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[Canada] Politics of the Democratic Friedmanite Republic of the Government of Harper
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Warning: toxic to your brain cells.
I accidentally read them and, well, mysery loves company...
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Apparently math is foolish, and somehow it does things.
I saw that on the news.
Multiple-award-winning investigative reporter claims to be investigating a piece of land the mayor wants to buy.
Mayor who's openly scornful of the newspaper the reporter is working for claims the reporter is stalking his family, and refuses to release footage he has of the incident that could prove he is right.
Yeah, I wonder who I'm going to trust on that one...
Okay, maybe not he most hilarious thing. There's the fact that Daniel Dale looks like he
wasstill is the president of your high school poetry club and that he actively describes himself as panicking, screaming please don't hit me, and then dropping his phone and running away yelling for help.Or the fact that Rob Ford is literally yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
Or the fact that Rob Ford officially handled one reporter with a Blackberry worse than Miley Cyrus handles the paparazzi.
Or the fact that Rob Ford was going to buy this land to build a higher security fence to protect his privacy, which then prompted a reporter to go out and "invade his privacy". And then he made a giant-ass spectacle of it and now it's going to be even more invasive of his privacy.
Or the fact that Rob Ford now refuses to participate in any press scrums that Daniel Dale is in, to which Dale had the perfectly reasonable response that he wasn't going to stop attending them... so Rob Ford's never going to do another press scrum again?
Edit: It's apparently no press scrums that the Toronto Star is in, period. So... uh... you know they're like Canada's biggest news organization, right Ford? Ummm.
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Pierre Poutine is most certainly someone who had access to that computer. I assume quite a few people did, but I would hope they'd need some sort of password to access it.
No. The media ownership in Canada has been confusing as hell for years. According to wikipedia, at one point the company that owns the Star also owned 20% of the company that owned the G&M, but there was never any relation to the Sun papers. Apparently the Star people also own Harlequin, which publishes a lot of those trashy romance novels you can buy at the supermarket. Weird.
Yeah. Having worked for Torstar, I can tell you that it's a lot bigger than it might first appear. It's not Bell Media or Rogers in scope, but it's got a lot of funky smaller properties and partial ownerships.
I wouldn't call it a 'conservative' slant as much as a 'Conservative vertical drop' Rob Ford is the bestest, Mcguinty lies about everything, Global Warming is just a hoax, Conrad Black is a very nice guy, CBC is a scam (But every page has an ad for their SunTV) and their skirting border of offensiveness when it comes to minorities, gay, and non-christian religions. Not to mention the semi pornographic Sunshine girls. Seriously, where's my Sunshine boy? The only publication I could think of that was more right wing than that was a magazine from Alberta, but they're now defunct. (Name escapes me.)
As much as the Star bends toward liberal, they can and will agree with Harper on certain things, and always have dissenting opinions on topics. I don't think they're very friendly with Ford though.
The sun used to have a sunshine boy that was even more pornographic than the girl. Wonder when it stopped.
To be honest, I've never been sure why a Sunshine Girl page is necessarily right wing. Are we liberal types supposed to be better than ogling? Or is it inherently sexist for a woman to have a photo printed expressly because she's pretty?
Ah, I see. I disagree, though. I like my comics section as is.
Regarding the quebec protests that I posted an update about earlier, looks like the deal is that the tuition fee increase will go ahead unchanged over 7 years but that there will be a corresponding decrease in ancillary student fees that would offset the tuition increase for students. So the government can claim it "raised tuition" while the students get to claim they're not paying anything more. If anything, universities bear the brunt of the cost here, though I imagine these offsetting fee cuts will be nickle-and-dimed to not be completely equal to the tuition hike.
I read the star from time to time but something about it is just lacking.
It's been a long time since I've looked at a Sun because the paper is seriously horrible but unless things have changed they do have a Sunshine Boy. Neither belong in a newspaper and I agree with you on the utter hypocrisy.
When did it get two pages? I have been missing one of my eye candies!
Also, Royson James is maaaaad... (and really right too):
James: I believe Daniel Dale:
Spoilered for long, but it's a good read.
It's not just Daniel Dale, he said he won't speak if ANY star reporter is there.