Jian Ghomeshi, no-longer host of CBC’s “Q”, today issued the following statement on why he was fired: Dear everyone, I am writing today because I want you to be the first to know some news. This has been the hardest time of my life. I am reeling from the loss of my father. I am […]
Leaked docs throw new light on Fair Elections Act
By Alison@Creekside Last week, the Star published a half dozen articles based on secret memos and a 70-page slide show about the Cons’ 2015 election war room strategies, anonymously leaked to them, and as presented to the Conservative National Council (above) by Harper’s former dcomm and now executive director of the CPC, Dimitri Soudas: “Everything we do […]
The Brothers Ford: Game over
By Alison@Creekside Seven years ago, a loud and drunken Rob Ford, then a city councillor, was at a Maple Leafs game at the Air Canada Centre. He was shouting things like “My sister was a heroin addict and was shot in the head” by way of making conversation at people seated near him. A couple seated two rows in […]
The Barrie Advance schools the PMO — and the Star
By Frank Moher That the Barrie Advance did the right thing in publishing a story about the PMO peddling dirt on Justin Trudeau: Check. That the PMO once again revealed itself as unethical, contemptuous of the public and, just to add to the bouillabaisse, incompetent: Check. That various publications and journalists will now explain why […]
About that audit
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) $3.1 Billion is missing, according to a damning audit of the Harper Government. Let’s see what the political pundits have had to say about recent audit revelations: – Headline in The Star: Federal government audit “severely critical” – The Star: “The independent audit […] speaks for itself, and we accept […]
The Cons’ broken budget record
By David@Sixthestate.net It’s possible to trace, year over year, the increasing negligence and partisanship of the Canadian media by how they react to government budgets. Take this year’s budget, for instance. If a Liberal or NDP government anywhere in the country, let alone federally, tabled a budget that blew past its previous deficit projections by […]
Not all bad news in the Wente affair
By David@Sixthestate.net In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, plagiarizes in her columns. It hasn’t been pretty. First, The Globe unsuccessfully tried to dismiss the accusations as the rantings […]
Wente apologists dig press in deeper
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 […]
The Star and The Mark: open for shilling
By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website — although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid “community correspondents” to cover Ontario’s […]
Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiastically repeated across our national press: CBC: CSIS file reveals plot to bomb […]
