By Montreal Simon For as long as I can remember, Michael Coren has been one of the most ghastly anti-gay voices on the Canadian airwaves. A hardline right-wing Catholic who seemed to take pleasure in playing down the suffering of LGBT people, and mocking their struggle for equality. So you can imagine how shocked, and […]
The Video: SUNdefreude
Sun News finally gets it
A BoB Short: It took half a week for Sun News to pick up on the joke, but the right-wing news network has finally managed to have comedian Scott Vrooman’s blatantly tongue-in-cheek interview with correspondent Adrienne Batra pulled from the Internet. Or not. According to Vrooman, who honed his hyper-conservative alter-ego on CBC’s This Hour […]
Peladeau kicks Sun TV to the curb
By Montreal Simon Well it wasn’t a total surprise, but it was still a stunning sight. Pauline Marois and her new star candidate Pierre-Karl Péladeau. Pierre-Karl Péladeau, controlling shareholder of the Quebecor media empire, on Sunday announced he will run for the Parti Québécois, saying his top motivation is to make Quebec independent. “My joining […]
No reporters allowed (speaking of STFU)
By Alison@Creekside At his last Con caucus meeting and presser five months ago, Harper so disliked the grilling he got from media about Nigel Wright’s cheque to Senator Mike Duffy and what Steve knew about it — see above — that today he decided to allow only cameras into his pre-throne speech caucus meeting without […]
The Conservatives’ invented reality
By Alison@Creekside Fakers. Fake F-35 mock up cockpit from Lockheed Martin for DefMin Peter Airshow MacKay to hold $47,000 presser in to announce purchase of 65 Lockheed Martin stealth fighters in 2010. Fake citizenship ceremony in which half of the participants were actually Citizenship and Immigration Canada staff passed off as new […]
Sun News might just get its way
By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special tax on cable consumers to guarantee it a revenue source. […]
Coren vs. Boteach: let’s go to the tape
By Frank Moher A passel of Michael Coren supporters have arrived at backofthebook to defend his “interview” with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the SUN “News” Network. (I always keep a small pile of ironic quotation marks handy when I write about SUN TV.) You’ll find them milling in the comments section following Rabbi Boteach’s account […]
Rabbi Boteach schools Michael Coren
It would appear that the bush-leaguers at SUN TV are once again abusing their guests. In the wake of some forgettable broadcaster’s pummelling of Margie Gillis, Michael Coren has now taken the opportunity of an interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, ostensibly about his new book Kosher Jesus, to . . . well, read on. Rabbi […]
War on Christmas? I hadn’t noticed.
By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless War […]
