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If you’re like me, you harbour a certain fascination with Stephen Harper. Never before has there been a Prime Minister who so publicly displayed an anal retentiveness that has become…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Cons’ attacks on the environment and its defenders are starting to attract plenty of unwanted attention, with the Globe and Mail editorial…
Snake Oil Salesmen
Do you remember the photo ops, Conservatives standing in front of military hardware, on site at aerospace companies, trumpeting the “12 billion” in benefits the F-35 would bring to Canada?…
Hochstein threatens Clark and Cummins
It is no surprise that a handful of self-interested BC business folks are confounded by the rejection and disintegration of their proxy government. It startles me though when a representative…
The Straight pummels Globe & Mail and other ‘important newspapers’ for lack of F-35 coverage
Charlie Smith asks the “The $10-billion question: why isn’t the F-35 scandal on the front page of “important” newspapers?” Good question. Well, we know about the Globe & Mail. Loved…
Mostly fools
When asked the population of England, Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle gave as his answer, “Thirty millions, mostly fools.” If asked about British Columbia’s population, Time Colonist writer Les…
Rebekah Brooks busted again. When are they coming for the Murdochs?
The Murdoch scandal keeps growing and evolving into an epic HBO movie. So far, the people at the very, very top – James and Rupert Murdoch to be exact –…
Firms Use #CPC Tactics To Halt Bad PR
Many of you will remember yesterdays post about John Fryer, the UVic professor who wrote a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail about the two day Manning…
A Tale of Two Newspapers
The Globe and Mail and its sundry propagandists (excepting the principled Lawrence Martin, of course) continue their Sisyphean task of defending the indefensible by issuing almost daily dismissals both of…
The Globe and Mail Continues to Debase Itself
What little is left of the Globe’s reputation as a newspaper to be taken seriously has been unraveling rapidly in its non-coverage of the voter suppression crimes of the last…
Saskboy and Jymn rub The Globe’s nose in #RoboCon | #cdnpoli
RoboCon: Journalism Failure at the Globe – UPDATED | Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: “And what’s the reason that John Ibbitson, a professional journalist for a national newspaper, treats Giorno with so…
"Robo-calls? Get a grip. We’re Canadian"
So says Globe & Mail scold Margaret Wente. We expect our elections to be squeaky clean, and that’s a good thing. Obviously, there were election irregularities in Guelph, and maybe…
John Ibbitson shames himself in the Conservative daily Globe & Mail
Itchy and Scratchy The Globe & Mail is a terrible newspaper. It was once highly regarded but has fallen into disrepute. Only if you are a Conservative or a right-wing…
Globe & Mail dips its toes into Robogate
Globe & Mail editorial office The Globe & Mail, that dusty old Miss Havisham of a newspaper, has been notably silent on the Robogate scandal, dancing around it like a…
Globe & Mail dips its toes into Robogate
Globe & Mail editorial office The Globe & Mail, that dusty old Miss Haversham of a newspaper, has been notably silent on the Robogate scandal, dancing around it like a…
What happened to Dan Gardner? The only reasonable man in the room is riding off the rails.
I had the greatest respect for Dan Gardner. He wrote such compelling newspaper columns that I, Mr. Short Attention Span, attempted to read his book Future Babble. I actually understood…
Globe & Mail whores itself to tarsands. And a new low.
Didn’t think the Globe & Mail could sink any lower? Think again. Feast your eyes on today’s front page: Here’s the reality from the horse’s mouth (emphasis mine): It would…
Stupid headline of the day: "Anonymous wants transparency, but hides behind name"
Don’t you love the Globe & Mail? Is the Globe serious with this stupid headline? It reads like a statement from the PMO. This is why Anonymous exists. When the…
No one who has been paying attention should be surprised by Harper government’s fake pension ‘crisis’
“Holy shit,” this old guy is asking himself, “what was I thinking when I voted for Stephen Harper?” Below, Prime Minister Harper himself, possibly not exactly as illustrated. Below that,…
Media Watch: The Globe and Mail’s Shifting Headline
Earlier today the Globe and Mail had one of these truly terrible “balanced” articles about the proposed federal crime bill. The headline screamed: Quebec expert backs Tory crime bill amid…