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1) "Liberal bias? It's not just the CBC", Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun, Sept. 29:
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2005/09/29/1240075.html

Excerpts:

'According to a recent study by two Ryerson University journalism professors:

* Almost half of all Canadian television news directors, the individuals who have the most influence in determining what political news is covered on your favourite nightly newscast and how it is reported, vote Liberal.

* A TV news director working at the tax-funded CBC is almost three times more likely to vote for the NDP in federal elections, compared to his or her counterpart in the private sector.

* When this research was compiled in 2002, just over one in 10 (11.4%) of all private sector news directors said they would vote for the Canadian Alliance. However, not one news director at the CBC described himself (or herself) as an Alliance voter...

...they concluded, is that "journalists at Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC, share a different profile and are more likely to hold left-of-centre political views." Uh ... duh.

I'd argue, however, that Barber and Rauhala's research gives Kent plenty of ammunition to make his case of a pro-liberal, or, more accurately, an anti-conservative bias in the media, well beyond the CBC, which is bad enough given the CBC's disproportionate influence in setting the national political agenda and how journalists and politicians react to it.

But beyond that, Barber and Rauhala also found that the most influential person in Canadian TV newsrooms -- both public and private sector -- in determining how political news is covered, is a Liberal voter almost half the time. By contrast, he or she is (was) a supporter of the former Alliance party, with which Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is most closely identified, only one time in 10. And at the CBC, zero times in 10.'

2) "Big gaps remain in disaster plan: Key parts of Ottawa's emergency response are incomplete 18 months after warning", Globe and Mail, September 29
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050929/SECURITY29/TPNational/Canada

Excerpts:

'Serious gaps exist in Canada's plans for responding to a major emergency, more than 18 months after they were identified by a Senate committee, a review by The Globe and Mail has found.

In addition, Canadian officials say two new high-tech command centres have yet to figure out how they would work together in an emergency...

Liberal Senator Colin Kenny [he is superb], who chairs the Senate committee, said the problems associated with Katrina should provide clear lessons for Canada, yet not enough had been done in response to his committee's report...

There have also been changes at Defence, where the Canada Command was created and announced as "the cornerstone of Canadian Forces transformation."

When asked about the relationship between Canada Command and the civilian Government Operations Centre, a Forces official would say only that it was being examined in detail.

Detailed responses from several forces officials to inquiries from The Globe and Mail indicate that Canada Command is still "in its initial planning stage" and its relationship with Public Safety's Government Operations Centre is "under development."

Mr. Kenny said his committee would understand if the government provided reasons why its recommendations should not be followed, but for the most part it has not...'

Mark
Ottawa

Two good posts on the GG by Lorne Gunter at "Comments Please":
http://www.commentsplease.com/collection/client/index.cfm?mode=cat&catid=AEEC312F-FF57-0BC2-78D9CECC6C4A971C

"So what if she's black?"

"Pardon me if I don't gush" [like Coyne]

Mark
Ottawa

The Crown in Quebec is appealing Coffin's sentence according to the G&M, he was served papers Wednesday.

GLOBAL WAR ON WOMEN
By Ralph Peters
The greatest social revolution in history is underway all around us: The emancipation of women. Advanced in our own society, elsewhere the battle for women's rights lies at the heart of colossal struggles over the future of great religions and civilizations.

The Washington establishment would shrink from any such claim, but the Global War on Terror is a fight over the social, economic and cultural roles of women. The core issues for the terrorists are the interpretation of God's will and the continued oppression of women. Nothing so threatens Islamic extremists as the freedom Western women enjoy....more

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-09-26-women-edit_x.htm

EU BANS TAMIL TIGERS OVER MURDER
The European Union has banned Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels from visiting member states.
A strongly-worded statement condemned the killing of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar in August. The rebels denied involvement in the death.

The EU also said it was considering listing the Tigers as terrorists. They are already listed as such in several countries, including the UK and US....more

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4287608.stm

Does this sound familiar? The federal government:

...produces a lot of talk, but not much action...

...tends to make loud announcements which are forgotten "as soon as the confetti hits the ground."

...makes bold promises, but doesn't provide the resources or structures to follow through.

"...is chronically unable to sustain initiatives, once they are launched."

"...keeps reinventing the wheel by changing key staff and changing the design of programs, without regard for achieving results."

Johanne Gelinas "oversees environmental issues for the auditor general."
Watchdog gives federal government failing marks on environmental issues

The Greatest Stories Never Told

Some of the most delicious unpublished journalism gets passed around like a secret handshake

by Alex Bea

I n the former Soviet Union there was a literary genre called samizdat (the word means "self-published" in Russian) that consisted of subversive political manifestos and unsanctioned—that is, good—poetry and fiction, circulated only in typescripts, painstakingly reproduced by volunteer typists who smashed their keys through four or five sheets of carbon paper at a time. Famous typescripts never published in the USSR included Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.

Recently I was talking about samizdat to my friend the sportswriter Charles Pierce. Charlie knows a lot about many different subjects; once when I let slip that I was writing about the impossibly obscure General Smedley Butler, he piped up, "Oh, yeah—the guy they tried to hire for the anti-FDR coup." So it came as no surprise that he had a samizdat typescript in a drawer. But I was surprised when he started to quote from it from memory: "Ladies and gentlemen, here they are … Morganna!"

Charlie's recollection of the Sports Illustrated writer Curry Kirkpatrick's lengthy, unpublished profile of Morganna Roberts turned out to be quite accurate. Roberts is the stripper turned "kissing bandit" who during the 1980s leaped onto major-league baseball fields to buss players great and small. "The first five hundred words were just about her breasts," Charlie still recalls.

"It was meant to be a 'bonus piece,'" Kirkpatrick told me, speaking by telephone from his home in Hilton Head, South Carolina, referring to occasional extra-long articles the magazine would publish. "It was about ten thousand words long. I cleaned it up a lot, but there was still no way they were going to run it. I'm not sure why they even okayed my doing it in the first place." He eventually sold a shorter version of the article to Playboy, but not before his typescript had circulated widely within the sportswriting fraternity. The "ebony-haired ecdysiast" was irresistible copy, especially when it came to her sixty-inch chest. In the article Roberts wrote that her undergarments were custom-made by the man "who builds domed stadiums."

There is a lot of samizdat around. You just have to know where to look.

A friend of mine at The Wall Street Journal once showed me a never published feature story on the Chicago entrepreneur James McBride, better known as "Mr. Skin." McBride operates a seamy Web site that alerts teen video renters to scenes of exposed (female) flesh—critical information for the Porky's and American Pie set. For a nominal fee you can view film clips of, say, an undraped Helen Mirren cavorting in the 1999 classic The Passion of Ayn Rand.>>>> more
http://www.rapp.org/url/?Z5EOCLXB
theatlantic.com

Memory: Arbeit Macht Frei>>>>

Netherlands Plans Expansion of Child Euthanasia

Policy
Posted by Salman
On 09/29/2005 2:05:54 PM PDT · 9 replies · 102+ views

AP via Fox ^ | 29 Sept 2005 | AP
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Dutch government intends to expand its current euthanasia policy, setting guidelines for when doctors may end the lives of terminally ill newborns with the parents' consent. A letter outlining the new directives will be submitted to parliament for discussion by mid-October, but the new policy will not require a vote or change of law, Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman Annette Dijkstra told The Associated Press on Thursday. The Netherlands became the first nation to legalize euthanasia for adults under some conditions in 2001, and the latest move is likely to spark an outcry from the Vatican, right-to-life...>>> more freerepublic.com

Hey Mark:

To add to your posting about Goldstein's "Liberal Bias...." column. The following link will take you to a Canadian Press release on one of the latest episodes in the House of Commons.


http://www.charlesadler.com/index.php?p=global&action=view_story&id=2308&PHPSESSID=036dae4b4f94c0ffbb15c9cbd311b84e

Clearly, when one reads this version, Paul Martin looks quite good, as if one were to dig deeper in what actually happened, he is both a liar and a hypocrite. He lied about having had extensive meetings with the families of the slain officers (a claim denied by the families) and then tried to politically exploit this lie to make it look like he was on top on the issue and empathized with the plight of the families. He became a hypocrite when he challenged Harper for the same thing in their verbal exchange in the House of Commons.

In this CP version, Harper is made out to look quite bad as in the report, he is taken to to task by Martin with the following statement "I do not believe that it is appropriate for the honourable member to try to make this kind of political gamesmanship on such an emotional event." and that looks to be the case unless one were to hear Harper's response whereby he said something to the fact that he was asked to bring it up in the House of Commons by the members of the families of the slain officers and that he was proud to do it on their behalf. Since Harper's response was not reported, the end result is of this report is that Martin looks good, and Harper looks to be the ANGRY man that the eastern MSM makes him out to be....Liberal bias indeed.

Since SDA has spent a lot of space on Mark Emery,
here's a story showing Emery getting charged by a private Canadian citizen so that he won't get sent down the hypocritical (not my words) USA.
http://tinyurl.com/a8ly6
Emery is happy about it of course, since he thinks he'll die if he's sent to a US prison.
what a nutjob.

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