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…
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…
Tom Kent, chair of the Royal Commission on Newspapers, 1981. (Canadian Press photo). Below: The cover of the 1981 Royal Commission report; Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber. Today we mark…
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…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Aaron Wherry profiles how some of the NDP's youngest MPs won a place in office, and the work they're doing now that they…
I find it first of all to be a strange bit of braggadocio from the ever serious news organization that is Sun Media. But it's the comments from the Sunshine…
Most likely spurred by the facts presented by the CBC about Quebecor’s welfare habit, the media chain’s chief came out firing today against the ‘state broadcaster’. Problem is, Peladeau came…
Most likely spurred by the facts presented by the CBC about Quebecor's welfare habit, the media chain's chief came out firing today against the 'state broadcaster'. Problem is, silver spoon…
It's probably been nothing more than a matter of time before a few more of the institutions in crosshairs of the Cons and their allies started fighting back rather than…
You won’t find the Sun tabloid chain – no stranger to hatchet jobs - siding with the ‘state broadcaster’ often. But when it comes to the Bill O’Reilly attack dog…
Conservatives have a very well defined hierarchy of idiocy. The National Post is about midway down the pack, excelling at Disingenuous, Lacks Moral Clarity and Will Do Anything to Further…
It seems that Timmy Hudak is pulling a Stevie Spiteful. When in doubt, bring out the evul coalition bogey man! Speaking at a Toronto hockey arena, Mr. Hudak repeatedly lumped…
Boys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons want to hold a parliamentary hearing regarding the future of the CBC, basically. And guess who their star witnesses will be? Yup! You guessed it!…
Interesting list here, to put it mildly: "Peladeau, Von Finckenstein, Sun Media journos to testify before committee on CBC." It's bad enough that multiple representatives who abhor public funding for…
20110729-ethical-oil-campaign.jpg The controversial Ethical Oil ads, which enjoyed an exclusive run on the Oprah Winfrey Network at the end of August, have earned a new enemy: the ...
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Simon Enoch rightly criticizes the Cons' fair-weather commitment to democracy in the wake of a fairly resounding vote on the part of Canadian Wheat…
Dark Daughta has a video of Naomi Klein talking about the corporate branding of 'ethical oil'. Klein does a masterful job of deconstructing the big money PR machine's efforts to…
Well, Boys ‘n’ girls, you had to know that was coming. The editors don’t like unions or the working class for that matter. In fact, they sooo despise them, that…
Canada's chronic illness, the reciprocal bigotry infecting two of its three founding nations, is threatening to lurch into pandemic status under the Harper Conservative majority. Until anglophone and francophone Canadians…
Looks like the PC`s have bought another slew of advertising for Google search terms with almost any combinations including "Liberal Party" or "Ontario Liberals" and the like having an on-top…
