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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

06/19/2016 by the editor Leave a Comment

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary — Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian energy giant Petronas — without the consent of the people who rejected a $1.15 billion dollar deal from Petronas to gain that consent. […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: BC Liberal Party, British Columbia, business, Canada, Christy Clark, environment, First Nations, industry, Lax Kw’alaams, LNG, nature, oceans

The Video: Justin Trudeau, actor

02/06/2016 by the editor 2 Comments

In 2007, Justin Trudeau was an actor in the CBC docudrama The Great War, in which he played decorated Canadian soldier Talbot Papineau, and ignored W.C. Fields’ dictum never to act with children or animals. We’ll leave it to viewers to decide if he made the right career move by going into politics instead. As […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, Canadian television, Justin Trudeau, television, war, WWI

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

The Video: Lenny meets the Conservatives

09/19/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

“Lenny” is a collection of recorded messages, designed to fool telemarketers into thinking they’re talking to a real person. Here’s what happened when Lenny got a call from a Conservative campaigner representing Pierre Poilievre. As Alison@Creekside has reported: “The telemarketer calling here on behalf of the re-election campaign of Pierre Poilievre, champion of the Fair […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Andrew Scheer, Campaign Support, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, marketing, Pierre Poilievre

The Video: “The irony is the clean-up contractors are from Kinder Morgan”

04/16/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

From Vancouver spill: About that 2700 litres . . .: “Officials in charge of cleaning up a bunker fuel spill in Vancouver’s English Bay now say the estimate of what leaked from a grain carrier was a conservative figure. Owen Rusticus with Environment Canada says the 2,700-litre spill estimate wasn’t based on gauges, but was […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Conservatives, energy, James Moore, Kinder Morgan, National Energy Board, oceans, oil, oil sands, tankers, Trans Mountain pipeline, Vancouver

The Video: Vancouver oil spill: “Like, why are we here first?”

04/16/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

From World class assness: “Volunteers were out cleaning up the gunk off the shoreline themselves and putting up home-made signs warning to keep dogs and children out of the oily water. Good on them. Still, sea birds are notoriously poor readers and some had to be rescued when they got soaked in the gunk after […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Conservatives, energy, James Moore, Kinder Morgan, National Energy Board, oceans, oil, oil sands, tankers, Trans Mountain pipeline, Vancouver

The Video: “Extraordinary, living in a Canada where that sort of idiocy passes for argument.”

03/28/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

March 25, 2015: The Leader of the Opposution doesn’t quite call the Prime Minister an “idiot,” but pretty much. From International Law? We don’t care about no stinking international law. “The Con bench seals laugh and clap at Steve’s joke blowing off the UN and international law because grade six. “Harper went on to explain […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, Canadian House of Commons, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Conservatives, international law, ISIS, NDP, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, United Nations

The Video: The Conservatives’ fave digital agency

01/31/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

From Is this the Conservatives’ new youth strategy? “Go Newclear‘s principals include Brendan Jones, who according to their website was ‘the creative force behind the television and digital campaigns during the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections,’ and Hamish Marshall, who was the ‘Manager of Strategic Planning in the Office of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, where […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: advertising, Brendan Jones, British Columbia, Canada, Conservatives, Desmogblog, digital media, Ethical Oil, Go Newclear, Hamish Marshall, Jason Kenney, Joe Oliver, marketing, Pierre Polievre, PMO, Stephen Harper, Vancouver

The Video: Jian Ghomeshi Inspired Makeup Tutorial

11/10/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

“. . . People love this shade, but if you use it too much it’ll go to your head and make you think you can get away with anything, even a crime . . . The blush I’m using today has been misidentified as a colour called ‘BDSM’ in a lot of other makeup tutorials, […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, CBC, crime, Jian Ghomeshi, Media, radio, violence

The Video: Cell phone footage after shooter entered Parliament Building

10/22/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

Video shot by Globe and Mail reporter Josh Wingrove on his cell phone moments after a shooter entered the Parliament building in Ottawa on Oct. 22, 2014.  

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, crime, Ottawa, violence

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