Sun TV vs. Avaaz and Atwood: who’s the real hate-monger?
By Frank Moher
Sure we should wonder what Stephen Harper was doing having lunch with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes in New York last year. And of course the CRTC was right to refuse Quebecor a Category 1 specialty TV licence for its proposed SUN TV News Channel, which would force cable and satellite companies to [...]
Lessons for Project Samosa
By Alison@Creekside
The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP’s latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows for far more pants-pissingly terrorfying conjecture than mere [...]
Lady Gaga twats Edmonton
By Frank Moher
Could Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel have been any more humourless in his response to Lady Gaga’s cheerful twit-pic from Rexall Place on Saturday? (That’s it to the left.) Crews had removed the letter “O” from a sign to position a spotlight; our lady, or one among her entourage, grabbed a shot of the [...]
Anatomy of a G20 mishmash
By Frank Moher
The massive article, “Anatomy of the G20,” published by the Toronto Star last Friday, is a curious document indeed, especially coming from a newspaper that has taken a hard editorial line against the police’s actions that weekend. It feels like one of those articles that has gone all wonky as higher-ups got their [...]
Oil sands science seeps out
By Alison@Creekside
Remember that two year Environment Committee study on the tarsands that was ultimately shredded because the four parties at the table couldn’t agree on the wording of the witnesses’s testimony? The Lib members of that committee have now released their own report on the testimony and, as Andrew Nikiforuk reports at The Tyee, it [...]
Who needs a BC arts council when we have the Liberals?
By Frank Moher
Jane Danzo, in her letter of resignation as Chair of the BC Arts Council and in various exit interviews that followed, has confirmed what most of us already suspected: that the Liberal government now sees itself as arbiter of all things cultural in the province. At last, we can begin to see the [...]
Canada: Please stop annoying Steve.
By Alison@Creekside
“They don’t bother us. It’s just that they are annoying,” a “senior Conservative official” told the G&M’s Dear Jane yesterday about the public’s uproar in reaction to the Cons’ scrapping of the compulsory long-form census.
“Census freedom,” this same anonymous Conbot amusingly called it.
Apparently we the public are “annoying” to Steve now.
And not just the [...]
Book Review: Freedom (TM), by Daniel Suarez
By Eric Pettifor
FreedomTM is the sequel to Daniel Suarez’s book Daemon which I reviewed previously, giving it four stars out of five. The sequel likewise is a very good read, progressing logically from the foundation laid in the first novel.
The reason I didn’t give Daemon a full five stars is that towards the end [...]
Stelmach sticks his head in the oil sands
By Alison@Creekside
Four “Rethink Alberta” billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis proclaim the “Alberta Tar Sands Oil Disaster” is worse than the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster. There’s also a vid.
Alberta Preme Ed Stelmach is pledging $268,000 to mount a public relations offensive against the ads and has settled on a most unusual strategy:
“Of 350 million [...]
Day on crime: screw the stats, let’s just go with feelings
By Alison@Creekside
Doris (”Stockwell”) Day’s cheery crime shoppers’ philosophy on prisons seems to be: If you build them, they will come.
According to Shockwell Doris and JusticeMin Rob Nicholson, we’re going to need more prisons to deal with the “alarming” increase in “unreported crime” . . . that was last reported six years ago.
Well, you can see [...]
