Open Letter to Canoe.ca
To Whom it May Concern, The problem I have is, while perusing your website, I was reading an article about a high school hostage situation, and the largest graphic on…
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Holy Biased Poll
I realize website polls are primarily for entertainment and shouldn't be taken seriously, especially not on a hyper-conservative radio site.But this poll really stuck out as having a totally meaningless,…
News and Analyses from BASICS Community News Service
BASICS is newspaper put out by some revolutionaries in Toronto, with a popular and working class orientation. Would definitely say it's worth checking out... material from the latest issue is…
National Gender Inequality Rankings – We Should Be Doing Better
The World Economic Forum has released its Global Gender Gap Report, in which it ranks countries according to gender equality measures. Canada came in 20th. 20th. This is even behind…
Did PBS censor Tina Fey?
Tina Fey, winner of the 2010 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, had her speech edited during the PBS broadcast of the show. Critics claim it's due to the controversial…
Bake at 350 Degrees ’til Explosion Occurs . . . .
Michael Moore gives the definitive review of Bob Woodward's new obama administration novel.Excerpts:In fact, after you read Woodward's book, you'll split a gut every time you hear a politician or…
You Can Tweet Us on Twitter, Where the Heck Else Could I Tweet You?
I’ve got a nagging pet peeve about how the media are explaining all the new ways of communicating with them. I’ve heard CBC and CTV doing this but I’m sure…
The National Post speaks to me
I found this amusing. Here's a screen capture from the National Post page in FB:
Ezra Levant vs Reality – A Prelude To Fox News North
The battle between supporters and opponents of Sun TV News – the Fox News style channel headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former communications director Kory Teneycke – reached new…
On secrecy and Wikileaks.
IntroductionSo, as everyone and their brother's roommate knows, Wikileaks managed to get their hands on another chunk of material that the powers-that-be would rather the rest of us never saw.…
Build your email list with download cards
If you're looking for a creative way to build your email list, you might want to give download cards a try.
Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber
Dan Leger of the Chronicle-Herald ran a thoughtful piece yesterday with the rather cumbersome title of "The insularity of Internet opinion factions".As you might have guessed, this has only encouraged…
Levant, Coulter Protect Free Speech
The rules laid out for attendees of the Coulter event in Calgary demonstrate who’s ‘free speech’ Ezra Levant, Ann Coulter, and event sponsors International Free Press Society are seeking to…
The Last Post I Will Ever Write About Ann Coulter (Except for Cynical SEO Purposes)
by matttbastard (Photo: Rockinon2009, Flickr) Well, well, well (h/t Sabina Becker): First, contrary to what Coulter seems to suggest in a brief phone interview with Macleans.ca scribe Colby Cosh, it…
Fomented Outrage And Phoney Censorship
Ezra Levant, the self described expert on free speech in Canada, is Outraged! over the cancelation of Ann Coulter‘s scheduled Tuesday appearance at the University of Ottawa. Levant’s been busy…
Stephen Harper Takes Your Questions!
Pre-screened questions, pre-scripted answers, and a pre-taped interview. That, in essence, is as authentic as Stephen Harper gets. The ‘much’ anticipated You Tube question and answer session with the Prime…
I don’t give a toss about Tiger Woods, but this is kinda sorta WIN
by matttbastard Alt-pr0n mogul Joanna Angel wins @ Twitter today: thank god i work in an industry where i do not have to make embarrassing apologies and quit my job…
“Roger Ailes as Howard Hughes”?
by matttbastard Let’s hope the ugly SOB still clips his toenails. Seriously — producing daily crypto-fascistic dispatches carefully crafted to rile up the rubes while scoring mega ad rev? Understandable.…
Why Angelina’s Film is Likely to Cause Offense
Last week, celebrity gossip news made the mainstream with the announcement that the Bosnian government was revoking permission for Angelina Jolie’s new film project. Originally sold to the government as…