The Year In Review

I'll start reading the post again when they fire Dr. Dawg.

Am reading Conrad Black this morning and it's possible to agree with him on everything. This is one sample:

"I can’t be the only person who wondered if sincere dupes of this nonsense, from the Prince of Wales to Elizabeth May, have the remotest idea of what mayhem they have brought down on the world. At least Al Gore has made a lot of money from it. Indeed, it must be said that this unlikely man has had the greatest revenge of anyone ever wrongfully deprived of the U.S. presidency, except perhaps Richard Nixon. Gore has grown rich, eminent, won a Nobel Prize, completely disrupted the world and turned international relations into a gigantic slap-stick farce."

But there's so much more good stuff - including Pres. O and our PMSH - get a cup of coffee and read it for yourselves.

Most under reported big story = climategate.

I concur with with Lorne Gunther that his story is simmering away and will break big on the MSM next year. Be interesting to see MSM trust vaporize after it is revealed how long they sat on the story while pimping AGW quackery during COP15.

who is Dr Dawg? We should all be subscribers of the Nat Post to ensure it stays in business. Can you imagine Canada with just the G and M as its National Newspaper, I used to subscribe to the G and M as well but cancelled after their appalling reporting of Climategate.

Gore was not "wrongfully deprived". Black is a good writer but blatantly wrong on many things from duplessis to Roosevelt.

tranio; disagree with you most profoundly on your description of the G&M and Nat Post as "national newspapers". They both are "toronto-centric" newsletters and nothing more. Toronto has turned itself into a mid-western American city with nothing in common with Canadian municipalities except the money source.

[quote]turned international relations into a gigantic slap-stick farce.{/quote] Black

We at least understand why/how these UN/EU, Environmental organizations have been working against developed (Capitalist) countries. They have an allegiance to a foreign power (UN/EU Governance) and are engaged in policies that reach the level of high treason.

It becomes clear why we have problems in the third World & in the War……..

Fine! I'll start reading 5 Feet Of Fury again when they fire Kathy Shaidle.

Perhaps I am outside the loop on certain things but...a link the Black's missive would be helpful.

Anyone???

sasquatch

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=6b8bd4ac-0875-47f3-8a81-3eed6145d4fb

Sorry, too lazy to tinyurl it!

I'm enjoying the podcast. About halfway through. The pundits just ravaged Iggy ... and then quickly moved on! (As we all should)

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NP editors: take it down, it containes too much resemblance to;

1) reality

2) sda

UUESS Yes they are Toronto centric papers but they are the most national papers we have. Otherwise we have just our Provincial papers like the Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star etc.

The Nat post is that much better than the Globe.

I like the Post. It has its faults - too much emphasis on Israel and Jewish issues (Jews make up less than 1% of Canada's population; has such a small minority ever got so much coverage?), a now truncated sports section, and the continuing presence of Diane Francis and Terence Corcoran. I used to think Corcoran was writing clever satire; now I know he really believes his nonsense. But overall, it provides balance. I know some posters here can't stand Don Martin, but I don't read opinion to only hear one side's view - that's what the Star or the G&M are for. The Sun is pretty conservative, but really, it's a paper for people with high school educations, or who want to buy a car or TV.

I think what the Post should do is remove the Toronto page from the front section, and then create a combined sports/local news/local arts section for Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton & Calgary, and Vancouver. That way, Bomber fans wouldn't have to read about the Argos, and Oiler, Flame, and Canuck fans wouldn't have to read about the Laughs. They could provide more coverage of local theatre, restaurants, festivals, etc. I think that would increase interest in the paper, and, crucially, attract more local advertising in those cities. The increased readership I'm sure would follow would attract more national advertising as well.

I don't know why they haven't implemented this very sensible policy. Getting rid of Monday papers in the summer, and slimming down sections now just aren't the solution, IMHO. You can't shrink your way to greatness.

I'm not feeling well today, so I may have missed it (I finally found the podcast by going straight to the National Post site) but was Prime Minister Stephen Harper mentioned anywhere in the year in review?

I was waiting for it, but he didn't get mentioned ... did he? You'd think that he might have been cited for holding the tiller of the Canadian ship of state steady in rough seas while staving off salvos from the various Opposition parties, not to mention the MSM itself.

Maybe staying under the radar has worked for Stephen Harper, as he just keeps on keeping on whatever the melee around him, but I would have liked a tip of the hat to him for all he's had to deal with this year, including Copenhagen, and being able to keep his head when all around him others were losing theirs.

Terence Corcoran is among the top ten Journalists in Canada -- PERIOD !!

I agree we should all support the NP. I was one of the first subscribers and enjoyed it immensely.
Unfortunately when we moved to a smaller community delivery was unavailable.
The Toronto-centric aspect is supposed to appeal to the Toronto and Ontario crowd. I understand other editions appeal to other particular demographics. It may not be perfect but it's still the best damn newspaper we've got.

batb, my husband and I were waiting for mention of PMSH too, for the same reasons you were. No, he wasn't mentioned! And, yes, we think he's doing a fine job and should have been given a hat tip for keeping his head and providing a steady hand on the tiller.

And, yes, again, tranio and KevinB, the NP isn't perfect, but it stands head and shoulders above the Globe and Mail and the Star. The NP provides different perspectives—it also, altogether counter-culturally, recognizes and celebrates the crucial place of Judeo-Christianity in the affairs of the West—unlike those other rags.

Wish we could get the National Post here in Saskabush.

I vote for KevinB on the Editorial Board! Like his ideas. Although I do not mind what may appear to much emphasis on Jewish issues if for no other reason than to counter the anti-semitism of the unions and university crowd. I read Don Martin until his secret liberalness becomes too blatant and then let him cool his heels, at least on my reading agenda, for a while.

KevinB, you should pass your ideas on to the publisher.

ron in kelowna, I second that motion.

KevinB @3:21 - it's not the Post blaming Israel for every problem on Planet Earth. Until this nonesense stops...

But what do I know? They almost competely don't bother selling the NP in this (East Coast)backwater. Which will soon be underwater, so I'm told. At which point my cat and I are moving in with Ken(Kulak).

1400 feet above sea level here. Should stay dry for a bit. Got room in the Eagle's Nest. Cat would have to bunk with Buddy (has a broken tail) and Dolly (black collie who loves everybody) who love to chase each other around.

Harper got excellent year-end coverage on CTV in an interview with Don Neuman and Robert Fife. He came across better than I've seen him in ages - uber statesmanlike and revived my waning support for the CPC.

KevinB,

Harper got excellent year-end coverage on CTV in an interview with Don Neuman and Robert Fife. He came across better than I've seen him in ages - uber statesmanlike and revived my waning support for the CPC.

Zog, a link for Don Nueman and Robert Fife interviewing PMSH on CTV?

Uh, Don Newman is a CBC man; would you have meant Lloyd Robertson or Craig Oliver?

I'll answer my own question above:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091226/harper_yearend_091226/20091226?hub=QPeriod

Lloyd Robertson and Bob Fife

Excellent article Ron! That article prompted me to fire a letter of complaint off to CTV after I read an article where they gave Prentice a F+ grade for only weakly dismissing Climategate. Here is what I sent.

Dear editors,

When is CTV going to own up to the fact that Climategate IS a story that needs extensive coverage? While (in your opinion) the emails may not prove that AGW is a fraud, they obviously open the question of just how "settled" IS the science. Denying this fact is simply unconscionable for a news agency.

The "Harper's winners and losers" article on your website bashes Prentice for only "weak(ly)" dismissing the "conspiracy theories".

Considering there were thousands of pages of documentation, I find it disturbing that CTV has decided that this is a conspiracy theory. Obviously, you have not had a single reporter go through the documents...this was dismissed by CTV (and the Globe and Mail) so quickly that it would have been impossible for you to have made an informed, rational decision as to whether this was a significant event or not.

Terence Corcoran at the Financial Post has published the best opinion piece I have seen to date on the subject of Climategate. He is giving the facts to his readers. He is not heavily spinning for one side or the other, simply reporting what he has read, and letting the reader draw their own conclusions. Even so, he admits he has only got through the first five years of emails...tell me, how has CTV decided that this is a conspiracy theory when nobody has even read the whole document?

It is a shame to see what this network, which I once relied on for my daily news, has been reduced to.