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Flaherty: An insatiable desire to kill government

04/11/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: business, Canada, Canadian politics, CBC, Jim Flaherty, Radio-Canada, Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair

Will CBC finally lose its Don Cherry?

12/02/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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.” […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, CBC, Conservatives, Don Cherry, hockey, Kevin O'Leary, PMO, sports, Stephen Harper, television

Ford: The broker on Dixon’s “state of distress”

11/09/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bill Blair, Canada, CBC, crime, Media, Rob Ford, Toronto

Nigel’s PMO cash drawer

06/07/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Brent Rathgeber, Canada, Canadian politics, CBC, Conservatives, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, PMO, Senate scandal

Lang: Indian workers are just better

04/17/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Amanda Lang, business, Canada, CBC, India, money, Royal Bank of Canada

Robocalls: Mr. Sona goes to Ottawa

02/26/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Brian Lilley, Canada, Canadian politics, CBC, Conservatives, Kory Teneycke, Peter MacKay, Peter Muttart, robocall scandal, robocalls, Stephen Harper

The Newfoundland solution

02/08/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: British Columbia, CBC, Edmonton, film, Hollywood, Ottawa, Saskatchewan, St. John's, television, video

Happy 40th, Beachcombers

10/01/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Culture, Leiren-Young Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, CBC, television, Vancouver

Not all bad news in the Wente affair

10/01/2012 by backofthebook.ca 4 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Carol Wainio, CBC, Jesse Brown, Margaret Wente, Media Culpa, National Post, newspapers, Terence Corcoran, Toronto Star

Wente apologists dig press in deeper

09/27/2012 by backofthebook.ca 4 Comments

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

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By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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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 … [Read More...]

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