There’ve been so many robocall stories in a wide range of newspapers, blogs, and online magazines. It’s really hard to keep track, and I’d not so humbly claim I’m in the top 1% of Canadians who understand what went down and the impact it had. There are dozens of tabs open in my Firefox window, [...]

I’m kidding. RoboCon has been the biggest collective Canadian (Christian-) Conservative cock-up in the history of bonehead crooked cover-up conspiracy scandals. It’s always been interesting, we just didn’t collectively realize it on May 2nd, 2011. And its designers intended it that way, because as long as there is plenty of crap flying under the radar, [...]

It’s bothered me for quite some time how the “professional” media tends to cover campaign ads (particularly attack ads) as news, and thus goads the victim of the attack into responding in turn. It’s not a coincidence that the way to respond in turn happens to send money to the company funding the journalists failing [...]

I enjoyed all three of the videos that play in succession on this CTV page. Kady live blogging in the background is amusing. I supposed most people get funny facial expressions while they are writing, I can only imagine mine while I’m blogging. Her crack up at the revelation of the VikiLeaks password (StrongStableConservativeMajorityGovernment) was [...]

But what the outdoor columnist wanted was an exit from the Telegram.

Today’s ad appeared to be the bright beginning of a newspaper campaign designed to raise awareness among Torontonians, especially younger residents, about the environment. What idealistic youth could resist doing their part to build a better world by tracking their own efforts at helping Mother Nature, or by wearing an “I unpolluted” button as proudly [...]

This isn’t the hotel you’re looking for. Oda is ^NOT a good Canadian politician. She’s decidedly on the dark side of politics, accused for years of extravagant spending, and contempt for Canadians and our institutions. I feel so badly for her constituents. She’s a royal pain in the you-know-what (pocketbook). Bev Oda travel records show [...]

Ever since I can remember, I’ve read and loved newspapers. I got hooked on the comics pages when I was 5 or 6, migrated to sports, and then graduated to the rest of the paper. My parents subscribed to the Toronto Star and the weekly Canadian Jewi…

How Torontonians learned about the Titanic disaster a century ago.

H.G. Thorley had little inkling that he would be the busiest man in Toronto on April 15, 1912. Just before 2 a.m. that morning, the local agent for White Star Line received a phone call requesting information on the condition of the luxury liner Titanic, rumoured to have hit an iceberg on its maiden journey [...]

These are thingsI thing will cease to exist by the time I am in my twilight years! Newspapers, sitting with my coffee, discussing politics with hubby, examining issues in local, regional, provincial, national and worldly realms. CBC Radio – they c…

Bungling Canadian fighter jet development: A proud Conservative PM tradition for over 50 years. #AvroArrow #F35 #Dief #Harper Canadian Military Journal (Vol. 10, Num. 4) (2010) (with bold added): Debate over the F-35 may make the debate over the NFA/CF-18 pale by comparison. When the dust settled on the CF-18 decision, there was a strong [...]

There are days I worry that the Globe and Mail is unfit for birds to poop on it. If their endorsement of the Harper Conservatives prior to last year’s electoral fraud riddled election wasn’t enough of a credibility hit, there’s their more recently published Ibbitson column claiming Harpercons wouldn’t openly lie. I don’t think Ibbitson’s [...]

Being in the wrong place at the wrong time proved fatal for the founder of the Globe.

This week marked the anniversary of the assassination of George Brown, father of Confederation and founder of the Globe. We bring you this piece from our archives, originally published on May 2, 2009. Late afternoon, Thursday, March 25, 1880. The front page of the 5 p.m. edition of The Evening Telegram bore breaking news occurring [...]

Another important piece of historical evidence in the scandal that will be rocking Canadians’ political beliefs for years to come: Conservatives admitted in December 2011 to a local Ontario paper that a Conservative phone number was responsible for some phone calls that mislead voters. This fits into the pattern that suggests the widespread voter suppression [...]

We can’t keep letting Pierre Poutine get the credit for masterminding a national vote suppression conspiracy. Poutine is a side dish, not a main course. There’s no evidence that Poutine’s idea was the first, or the best, in an apparent illegal effort last year to benefit the Conservatives electoral chances at a majority government. As [...]

**Read recent history, if not caught-up.** A collective “Oh, shit/merde!” is possibly going quickly out of the mouths of anonymous Conservatives in Ottawa. They’ve basically involved the party in the Robocalls that Poutine sent out from Guelph through RackNine, while trying to minimize image damage! Providing non-public evidence of electoral fraud to “select journalists” and [...]

Holy crap! Rolling Stone tears limbs from the zombie Bank of America. You probably won’t read a more blistering, or researched condemnation of the 1% “Royalty” that literally has the state paying billions for the crimes of a few men it refuses to send to jail. BoA is one big reason why Occupy Wall Street [...]

Every morning for over 40 years, a maverick thinker and politician presented his views to Toronto and the nation.

The Toronto World once declared that “A newspaper editorially has no inherent personality of its own nor apart from that of the individuals who direct and control its policy. That is the basic element in journalism, though it is often forgotten or ignored by the public to whom it is of vital interest.” Readers of [...]

Sixth Estate has learned that if Pierre Poutine had just asked nicely (or bribed the right people?), they could have had a duplicate copy of CIMS, potentially. It’s not clear if this would be a complete copy, or information only for a local riding. Why is this very important? See the bottom of this article [...]

Ezra Levant fans are taking the position that there is no scandal. Some go so far as to say there is no evidence, and the Conservative Party wasn’t the obvious benefactor of the Pierre Poutine Scheme to misdirect mostly non-CPC voters away from legitimate polls. Meanwhile, real journalists, who’ve uncovered real evidence (which is online [...]

Kelly McParland’s article title intrigued me at first. “A scandalous absence of scandal in robocalls scandal” However, while reading it, I got angry. It wasn’t about the scandal behind how many people are brushing off this severe perversion of our democracy. Kelly’s one of those people brushing it off! And he blames the Liberals for [...]