The Tory message machine is impressive. I’d argue that, at least right now, it’s miles ahead of any other party. Pierre Poilievre and his team are good at creating a simple message, getting it out at rallies across the country and using the Internet to distribute what they see as the best parts.
These are not happy times for people who hitched their cart to Jesse Brown.
It’s almost impossible to know how many print copies of newspapers are sold in Canada. Rather than talk about sales, the companies that own newspapers talk about readership. The two are not the same thing.
Charity Intelligence has deep personal and financial connections to the Conservatives and I broke the news recently that she personally donated to NDP MP Charlie Angus, a lead figure in destroying WE Charity.
Two of the key players in the destruction of the charity, Kate Bahen, Managing Director of Charity Intelligence, and soon-to-be retired NDP MP Charlie Angus appear to me to be working together behind the scenes to destroy WE.
Charlie Angus needed almost 700 words to tell us what we already know: he’s done in federal politics.
Brian Mulroney’s death brought an interesting response from Canada’s mainstream media.
In the latest blow to Canadian media, and Canadian democracy by extension, BCE Inc. announced last month that it was cutting 4,800 jobs across Canada, marking one of the biggest round of layoffs in the industry in decades.
This is a follow-up to my earlier posts about the Fifth Estate’s dubious coverage of WE Charity, a “kick ‘em when they’re down” exercise that happened after most of Canada’s mainstream media gleefully dismembered Canada’s most successful children’s charity.
An organization called Friends of We has posted YouTube videos taking apart The Fifth Estate’s false claim that WE Charity used latrines — washroom buildings — as part of its count of classrooms built in Kenya.
Retch-inducing update: PostMedia and Toronto Star — which owns the KW Record, Hamilton Spectator and many small-town papers, are in merger talks., and it looks like a done deal. I thought this would happen in a few years. Things are worse than I thought.
When do journalists stop acting in the public interest and start working to push their own agendas? When do reporters stop covering news and start making it?
Cohen was in the middle of the original Wikileaks storm, so his piece is definitely worth a read. I’ll be writing more on the Assange case this week. A different take, from James Goodale a lawyer who worked on the New York Times’ fight to print the Pentagon Papers.
I have a theory about our new King, the great and powerful Charles III. We know too much about him. His love life, specifically his desire to be a tampon. His opinions. The fact he has his flunkies iron his shoelaces. His lousy relationship with one of his sons.
I have been enjoying a sort of holiday — doing the things I need to do for my practice, and to get ready to move into new accommodations in downtown Ottawa while trying to have some family recreational time.
Like cartoons themselves, that’s a subjective statement. His style, which I like, may not be for everyone. His toughness and lack of respect for entrenched power, might not be everyone’s cup of tea.
I didn’t start this site to talk about Jesse Brown. It’s really supposed to be about the intersection of media, law and politics. But damn, when Canadaland is bad, it’s really the worst political/news site in Canada.
The Government of Canada’s proposed $600 million media tax credit has dominated news blogs and chatrooms.[1] At the heart of the criticism is whether the temptation of dollars will influence coverage of the government.[2]
The next chapter in the bizarre saga of Canadaland trying to take down a children’s charity is about to be written. I’m going to give you a sneak preview of the picture Jesse Brown will be trying to paint this time, based on answers to questions I sent to WE and Canadaland.
When you’re so abhorrent that Rebel Media fires you and big social media outlets know you by name — in a very bad way — it’s time to rethink your thought processes. I could analyze this, but it’s just flat-out ill.
Yes, it’s a very snappy headline. Lawyers should have flashbacks to law school and the Carbolic Smoke Ball case. Journalists and other people who read this might wonder why I would risk my money. Because there is no risk.
I got my first newspaper job when I was 20, working as a summer student at the Hamilton Spectator. Later, I was a student reporter at the Globe and Mail and the London Free Press.
Jesse Brown, in his March 17, 2019, podcast of Canadaland spent much of the hour pressing the NewsMedia Council to remove a member paper for irresponsible reporting. Brown was right: the Toronto Sun’s reporting on migrants living in a Toronto hotel was biased and full of errors.
“Journalists are just a bunch of pimps,” a stranger in an Ottawa coffee shop told me this week. He then launched into a lecture on the worthlessness of media.
Good Riddance Charlie Angus- One of the Worst Politicians in Canada. Charlie Angus, ever the blowhard, needed almost 700 words to tell us what we already know– he’s done in federal politics.
