Fair and Balanced Questions
As you probably know, “Fair and Balanced” is the Fox News tagline that exists to trick the more easily fooled into thinking that’s what their actual objective is. Check out…
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Made In Canada Conservative Hypocrisy
“Canada had long been a proponent of harmonizing our climate-change policy with the U.S. until the U.S. started to fight climate change.” First it was the “Made in Canada” scam…
Canada’s Oily Media
There are opportunities to support journalism in Canada that doesn’t take millions from the oil industry and the oil-soaked Conservative government. Had you heard that the Conservative Party communicated with…
2020 Solar Power for 100% of Saskatchewan Homes Possible
This letter appeared in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix on Saturday. In response to Kurt Soucy’s letter about the cost of powering the entire provincial grid with Photovoltaic (PV) solar power,…
Fisk On Harper
It’s articles like this one that make you wonder if the Canadian media is telling you everything you need to know. (Seriously though, that’s plainly obvious.) If Stephen Harper is…
Saskatchewan Needs a Real Change of Destination
Greg is making a good point in his latest column, but I had to throw in a Green campaign slogan into the title in good fun. The bottom line really…
Leave It In The Ground
The world has much more coal, oil and gas in the ground than it can safely burn. That much is physics. Watch this compelling, factual argument about how to solve…
Climate Change AKA Global Warming Denial History
Here the case is made that “global warming” was supplanted by “climate change” because it sounded less urgent, (much as tarsands became oilsands), and other history is presented about the…
More Debates, Not Fewer Debaters
The unethical fools at the Broadcast Consortium will probably gladly keep Elizabeth May away from the debates this year too. Especially amusing is the Conservative spokes-tool saying more participants would…
Hot Room Politics
Media in Ottawa are too busy eating each other alive to focus on the main course passing authoritarian Bill C-51. Glen McGregor takes the proposed Press Gallery changes apart. @pdmcleod…
National Post Guilty of Defaming Climate Change Scientist
It shows the misguided focus of the national Postmedia “tabloid” when they let a star like Mike De Souza go, and hang onto a convicted libeler like Terence Corcoran. Maybe…
Lang Still at CBC
Amanda Lang still hasn’t been suspended from reporting for the CBC. Meanwhile, Global did a little required housecleaning. “When people say they have no politics, it means that their politics…
SaskPower Says Bigger Is Better, Even Losses? #PowerToGrow
As a followup to the Star Phoenix’s article on the hugely expensive, and (public) money losing CCS plant at Estevan, comes word of further cost overruns. The overruns, in the…
Journalist Tired of Unfree Press Pushing War
A German journalist explains how the CIA misused him to manipulate people, to push war. “Non official cover”
CBC Live As Composed As A Live Blog
Ancient years ago, about 6, CBC journalists could be heard explaining to crowds how bloggers might one day be eating their lunch, but for the time being the responsible journalism…
#DontLookAtTheSun it’s now #PostModernMedia
Now Sun News is owned by the National Post now . The National Post, AKA the Financial Post has made it clear they’ll do lewd things in a washroom with…
To Inquire, or Not To Inquire, Don’t Ask The Question
The latest Coyne article seems to be self defeating in its thesis. “It’s not evident what contribution another public inquiry would make,” opines Coyne. For one thing, we could have…
Surviving Death Going Well
My death and quick resurrection made it into the local newspaper on the front page. There will be a followup coming later too I think.
WikiLeaks: A Country’s Name To Kill
An interesting ethical debate is taking place. FirstLook Media, the controversial and adversarial media outlet owned by PayPal’s inventor, has withheld the name of the 5th country the NSA collects…
ConCalls: Commish Waves White Flag in #RoboCon #elxnfraud Investigation
Despite audio evidence of widespread illegal robocals, the Commishioner of Elections Canada has announced “no offenses committed”! @DonMartinCTV @nspector4 "We didn't find anything because we weren't allowed to find anything"….…