. The one I keep asking myself, but can never answer:Why after all the horrible things he's done to Canada and its values…
A New Enemy Of The State
When it comes to the media, it is common knowledge that the right-wing sees the CBC as a repository of leftists bent on perverting all that is sacred in Harperland.…
Mike De Souza and the Buying of the Media
Mike de Souza is arguably the best MSM environmental reporter in Canada. A hardworking newshound who has exposed many grubby dealings between the Cons and Big Oil. And is no…
Hooray! Sun News Network (SNN), aka Scum “News" lost…
Hooray! Sun News Network (SNN), aka Scum “News” lost their hypocritical bid to force all Canadian cable TV viewers to pay for their shitty channel regardless of whether we want…
The Conservative-appointed lickspittles who currently control…
The Conservative-appointed lickspittles who currently control Canada’s public broadcaster, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), have refused to air a commercial by Friends of the CBC that criticizes Stephen Harper’s government for…
Jim Flaherty, the most incompetent finance minister in Canadian…
Jim Flaherty, the most incompetent finance minister in Canadian history, released his pathetic 2013 budget on March 21 and almost immediately snuck off to Hong Kong, en route to Thailand.…