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Taxes are bad — unless, of course, they’re good

02/21/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By David@Sixthestate.net Here’s a puzzle for my readers: try to guess which one of the following two editorials, each of them discussing a slight bump in the tax rate for the wealthiest individuals, comes from The Globe and Mail, and which one comes from the local leftist rag: An extra two per cent is a […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: BC Liberal Party, British Columbia, Canada, Globe and Mail, NDP, Ontario

Chief Spence and the hypocrisy of The Globe

12/31/2012 by backofthebook.ca

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, China, Christie Blatchford, First Nations, Globe and Mail, John Duncan, Stephen Harper, Theresa Spence, Tibet

Jill Wiznoski and the small town journalists

12/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher J-Source.ca has a melancholy wrap-up story on the case of Jill Wiznoski and the displeased MP  — melancholy because I expect this is the last we’ll hear of a matter that should have received a lot more national press attention than it did. Wiznoski, you will remember, was the reporter fired by […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, bad behaviour, Canada, Conservatives, Globe and Mail, ipolitics, James Bezan, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, National Post, newspapers, publishing, Vancouver Observer, William Thorsell

The Globe: War is Peace

10/15/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By David@Sixthestate.net Even by the steadily declining standards of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s “paper of record” hit an unusual low in its angry and Orwellian response to the announcement that the European Union was being given this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It’s definitely a bit of a head-scratcher, although notably less so than, say, […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Barack Obama, European Union, Globe and Mail, Nobel Prize

Wente apologists dig press in deeper

09/27/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By David@Sixthestate.net Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still people referring to this as though it was an isolated incident, and there are even some professional journalists who have the nerve to […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: bad behaviour, Canada, CBC, Globe and Mail, Jesse Brown, John Stackhouse, Maclean's, Margaret Wente, National Post, newspapers, Sylvia Stead, Tim Harper, Toronto Star

The Wente plagiarism question grows

09/23/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher This story has been updated below The furor over what appears to be plagiarism in Margaret Wente’s columns for The Globe and Mail continues to grow, helped along by The Globe itself. On Wednesday I reported that the blog Media Culpa had identified numerous instances where Wente appeared to have lifted prose […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Globe and Mail, journalism, Margaret Wente, newspapers, Ottawa Citizen, Phillip Crawley, Sylvia Stead

Is there an echo in here?

09/19/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher The blog Media Culpa has spent the past week coming up with some breathtaking examples of what appear to be plagiarized passages in columns by The Globe and Mail‘s Margaret Wente. The examples offered are so damning that I don’t know why I’m bothering with the “appear to be” part of that […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: blogs, Canada, Globe and Mail, journalism, Margaret Wente, newspapers

Jason Kenney exiles 3100 citizens

09/11/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By David@Sixthestate.net “Ottawa’s crackdown on residency fraud is a timely reminder that a Canadian passport is something to be earned.” That’s the general tenure of the positive media coverage the Harper regime has earned from the announcement this week that several thousand more Canadians will have their citizenship wiped away by the mighty pen of […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Globe and Mail, immigration, Jason Kenney, law

Why was the Iran Embassy Closed?

09/10/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By David@Sixthestate.net When Peter MacKay’s outspoken wife Nazanin Afshin-jam announced in July that Canada should shut down the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, on the nebulous charge that it was using cultural events to distribute propaganda (something which Canadian embassies have traditionally also done, incidentally), I almost wrote a post telling her to get realistic. Outside […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Globe and Mail, international affairs, Iran, Nazanin Afshin-jam, Ottawa, Peter MacKay, Stephen Harper

Canadian tech: thriving, not vanishing

07/09/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Mark Evans According to a feature story in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Canada’s tech sector is vanishing. Not only that but “the air is quickly coming out of Canada’s high tech sector – or what’s left of it.” First reaction: this is a troubling situation. Second reaction after reading the lengthy story: It’s an […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Canada, finance, Globe and Mail, Research in Motion, startups, Toronto Stock Exchange

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