Bill Longstaff: The CBC—a very good deal
The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting recently sent me an email summarizing a few pertinent facts about the CBC, our national broadcaster and the only national medium not owned and controlled by the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Future bleak for Brent Rathgeber’s CBC disclosure bill;...
Your blogger with CBC commentator Rex Murphy, quite possibly on his way to a speaking engagement with the oil industry. Below: the same blogger with Edmonton-St. Albert Member of Parliament Brent...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Revelation CAPP paid Mansbridge, defender of Murphy’s speaking...
CBC Chief Correspondent Peter Mansbridge, back in the day before he could seriously contemplate receiving a $28,000 speaking fee just for flapping his gums over dinner. (Photo found on the Internet.)...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Ottawa Shootings: CNN fear-mongering an insult to...
Reporting on Wednesday’s Ottawa shootings, CNN and other global media outlets resorted to needless sensationalism, propagandist fear-mongering and self-serving interpretations of terrorism. The post...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: WikiLeaks reveals CBC and Canada Post may be sold...
A confidential letter leaked by WikiLeaks on Wednesday reveals that the CBC and Canada Post could be sold under the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, currently being negotiated by...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Give some credit to Jerry Bance for improving the quality...
ILLUSTRATIONS: Is it time to give Jerry Bance a break? After all, he’s raised the tone of Conservative discourse in Toronto, and raised our national profile abroad. (Image grabbed from the CBC, just as...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: Vote CBC
The CBC, our national broadcaster, is usually justified on the basis of two fundamentally important services it provides: it serves as stage for Canadian culture and it unites a broad, diverse country....
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: CBC plan to sell off buildings part of Harper’s...
The CBC’s just-revealed plan to sell buildings, including major production facilities in Toronto and Montreal, is part of Stephen Harper’s diabolical privatization agenda. It’s the culmination of his...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: A long overdue budget break for the CBC
Of all the items in the new federal budget, the one that jumped out at me, and caused a whoop of delight, was the $675-million over five years of new investment in the CBC. For years, Mother Corp has...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Former Alberta Health Services CEO’s accusations of NDP...
PHOTOS: Former Alberta Health Services CEO and president Vickie Kaminski, who was back in the news yesterday. Below: Former Progressive Conservative health minister Stephen Mandel; NDP health Minister...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: A long overdue budget break for the CBC
Of all the items in the new federal budget, the one that jumped out at me, and caused a whoop of delight, was the $675-million over five years of new investment in the CBC. For years, Mother Corp has...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: A long overdue budget break for the CBC
Of all the items in the new federal budget, the one that jumped out at me, and caused a whoop of delight, was the $675-million over five years of new investment in the CBC. For years, Mother Corp has...
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...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: University of Calgary acted like ‘Big Oil U’ in 2015...
It’s not every day you see terms like “corporate obstructionism” and “institutional corruption” used to describe the way things are done at one Canadian university in a peer-reviewed academic paper...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Vote-anywhere made it easier to cast a vote against the...
Well, God bless the NDP, I guess, who could apparently be depended upon to do the right thing, even if it killed them. Alberta’s official vote results are now in and they suggest how the province’s new...
View ArticleNotes on Democracy: I Vote CBC
Well informed citizens are essential to a healthy democracy. In ancient Athens, usually considered the first democracy, citizens who wanted to hear the latest news and views went down to the public...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: UCP government announces massive health care layoffs at...
If you think this morning was a crazy moment for Health Minister Tyler Shandro to announce a major restructuring of public health care in Alberta, including the layoffs of 11,000 public health care...
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