By Alison@Creekside National Post, flagship of the largest media conglomerate in Canadian history run by a foreign hedge fund, inhales a MEMRI “report” based on the online musings of four anonymous “known” jihadi dudes titled: “Pro-ISIS Activists React Joyously On Twitter To Canada’s Elections” Then they give it the fabulous new Trudeau-torqued headline you see at left. […]
Harperism, from Hayek to Koch and Coyne
By Alison@Creekside Neo-liberalism: trickle-down, deregulating, deunionizing, globalizing free market privatization of government. When Stephen Harper was studying under the “Calgary school” in the 80’s, he became so enamored with the neo-liberalism of Austrian philosopher Friedrich von Hayek — guru to Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, the Chicago boys, the IMF, and the WTO — it formed the basis […]
Dr. Martin’s diagnosis
By Alison@Creekside Retiring from politics after 17 years, MP Dr. Keith Martin, (Reform, Alliance, Ind, Lib), spoke on CBC’s The Current last week about the “serious, serious lack of democracy in Parliament . . . the tragedy of the Commons”. Martin began as a Reform MP in ’93, attracted by the Reform Party Contract which […]
More shoe throwing, please
By Frank Moher Note the quid pro quo built into The Globe and Mail’s editorial on the subject of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who showed off his footwear to President Bush. “Mr. Zaidi gained his privileged access to Mr. Bush on the strength of his accreditation as a journalist,” intones the Globe. ” . […]
David Frum gets the Bill Maher treatment
By Frank Moher Maybe it’s because his guy, Giuliani, was already tanking when this was filmed. (Back in October, in happier days, David Frum had signed on as Giuliani’s “senior foreign policy advisor.”) Maybe it’s because his new book, the optimistically titled Comeback: Conservativism That Can Win Again, hasn’t exactly been burning up the bestsellers […]