28 Replies to “Look Yonder – What Brightening Star Is This?”

  4. Left this in the comments.Wonder if it will survive? It said it was #1….so maybe somebody else can check it out.
    “HEH. You could fire EVERY union worker in the country,and the only thing people would notice was an improvement in service.”

  5. So now all these lefty Harper Haters can line up for a sip of the Justines bathwater and hope for salvation by their socialist/commie pals at the CBC CTV and Glowbull.

  6. Exactly. Quebecor responded to similar union nonsense by locking out CSN troublemakers when they refused to work an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay in 2009. They never looked back, using the opportunity to make their operation even more cost-effective. Today the Journal is the only halfway profitable newspaper in Quebec, certainly the most widely read, and probably the only French-language city newspaper worth reading, anywhere on earth.
    Two years later the union boys came crawling back when they wore out their usefulness as publicity for Quebecor’s competition and their mothers started rebelling against letting them stay in their old rooms rent-free. Unfortunately, few readers of the Journal had even noticed they were gone. Only about two-thirds ever worked at the Journal again. Little has since been heard from the others.
    Let he who is intelligent at the Toronto Star (there are perhaps two or three who can claim such) interpret this.

  8. Gee, my decision long ago to eschew all newspapers seems to be bearing fruit.
    Yay.
    Dear union dudes, I’m not paying to read your Leftist crap. Neither are most of your former customers it seems. Please enjoy your retraining as a bovine manure transport technician. You probably won’t notice much difference, just that instead of writing it you’ll be moving it from one place to another with a shovel.

  9. editing and page design and the good ol’ “legacy product” of the paper itself is still vital to our community, etc.
    Quick! Somebody tell the “community”, ’cause they’re not buying the Star . . . in droves!
    Who’s going to spy on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s house if the Star is no longer around to do it? That be crucial “journalism”.

  10. I agree with this much:
    Some say byline withdrawals is a clumsy union tool, in that it doesn’t accomplish a whole lot in the practical world, as most readers and advertisers may not notice.
    BTW Kate, great line.

  11. “Through the paper, in fact, and as chairman of a Liberal Party advisory committee in 1916, Mr. Atkinson helped to develop Canada’s modern welfare system. His technique was to publish detailed articles on the social reforms in other lands — especially in Britain — and then to follow up with carefully reasoned editorials, pressing for similar advances at home.
    Over the years, his crusades were many, varied, very often successful. Long before they became law, The Star campaigned for mothers’ allowances, unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and the first phases of our national health plan. To the deep annoyance of many other businessmen, Mr. Atkinson also championed minimum wages and the rights of labour unions.”
    The Toronto Star

  12. Geez. Firing people? Isn’t that kinda draconian?
    I mean, if you can borrow your way to prosperity, can’t you hire youself out of debt?
    After all, is there really a job currently done by one person, that couldn’t be done better by two?

  13. I don’t know any farmers in SK who are idle all winter. they take some time off as they work 15 hours a day in the spring, summer and fall and spend the rest of the winter fixing their machinery and doing the planning, seed buying and other business needed to run their farm. you just have no idea of what you are talking about.

  15. Let’s not get too raptured out about the MSM’s decay. Don;t forget the unionists, Marxists and other assorted revisionist activists in the MSM represent the front line in the culture war. Just because they are pink-slipped doesn’t mean they dematerialize (one can only wish).
    Same goes for the social engineers who run these propaganda rags, where do you think they will go when the monopoly on disinformation becomes insolvent!
    Where does an idle commie propagandist go? – why partisan politics and public sector of course! It’s a natural progression. When propagandists invade the authoritarian statism of leftist politics and administration, partisan politics will get really intense. Imagine TO Star editors putting words into the mouths of party puppets like the Pony boy or fomenting party/public policy.

  16. Great that the private sector unions are going the way of the dinosaurs albeit very slowly…but how do we get rid of all the public sector unions (at all levels of gov’t)? We can’t starve them like you can with the private sector ones…any ideas?

  18. phil, if the farms were run by union labour, they’d be out there planting wheat in the snow in the middle of Winter, and wondering why the Hell it didn’t sprout.

  19. “you just have no idea of what you are talking about.”
    You nailed it denis.
    phil’s anti-farmer rants, although becoming fewer and farther between, are somewhat annoying, but completely harmless. Much like a magpie sitting in a tree scolding everyone that walks by. Simply treat his mindless blathering in the same manner that you would the magpie …. ignore it.

  20. Great to see the food we farmers grow, is still keeping ‘Fill’ alive, wouldn’t want that little union poodle starving from an empty pie hole. And Gord, further to your great analogy of unions, there was another fellow who unionized the farms, it worked out well for Stalin and his secret police, but after that, it didn’t matter what your name was, it was equal opportunity starvation, you starved to death with all the other communists/unionists or peasant farmers because of no food. The red ink over at the leftie unionist rag the Star is great to see, only the people who expouse socialism should be the ones to experience it, that would be a perfect world. It sometimes takes a while, but business and math always win out over stupidity and feelings, here is just one more example in many to come. R.I.H Hugo.

  21. gordinkneehill…you have got to be kidding!!!! A union socialist,working to start with,but in WINTER,and using its hands for something other than stealing money??? Or am I mistaken,and these are the guys/gals like phil who produce pixie dust and unicorn farts?

  22. bartinsky, well said, including about Soviet unionized farms which among other issues led to piles of grain, potatoes, etc lying out in the weather and rotting. Seeding and harvesting when the regional or Moscow bosses said, no matter if the fields were ready or not. People being sent to labour camps for picking up post harvest grains, potatoes etc lying on the ground.
    max has it right, and hopefully there are many more deeper cuts. In fact bankruptcy like Newsweek would be nice.

  23. Awesome!!! That made my day! The irony and comedy is at lethal levels: a contemptable leftwing rag sheet has to play the part of the eeeeeeeevil corporation to its contemptable leftwing scribblarians! Gotta love it!
    Hopefully that axe falls on the socialist scum at the Glob and Snail too!

  25. So where is the Labour Relations Board? Isn’t it illegal in Ontario for a unionized company to own a non-unionized company and out source union work to their non-union subsidiary?

  26. As I’ve been saying, “journalism as a paid profession is DOA”.
    In fact, you are better-off spending your savings on a Blockbuster franchise, than investing in a journalism degree.

  27. Today’s Star has Joe Fiorito tell some cock-and-bull story about a homeless woman he met on the GO train, and clutch his pearls at the thought that surplus Star hacks like himself may yet be reduced to living in their cars.
    If that’s true it’ll be a pinprick compared to what they deserve. Rest assured the old biddy lives in her car because she convinced everybody who was in a position to help her that she wasn’t worth trying to help. The Toronto Star could turn itself around tomorrow. All it has to do is start doing the job currently left to the Sun and unpaid bloggers (and done cheaper and better)—start reporting actual news, backed up with actual facts, research and the reality the plain people of Toronto live in, start exposing Toronto’s parasites and traitors instead of printing their press releases, and in general work twice as hard to build up the metropolis of Upper Canada as they’ve done to tear it down. All it would take is a little courage, and a little humility.
    Or, like Joe Fiorito, they can blame the Internet for their problems. So be it. Either way, they will get that lesson in humility when the Star closes for good, their ex-wives and children refuse to answer the door and Thomas Mulcair and Olivia Chow no longer return their calls. A little while living with the scum of Toronto and learning what the plain people really think of them, phrased in all sorts of colourful ways, may be what they need to finally repent, turn to God, and be forgiven.
    Who knows? In ten years the lads at the Sun might even trust a few of them enough to pay them to run to Tim’s for their coffee.

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