Impolitical: Journamalism
Crikey, you’ve got to hand it to Sun Media, they’ve discovered the Elections Canada database apparently: “Media ‘experts’ are Grit, NDP donors.” They’ve tracked the political donations of three...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Trish Hennessy assembles a handy set of ideas to deal with income inequality. - No, there isn’t much new in the Cons’ familiar pattern of deceiving the...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: Sun suckers the rest of the media … again
As the NDP rapidly and somewhat surprisingly closed in on the Conservatives during the last federal election campaign, Sun Media dug deep into Jack Layton’s past to find something to smear him with and...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Alison highlights the attempts of Sun TV to rally the most extreme reactionary movements in the country behind its bid for mandatory carriage. And...
View ArticleThe Ranting Canadian: Say NO to mandatory Sun TV in Canada!
Say NO to mandatory Sun TV in Canada!: Say NO to mandatory Sun TV! Canada’s Sun News Network (aka the Scum “News” Network, aka Fox News North, aka the Conservative Broadcasting Corporation) has applied...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Christy Clark’s BC Liberals Are Being Economic with...
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger We have passed the halfway point of BC Election 13 and it feels that we are setting some sort of record when it comes to the ‘economies with accuracy’ and just...
View Articlebastard.logic: Stay Classy, Sun Media
Oops: AM640 ‘s Lou Schizas calls Andrea Horwath a ‘whore’ | canada.com o.canada.com/2013/06/12/and… via @natnewswatch— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) June 13, 2013 @mistervermin @natnewswatch Exactly.—...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Sun Media urged to reverse “self-destructive” plan...
CWA Canada is urging Sun Media to reverse its “self-destructive plan” to nuke 360 jobs and 11 publications, and to instead focus on quality local jobs and journalism to boost profits. The post Sun...
View ArticleThe Ranting Canadian: Hooray! Sun News Network (SNN), aka Scum “News" lost…
Hooray! Sun News Network (SNN), aka Scum “News” lost their hypocritical bid to force all Canadian cable TV viewers to pay for their shitty channel regardless of whether we want to watch it. The...
View Articlebastard.logic: Stay Classy, Sun Media
Oops: AM640 ‘s Lou Schizas calls Andrea Horwath a ‘whore’ | canada.com o.canada.com/2013/06/12/and… via @natnewswatch— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) June 13, 2013 @mistervermin @natnewswatch Exactly.—...
View ArticleA BCer in Toronto: Sun sets on Trudeau’s relationship with a certain broadcaster
So, Justin Trudeau isn’t talking to Sun Media reporters, or opinionators, or whatever other categories of people they employ, until the organization apologies for a ridiculous Ezra Levant segment I...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Sun Media – not its squalid commentator Ezra Levant – is the...
Ezra Levant, on the job with his Sun News microphone. Mr. Levant is not the problem. Sun Media is the problem. Below: Justin Trudeau, Bernie Farber, and Brian Mulroney. Ezra Levant is a squalid...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: The Postmedia-Quebecor deal: Welcome to newspaper hell, where...
An unreconstituted Toronto Sun front page. Newspaper hell? Turns out it’s not quite as bad as we imagined it would be, except for the few unfortunates who still work in what’s left of the industry....
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: While Canada’s Free Press Gets Beheaded…
When one corporation owns most of the English language newspapers in Canada, the free press is essentially dead, not that it’s been much of anything but comatose for a while. Switch to non-corporate...
View ArticleThe Ranting Canadian: A good-news story in Canadian media/journalism news: Sun…
A good-news story in Canadian media/journalism news: Sun “News” Network, aka Fox News North, aka the Conservative Broadcasting Corporation, aka Harper TV, aka Scum Spews is finally shutting down due...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Cameron Dearlove laments the fact that Canada is failing to recognize and replicate other countries’ successes in using the social determinants of health to...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Death threats and vile misogynist commentary about NDP...
PHOTOS: An organizer of a rally by the group Albertans Against the NDP, addresses a couple of dozen supporters in Calgary last Saturday. The horses are public art and were not technically part of the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Schiaparelli lander missing; ground control still in...
PHOTOS: An artist’s impression of the Schiaparelli Mars Lander descending gently toward the Martian surface. Schiaparelli’s actual Mars landings may not have unfolded exactly as illustrated by the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Con gong show at the Legislature had plenty to make...
PHOTOS: Anybody recognize the clowns with the yellow signs? Inquiring minds want to know … and they say they’re prepared to pay good money to find out! (Duncan Kinney photo, grabbed from Twitter.)...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: There was a whole lotta scrambling going on, 24/7 … can the...
PHOTOS: Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, at right, somewhere in Iraq in 2015 (Photo: Screenshot of Global News video). Below: The very model of a modern major general, although not...
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