Canadian Progressive: CBC Television Consumer Watchdog Show “Marketplace”...
Canada’s long-running consumer watchdog show survived the recent brutal CBC budget cuts, after all. “Marketplace” returns on September 14. With seasoned reporters Tom Harrington and Erica Johnson at...
View ArticleThe Ranting Canadian: Take a look at the Canadian Centre for Investigative...
Take a look at the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (CCIR). It’s a very important non-profit organization that organizes and promotes investigative journalism in Canada and far beyond....
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: It’s Why I Subscribe
To borrow a line from one of my favourite Shakespearean plays, Macbeth, “So fair and foul a day I have not seen.” It is fair because the newspaper I subscribe to and heartily endorse, The Toronto...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Health Canada Fails Us Yet Again
On this blog I have frequently extolled the fine investigative journalism practised by The Toronto Star. Whether on issues of municipal, provincial, or federal significance, The Star, as it frequently...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Canadaland Does It Again
Jesse Brown’ Canadaland, the investigative website whose work allowed The Toronto Star to develop its series uncovering the Jian Ghomeshi scandal, is once again proving its worth in a landscape...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: If we’d been paying attention, perhaps we wouldn’t be so...
PHOTOS: The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, conveniently located adjacent to the oil corporations’ towers in downtown Cowtown. Below: The writers of the notorious Alberta separatist...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Panama Papers
Marie over at A Puff of Absurdity offers a very good overview of something that is certain to have long-lasting reverberations, The Panama Papers. Be sure to check out her post.The Toronto Star reports...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: A Note of Thanks To A Very Important Group
I am currently reading a book by Seymour Hersh called Reporter. If you are unfamiliar with him, click on the link I have attached to his name, and you will see what a long and distinguished career he...
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