By Montreal Simon As the great rising continues, I see that a Global TV crew has been kicked out of Attawapiskat. “A Global News crew was escorted off the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario and threatened with arrest after trying to do a story on living conditions in the community.” And while on the one […]
Chief Spence and the hypocrisy of The Globe
By David@Sixthestate.net I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised to read this weekend that The Globe & Mail has officially joined Postmedia’s Christie Blatchford in denouncing the ongoing hunger strike in Ottawa by Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence as an act not just of protest but of violence against the lawful order of the country: “Spence […]
On Blatchford, Hitchens, and why babies suck
By Frank Moher One is impressed by just how credulous the reading public can be. That would be you. You see what I just did there? I just insulted you. And while conventional wisdom would suggest that insulting one’s readers is not the best way to start an article, conventional wisdom is pretty stupid, too. […]
Richard Colvin’s devastating reply
By Alison@Creekside On Airshow Peter MacKay’s attempt to discredit Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin by accusing him of not having brought up detainee abuse the one time MacKay met with Colvin in Afghanistan: He, Colvin, had only been on the job for 10 days and had not met with any detainees yet. And even if he […]
Steve hides behind his troops
By Alison@Creekside Faced with mounting condemnation for government ass-covering over Richard Colvin’s testimony about Afghan detainees, Harper resorts to an oblique slight-of-tongue blackmail : “There were allegations of Canadian troops involved in torture. We’ve been very clear that’s not the case.” So who is pointing fingers at the troops? No one. No. One. But. Steve. […]
Bowing to Lord Black
By Frank Moher And now, to blog the bloggers and columnists on the Conrad Black Trial . . . Even as Christie Blatchford engaged in some generous genital-licking of Mark Steyn as part of her coverage, referring to him as “a very funny columnist” (which is often true), she was also showing him how to […]
