A whale of a headline: "A tale of two democracies: Harper steamrolls, Obama grinds gears"
Did you get that? This headline from the Globe & Mail is rife with innuendo. You don’t need to read the article to know what’s going on here. In this…
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Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Barrie McKenna thoroughly debunks the claim that “financial literacy” alone is enough to put ordinary citizens on a level playing field with the…
How can opposition battle Harper’s War Against Information when there’s no battle plan?
HillTimes: There are an estimated 1,500 communications staffers working in ministers’ offices and departments, including 87 in the PMO and PCO. (And don’t forget Sun Media, Postmedia, editorial board at…
ExxonMobil and Shell Eyeing North American LNG Export Deals
LNG Export.jpg Yesterday, LNG World News reported that ExxonMobil Vice President Andrew Swiger announced, at a conference hosted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, that it was actively seeking LNG…
The Sun’s effect on our national conversation is obvious, but what about the Globe?
It's a straightforward question: what are people talking about? What's capturing their attention and imaginations? Public conversation. Nothing gives you a better sense of a community or a society than…
Veterans vs. OWS
Today is Remembrance day. I would personally like to thank all those who have served and are currently serving in Canada’s military. When I opened the editorial section of the…
Occupy Ottawa Pays Tribute to Late Vancouver Occupier Ashlie Gough
(Originally Published on Occupy Ottawa website) The Occupy Ottawa Movement observed a moment of silence before its General Assembly last night to commemorate the death of Vancouver Occupier, Ashlie Gough.…
Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
Millions of Americans are as mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore!In the largest action of defiance since the 2008 economic collapse, an estimated 650,000 angry…
RE: Rae calls for end to turf wars
Last night I was sent a link to an article in the Winipeg Free Press about Bob Rae calling out Liberal cliques, Liberal navel gazing, and turf wars. The Globe…
Tory Taber wanks on for the Conservatives. Again.
Whatever they pay her is not enough. Jane Taber has made quite a reputation for herself as a hagiographer for women - Conservative women, that is. Today, Taber doubles down…
Tory Taber wanks on for the Conservatives. Again.
Whatever they pay her is not enough.Jane Taber has made quite a reputation for herself as a hagiographer for women - Conservative women, that is. Today, Taber doubles down on…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy is on board for an Occupy Canada movement:To my friends adopting a wait-and-see approach, I say: The least they can expect from…
Wicked Caption Writing Person at Globe & Mail goes viral
These celebrity photo captions from the Globe & Mail drip snark, most with an Occupy Wall Street twist. They've ignited a Twitter frenzy and with good reason.A couple of samples:"Occupy…
Globe and Mail’s RoB shocks by questioning our economic system
The Globe and Mail – the Canadian media’s strongest supporter of neoliberalism and uncontrolled capitalism – has published a news story that questions whether the economists, business owners and governments…
Lets Raj and Roll: I’m Excited
Last Saturday Raj Sherman was elected as Alberta Liberal Leader. On Monday he was brought in, officially, to the Alberta Liberal caucus. A quick media scan: ] Curiously, on the…
Globe & Mail whines that Canadian political scandals are too boring
You want to know why our political scandals are so boring, Elizabeth Renzetti? Because the big, juicy ones are being hidden by the guilty party, the Conservatives. And you journalists…
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Every day has a story. But not every day has a story that changes so much in your life. For ten years I haven’t told my story because it’s not…
Globe editorial by confounded ideologue
The Globe and Mail presented an editorial this week that appears to be written by a confounded ideologue seconded from a Toronto high school paper. It really is the most…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Geoffrey Stevens notes that much of the Cons' justification for utterly senseless choices is to point to an imaginary majority: We don’t…
Today in the bizarro world of Canadian politics
Two choice items from the Globe today: "Harper makes ‘remarkable’ gains in best-prime-minister ranking" and "Cinephile Stephen Harper drops in on Crazy, Stupid Love." "He loves movies," we're told. Meanwhile,…