37 Replies to ““SDA is Canada’s 36th largest newspaper””

  1. What, no “Waiting for the Astriod” title?
    Seriously, SDA has editorials, news, sports, arts & music along with the comics. Best thing is it is free. Bad news is that it is tough to wrap fish in or line your canary cage.

  2. Here in Hamilton we have The Hamilton Spectator, Texas. I find it makes a GREAT fish wrapper. Also good for sliding under doors when you are painting.
    Read it? Why?

  3. Most people buy newspapers for the sports page or the entertainment section or obits or classified ads (before Craigs) or stock quotes (before Yahoo Finance).
    Very few buy the G&M for Jeffrey Simpson’s take on Fedreral Gov’t policies, for example. Or the Star’s Iraqi coverage.
    Just read the commenter’s take in those papers – most of the time, most of their own readers can see through the bias/slat/spin.
    New business plan maybe ?? Asteroid 🙁
    In a ‘toe to toe’ contest, the Kates of the world would wipe the floor with the Jeffrey Simpsons of the world. Not because they are necessarily smarter, but because they just go straight forward to the truth, reason and scientific fact. The Simpsons always become bogged down trying to spin their agenda. Similar to, no one has a good enough memory to be able to keep all their lies straight in their mind – easily tripped up.

  4. Why am I not surprised? For commentary on issues -who does one first go to?
    Some States in the USA have initiated laws that grant Bloggers the same immunity as the MSM.
    And why not as if there is a tanget to a story many Blogs post it at great risk to themselves.
    Look at “Lucy’s Law” and the action of unintended consequences.
    Thanks “Lucy” et al!

  5. Haha … did you see that asinine comment about Peer Reviews?
    Kate … I along with you numerous other fans am happy to review your opinions and posts.
    This probably means that you have the largest review board in the business.
    Eh?

  7. Phantom, I agree wholeheartedly. A couple of weeks ago the Spec was trying to give away a free Saturday edition at the local supermarkets ( Fortinos). I declined saying that I had no use for the paper and that if I wanted to read Commie garbage I would buy a copy of their parent publiciation,the Red Star.
    The woman was not impressed.

  11. “I would buy a copy of their parent publiciation,the Red Star.”
    I wonder if they’re getting the message; i said the same thing in just about the same words.

  12. Extraordinary! The main chain newspapers with their minions of PAID reporters and revenue from advertising have been left in the dustbin by SDA.
    Congratulations Kate, only 36 to go! This website has relitive, real, content and interesting diverse commentary.
    Charge (LOTS) for lessons if the weasels from the black and white and red all over paper rags show up for lessons Kate.
    Make no mistake, they do need lessons….just think what they could learn about the Glob Al Warming hoax by reading the archives right here.
    Thank-you again Kate for your HUGE contribution to Freedom and Liberty and Justice for Canadian citizens. We can never thank you enough.

  13. Give me the Globe & Mail and Jeffery Simpson’s scratchings in particular for a bird cage liner.
    Key word “give”, wouldn’t pay a penny for it.
    Commenter talking about “peer reviews” was just too precious. Condescending prigishness on display.

  15. The “Green People,” always seem to ignore the “eko-logical” contribution that sites such as SDA are providing. I live in rural Sask. Last week I helped an elderly lady haul her discarded “Western Producers” to the recycling bin. Tons and tons of paper that are destroying our environment all in the name of promoting the “Tommy Douglas, Sask. Wheat Pool, Federated Co-op, CWB, Communist ideology that is not only poisoning the environment, but also the minds of the weak and the feeble. And all the while, as the Producer bashes Conservatives, Chemicals and fertilizers, guess who pays for the full page color ads. Monsanto, Cargill, Bayer etc. etc etc. Congrats Kate!! You,ve just saved the world a whole pile of newsprint.

  16. I still take a look at the free online newspapers like G&M but I find that the visits are getting shorter and less often.
    The best part of the articles is always reading the commentary. At least those people seem real, even if I disagree with them, unlike their journalists who come across as condescending and preachy. Most of what I read in the MSM is completely out of touch with any of my realities and experiences. Do any of them ever get out of their tight circle of same thinkers, same income, same education level, same occupation clans and really search out alternate perspectives?
    I never learn anything new ,it’s just the same old Liberal talking points over and over. At least in blogs like this the readers contribute their own internet links and finds that often contain interesting new angles on subjects.
    If the MSM are not going to even going to try to see and explore all sides of the issues, they should at least develop some kind of redeeming feature. Try being funny or charming or something.
    Maybe that is why right wing commentators like Rex Murphy, Marc Steyn, Rush Limbaugh etc. are more popular. They are entertaining, opinionated and not afraid of offending the politically correct establishment

  17. the wife answered the knock on the door
    a young student explained he wants to be a doctor, and she can help by subscribing to the newspaper.
    the wife hands over a VOID cheque. He fills in the order form.
    this is back in May. no follow-up from the paper.
    they are the asteroid.

  18. I get a free subscription to a newspaper when I am anticipating a move in the near future…and cancel once the china is all packed.
    Then I phone them and tell them I hate their liberal bias.

  19. Thanks Kate for the great site. I started reading you three years ago and have enjoyed you and most of your commenters views.

  20. Everytime I run into the globe media scum trying to get you to subscribe to there “papers”, i.e. the province, vancouver sun, mope and wail etc, I give it to them with both barrels. Last time I egged the moron at the grocery on til he told me to F Off in front of a bunch of people. They clapped and I bowed. HAHAHA Good Job Kate!

  21. I always thought a news “paper” covered, you know, the news. News like the murder of innocent children by the Canadian Mercenary Forces in Afghanistan. Nope not a word about it, it may bring to the minds of the SDA readers that their so called “heroes” aren’t perfect.
    Seriously though, how can you possibly put “SDA” and “news” in the same sentence?

  22. I keep it simple when they call my house.
    “I do not read commie filth”, and then I hang up.
    The sad part is that they keep calling. No wonder they are all losing money and market share!

  23. Geez, Looking at the list I am reminded of how crappy the vast, vast majority of papers in CDA are. Do you really want to be compared to these guys Kate?

  24. If you put some Google Adsense ads in the left top 1/3 of your page, you’d generate some more money.
    Peace,
    Don

  25. I get the post between 4:30 and 5:00 but before that I read the topics up for discussion on SDA and put my two bits worth in when I get to work. Often as naught the post still has its rubber band on when I get home at night. “Reporters” and the editorial boards are the cause of their own demise, sweet.
    I especially enjoy all the different links that allow me to draw my own conclusions.
    A great big thanks Kate.

  26. This reminds me of a call I got about 2 years ago. It was from someone promoting the Tranna Star. I said ” no thanks” and she asked why, because it was such a good deal.
    I told her the paper was crap and I wouldn’t spend money on that garbage.
    She replied laughing ” that’s what my husband says too.”
    Very telling remark.

  27. Congratulations, Kate! We all know the classic metaphor about ripples from a pebble thrown into a pond. You’ve thrown a lot of pebbles into the North American ‘pond’.
    Your next goal, having surpassed Le Devoir, is trampling over the NY Times. SDA can do it!

  28. ron in kalowna
    “””””the Kates of the world would wipe the floor with the Jeffrey Simpsons of the world. Not because they are necessarily smarter,””””
    GYM sends ron a boot in the butt for that statemnt, not only are the Kates smarter, dut much more eye appealing:-)))))))

  29. It’s interesting that the government schools are not teaching kids to read well enough to get through any of the MSM newspapers. Their message can’t get out to them by that media.
    Most young people can’t get off Facebook, My space or whatever entertainment they find long enough to read the idiotic leftie blogs. As if they are any more readable.
    I suspect that parental controls used to filter out crude words on line would stop most left wing sites anyway. Another reason to keep it clean folks.
    Those of us who are left who can read, use the Internet for better coverage and better opinion sampling.
    More unintended consequences by the left … march.
    I think it’s been proved many times that those with the best information will eventually win any conflict.
    Phantom, I have coined the Hamilton Spectator, the Hamilton Expectorate.

  30. I haven’t bought nor read a newspaper in over 15 years. Before the Internet I relied on radio or television. Now I rely on the Internet and some radio … usually streaming on the web.

  31. Congratulations Kate & well deserved if this is legit, even if not its an interesting concept brought up. I think he looking at the small picture. Blogs have still not hit maturity yet I believe in what they can do. To bad the monies that go to ads in papers don’t go to you lol. (O:}
    I have always said it since I got online years ago. You just cannot beat the reaction time of the Internet for real time reporting or for that matter even the depth of a subject. If wrong the comments section will rip you in half. Its a sort of self editing editorial section but as well much more than that. Music, video, multiplied feeds all help to project a three D real time environment with all our sense involved except smell or personnel touch.
    None of which a real paper can deliver, nor can you instantly comment on what you read if agreeable or not.
    This trend will only continue, as blogs become ever more faceted. I notice a lot of old magazines have imitated this already in anticipation of the coming change. The change will occur when computers now cheap become even cheaper & servers become ever more proliferate.
    JMO
    I found that site I went to unbelievably snobbish. It can be summed up in this seemingly pompous asses post or so I perceive it. Doesn’t make to much to much sense either by the way. It reeks of elitist sensibilities against the so called vulgar. Whatever.
    balbulican
    July 28, 2008 at
    Yes, I’m aware that a surprising number of otherwise bright bloggers don’t grasp the qualitative distinction between peer reviewed, well researched and edited writing, and simple expressions of personal opinion. The number of eyeballs is irrelevant to any qualitative assessment – Danielle Steele will always have more readers than Mark Helprin.

  32. Is “Le Devoir” a rag? Don’t know, don’t care…
    But in MOP, congratulations Kate….you are in the “big time :)”

  33. SDA is now bigger than Le Devoir? Does this mean Stephane will insist you start publishing in French?!
    But seriously – before the G&M Thorsell-inspired slide into irrelativism (that’s a new word I made up – and I like it!), my parents used to sit at the breakfast table and howl over Geoffrey Stevens’ columns (well, unless he was on about the Law of the Sea), and Richard Needham’s as well. I still read the National Post each day, and I spend more time on the columnists – Martin, Ivison, Gunter, etc.- than I do on most articles.

  34. SDA #1 for me.
    Guilty! I’ve bought the paper because I felt guilty snooping for the movie listings and not paying. That was in the 80’s before the internet.

  35. Anyone who cares about the environment knows that reading printed newspapers is bad because they cause a large carbon footprint to manufacture and distribute. Do your part for the environment and stop reading newspapers.

  37. I still take a look at the free online newspapers like G&M but I find that the visits are getting shorter and less often.
    The best part of the articles is always reading the commentary. At least those people seem real, even if I disagree with them, unlike their journalists who come across as condescending and preachy. Most of what I read in the MSM is completely out of touch with any of my realities and experiences. Do any of them ever get out of their tight circle of same thinkers, same income, same education level, same occupation clans and really search out alternate perspectives?

    I never learn anything new ,it’s just the same old Liberal talking points over and over. At least in blogs like this the readers contribute their own internet links and finds that often contain interesting new angles on subjects.
    If the MSM are not going to even going to try to see and explore all sides of the issues, they should at least develop some kind of redeeming feature. Try being funny or charming or something.
    Maybe that is why right wing commentators like Rex Murphy, Marc Steyn, Rush Limbaugh etc. are more popular. They are entertaining, opinionated and not afraid of offending the politically correct establishment
    Posted by: lynnh at July 28, 2008 2:00 PM

    When hard times fell upon us back in 1999, one of the first things we did was cancel all subscriptions… papers and magazines and newsletters.
    My brother in law got us free web access via Juno, and my mother in law started bundling and giving us all her papers & magazines– and a couple of things became apparent…
    There was a far wider range of information and opinion on the web, and better writers, than anything in the Dead Tree Media.
    The Dead Tree Media took 2 to 5 themes, or stories, every day, and just beat them to death. In between tons of advertising for stuff I largely cared nothing about, and shilling for the staus quo, whatever it was at the time.
    I haven’t looked back, since…

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