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 ...
I guess. I`m sort of a non typical canadian there too( not really a hockey fan since teen years)
Worth a read.
It's nice to know Canada still does play in the big league.
Please note Shermy's comment #12.
I still think Harper should open his mouth. If he showed he had courage of his convictions, the way Ronald Reagan did in our country, it would be a true breath of fresh air. He doesn't, from what I can tell, have any skeletons lurking in his closet. He should fight the good fight on this.
I bet he'd win the argument, handily, at the polls (if the Lieberals dared to go there).
I'm a Mario Lemieux fan in Pittsburgh PA.
a long time steyninian here. Just found this site. too bad, i wish i knew about it these long months without Mark's website. Just a head's up on this story: It was actually Diane Francis editor of the Financial Post who first broke this story -- albiet just in passing. when MS mentioned it -- also in passing -- a year or so ago, he ackwoleded it came from Diane. Looks like Mark has taken it a step further, however. This is amazing stuff..
I wonder if Michale Moore is going to rev up his cameras for this. CBC is pathetic -- This is the Canadian eqivelant of Rather and Jordan of CNN: See or here no eveil when it's one of your own about to get burned
That would be 'hear' no evil. All this socialism up here makes me a bit dyslexic
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.
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No news yet south of the border! The whole Oil for Fraud at the UN scandal has been virtually invisible, nevermind the Canadian aspect to it.
It would have only gotten coverage if Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld could have been accused of involvement.
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