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Dec. 10th, 2015 01:57 pmOn a more important note...
That this should be published on International Human Rights Day? Icing on the cake!
That this should be published on International Human Rights Day? Icing on the cake!
http://ipolitics.ca/2015/10/01/how-justin-trudeau-could-get-out-from-under-the-c-51-cloud/
This could work.
Also, it reminded me of the series of videos that this is part of...
This could work.
Also, it reminded me of the series of videos that this is part of...
And yet maybe not so weird.
http://canadalandshow.com/article/qa-paul-watson-pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist-why-he-just-resigned-toronto-star
http://www.arcticstarcreativity.com/blog/2015/7/6/on-resigning-from-the-toronto-star
http://www.arcticstarcreativity.com/blog/2015/7/8/on-war-and-the-god-fight
http://www.arcticstarcreativity.com/blog/2015/7/8/on-the-truth
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/As+It+Happens/ID/2671299115/
http://canadalandshow.com/article/qa-paul-watson-pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist-why-he-just-resigned-toronto-star
http://www.arcticstarcreativity.com/blog/2015/7/6/on-resigning-from-the-toronto-star
http://www.arcticstarcreativity.com/blog/2015/7/8/on-war-and-the-god-fight
http://www.arcticstarcreativity.com/blog/2015/7/8/on-the-truth
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/As+It+Happens/ID/2671299115/
PMO vs. Press Corps
Jan. 28th, 2015 09:50 amI'm listening to this on the radio as I type this. Thanks to the crew at The Current for this. I'll be interested in the follow-through.
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2015/01/28/the-battle-between-the-harper-government-the-ottawa-press-corp/
Thanks also to Mark Bourrie, Anna Maria Tremonti and Stephen Maher for the term "scrum monkey"!
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2015/01/28/the-battle-between-the-harper-government-the-ottawa-press-corp/
Thanks also to Mark Bourrie, Anna Maria Tremonti and Stephen Maher for the term "scrum monkey"!
Closing Out 2014 - Part Two of...?
Dec. 31st, 2014 04:39 pmFrank Graves muses about four forces affecting Canada into the forseeable future at iPolitics. I think he's got enough of this correctly understood to be useful, and he may misunderstand just enough to be productively chaotic as well.
In his opening essay for next weekend's Sunday Edition, Michael Enright notes a rising animus towards the Ontario Safe Streets Act, one of the pieces of debris left behind by Mike Harris and his crew during their Revolution Against Common Sense. That law affects urban communities across all of Ontario, not solely Toronto, and it is indeed a good idea to revisit whether or not such a law ought to have been passed to begin with.
More later on...
In his opening essay for next weekend's Sunday Edition, Michael Enright notes a rising animus towards the Ontario Safe Streets Act, one of the pieces of debris left behind by Mike Harris and his crew during their Revolution Against Common Sense. That law affects urban communities across all of Ontario, not solely Toronto, and it is indeed a good idea to revisit whether or not such a law ought to have been passed to begin with.
More later on...
Press Containment Concerns
Dec. 15th, 2014 11:40 amFrom Mark Bourrie and the Hill Times. Not sure how long you have before it goes behind a paywall...
http://www.hilltimes.com/books/news/2014/12/15/harper-clampdown-media-cuts-make-for-staged-predictable-hill-news-bourrie/40529
http://www.hilltimes.com/books/news/2014/12/15/harper-clampdown-media-cuts-make-for-staged-predictable-hill-news-bourrie/40529
Glorification of Cruelty, Maybe?
Jul. 4th, 2014 07:00 pmThe recommendation is for certain federal cabinet ministers' quotations in the article. The article itself strikes me as solid, grounded in fact, and leads me to worry about what seems part of an ongoing trend as described in the title above.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-to-appeal-ruling-reversing-cruel-cuts-to-refugee-health-1.2696311
The Federal Court of Appeal ruling itself is also - in my POV - grounded solidly in both fact and empathy. Which we need in the court system in no small degree, especially in these times. I do not like this practice on the part of cabinet ministers of conflating legitimate refugees and illegal immigrants for one thing, and for another, there may well be people in the second group who ought to be moved into the first.
Discouraging fact-based empathy is not for me. Not in my name.
(By the by, I'm downloading a copy of the text of the ruling for future study. Seems like a good idea on principle.)
A note re: "Silence of the Labs"
Mar. 8th, 2014 07:20 amFor those of you outside of Canada looking to lay hands on legal copies of the above-referenced episode of CBC Television's The Fifth Estate, a documentary on the treatment of federally-funded scientific research during the Harper Years thus far, I refer you to this website:
http://www.cbc.ca/services/tapes_tr.html
You might have to do a little digging to place your order, but they do have it if you're interested.
http://www.cbc.ca/services/tapes_tr.html
You might have to do a little digging to place your order, but they do have it if you're interested.
Please. Go have a listen to this:
http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2014/01/13/q-essay-closing-science-libraries/
http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2014/01/13/q-essay-closing-science-libraries/
Avengers # 10: Canadian Complications
Apr. 25th, 2013 07:37 pmIt's possible that I should leave this to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
lawmultiverse to deal with in their own time. But Jonathan Hickman wrote this one up to be set in a city I called home for about twelve years before moving to Ottawa.
( Spoilers after the cut )
More as it occurs to anyone interested and reading this.
lawmultiverse to deal with in their own time. But Jonathan Hickman wrote this one up to be set in a city I called home for about twelve years before moving to Ottawa.( Spoilers after the cut )More as it occurs to anyone interested and reading this.
Dare I suggest...?
Apr. 2nd, 2013 07:44 pm...that I think a certain gentleman in Saskatchewan is right to worry about the Robocalls?
Just a renegade thought.
Just a renegade thought.
On the Radio: Another Era Endeth
Sep. 3rd, 2012 03:04 pmWhat I saw earlier on Facebook is now confirmed:
The Current is losing its Voice.
If you're a regular CBC Radio One listener, you already know what this means. If not, the link will lead to a partial explanation. I hope there's a successor in the wings, and if there is? Whoever it is, we'd better give them a fair and decent chance to acquit themselves.
Historical note: As of 2016, that article is no longer available at CBC's web services. Maybe the Internet Archive might have preserved it...?
The Current is losing its Voice.
If you're a regular CBC Radio One listener, you already know what this means. If not, the link will lead to a partial explanation. I hope there's a successor in the wings, and if there is? Whoever it is, we'd better give them a fair and decent chance to acquit themselves.
Historical note: As of 2016, that article is no longer available at CBC's web services. Maybe the Internet Archive might have preserved it...?
Good-bye, Globe and Mail
May. 26th, 2012 06:12 pmToday, I cancelled my subscription to that venerable newspaper.
To be honest, it's as much me as them. Neither of us are what we were when I started my subscription years ago. I can't even remember when I started, but it seems like at least a decade.
Time was, they had columnists like Naomi Klein and Spider Robinson back then. And they weren't owned by the phone company back then, either. So a certain amount of freedom from promoting corporate thought as gospel was there to be had. Hence Klein and Robinson.
No more.
Finances aside, the last straw was their Op-Ed stance on the new changes to the Unemployment Insurance rules planned via C-38. They're not as strident as columnists like Quebecor/Sun Media's Brian Lilley or the Citizen's Michael Taube. But they're marching in the same general direction. Problematic, that is.
So. We're done for the time being. I'm not ruling out resurrecting my subscription anymore than I am the idea of resuming full regular business with DC Comics. If I draw that line in the sand, and they cross it in any of several ways to my liking, that could be a different sort of problem.
We'll see. Finances permitting.
To be honest, it's as much me as them. Neither of us are what we were when I started my subscription years ago. I can't even remember when I started, but it seems like at least a decade.
Time was, they had columnists like Naomi Klein and Spider Robinson back then. And they weren't owned by the phone company back then, either. So a certain amount of freedom from promoting corporate thought as gospel was there to be had. Hence Klein and Robinson.
No more.
Finances aside, the last straw was their Op-Ed stance on the new changes to the Unemployment Insurance rules planned via C-38. They're not as strident as columnists like Quebecor/Sun Media's Brian Lilley or the Citizen's Michael Taube. But they're marching in the same general direction. Problematic, that is.
So. We're done for the time being. I'm not ruling out resurrecting my subscription anymore than I am the idea of resuming full regular business with DC Comics. If I draw that line in the sand, and they cross it in any of several ways to my liking, that could be a different sort of problem.
We'll see. Finances permitting.
Media Gaps
Apr. 28th, 2012 10:33 amYou might want to have a listen to the media panel discussion in the April 27, 2012 podcast from CBC's Q. (Which will apparently be active for the next year from that day.)
Something about anglo-Canadian coverage of what goes on in Québec that came up during the course of that panel discussion disturbs me: it may be that we're just naturally averse to knowing what goes on in Québec if it doesn't involve gang warfare or national unity, but I doubt that.
Two questions for the room as a whole to close this entry:
How well-attended was the Montréal rally for Earth Day?
What do you know about the student strikes currently in progress in Québec?
Something about anglo-Canadian coverage of what goes on in Québec that came up during the course of that panel discussion disturbs me: it may be that we're just naturally averse to knowing what goes on in Québec if it doesn't involve gang warfare or national unity, but I doubt that.
Two questions for the room as a whole to close this entry:
How well-attended was the Montréal rally for Earth Day?
What do you know about the student strikes currently in progress in Québec?
