Media

Huffington Post, unwittingly, exposes hypocrisy of the left

February 4, 2012 Media

Lefties, as we all know, are about the “common good”, about “equal” opportunities … in short, they want to create a utopia where everybody is the same (low-level wretch). With religious fanaticism they preach their gospel about their “ideal” society, while castigating and condemning capitalism, free markets and anyone who, by his or her own [...]

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Question for Robert Herjavec: Is ‘Canadian’ a dirty word?

January 28, 2012 Business

Multimillionaire Robert Herjavec is a Canadian success story. The son of Croatian immigrants, himself not born in Canada, made hundreds of million of dollars in the software business after arriving in Canada with just one suitcase, $20 and no English – according to his biography.

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Unnecessary harassment of Netflix

January 5, 2012 Business

For weeks, it has been impossible to open any US news publication and not see a disparaging article or comment about Netflix. One gripe among US subscribers has been the separate, and increased, fee Netflix charges for DVDs delivered in the mail for those who don’t want to stream the content. Another criticism concerns the [...]

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EU’s idiocy preventing e-books from taking off

December 4, 2011 Business

Not long ago, I was musing about what appears to be the failure of e-books and e-readers outside of North America. Now, I know why e-books, particularly those in languages other than English, aren’t taking off: the EU forces – and thus interferes with the sovereignty of nation states, a gross violation of international law [...]

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How typical: leftists claim to uphold freedom of speech, but not for social conservatives

November 21, 2011 Media

A news outfit somewhere in Canada recently published opinion pieces written by “social conservatives”. The articles created, according to the editors, quite an uproar, not only among readers but also, more crucially, among the editorial board. This has triggered a fierce debate among the editors about whether such “socially conservative” articles should have been approved [...]

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Don Braid’s in love with REDford, loses his journalistic credibility

November 15, 2011 Media

Oh, Don, Don, Don! Whatever happened to you? You used to be known for accurate news analysis, but now you’ve sold your soul to the editorial board of your newspaper, the Calgary Herald. How else can we explain your expressions of love and affection for Alison REDford, Alberta’s current – and short-lived – premier? How [...]

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Now that everyone’s had their fun …

November 7, 2011 Media

OK, time for the adults to take control. Naheed Nenshi, Calgary’s mayor, has an important job to do: he is, after all, the mayor of the “Centre of the Universe” (that’s how Maclean’s magazine called Calgary on its front cover a few years ago). As such, he should focus on what needs to be done [...]

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Oh my! The outrage!

November 7, 2011 Media

I’ve been around the block a few times, politically speaking, but it never ceases to amaze me how silly, dumb and ignorant certain people – those of a left-wing persuasion – can be. Canada, unfortunately, is a veritable Petri dish of such type of thinking, or a series of lab experiments that have gone seriously [...]

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Canadian cable-TV becoming a farce

November 5, 2011 Media

As recently reported in this space, allowing cable-TV companies to own content – broadcast and cable networks, etc. – has turned out to be a disaster for consumers so far. The recent addition of FX Canada, a cable channel owned by Rogers, is further evidence of that.

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Mary Walsh, the CBC’s obnoxious ogre

October 27, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Canada’s state broadcaster has two kinds of political satire – the good kind, and the bad kind. The good kind is represented by such programs as Air Farce or anything that Rick Mercer has been associated with. This Hour Has 22 Minutes, however, is an example of the bad kind (that is, in its post-Mercer [...]

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