Harper Edges Closer To His Goal
That goal would be the destruction of the CBC, an ideological (i.e., publicly-funded) and political (Terry Milewski’s fearless journalism) thorn in Dear Leader’s side. A Senate committee that spent 18…
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Amanda Lang Interviews Ed Broadbent
If you have as low an opinion of the CBC’s disgraced chief business correspondent, Amanda Lang, as I do, watch the following video. I think you will find that, with…
And Speaking Of Ethics
Or, more accurately, the lack of them at the CBC, letter-writer John Page of Toronto offers this thought: Re: Minimal mindset of CBC managers, Jan. 16 As a faithful listener…
More On The Amanda Lang Imbroglio
The Star’s John Semley offers his thoughts on the inadequacy and ineptitude of the CBC’s response to the Amanda Lang scandal: Recommend this Post
Accountability, Whither Thou Goest?
If there is one good thing to be said about the Leslie Roberts scandal, it is that privately owned Global Television has acted with dispatch both in its investigation of…
A Blog Post Recommendation
I have only one purpose in this brief post, and that is to strongly recommend that you take a look at Dr. Dawg’s latest post. A trenchant and incisive dissection…
Setting The Record Straight
Weakly constituted as I am when it comes to tolerating disingenuous and dishonest political theatre, I was unable to watch the Chief Prevaricator, a.k.a. the Prime Minister, while his chief…
Peter Mansbridge Speaks Out
Readers of this blog will know that I am a frequent critic of both the CBC and Peter Mansbridge. Both ‘institutions,’ in my view, often fail to live up to…
The Good Lord Gets His Comeuppance
Those who, over the years, have grown weary of the pretentious blather of Conrad Black, the lord and baron much put upon by the requirement that he be subject to…
He Was A Man…
While many in the so-called liberal blogosphere tend to see the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as an unalloyed saint striding far above the corruption that infested that country’s politics…
The Synchronous Decline of Peter Mansbridge and The CBC
I admit that I stopped being a regular viewer of the CBC years ago; I think the catalyst for my disaffection was its transparent policy of appeasement (under the pretext…
Canada’s Domestic Israeli State
I have purposely stayed out of the blogosphere discussion of the latest atrocities between Israel and Gaza, atrocities that both sides must bear responsibility for. I have done so simply…
Mulcair’s Dutch Disease Comments: A More Rational Assessment
Despite the near-hysterical reaction of certain CBC broadcasters to the comments made last week by Thomas Mulcair about how tarsands developments are inflating the value of the Canadian dollar, thereby…
Rick Salutin Today
While the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge may often pronounce ponderously and authoritatively on issues, there is another source of information that should, in many ways, be taken more seriously, says Rick…