Posted on 02/14/2005 9:12:14 AM PST by quidnunc
I always love the bit on the big international news story where they try to find the Canadian angle. A couple of months back, every time I switched on The National, there seemed to be no news at all and Peter Mansbridge was in the middle of some 133-part series of reports on Canadians making a difference in the world, which at least three nights a week seemed to be an encore presentation of the same worthy soft-focus featurette about some guy helping with an irrigation project in Sudan.
Once upon a time, it didnt seem such an effort to find Canadians making a difference in the world D-Day, say, or even the early years of Pearsonian peacekeeping. But its a stretch nowadays. In the maple-free zone of the Afghan campaign in fall 2001, several desperate media outlets were driven to rhapsodizing over my old chum from Fleet Street days, Alex Renton, spokesman for the international aid agency Oxfam or to give him his full honorific, as the Sun chains Greg Weston liked to put it, the Toronto-born spokesman for the international aid agency Oxfam. The Toronto-born Alex spent his formative years at Eton not Eton, Ontario, the agreeable municipality a scenic one-day drive from Sault Ste. Marie, but Eton College, the swanky boys school for Brit toffs. His father is Lord Renton, a cabinet minister under Mrs. Thatcher. Im all for celebrating the rich diversity of the Canadian mosaic, but we havent had a Canuck like this since Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, checked out of Rideau Hall. Still, any oasis in a desert.
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(Excerpt) Read more at westernstandard.ca ...
Our conservative brothers and sisters in the U.S. need to learn more about our fight against socialism and corruption in Canada. :-)
Fanfan.
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Hopefully, the appearance of Fox News on the scene will help turn things around. Either that or the Liberals will feel Fox's sting and get it yanked off the air. Unfortunately, with the Parlementary system in Canada, the Liberals will hold an indefinite monopoly on power. If they lose an election, they have plenty of patronage beaurocrats willing to sabotage anything the Conservatives try.
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You've got a point there. When the conservatives form the gov't. here, there will be a hydro failure from all the shredders running at the same time. LOL
What worries me is that they seem to already operate beyond the critical mass needed. So many people are on the payroll, that we will be stymied at every turn.
I got in through bugmenot.com.
Thanks!
Thanks for the link. Strong's role in both those areas certainly merits further investigation, IMO.
You think this is why the Canadian MSM was so upset that Canadians can now pick up Fox News?
This is my first time posting on FR. I am appealing to our friends and neighgours to the south to do whatever you can to circulate and air this article by Mark Steyn in the US media.Maybe if it grows legs in the US media the Canadian msm will have no other choice but to cover it.
The Canadian government is corrupt and our media is corrupt. We need help.
Nothing like a little sunshine to kill some germs.
amen to that.
I'd imagine they're very blue in Canada tonight, with hockey season officially cancelled. (That did go thru, right?)
Unfortunately no one will toych this one politically because the media is deeply involved in the coverup of Desmarais-Powercor's doings. If Harper opened his mouth he's be cricified in Desmarais controlled media.
But I'm sure once this becomes common political chatter on all the US networks, the politicians couldn't ignore it in Kanukistan any more....this scandal is so big it will have to be broken from the US..then the crack in the Kanuk media dyke will let the truth truth spill out to the largely clued out Canadian public.
It wuld be great if Fox or Rush just pounded this unholey alliance and corruption at the top of the Canadian socialist echelons ...particularly with the present PM a Desmarais employee with a long history of conflict of interest dogging him...in a weak minority government....one more major scandal like this could topple the socialist dynasty....maybe our American friends can help us in getting thei article to as many US conservative media outlets as possible?
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