Thomas Walkom is a columnist for the Toronto Star. His fellow Torontonians may want to stay at least 100 metres away from him for the near future because the ground is surely going to open up under his feet to provide him with an express ticket to hell. In his latest column, Walkom compares Jim Flaherty’s unexpected death with … wait for it … budget cuts to the CBC:
The institutional tragedy involved the latest bloodletting at CBC. The national public broadcaster announced it is again engaged in a savage pruning of its radio and television services, in a last-ditch effort to save money.
The two tragedies are related. For it was under Flaherty’s watch as finance minister that the latest cutbacks in federal government funding to CBC occurred.
To point this out is not to deny Flaherty’s virtues as a human being. Those who knew him say he was hard-working, loyal to his family and possessed of an engaging personality.
There is no evidence that I know of to suggest that his motives were anything but public-spirited.
But he was also an integral part of a government determined to smash or cripple much of what makes Canada a livable country.
h/t Blazing Cat Fur
I would have commented earlier but I was too busy holding my aching ribs from laughing at the idea that the CBC somehow makes Canada ‘livable’.
Unbelievable,outlandish, even coming from the Red Rag that is the Toronto Star, it’s as bad as it gets. This is the sort of stuff that needs to be highlighted as an example of the sickness permeating the Left in this country….. no shame, no compassion, no respect….HOPELESS.
I might take this whine seriously if I knew it was something more than another scurrilous hack complaining about the loss of a potential sinecure.
Scum.
Couldn’t even let his body cool…
“much of what makes Canada a livable country.”
Could someone please explain in layman’s terms exactly what this means? I am assuming that, without the CBC, Canada becomes an unlivable country or, at best, somewhat less livable. I particularly enjoyed the term “savage pruning”. When you receive a billion plus per annum of taxpayers’ dollars just to stay afloat, I don’t think that any type of pruning could be termed “savage”.
smash or cripple much of what makes Canada a livable country.. Out here on the left coast as far as I’m concerned Ottawa and Toronto could be blown up by a nuke and no one would care. What makes Canada livable for me has nothing to do with the federal government.
Walkom. Star. Yawn….burp….fart…
“”The Conservative government’s dislike of the CBC is long-standing and, at the core, ideological.””
no sh!t Shurlock, cons didn’t like a publically funded champagne arm of the lieberal party, how dastardly of them!!!
Nearly puked when I read the headline but didn’t bother to stoop so low as to waste my time reading Star poop.
I’ve always been puzzled why people like Walkom are always so concerned about a direct competitor in the news presentation business. If the CBC shut tomorrow wouldn’t that help readership at the Star since both attract people with similiar views? The truth seems to be that the Walkoms of this country can’t imagine that there might be a point of view different from theirs.
In his world-view, there are only those who think like him and those who are wrong. Remember, he’s at the Star because the Globe was too conservative for him.
I propose the CBC goes on strike, again, to protest these evil cuts. Just like last time, no one will notice and we’ll save a heck of a lot of money.
It means he’s crazy.
So this is how you do it: “Thomas Walkom thinks Canada is unliveable without the CBC!”
The typical liberal baloney. My grandparents survived perfectly well without the CBC prior to it’s existence and I get along just fine without it too.
I would think that consistent infrastructure (roads sewers, water , electricity, rail, airports, shipping) sufficient medical care, grocery stores, law enforcement, central heating, you know, the things that make for a predictable, livable society were the important things that make Canada a livable. The CBC only makes it less livable by sucking money that I on my own could put to better use. And then to have the nerve to criticize Jim Flaherty at the same time. What more could we expect from a true red.
The Toronto (Red) Star and Thomas Walkom are responsible for some of the larger chunky bits in that “sea of progressive puke” ofaycat was talking about.
Cheap even for the Star.
Without Hockey Night in Canada is there any reason for CBC TV?
Of course I ask tnat as someone who long since abandoned TV in its broadcast form save for Olympic hockey and the Stanley and Grey Cups. Broadcast TV is dying. So is radio. Dumping money into dying technology is a waste.
Canada will be plenty “livable” if we avoid importing the problem which is Islam and finally tell our First Nations and enviornmentlists to get out of the way of economic development. The Star won’t like it but it too is a dying technology…just another, not very good, group blog really.
“I’ve always been puzzled why people like Walkom are always so concerned about a direct competitor in the news presentation business. …”
People like Walkom want the CBC around because they dream of being employed by it – more money, more job security and compared to newspapers, even less work. (Never mind that a TV/Radio operation has no application for Walkom because he’s from print media, leftists are all about unrealistic ideas.)
Vile.
But correct.
If you consider Canada as only livable because you can mooch off of the labour of others.
The CPC, if they are still on track, do hope to create/restore a Canada where you are rewarded for the quality of your work.
Obviously a hell on earth for every moocher,leech and NGO.
If there’s one thing that will make Canada un-liveable it’s the ongoing waste within government. That, and economic intervention that interferes with the free choices of individuals regarding trade, which lowers the standard of living.
What clowns like Walkom never comprehend is that if western society collapses, they will go down with the ship.