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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: New Politics, Polls and the Media #nlpoli

Given that the local media missed the single major story of the 2011 provincial general election until after it was over,  the editors and journalists in the province might want to think about how they...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: It’s just not that funny.

The Ottawa Press Gallery felt that Elizabeth May let them down at their annual dinner. They usually just throw stale dinner rolls at the poor performers. They tend to get too many who try but do not...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: Why is the Hair laughing at the TV Networks?

Do you really think the Hair is going to debate any of his opponents in this fall’s election? Not if he can help it! It just is not in the Hair’s DNA. After three national elections with debates staged...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: Is Mulcair peaking too soon?

Gosh, reading and listening to some political pundits, you would think that the coming federal election is already decided. It is all over but the shouting. It is one of those times when you wish you...

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Dead Wild Roses: Look at all this liberal media keeping the Conservatives down.

Shocking I say! SHOCKING!!!! Those commie pinko bastards! Filed under: Canada, Politics Tagged: Media Bias, News Media

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Babel-on-the-Bay: When a friend gives a friend a lift.

This is not the prime minister’s problem. It must be the ethics and conflict of interest commissioner’s problem. This commissioner acts independently and reports to parliament on those issues that...

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A Different Point of View....: Newspapers don’t deserve support: money should...

News Media Canada – formerly the Canadian Association of Newspapers – has submitted a proposal to Minister of Canadian Heritage Mélanie Joly for a whopping $350-million a year to prop up the journalism...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: What ‘New’ Democratic Party?

We are hearing that ‘Love is in the air’ and the New Democratic Party of Canada is facing the future to the beat of new drums. Everyone anticipates that this new day will start with the election of the...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: Donald Trump Lite and the Ontario PCs.

After spending Saturday afternoon watching Rosemary Barton and CBC News struggling with the Ontario Conservative fiasco, I was not sure whether the party or the

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Babel-on-the-Bay: In defence of local media.

It came as a surprise the other evening to learn that for the past two years, NDP activist Gerry Caplan has also been a resident

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Babel-on-the-Bay: Holding Honderich’s Hypocrisy.

It is this writer’s observation that John Honderich of the Toronto Star can be among the most puffed up of self-important Canadians. In an opinion

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Babel-on-the-Bay: Saluting Salutin.

Maybe you have never wasted much time on reading Toronto Star writer Rick Salutin. I have never considered his opinions of importance or particularly well founded. I have had the impression, that the...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: War Rooms from the political past.

It started back in the late 1970s and 80s when Senator Keith Davey, some of us liberal apparatchiks and the marketing communications experts, who volunteered their time, started to look on other...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: Circle your wagons; they’re on the warpath.

And here we thought war rooms in politics were a thing of the past? Now we see that the Toronto Sun has resurrected the idea with a one-time liberal in command. This must be the companion war room that...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: No facts please, a Toronto Star editorial.

It is always assumed that editorials in newspapers are more about opinions than facts. And that makes the Toronto Star just as biased as the National Post. The other day the Star’s editorial was a...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: ‘Yesteryear Politicos’ and ‘Tired Advice.’

Most people are probably unaware that they can get a good laugh from the Hill Times almost every day, for free. The Ottawa-based political newsletter will send you their headlines everyday in hopes of...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: In defence of print media.

Starting the day with coffee and the newspaper is a formula that works for me. The coffee wakes me and the newspaper introduces the day, informs, incites and inspires me. The ageless love for print...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: Oh, the drama of it all.

It is too bad the media cannot find more important news. The best answer to the current media tempest came to us the other day from New Brunswick. This reader said, “You do know that Justin Trudeau...

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Dead Wild Roses: Defund the CBC?

Our vacuous right wing in Canada screeching about non-glowing coverage of their team.   A non corporate news source is one of the hallmarks of a democratic society.  We should be giving more money to...

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Babel-on-the-Bay: The timeless media tempest.

It seems as though this election is taking place just for the benefit of the news media. I am not sure of the right word for it but it is the most over-reported and over-analyzed campaign I have ever...

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