What a colossal waste of space,time etc..but hey,it's the cbc so no news there!! Bit OT,but I'm noting a pattern with these self-important media hounds,and the one with the biggest hole in his chest from the self-pointing "me,me" gesture has to be Margolis.Saw him on Agenda last eve,and he answered every question with "I,I,I"..I'm writing a book about that,I wrote a column about that,I was also threatened with death..BLAH BLAH .What a self important heap of crap,and it was blame the U.S. for every world problem.My head will officially explode this yr,if I don't stop watching msm.

This analysis has the distinct odor of a MSM lefty lean. (i.e. making something out of nothing) Somehow I don't find 7% of the article using "I" and "me or my" out of the ordinary considering the blurb is about "Here are my New Year's resolutions for 2007".

Trust me, there are a lot of columns out there that start out as information and end up being a personal opinion piece. At least this blab tells you up front.

That was my first impression, too, Canuck - until I looked up and saw the CBC News header.

Fair game.

Ah yes, Heather Malick. The same Heather Malick who called Stephen Harper a neanderthal in that rag, Chatelaine magazine.

Cud it is! since the stuff she spews out resembles stomach contents.

Valid point Kate. It looks like I've been conditioned not to pay too much attention to the headlines and instead read the article. Now if only the rest of the public could learn not to "be informed" by skimming the headlines and banners. I've listened to far too many people who have made an opinion bases on headlines only. Scary actually.

Boring. People from Toronna are boring, little self absorbed control freaks. What I don't get is the constant carping about GLOBAL WARMING and their politically correct "carbon footprint". Sheesh, these people flock to Florida, the Carolinas & the Carribean in droves every winter and complain endlessly about winter. They are having a warm "winter" this year, what's their beef? They burn a lot of jet fuel to do go south. So, burn more fuel, heat the friggin' place up more and save yourselves the trip! That way you can spend endless summers up on Georgian Bay. Whine, whine, whine. What really galls me is that my tax dollars are paying this twit's salary, to tell us her New Year's resolution! As if we, the Great Unwashed care! Get a life.

This piffle piece from Heather isn't nearly as fatuous as her last one, which caused me to complain to the CBC. But it does has an unhinged quality that speaks volumes.

I fear that it is just a waste to bother with the likes of Heather and Kate's attention is bound to boost Heather's hits resulting in "rewarding" us with more of the same self-absorbed drivel.

Heather Mallick used to write for the Globe and Mail. Her columns were all the same, fatuous, ignorant opinions filled with hostility towards the US, Harper and etc; filled with the usual leftist sophistry about 'social justice', 'poverty' and 'the environment' and etc.

She, herself, is a high-maintenance, high-living, self-confessed Shopaholic, addicted to the expensive goods at Holt Renfrew. And, she's also a 'Diana Freak', worshipping the late Princess of Wales as 'perfection itself'.

In other words, she's an idiot and hardly worth a whisper of words.

Declining audiences and circulation are showing that the MSM is suffering for employing these media squatters.

Haroon Siddique's Headline/op/ed in the star today declares Saddam's "Hanging will haunt Bush." Well, why not? Blaming Bush absolves one of critical thinking, afterall. And for the Muslim, it deflects from the real issue. Siddique goes on to quote a Dr. Chandra Sekhar (a fellow Muslim Indian), "The Bush administration has destroyed an ancient civilization and its ruler..." and the old Muslim taqiyya/canard, "It is because of American policies that terrorism is increasing in the world." Check, Islamic terrorism isn't the result of Islam. Oh, no.

He ends with his usual sentiment that he's got the pulse of all Canadians on this one, "the overall Indian response is perhaps not that different than the sentiment of Canadians in this regard. By this I do not mean the views of our political class and many in the media establishment, which remain under the spell of the American spin, but rather those of ordinary Canadians."

Well, here's one "ordinary Canadian" that says, Hey Harooooon, your creepy muslim madness is showing. And how do you dare think that you speak for anybody but a minority of idiots, fools and Muslims in Canada?

Years ago, (thankfully the memories have faded), I read a couple Mallik's columns in the G&M......the experience was like one's final trip to the optometrist's......."A terminal 'I'-test".

I took a look at her column and can't see anything particularly wrong with it?
It is what it is.

There is nothing wrong with it - if she were posting it to heatheriskewl.blogspot.com

It was a New Year resolutions column that most columnists have a bit if fun with.
I have no lofty expectations of serious journalism from the CBC so this was no different especially for this time of the year.

Agreed, Haroon Siddiqui is a mindless ignoramus, always repeating the same irrational opinions of anti-Americanisms and etc.

He's insulting the Iraqi people; it was they who judged and condemned Saddam Hussein. Not Bush; not the Americans.

He's insulting the Iraqi people; by stating that 'Bush' has destroyed an ancient civilization and its ruler'. Now wait a minute; is he actually saying that Hussein's dictatorship was 'ancient', was 'civilized'? Bush released the Iraqi people from this dictatorship. Now, they have to move out of tribalism into a civic mode.

And all pundits who have weak arguments attempt to bolster their opinions by stating that 'most' people agree with them. Heh.

As for Heather Mallick - I always wondered if she has 'connections'; I couldn't understand how anyone could hire her to write the ignorant nonsense she does, in a national newspaper (the G&M). I remember writing the editor frequently about her; they advised me to simply not read her columns. I advised them that I was cancelling the paper.

"[I]isn't this kind of tripe usually reserved for the filler for the centre community section of the local village newspaper, usually penned by a nice old lady that has lived in the community since the Great War[?]"

And given my druthers, I'll take that nice little old lady's filler any day!.

At least she's sure to have some honest life experience to talk about.

From the half-full point of view, she does have a TSN turning point. See resolution #8, she asks do I contradict myself?

Ms Mallick, those of you on the left continually contradict yourselves so don't feel bad at least now you are beginning to recognize your hypocrisy.Whereas Sean Penn and his(your) ilk rail against GWB and his environmental policies, his (well everything assoc. with GWB) he doesn't even have the decency to ascribe to Toronto's anti-smoking bylaw in a press conference.

When Sarandon, Robbins, Moore stop taking their Millions upon Millions for making a movie and when Gore and Suzuki stop racking up thousand upon thousands of air miles telling those of who save for 12 months every year to take a one-week all-inclusive holiday in a third world ctry contributing to their economy maybe then I will actually begin to listen and belieive these type of HYPOCRITES.

End of rant.

K

thanks Kate,
no "snort", but I laughed out loud.

Another poll "gone horribly wrong". ;-)

fluff, fluff, more fluff, oops, watch out, cow paddy! more fluff.

Duuh, it's still a Qu'ran....

Altho some good did come out of this, I voted with the Majority.

Sorry about that. The " Duuh, it's still a Qu'Ran " statement was meant for the Ellison comment section. I really have got to start checking what's in the clipboard before hitting paste.

Heather, Heather, Heather, you left out the bit where in 07 you are going to start seriously toadying for the next GG appointment. Isn't that how it goes? CBC...blah, blah, blah...GG. Or maybe that is why the speaking French thing is high on the list. You really are a hopeless anglophony, only not for the reasons for which you denegrate yourself...I can think of soooo many others.

speaking of the much loathed cbc, note where the SASKATCHEWAN student got her radio gig.

'I just handed in all my work,' student with 98% average says
Thu Jan 4, 6:55 PM

Budding research scientist, musician and radio show host Jennifer Wang of Saskatoon has made headlines before and now she's back in the news.

This time, the 18-year-old has been recognized by the Saskatoon public school system as its top student.

Wang, who's in her first year at Yale University, was in Saskatoon Thursday to receive the school system's award of excellence.

Last year, Wang graduated from Walter Murray Collegiate with a 98 per cent average.

"You know, to be cliché, I guess I just handed in all my work and studied for exams and really put a lot of effort into going to school," she said.

However, Wang is no bookworm. The young woman dedicated a lot of time to extracurricular activities.

She's a talented musician, having played piano competitively for years. She won a national science fair award for a study of how sarsaparilla - an herb found in root beer - could be beneficial in fighting cancer.

***** its right here !!! look closely !!! feel free to add vitriol !!!
She won a national talent search to become, at 17, a guest host on CBC Radio's As it Happens.

Ray Logan, a high school counsellor who coached Wang on the debate team, described her Thursday as a one-of-a-kind student, unbelievably active in school events.

"Anything that was done in the school, she was involved," he said. "She's a real doer."

The award comes with a $3,000 scholarship, money that will come in handy as Wang completes her degree at the Ivy League university.

As for the future, Wang is keeping her options open but says she sees herself working with people.

Wang said she's not sure she'll find work in Saskatchewan, but plans to return to Canada.

ooooohhhhh!!!!! that could mean a science show on the dreaded cbc !!!! ooooohhhh !!!!!!!!

What's your point Bollocks? A good news story about a hard working young student somehow negates Mallicks insipid little column?

So the Brits do have it right with their bovine flatulence mitigation prog. Now at least Stephanie has a place to start with his copy of it.

So the Brits do have it right with their bovine flatulence mitigation prog. Now at least Stephanie has a place to start with his copy of it.

Glad to see that my observations on HM's ruminations caused a stir here (including a poll - nice touch Kate); thanks for posting it!

RE: Ian's comments above that he did not see anything wrong with her piece...to repeat - her column was prominently featured on the CBC NEWS website that WE ALL PAY FOR!

The fact that her resolutions piece are boring and irrelevant are self-evident, and as Kate points out, perfectly acceptable - if they were on her personal blog, and not on a taxpayer-funded supposed news website!

Glad to see that my observations on HM's ruminations caused a stir here (including a poll - nice touch Kate); thanks for posting it!

RE: Ian's comments above that he did not see anything wrong with her piece...to repeat - her column was prominently featured on the CBC NEWS website that WE ALL PAY FOR!

The fact that her resolutions piece are boring and irrelevant are self-evident, and as Kate points out, perfectly acceptable - if they were on her personal blog, and not on a taxpayer-funded supposed news website!

Heather Mallick generally writes terrific articles that serve to put the small-mindedness of conservative pin-heads in context.

She thinks and lives large with utter contempt for those smug and anal rightists that spew forth venomous letters to the editor about their important positions on issues equivalent to “that irresponsible driver who drove 30kms per hour in a 25km zone. If we all did that it would mean the end of civilization, etc, etc”.

What really burns these self-important blocks of wood is that she is so utterly dismissive of them, and clearly views them as rather sad stick-in-the-muds. Sad, but rather funny, in a ridiculous sort of way.

I’d rather have her over to dinner than just about any of the apparently dull posters here. Sorry folks – you’d best stick to those important issues you chaps are so good with, like debating the appropriate width of Steve’s polyester tie.