...but not in rabble.ca which fails to meet the basics of journalistic integrity.
Activist Communique: Take action to support KI
January 25, 2012
By Krystalline Kraus
Ontario is violating Native land rights by allowing gold mining company God's Lake Resources to prospect Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) sacred burial grounds without consultation or consent.
God's Lake Resources Responds to Kitchenuhmaykoosib ...
Oct 2011 – God's Lake Resources Responds to Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug.
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Showing posts with label Blogging is not journalism. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Wrapup From The Left...
rabble.ca weekly blog roundup! January 20, 2012
By rabble staff
This week the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup welcomes new blogger Mandy Hiscocks and looks at her story of the G20, as well as Toronto public service cuts and accessibility to post-secondary education.
Friday, December 02, 2011
Nothing New...
Toronto Star opens a new front in war with Rob Ford
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Toronto Star is not happy about Rob Ford being mayor.
The Star did all it could to keep Ford from getting electing, throwing its full weight behind the campaign of Anyone Else in the Whole World. Mainly it put its hopes in George Smitherman, a loyal Liberal, going so far at one point as to suggest other candidates quit their campaigns and throw their support to Smitherman in a Block Ford manoeuvre.
The extent of the Star’s influence might be seen in the fact that voters ignored it in droves and elected Ford by a large margin. But that hasn’t stopped the bad blood. Ford, incensed at a Star story that suggested he’d had a “physical confrontation” with a player on a football team he coached, refuses to talk to the paper, and has barred it from receiving official notices and statements. He also threatened to sue, though he didn’t follow through. Read More »
Doug Ford to Star: Drop dead
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Toronto Star is not happy about Rob Ford being mayor.
The Star did all it could to keep Ford from getting electing, throwing its full weight behind the campaign of Anyone Else in the Whole World. Mainly it put its hopes in George Smitherman, a loyal Liberal, going so far at one point as to suggest other candidates quit their campaigns and throw their support to Smitherman in a Block Ford manoeuvre.
The extent of the Star’s influence might be seen in the fact that voters ignored it in droves and elected Ford by a large margin. But that hasn’t stopped the bad blood. Ford, incensed at a Star story that suggested he’d had a “physical confrontation” with a player on a football team he coached, refuses to talk to the paper, and has barred it from receiving official notices and statements. He also threatened to sue, though he didn’t follow through. Read More »
Doug Ford to Star: Drop dead
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
No Surprises Here!
Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: The Toronto Star is the 99%!
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And now, the airing of grievances
“The Occupy Toronto demonstrators don’t have a coherent point? How risible,” the Toronto Star‘s Heather Mallick pronounces. As it happens, wouldn’t you know it, the Occupiers share every single one of Mallick’s complaints about modern Canada! Just ask her! They’re worried about how hard it is to get a history degree “without sinking into debt, or being told that your degree is worthless because it won’t get you hired, even though you know in your heart that a degree in anything, particularly history, will make you better able to understand, cope with, and vote against the life the 99-percenters are stuck with.” They’re upset that Canada isn’t spending taxpayer money to build a pavilion at Expo 2012 in Korea (because they’re such a worldly bunch). And, of course, they are furious that Stephen Harper “has an anti-sex social agenda to mirror his economic one, and it’s pure Tea Party,” whatever that means. (From previous Mallick columns, we’d gathered that the Prime Minister wanted all women barefoot and pregnant at all times, and then to kill themselves at menopause so as not to burden the health-care system further. The talking points seem to have changed.)
Go read and tell us if we’re wrong, but we think Mallick has set a bold new standard in nonsensical blathering. And we mean this honestly: Big kudos to the too-often-too-staid Star for printing something this random. (The Globe‘s often-catatonic comment pages could certainly take a lesson.) But this column is just a crazy, useless mess. A firm nudge in the direction of coherence is very much in order.
Read More »
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And now, the airing of grievances
“The Occupy Toronto demonstrators don’t have a coherent point? How risible,” the Toronto Star‘s Heather Mallick pronounces. As it happens, wouldn’t you know it, the Occupiers share every single one of Mallick’s complaints about modern Canada! Just ask her! They’re worried about how hard it is to get a history degree “without sinking into debt, or being told that your degree is worthless because it won’t get you hired, even though you know in your heart that a degree in anything, particularly history, will make you better able to understand, cope with, and vote against the life the 99-percenters are stuck with.” They’re upset that Canada isn’t spending taxpayer money to build a pavilion at Expo 2012 in Korea (because they’re such a worldly bunch). And, of course, they are furious that Stephen Harper “has an anti-sex social agenda to mirror his economic one, and it’s pure Tea Party,” whatever that means. (From previous Mallick columns, we’d gathered that the Prime Minister wanted all women barefoot and pregnant at all times, and then to kill themselves at menopause so as not to burden the health-care system further. The talking points seem to have changed.)
Go read and tell us if we’re wrong, but we think Mallick has set a bold new standard in nonsensical blathering. And we mean this honestly: Big kudos to the too-often-too-staid Star for printing something this random. (The Globe‘s often-catatonic comment pages could certainly take a lesson.) But this column is just a crazy, useless mess. A firm nudge in the direction of coherence is very much in order.
Read More »
Saturday, August 06, 2011
NO! The World Is Pretty Well The Same...
...but technology, the media, bloggers, etc. are utilizing a worldwide platform to put forward rhetoric that not too long ago was restricted to a soap box in a park or a public square or Timmies.
Opinion
Coren: World gone mad?
We cling to an island of truth and sanity in a sea of hatred, lies, confusion, and sheer stupidity.
A good example is beauracrats sending out language police to ensure everyone is providing service in english/french when in reality this foolishness is mandated for government bodies it has no place in the private sector...you don't provide/speak one of the two "official" languages I can protest by not leaving my $$$ in your place of business...
Opinion
Adler: Secret shoppers no bargain
And the saga of official bullying bilingualism continues.
Opinion
Coren: World gone mad?
We cling to an island of truth and sanity in a sea of hatred, lies, confusion, and sheer stupidity.
A good example is beauracrats sending out language police to ensure everyone is providing service in english/french when in reality this foolishness is mandated for government bodies it has no place in the private sector...you don't provide/speak one of the two "official" languages I can protest by not leaving my $$$ in your place of business...
Opinion
Adler: Secret shoppers no bargain
And the saga of official bullying bilingualism continues.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
The Star Doesn't Seem To Have Heard Of THE SUN CHANNEL...
A new reason to support the CBC
In era of fragmentation, CBC provides essential platform for discussion.
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In era of fragmentation, CBC provides essential platform for discussion.
Continue reading EditorialOpinion
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
LUDICROUS! How Can You Participate Hiding Behind The Drapes?
The anonymous commentator in action
Online critics of former Aurora mayor can remain anonymous: judge
In a decision with broader implications for online privacy, a judge has ruled not to force the identification of anonymous bloggers who wrote critical web posts about former Aurora mayor Phyllis Morris
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.