Hey, CTV News

No can see.

The whole segment seemed like an ad for Canadian Tire and Quarks/Urban Trail.

Thanks Kate. That video and others on the CTV site reminded me why I stopped watching it about 5 years ago. Could be worth a try again in a few years but I doubt it. Tabloid quality at best.

I guess, despite Charles Adler's best efforts at generating faux indignation and hype on the "Red Eye" story, CTV saw that it was a flop and had to find some other tripe to placate/occupy the simple-minded masses...

CTV videos can be hard to play. If you can't make it work, don't worry, you're not missing anything.

Silly Manitobans. Hip waders are much more in vogue at the moment. Maybe they'll catch on next year.

Hey; When the Pope brought up the subject of "rubbers" it was BIG news!!

Surely, this is a grim milestone.

CTV's report reminds of an older gum boot joke. (hope it doesn't draw in the Kangaroo court's storm troopers)

How do you drive a Newfie crazy?

Nail his gum boots to the wharf and then turn on Don Messer's Jubilee.

Just goes to show how backwards the folks in Manitoba, and I'm sure the west in general, are compared to us here in Ontario. We've had coloured boots available for at least three of four years now.

Hey PB. We here in the west still have "Now Hiring" signs on many businesses. Ontario is in crisis.

Still think we are backwards??

The collective intellect of MSM tv is at about a 5 or 6 year old's level.
Another day, another lost revenue dollar, and they wonder why viewers have left them in droves.

Flood ?

What flood, when ? Which river ?

No kidding.

Interesting that this story appears on the same day that CBC News has been reporting on efforts by supporters (and employees) of local CTV affiliates to lobby the CRTC to require the networks to maintain their local television production. This would be paid for by requiring cable companies to make payments to CTV, Global, and CBC that can be used to keep the happy talk flowing in Windsor, Kelowna, Hamilton, etc.

I want those hip waders that have the little boat attached around the waist. Urban chic, baby.

$280 for rubber boots??

Guess they'll go well with the $800 Armani lumberjack jacket.

mhb23re

@mhb: For all we know, it's on the drawing boards.

I have 4 pairs.
Here's the best rubber boots available.
http://www.nokianfootwear.fi/eng/outdoor/kaira.php

This morning Seamus O'regan on Canada AM had some "expert" comment on Obama's teleprompter address last night...

"Of all 300 million Americans, only Obama can address a crowd like he does"...(Exact words!)

The entire 5 minutes was all drool and fawning with absolutely no substance on anything that was said (Read?) by Obambi
I have seen bad, but this is absolutely the worst I have witnessed from CTV and probably from any other. At least CNN (Obama's american cheerleader) had some incite and some semblance of critisism this AM.

CTV is worst than CBC in many ways and his getting more tabloid by the minute.
Since Duffy left, there is nothing left worth watching there.

The thing is, they have to fill space between commercials. The content is rather irrelevant; it’s the presentation that counts.
If a “journalist” can make an emotionally draining presentation on the disappearance of last year snow, that is all that counts. It is cheap, fills the gap between commercials. Nobody will write to them about it, so it will pass.
So far as the news is concerned they decide what the news is. The news involves actual work, it may, more likely than not, be contrary to their ideology and truth is hard to contradict, though they do it relentlessly on daily bases.
Since they were told in school that the new is what you decide it is, it does not necessarily involve the news.

never mind the damn boots...
what's up with that dude's ears?
Dumbo call home.

never mind the damn boots..
what the h-e-double hockey sticks is with that dude's ears?!
Dumbo call home.

Uhm... I've seen colored rubber boots in stores for a while now, how this is newsworthy at all is beyond me.
Someone please reassure me that CTV doesnt get any funding from the government!

It's not everyday that you see a neighbour prominently displayed on SDA, although he IS buying rubbers a long way from home.

I think with the predicted water levels , best wear boots and a rubber.

In related news, under the heading of It's A Good Start:

CBC to slash 800 jobs
1 hour ago - Reuters

By Wojtek Dabrowski

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian Broadcasting Corp, the publicly owned operator of national television and radio networks, will cut 800 jobs to help fight a funding shortfall caused by a sharp advertising downturn, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

Details regarding which areas of the public broadcaster's operations will be affected by the cuts were not immediately available.

The CBC, which receives more than C$1 billion ($813 million) in funding from the federal government each year, was expected to make a public announcement containing further specifics later on Wednesday. Asset sales are also expected to be among the CBC's cost-cutting measures.

Like other media companies, the CBC is struggling with a plunge in ad revenue as the recession forces marketers to reduce spending.

Last week, CBC Chief Executive Hubert Lacroix told employees in a memo that executive compensation will be cut and that voluntary retirement incentives will be offered.

Aside from government funding, the CBC normally generates roughly C$600 million a year in revenue from commercial activities, including about C$340 million from advertising.

The broadcaster has turned to the government for help, but it insists it isn't asking for more money. Instead, it has suggested a line of credit or an advance on future funding to deal with the current crisis.

The government has replied that it expects the CBC to cut costs just like its private-sector competitors.

Cost cuts at two private-sector Canadian broadcasters, CTV and Canwest Global Communications Corp, have already resulted in hundreds of layoffs. CTV has cut 225 jobs since late November, while Canwest has cut 560, including 210 at its broadcasting operations.

Canwest is also looking at selling five conventional TV stations and CTV has announced that it will shut down two stations.

($1=$1.23 Canadian)

(Reporting by Wojtek Dabrowski; editing by Peter Galloway)

Oh.My.Dog. A distant countryman immortalizes his defects on video.

I agree with Richard 100%,

"...If the MSM gives real news, the people will become informed.
If the people become informed, well, that's bad for the leftists.
People will begin to ask questions and seek even more information.
They'll apply reason and logic to that information and it'll throw the whole leftist ideology into another tailspin.
The MSM, populated by leftists, has no intention of seeing that happen..."

shame on you all, it has nothing to do with all that!!! This segment was all about enslaving the "black" rubber boot year after year, generation after generation!!! At the journalist's (ha Ha) persuasion, give "white" rubber boots a work out or a multi colour/ mixed colour boot a try. Don't insist on Black boots to do all your dirty work, just cause you can go to the market and buy them for cheap. (watch it again, you'll see what I mean)

Right Honorable Terry Tory, I happened to be walking through the room this morning and saw the interview you posted about. It was so pathetic I nearly lost my breakfast. For generations the left has been dreaming about what Owebama is speaking of. They were so disappointed that Clinton didn't deliver, but Now they can taste it, it's within their reach, and they're pushing harder than ever. They will push harder yet, more will come, and the more they get from the work of others the more they will want!

That guy in the video is "buying black boot"?

Just one? Who the hell wrote that caption? What excellent attention to detail, excellent focus...