"This story is closed to commenting"

Those same wires should now be hooked up to his testicles.

I agree Gord...thats what should be done....

Oh, the CBC. I was guessing it was the Red Star that seems to have developped an aversion to comments sections, even for opinion pieces that used to always have them. (Like Travers' BSing.)

Re. the story, maybe it is beyond comment?

I agree Gord...thats what should be done....with 240 Volts...

Rapid medical attention, and administration of naloxone, an opiate antagonist, would have saved this baby's life. There is no excuse. The father would have gone to jail, but that's likely to be the outcome anyways.

"... performed CPR on his daughter for five hours,"

A little loose on the definition of CPR aren't they?!? I wasn't aware that CPR consisted of zapping a lifeless body with a broken lamp.

Also, any bets that if this fellow was a drunk driver instead of a methadone user that critical comments would be allowed on the CBC site?

I wonder why the CBC would close commenting on this newsworthy article, although they have kept the comments open on an unrelated article, that one regarding Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenny having nixed the gay rights section in the immigrants guide. The comments there are toxic, I guess the CBC doesn't like toxic, so long as it's there toxic, and not "our toxic".

note to the CBC, when you bend over like this, I can see your bias.

"A paramedic said he noticed a dismantled lamp at the scene, and Hope indicated he tried to restart the baby's heart with two bare wires."

This guy watched "Something About Mary" one too many times.
When Matt Dillon did that to Mary's neighbour's dog, it was one of the funniest scenes.

I wonder why they closed the comments?
Do you think the CEEB knows that people are finally starting to get intolerant of this kind of smack?

Let me get this straight: his phone didn't work so he could not call for help. Were there no neighbours on whom he could rely? He tried some jury-rigged lamp defibrillator to resuscitate a child for five hours?
Is stupidity a crime? It should be.

Next they'll be taking down their polls like Arar...oh wait.

PS....see. If calgary had free smack clinics like Vancouver,he wouldn't have needed the methadone!

the CBC is most afraid that it will become obvious (by allowing comments) that most Canadians would support capital punishment in such a case, and we can't have that...it would be so.....uncivilized!

Even when CBC articles are open to comments I have found many of mine deleted by moderators with a leftist bias. My comments are always pleasant , factual , non offending , and I follow all the rules of CBC posting etiquette.

I filed a formal complaint to the CBC ombudsman and I intend to follow this matter closely.

To his credit Vince Carlin (CBC Ombudsman) has been very prompt and professional in his reply. Below are some clips of our email.

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(my first email to them )......

to:Vince Carlin (CBC Ombudsman)
Thank you for your time.
I have held off complaining about CBC moderators for a long time because I always allow for a mistake or two or for people to have an off day.

However the problem appears to be an on going bias of CBC website moderators who delete any comments that do not suit their political fancy.

As a taxpayer funded news source the CBC must give a voice to all Canadians without filtering it through a biased moderator.

All of my comments submitted to CBC news sites are clean , truthful ,factual , non-personal , and comply with all rules of etiquette. My latest (deleted) comment was on this news item at aprox 1:02 pm cst Monday March 1st 2010.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/02/28/canada-harper-parliament.html#socialcomments

I also let the moderators know that I would be lodging a complaint.

Thank you for your time. I am completely serious about this issue and will follow it closely.
Reply by email please.

Arnie Madsen
Woodside Manitoba
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(Reply from Vince Carlin, (CBC Ombudsman)

Dear Arnie Madsen:

Because of the volume and nature of what's come to be called User Generated Content, a couple of senior journalists have been named to look after issues which arise under the Guidelines for User Generated Content. The Ombudsman's main responsibility is content generated by CBC journalists. I have shared your note with the CBC Moderation Manager.
Sincerely,

Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman

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(My response)

Thank you for your speedy reply Vince. Much appreciated.

Actually you have hit the nail on the head. Some of my "readers comments" were explicitly directed to the bias of the CBC news article itself. Not to the other commentators (lots of that back and forth arguing which I have no interest in personally)

For example many Canadians have always been cautious about the Global Warming Agenda , yet (in my opinion) the CBC promoted it as factual
settled science for the past several years.

Now that the IPCC and UN officials have backtracked on many of their claims I have yet to see a single article from the CBC on these latest
developments.

Yet many worldwide credible news sites report daily on these recent revelations and the backpedaling by the "climate change experts"

The lack of Canadian CBC coverage to me indicates a bias and hidden agenda. I am not able to see it any other way. It is like Canadians have to go to British news sources to get the whole story. Why is that I ask?

I can accept the CBC endorsing Global Warming as originally presented in the early years even if it was in error.

Now that a good portion of the science has been proven as fraudulent it is a new issue. By not reporting these new revelations makes the CBC
complicit in the fraud in My opinion.

There is much more Vince , and I am sure you are aware of it all. Other than the occasional logic from Rex Murphy I ask the CBC to provide me with the name of ONE journalist with right of center viewpoint. You will be unable. I would like an accounting of why that is so.

Profound thanks for your time.
Arnie M.

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(Reply from Vince Carlin ,CBC Ombudsman)

Dear Arnie Madsen:

I note your further comments on the coverage of global warming. It appears that you feel the coverage by CBC journalists has been skewed
and that there is an absence of commentary from "the right". I will share your note with Jennifer McGuire, the Editor-in-Chief and General
Manager of CBC News, along with the request that your concerns be addressed.

Yours truly,

Vince Carlin
Ombudsman, CBC

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In summary , I respect and appreciate the CBC Ombudsman giving a prompt professional reply . I intend to do my utmost to be as professional as well. I intend to pursue this matter to a successful (I hope) conclusion. As a publicly funded news source the CBC must at least be seen to make an attempt to present a fair and balanced approach to news coverage.

We will always find some bias of course, and I can accept that.But to ignore the viewpiont of 40 to 50 % of Canadians is a serious situation.

This has gone on long enough.

Sorry for the long post. I will stay in touch .
Arnie.

That is just soooo too much. Uuurrggghhhhh! SOme people are vile.

You know this guy and his junkie old lady won't get jailtime, instead it will be some 'hard time' in the sweat lodge.
I wonder how 'whitey' or PMSH can be blamed for this......

Notice the related story - top right - he was drunk at his first day of trial.

Send him to Afgan. He can go ahead of the troops and check for IEDs. Hopefully one will find him on his first day.

Sorry but I don't entirely blame the father, here's why: he is an addict and a ward of the state, they should have not administered any dosage to an addict outside of their direction. This is what led to the problem. What if the guy took the entire dosage and conked out and his daughter choked to death? See how the outcome would be different?

Was there a dog in that house, and if so, did that dog have a licence? That's the real question...

If I had a nickel for everytime I saw one of these poor kids being cared for by their junkie parents, I wouldn't need to work anymore. My threshold to call Child and Family Services is pretty low, and I'm always amazed by their inability to do much about this.

Mark's right, a simple medication could have helped, and paramedics can administer it. The fact that this moron and the mother didn't do anything for 5 hours speaks more to their selfishness than anything else.

Slightly off topic but want to say kudos to Arnie Madsen in attempting to persuade CBC to present a balanced POV on global warming although I fear Arnie is fighting a losing battle. Best solution is to pressure government to sell the Communist Broadcasting Corporation and save Canadian taxpayers over a billion dollars a year. It's time to put Peter Mansbridge and crew out to pasture.

real conservative

go reread the article, and then come back and tell us how foolish your post is

the guy "stole" the methedone

the guy is an adict, that is his fault, not mine or the fault of anyone else in here

the fools must have the little child unattended, again their fault

and as to being a ward of the state, cut taxes until welfare covers only those physically unable to work

Arnie, I want to thank you for confronting CBC and lodging a complaint with the Ombudsman. I too, have had several comments posted that were in no way in violation of the rules of etiquette and did not attack the views of other commentators, yet they were deleted. Facts do not seem to matter to the CBC. Hopefully, your efforts will be rewarded and perhaps you have managed to make at least a bicycle sized path to ride on next to the highway provided for the left - who complain, in their comments, that the CBC promotes a right agenda-seems they want to deny the Rights existence.

What a sad reflection on some elements of society.

Arnie, good for you.

But don't all you guys know "Drugs are a victimless crime" People say it all the time so it must be true.

Before I type my commnet, let me say that I've had several comments suppressed by the CBC over the past few years, and yes it p's me off when I make political statements that go against CBC's Liberal views and they supress them.

Howevah....

I can see why the CBC would want to close commenting on this story. I live in Saskatchewan, I think most major newspapers suppress comments on stories where kids are molested, abused, killed etc. The reason is obvious, people get angered and foam at the mouth. Check the Calgary Herald--if anyone will let you speak freely, they will. In the end, some things are best left "unsaid."

Well said, in my view, Joe Citizen.

Jail. GenPop. Unguarded.

FWIW, it seems fairly normal these days for such sites to restrict comments on cases that are "currently before the courts". This seems to be more about CYA than any broader conspiracy or bias.

This illustrates so well why I quit child welfare and why workers burn out so quickly. I can guarantee that behind the scenes some naive newbie worker thought that perhaps parents in treatment for drug addiction should not be caring for a baby, but was told that these people had parental rights (that have come to outweigh children's rights) and that they had to be given a chance due to being in treatment.
If this guy wants to kill himself with drugs and loose wires, let him - but kids should be apprehended from drug addicts.

Words are failing me as I try to understand the latest politically correct crap that our soldiers are being literally handed. from the Ottawa Citizen: 'We don't do' torture, says DND's new ethics guide.

The stuff that is being pushed in this "guide" is enough to make one lose their breakfast. "Sleep deprivation to soften someone up for interrogation is as unacceptable as physical assault, it says." Although some parents of teething children would say otherwise, keeping someone awake isn't physical assault. and a ceremony of handing over an ethics book during a change of command is quite frankly stupid and pure theatrics.

I don't know this retired lieutenant colonel Richard Walker but I'm willing to guess that he spend more time at NDHQ Puzzle Palace than commanding troops.

Words are failing me as I try to understand the latest politically correct crap that our soldiers are being literally handed. from the Ottawa Citizen: 'We don't do' torture, says DND's new ethics guide.

The stuff that is being pushed in this "guide" is enough to make one lose their breakfast. "Sleep deprivation to soften someone up for interrogation is as unacceptable as physical assault, it says." Although some parents of teething children would say otherwise, keeping someone awake isn't physical assault. and a ceremony of handing over an ethics book during a change of command is quite frankly stupid and pure theatrics.

I don't know this retired lieutenant colonel Richard Walker but I'm willing to guess that he spend more time at NDHQ Puzzle Palace than commanding troops.

I suspect the comments section was turned off because the social justice crowd would be frothing at the mouth that his man might face jail time. As for the baby the social justice crowd feel nothing for the victims, because they see the perp as the victim. This guy should do life with no chance of parol, but he won't and a baby is dead.

Kate--this is BS and you know it. I've had comments edited or even erased on this blog site. You print what is to your right wing advantage--end of story.

So, Joe, do your tax dollars pay for Kate's blog?

andycanuck:

Sorry--but I have no way of knowing who pays for Kate's blog--nor do I care. My tax dollars pay for the local ambulance service--that still doesn't give me the right to use their vehicles to move my furniture on weekends. CBC has a code of ethics to follow--this is not about taxation--it's about journalism--and following rules a set of guidlines.
And if you want to get technical, my Sask. tax dollars paid to install fibre optics back in the 80's, a service that had made internet possible. So I can honestly say that I subsidized part of of Kate's blog. End of comment.

Wow, Joe I am amazed. I thought Al Gore invented the internet.

You are certainly not subsidizing Kate or any other Sask blog, except maybe if the CBC has one, because those bloggers are paying for their bandwidth.

The only way Joe is subsidizing Kate's blog is if there's a tax on stupid.

andycanuck:

I thought we were talking about the CBC refusing to allow comments on a story that involes a mentally challenged individual who tried to revive a dead child with the use of a home made defibrillator.

For anyone who is following my communication with the CBC here is my latest reply to the (Ombudsman)
on March 4th 2010 at 900 pm cst.

I will keep you updated.
Thanks
Arnie
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Vince Carlin

First of all Vince I thank you for the attention you have given this issue. It is greatly appreciated.

I would like to clear up a few things and make my position clear. I am neither (politically) left nor right but like many Canadians I am flexible both ways but I do have an underlying Western Canadian Conservative bias.

I admired the financial discipline of Paul Martin and did not enjoy seeing him take the brunt of scandal exposed in his party.

The reason I mentioned that is because of the EXCELLENT coverage the CBC gave Canadians on both sides of the story. A great big check mark for the CBC and the majority of Canadians would agree that the CBC did an excellent job , and by most appearances without any bias. Even the radical extreme right fringes commented favorably on the CBC reporting during that era. We just want to be presented with the facts.

Now all we Canadians ask is that the same criteria be applied to the 'Man made Global warming' question . The CBC has given plenty of coverage to the story as though it was factual and came from settled science. Most news sources did the same at one time.

However recent events have to questioned the validity of the settled science. The UN has been backpedaling like crazy from their original position. UN based scientists are resigning and retreating and admitting to presenting "unsettled science".

My question is this: Why have Canadians not seen these recent events reported on the CBC ? The world has been reporting it but not our own publicly funded news source. Why is that?

I will end this by saying that I WOULD LIKE THE CBC TO BE VERY BIASED by keeping our country on guard against any foreign agenda , or internal agenda that may harm our country. If Man made Global warming proves to be fraudulent , or parts of it prove to be fraudulent , the CBC must not be seen to be complicit in it. This is all we Canadians ask for.

By the way , if the CBC was to begin producing fair and balanced journalism for ALL CANADIANS 80% of us would approve the CBC annual budget be doubled to 2.5 billion per year. Think about it.

Pass this on to all appropriate CBC staff , the CRTC , The minister responsible and anyone else you wish.

Stand on guard for us O' CBC ....

We expect nothing less.

Profound thanks from central Canada.

I expect nothing less than at least 10 good articles over the next 6 weeks on the retreat of the United Nations Panel on Man Made Global Warming and the scientists and "experts" who are complicit.

Arnie Madsen
Manitoba

Thanks Kate for providing a place where we are free to comment.

[Incorrect, Anderson ~ 1 Line deleted due to profanity and incitement. ~Vitruvius]

That "foamy" enough for you Joe Citizen? I think in cases like this it is right and decent and civilized to let our hearts rule.