Margaret Wente Fumbles Another
Her model of an ungrateful Que. student is from out of province. Plus there’s a nice bit of writing from MC at the end: I suppose from where Margaret Wente…
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Black is the new Red: Why Stephen & Jason love Conrad more than they love Canadians
Powerful symbolism, no matter how you look at it: Lord and Lady Black. Below: Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Let’s be honest with ourselves, Canadians. Did any of us ever truly…
I Almost Agreed With Margaret Wente
… then she reverted back to being a bitch, but almost, I almost agreed with her. The article in question is her piece in the Globe about Quebec’s student protests,…
Margaret Wente Scores Another Win For Superficial Thinking
I suspect that with the exception of her employer, few believe The Globe’s Margaret Wente is a subtle thinker who deserves a forum in the self-proclaimed ‘newspaper of record.’ Her…
Polar Bear Potpourri
Recently, the Nunavut government sponsored an aerial survey of the Hudson Bay polar population in which they concluded that: “he bear population is not in crisis as people believed,” said…
Oh Peggy, Your Anti-Quebec Bias Is Showing!
Peggy Wente first goes into her commentary over Patrick Brazeau and Justin Trudeau’s boxing match last week-end and saying that Justin Trudeau would not be a good leader for the…
The wisdom of John Ibbitson: "NDP opts for a power broker over a protest leader"
Let’s face it, to the stuffed shirts at the Globe & Mail, ‘protest leaders’ = ‘hippies’ = ‘socialists’ = NDP. Glad to see Ibbitson is happy a ‘power broker’ has…
Meh…
Count me amongst the 54% of Canadians who, according to a recent poll, rather cynically believe that the so-called “robocall scandal” is just “politics as usual” and therefore nothing terribly…
Word to Peggy Wente And Comic Relief: A Cheesy Cartoon And Latest From Montreal Icons, Bowser and Blue
Keep thinking you live in a democracy, dear. What’s happened to my country? I went away for a couple of weeks and all hell broke loose. I came back to…
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…
"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…
Margaret Wente’s war on the elderly. All of a sudden, she’s concerned about the young!
Retired Globe & Mail editors give the fingers up to poor old folks. Margaret Wente, who has never been kind to the young, all of the sudden takes an interest…
Religious Freedom and the 21st Century
This essay is cross-posted at Rev. Dave’s Bible Study, a side project where I’ve recently been expressing some frustrations on the subject of religion and politics. The Globe & Mail‘s…
The Trouble With Margaret Wente
…is that she doesn’t have enough original ideas to carry a column; so she pieces them together from the ideas of other writers. Which is fine. Failing to attribute these…
Media culpa catches Wente being sloppy again | #journalism
Media culpa: Margaret Wente, Math and Christianity: More factual/attribution errors?: ‘via Blog this’ What’s that? Wente being sloppy with numbers? Wente being shoddy and haphazard with attributions? I’m shocked. Shocked.…
The Magnificent Seven: Stephen Harper’s seven new Senators leaked
STARRING: Shotgun * Blogging T * * Ezzy * Huffer * Wenthataway * The Poet * Blatched The Conservatives’ new best friend, the Canadian wing of the Huffington Post, has…
Stephen Harper’s seven new Senators leaked
STARRING: Shotgun * Blogging T * Wenthataway * Ezzy * Huffer * The Poet * Blatched The Conservatives’ new best friend, the Canadian wing of the Huffington Post, has a…
A Modest Reply to Margaret Wente
Four days have now passed since the dishon. Peter MacKay threatened to sue his critics for libel, and Sixth Estate has not received any requests to take down posts “attacking…
Media Culpa On Margaret Wente’s General Crappiness
Migrating quotes, improper attribution, possible borderline plagiarism. Margaret Wente columns have it all.
Denial Of Facts Is No Way To Understand Science
On Thursday December 1st, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente declared herself a defender of scientific integrity by calling upon the scientific community to replace the “rhetoric” of climate change…