By Montreal Simon I think it’s fair to say that he was a better person at the end of his political career than he was at the beginning. He did reinvent himself from a pit bull to something vaguely resembling a pragmatist. He did become more human. And I’m sorry he died before he could spend […]
Will CBC finally lose its Don Cherry?
By Montreal Simon It’s not a good news hockey story. It’s a huge blow to the CBC: “For years, HNIC has been a cash cow that helped float many of CBC’s other news and original programming endeavours, with some estimating it was worth $200 million, and up to half of the TV network’s advertising revenue.” […]
Ford: The broker on Dixon’s “state of distress”
Last night, CBC’s “the fifth estate” aired an episode on the Rob Ford scandal, including an interview with Mohamed Farah, a Dixon Rd. community worker and the so-called “broker” of the crack cocaine video. Here, Farah explains the roots of the story, and its impact on his community. By Mohamed Farah Long before the Toronto […]
Nigel’s PMO cash drawer
By Montreal Simon First they told us that Nigel Wright cut a $90,000 cheque to help his old pal Mike Duffy. Because he’s that kind of guy eh? Then when it turned out the two men hardly knew each other, they claimed Wright did it to save the taxpayers. But what they didn’t tell us […]
Lang: Indian workers are just better
By Alison@Creekside “Information technology workers displaced in Canada are being replaced not by cheap Indian workers but by better ones.” So says CBC’s Amanda Lang, senior business correspondent for CBC News and good cop to Kevin O’Leary’s bad cop on “The Lang and O’Leary Exchange,” in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. She wonders if Canadians have returned to […]
Robocalls: Mr. Sona goes to Ottawa
By Alison@Creekside Former Guelph Con Party communications director Michael Sona relates how he was sitting in his Hill office on Feb. 23 2012 when he was shocked to hear Sun News reporter Brian Lilley fingering him on air for the Guelph robocalls election fraud. Sona: “I contacted a few people at [Con] headquarters and I just said […]
The Newfoundland solution
By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Any actor, writer, director, or producer will tell you the film and television industry is unstable: The feed bag is either overflowing or has just enough grains to sustain you through the lean months. But with the B.C. film industry on the verge of collapse, as Hollywood productions head to Ontario and […]
Happy 40th, Beachcombers
By Mark Leiren-Young Forty years ago today, on October 1, 1972, CBC launched “The Beachcombers,” making Canadian television history and the Gibsons tourist industry. “The Beachcombers” became a fixture for Canadian families for almost 20 years. A few weeks after the show’s cancellation in 1990, I interviewed Robert Clothier – aka Relic, the show’s crusty […]
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 […]
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