tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post5625792544914089844..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: G&M Endorses Harper's Perps with Perks Without HarperAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-39842712811228783182015-10-19T08:21:43.570-07:002015-10-19T08:21:43.570-07:00Whoa yeah! The parade should be marching across th...Whoa yeah! The parade should be marching across the masthead of every ballot. Gonna be big, ballots, very big. Voters are designing the next election right now, today.sCotty on denmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-43542801611176936612015-10-18T11:50:07.754-07:002015-10-18T11:50:07.754-07:00The REAL danger is not "Harper" but the ...The REAL danger is not "Harper" but the neocon "Conservative" party itself.<br /><br />Their glorification of the militarization of Canada, financial repression, their propping-up of the artificial housing bubble, their religious overtones, the deification of authority, the fake "War on Terror", the attack ads, the failure to abolish the gun registry...any number of anti-liberty policies are far more damaging than Harper himself. <br /><br />Remember the "Progressive Conservatives"? Look rather quaint now, don't they? Sometime in the 1980s small-'c' conservative parties in the developed world began to morph into the neocon moralizing authoritarian monstrosities with which we are burdened now. Australia has one in power. The US has Obama and his fellow neocons. The UK has Cameron. Japan even has one, Abe Shinzo. So does much of Europe. And of course we do too.<br /><br />No matter how awful the big-spending, economically illiterate opposition parties look, nothing could be worse than a continuation of the present mixture of economic illiteracy coupled with authoritarianism.<br /><br />Canada could tomorrow be the FIRST US-toadying western nation to toss out their neocon machine! Cocoabeannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-10568252632207700422015-10-18T02:00:33.478-07:002015-10-18T02:00:33.478-07:00So G&Mpostmedia have essemtially endorsed a he...So G&Mpostmedia have essemtially endorsed a headless Tory government? That's so...weird. I mean can you imagine what that would look like? No talking points and scripts for the MPs, no iron fist of control. They'd be spouting off this and that in some kind of Sleepy Hollow freak show. I for one would almost pay money to see that meltdown, except for the risk that they'd ruin a lot of lives at probably try to invade Russia in the 43 days before they imploded. Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-30159596262919444542015-10-17T18:00:28.298-07:002015-10-17T18:00:28.298-07:00RossK - from the Pacific Gazetteer - has put toget...RossK - from the Pacific Gazetteer - has put together a Stop-the-Cons strategic voting guide: "Stopping Cons In Lotusland...A Riding-By-Riding Compendium."<br /><br /><a href="http://pacificgazette.blogspot.ca/2015/10/how-to-stop-cons-in-lotuslanda-riding.html" rel="nofollow">http://pacificgazette.blogspot.ca/2015/10/how-to-stop-cons-in-lotuslanda-riding.html</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-475519540514384472015-10-17T17:18:40.228-07:002015-10-17T17:18:40.228-07:00"Elections Canada's trademark yellow"..."Elections Canada's trademark yellow", you say. Looks more like the colour of urine to me,Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-61290192388757142092015-10-17T14:09:25.504-07:002015-10-17T14:09:25.504-07:00Postmedia puts a yellow niqab on all its newspaper...Postmedia puts a yellow niqab on all its newspapers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-36229417048219953212015-10-17T13:42:26.808-07:002015-10-17T13:42:26.808-07:00Thanks Harperman for making yellow journalism easi...Thanks Harperman for making yellow journalism easier to spot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-85720978487792263612015-10-17T13:19:16.817-07:002015-10-17T13:19:16.817-07:00Manufacturing consent...
Six months ago: Postmedi...Manufacturing consent...<br /><br />Six months ago: <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/paul-godfrey-wins-award" rel="nofollow">Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey wins newspaper award</a><br />"Paul Godfrey, president and CEO of Postmedia Network Inc., was honoured for his contributions to Canada’s newspaper industry Thursday.<br />Postmedia’s bid to purchase Sun Media was recently approved by the Competition Bureau, making Postmedia the largest media company in the country."<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-26237261595640859882015-10-17T11:59:53.316-07:002015-10-17T11:59:53.316-07:00Who are you getting your news from lately?
None o...<i>Who are you getting your news from lately?</i><br /><br />None of these Corporate Media outlets, that's for damn sure, Alison . . . .West End Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04899808253017644309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-75125134535466969922015-10-17T11:01:24.522-07:002015-10-17T11:01:24.522-07:00So National Observer, Chronicle Herald, Toronto St...So National Observer, Chronicle Herald, Toronto Star and Le Devoir for actual editorial endorsements?<br /><br /> I have a hard time keeping track of who isn't in the post/sun/quebecor umbrella. <br /><br />Newspaper endorsements are kind of and odd brainwash-y thing. It's so blatant yet I can't help but feel that it's an irrelevant part of the process.<br /><br />As though joe blow is going to pour over this morning's weekend edition, not having any idea yet how he's going to vote and just out of sheer editorial fortitude be CONvinced that he should vote a certain way. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-44653579545344439972015-10-17T06:35:41.194-07:002015-10-17T06:35:41.194-07:00CANADALAND reports that the Postmedia editorials a...CANADALAND reports that the Postmedia editorials are ownership's view and not 'true' editorials. This has lead to the absurd National Post parroting ownership, and muzzling the head of their own editorial board: Andrew Coyne.<br /><br />Coyne wants to do his own thing and ownership - through the National Post - is stopping him.<br /><br /><a href="http://canadalandshow.com/article/andrew-coyne-v-national-post" rel="nofollow">http://canadalandshow.com/article/andrew-coyne-v-national-post</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-20638506952132335562015-10-16T22:19:32.220-07:002015-10-16T22:19:32.220-07:00The Vancouver Sun has thrown out all restraint and...The Vancouver Sun has thrown out all restraint and gone all in on Harperman and his miserable minions. Mind you, they hd made that commitment before the campaign started.<br /><br />The best part are the comments following the editorial codswaddle.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial+conservatives+best+choice+manage+economy/11441448/story.html?" rel="nofollow">http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial+conservatives+best+choice+manage+economy/11441448/story.html?</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com