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The fix for local TV

02/05/2016 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw We’re in an age of media decline. Last week, I posted my thoughts about what’s gone wrong with Canadian newspapers. But local TV in Canada is also losing viewers at an alarming rate. This week the CRTC was told that fully half of our local stations could be gone within the next […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Australia, Canada, Canadian television, CRTC, journalism, television

Mind your guru, Minister Freeland

02/05/2016 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside The best part of International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland signing the U.S. corporate rights agreement TPP — the Trans-Pacific Partnership — in Aukland, NZ on Wednesday was that it was done here in this gambling casino, and a casino is where the house always wins. In her 2012 book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Chrystia Freeland, corporations, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Japan, Liberals, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, trade, Trans Pacific Partnership, U.S., United States, Vietnam

For Trudeau, the campaign is never over

02/05/2016 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon I thought Justin Trudeau’s question and answer session with ten so-called ordinary Canadians the other night on the CBC, was a pretty decent little TV show.Another pleasant sign that our country is starting to look like Canada again, after the muzzled darkness of the Harper years. And I certainly didn’t think that it would […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian media, Canadian politics, CBC, Conservatives, David Akin, Justin Trudeau, Tasha Kheirridin

Why I won’t pray for Paris

11/18/2015 By the editor 2 Comments

By Kenneth Brown In the aftermath of the Paris killings, the Facebook world has been, as is only appropriate, afire with opinion, speculation, ire and sympathy. I do not have the kinds of Facebook friends (I’m happy to report) who leap to make bigoted statements about Muslims, or to publicly indulge in revenge fantasy. I […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: bigotry, Christianity, Christians, crime, France, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Judaism, middle east, Muslims, Paris, religion, terrorism, war

A choice between emotion and reason

11/16/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon It seems only too tragic that just 10 days after being sworn in as Prime Minister, after promising to restore our Canadian values, and bring back sunnier days, Justin Trudeau should be hit by the darkness of the Paris massacre. Only too ironic that the son of Pierre should have to choose so soon […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 9/11, Canada, Canadian military, Canadian politics, Conservatives, France, ISIS, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, middle east, NATO, Paris, Rona Ambrose, Saudi Arabia, Stephen Harper, Syria, terrorism, U.S. military

The party poopers in our press

11/10/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon As I’ve mentioned before, ever since the good Prince Justin toppled the evil King Harper, I’ve feel like I’m living in some kind of fairy tale. A really nice one. Trudeau is wowing people in this country and all over the world, for some of the princely moves he’s been making … […]

Filed Under: Media

The Video: The fall of Justin Trudeau

11/07/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, Justin Trudeau

Triumph of the drama nerds

11/07/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at the pictures on this page), let me hasten to add that I have been proudly a drama nerd nearly all my […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Justin Trudea, Stephen Colbert, television, theatre

Sunny day

11/06/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon It couldn’t have been more of a fairy tale beginning. Prince Justin, his princess Sophie, and the Liberal cabinet marching up the driveway to Rideau Hall to be sworn in, after having toppled the tyrant. And yes what a difference a day makes … One moment we were living in his grim Harperland, […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, newspapers, Pierre Trudeau, Sophie Gregoire, Stephen Harper

The Post’s selective MEMRI

11/02/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside National Post, flagship of the largest media conglomerate in Canadian history run by a foreign hedge fund, inhales a MEMRI “report” based on the online musings of four anonymous “known” jihadi dudes titled: “Pro-ISIS Activists React Joyously On Twitter To Canada’s Elections” Then they give it the fabulous new Trudeau-torqued headline you see at left. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, ISIS, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, middle east, National Post, neoconservatism, newspapers, social media, Stewart Bell, twitter, VICE News

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