Category: Media

Harper Misrepresents Economic Reality

  I constantly find it amazing how our press lets Harper et al get away with dishonest information without contradiction.  Jim Stanford gave a few examples recently regarding Harper’s claim about how remarkably well Canada has performed during the recession. For example, contrary to what Harper, Flaherty and the columnists at the Post have been [...]

Thursday March 31st, 2011 in Corporate Profits, Education, Harper, Media, Right-Wing Think Tanks, The Economy | 5 Comments »

It’s Time to Turn Things Around

  Several people, mostly on the left, have been complaining about Canada’s loss of some 300,000 manufacturing jobs during the recent recession.  That’s a huge loss affecting the entire economy in a major way. But, it’s actually much worse than that.  In 2004 there were 2,292,000 Canadians employed in the high-wage manufacturing sector, with all [...]

Monday September 20th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Electoral Reform, Foreign Takeovers, Health Care, Manufacturing, Media, Potash, Poverty, US Deficit/Economy, US Politics | Comments Off

More Ugly Indicators

  It’s truly amazing.  The more we cut taxes for big business in Canada, as we have dramatically under Mulroney, Chretien, Martin and Harper, the worse our productivity record grows.  Where once we were in the top 10, we’re now all the way down to 22nd among OECD nations. Of course, the more we cut [...]

Saturday August 21st, 2010 in CRTC, Corporate Tax Cuts, Harper, Media, Peacekeeping, Productivity, US Deficit/Economy | Comments Off

Liberals Silent on Health Care / Newspapers and Advertising

  Sorry, I forgot to tell you that the Hurtig Lecture by Mary Simon will be at 2:30p.m. in the Myer Horowitz Theatre in the Students Union Building, 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. *     *     *     *     * Bob Hepburn of the Toronto Star quotes a frustrated Michael McBane of the Canadian Health Coalition about the [...]

Sunday June 27th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Health Care, Media | Comments Off

Hurtig Lecture / Canada’s Fox News / Our Arctic and Water

    I am very pleased to be able to tell you that the 5th annual Hurtig Lecture on the Future of Canada will take place at the University of Alberta on Saturday, September 25th, at 2:30 P.M. The speaker this year will be Mary Simon, the elected national leader of the Inuit Tapirit Kanatami, [...]

Thursday June 24th, 2010 in Arctic, Canadian Politics, Foreign Takeovers, Media, Right-Wing Think Tanks, Water | 5 Comments »

Who is the Canadian International Council? / Canada’s Shameful Income Disparity

  While we have a great many fine journalists in this country, we unfortunately have a great many pure duds as well. Take the matter of the much trumpeted Open Canada report by the so-called Canadian International Council.   No one seems to have noticed the obvious – that these  guys are the same people [...]

Sunday June 13th, 2010 in Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Income Disparity, Integration, Lobbyists, Media, Right-Wing Think Tanks | 1 Comment »

Democracy, The Media and Election Spending

  What do you think it means when the Conservatives, the Liberals, the NDP and the Greens have, for much of the past year, all been more or less stalled in the opinion polls? Few can remember a time when the Liberals and Conservatives both polled so consistently close to 30% at the same time. [...]

Saturday May 8th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Election Spending, Media, US Politics | 1 Comment »

Our Continentalist Newspapers/Conrad

  Today’s Globe and Mail editorial about Amazon is half-way between stupid and ignorant. But, it is expected and consistent with the paper’s long-term continentalism. “Canada’s national newspaper” long ago forgot what country it was supposed to be defending. The steady, growing erosion of our sovereignty has long been obvious for Canadians to see. Wouldn’t [...]

Wednesday April 14th, 2010 in Media | Comments Off