43 Replies to “Things You’ll Never See On The CBC”

  1. Perhaps this could be a juxtaposing moment, against all those articles they wrote on Adscam, where there was actual criminal activity.

  3. The Micheners called, they want their award back.
    Time to start a new award for our ever so smart Canadian “Journalists”. We could call it the RoboCall Poutine Award and it is given to the Canadian journalist(s) who invent, make up and/or fantasize the best drive by smear, innuendo and vendetta journalism story of the year.
    And we would make it retroactive so these two clowns could be the first recipients.

  4. Not sure what her name was in the video(the Trudeau campaigner), but what the hell is she smoking? How many times would one want to listen to her speel on bridging the gap between telemarketing calls for free trips and robocalls of a deceitful nature. Did she actually say that those telemarketing calls were from the government too?

  5. For the sake of the integrity of the award it needs to be taken back. This is an example of shyster journalism, this is not what this award is about unless it’s for fictitious, malicious, accusatory reporting with intent to do damage.

  6. I really enjoyed this post and I agree that Ezra’s robocall commercial deserves an award.

  8. DrD;
    Exactly, innuendo does work. Out right lying also works well. A plank in the previous NDP federal election was the standard refrain that Harper was selling out to the USA and that USA troops would have access to Canadian territory under treaty. Post-election would see USA troops coming across the border. This type of BS is accepted by many and little or no intellectual thought is considered.
    I am anxiously hoping that a major plank in PMSH’s 2015 campaign will be exposing political interference in internal Canadian politics by foreign governments and private charities. I can agree with many Dippers and Libels who fear Canada is being sold out but to forces who have more commercial imperatives like preventing a world class Canadian oil industry.

  9. Just because judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, over a long period of time and at great expense, exhaustively investigated and ultimately dismissed the notion that there was any tangible proof of any serious breaches of the electoral system or that Robo Calls led to unlawful electoral outcomes on a riding by riding basis or on a national basis, does not mean that it did not happen. The proof that it did happen is that it was alleged thousands of times and that is enough. You know, like global warming.

  10. I received a (live) call from a CPC call centre during the last election and the caller directed me to the wrong polling station. Having just voted, I was well aware of the correct polling station. Before you get all bent out of shape, as in, “AHA!”, I am a member of the CPC and volunteer for the Party. The fact – in this case, at least – is that the database was wrong. I did point that out to the caller but I don’t know what may have been done subsequently to correct it.

  12. Well there was something to it.
    Didn’t the ndp’s paul dewar end up getting fined over some robocall issue during all this?

  13. Those articles were a waste of everyone’s time. A few strategic ones when there was actually any real developments would have been far more effective. The Citizen, MacGregor and Maher clearly have a political agenda. The paper has gotten really pathetic.

  15. Maher is the same journalist that wrote all those articles swearing that Harper pocketed the Host at LeBlanc’s funeral.
    He also gets super snarky when accused of being biased. He thinks he is equal opportunity investigator…..and you know what I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and just stick with the point that he is just plain wrong much of the time.

  16. Elections Canada says there’s nothing to see there, yet they never even talked to Elizabeth May’s mother or Joe Comartin’s wife. Interesting that the Fair Elections Act was watered down just as this interesting finding came through. Keep in mind that Canadian investigators never find anything wrong with anything, like Bre-Ex, Nortel, Air India, and dozens of other failed cases

  17. Well that explains why the Liberals never paid back the $$$$millions they stol in the ADSCAM mess.

  18. Same script as global warming. If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

  19. It’s a pretty good bet that IF the investigators had found even the tiniest bit of evidence, this case would have been in Court damned quickly! And the MSM would have had their Olympics, 3581 articles on the first day of the trial alone.
    Maher,McGregor,and Mike Harris are utterly consumed by an unhealthy hatred of Stephen Harper. Many of their columns read as simply demented in the way they will twist anything to reflect negatively on Harper.
    Maybe they should take up recreational drinking,might straighten them out a bit.

  20. Bingo! You sum it up well. The Marxist progressives learned well the methods of their ideological ancestors Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler.

  21. Actually, her name is Althea Raj, and she reports for Huffington Post Canada, and she’s a member of the parliamentary press gallery.
    She substitutes in for one or other of the regular “At Issue” panel members on Thursday nights on The National (she must have all the right credentials, I guess — she’s a she, she’s young, she’s a member of a visible minority, and she’s part of the “new media” — sort of the face of the “new” Canada, really, if that’s your thing; that she’s a flaky alternative universe dweller and a typical, unoriginal leftoid doesn’t seem to have struck the CBC as a problem.
    Her main claim to fame is that photograph of her and Paul Wells (editor of Maclean’s), with Justin Trudeau acting like a two-year-old in the background (pulling faces and making hand gestures behind the heads of her and Wells).
    At any rate, speaking of flaky alternative universe dwellers, get a load of this nonsense:
    http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Opinion/Columnists/2014-04-26/article-3702332/Prentice-move-could-indicate-PM%26rsquo%3Bs-future/1
    Really and truly, it’s such great sport watching these characters pretzelize themselves over their anti-Harper narrative. I noted the other day Chantel Hebert’s recent column about how now is the time for Harper to leave, and then linked to a column of hers from five years ago (almost to the day) where she said exactly the same thing.
    Jim Prentice? Are you kidding me? What’s he got to do with anything? Plus he’s a banker, making him a public relations disaster waiting to happen (just what we need, a Red Tory plutocrat). Apart from which, why would Harper leave anytime soon, anyway — he’s the only credible party leader and spokesperson for Canada, he’s only 54 (Chretien didn’t become PM until he was 58 or 59, and Paul Martin until he was 65 or 66), he’s recovering in the polls (not that he was really very far behind), not to mention getting the so-called “scandals” behind him, the deficit behind him, etc., etc., etc.

  22. The only ones calling for Harper to retire is the opposition who can’t beat him, so, they start this campaign that “he’s been around long enough”.
    of course, when you can’t beat your oppoennet, you want him gone, by any means.
    And yeah, Prentice is just a Liberal in Tory clothing, but then various members of the Tory caucus (Kenney, Moore, et al) have also fuzzified their conservative (?) positions lately.

  24. Another interesting contrast I’d like to see is:
    1. The number of media reports on the billion or so of Ontario taxpayer money tossed away by the McGuinty government on that gas plant closure.
    2. The number of media reports on the $90,000 cheque Nigel Wright wrote for Senator Duffy.
    I’m willing to bet far more ink and electrons have been consumed on the latter.
    Yet a billion dollars is enough money to write well over 11,000 $90k cheques to Mike Duffy.

  25. What a piece of work is that woman Raj, whatever, is. It looked like even Anderson wasn’t too pleased with her running off at the mouth, she couldn’t seem to stop herself. CBC will give her all the time she wants, it’s truthers they need to help them get over this shocking finding to blow their dirty game out of the water and into the sewer where it belongs.

  26. 3500 articles over less than three years works out to three a day EVERY day.
    That maher et al wrote that many is disturbing. That the citizen published and other biased outlets (liberal owned national newswatch) echoed ALL of them is even more disturbing.

  27. File this under – scandal mongering, milking a rumor and malicious innuendo – all genetic traits of the Canukistani Journo-list, if they loose a job here they can always get employment in North Korea.

  28. It took us from 1993 to 2006 to rid us of the last remnants of the Red Tories and place a Conservative government in power. Now they all want to be Red Tories again. Why don’t the Marxists just screw off to the wilderness of the Liberal Party and leave the Conservatives alone. The day Kim Campbell brought in gun control was the last time I ever considered voting Progressive Conservative.
    The Conservatives take all the bad press despite Canadians overwhelmingly wanting voter ID in elections. Then they changed at the last minute. I am not sure about the shades of pink appearing in the Conservative ranks.

  29. From the Ottawa Citizen commentary page comes this richly ironic piece about ethics of awarding the Pulitzer Prize to 2 newspapers for printing stories based on purloined documents from Edward Snowden.
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/ethics+Pulitzer/9775036/story.html
    Most of M&M stories were based on leaks from Elections Canada, yet M Adam sees no parallel, he states:
    “We don’t have a Canadian parallel, but does it really matter whether the source is a thief or traitor, when the end product turned out to be so enormously revealing and important?”
    Well not obviously to the Citizen, bur others might think it matters a great deal.

  30. Makes you wonder if their employer, the Ottawa Citizen, gave them orders to go after this as a project to get the Conservatives at all costs.

  31. The very day Stephane “carbon tax” Dione was elected federal Liberal leader, “Special Ed Stelmach” assumed leadership of the Alberta Tories. We all know what huge successes they both were. Then there was Ignatief and his Alberta counterpart, Redford. Two more real winners. Now Prentice is apparently considering a run at the Alberta leadership. Another parallel one might draw here is Kim Campbell. Remember her? As for (anyone) replacing Harper in the near term, ain’t gonna happen, especially not a red Tory…remember Joe Who?

  32. I don’t think Prentice is fool enough to try and save the PC’s in Alberta. It’s over for them and not a minute too soon.
    Harper will stick around for the election next year. jr. mighta peaked too soon. His lack of depth has caught on with Canadians and they sense a hollow suit there. Baring anything unforeseen Harper should be able to win a second majority.

  33. I have just written to the Michener Awards folks asking them to retract the awards granted in error in order to protect the integrity of the awards and the honour of our former GG.

  34. The CBC are like girls in Middle schools who write love letters to themselves (These days e-mails). Telling them how wonderful they are. Romantic pleas from an adolescents fantasy world. To lesson the pain of being the one left out.
    The old syphilitic Lady of the night, just wants once more to be held, than told how wonderful she is.
    That even a story that’s no story is meaningful.
    In the face of the barbarians who accuse them of political bias.A station with no customers using tax monies by the billions nightly disgorge its socialist propaganda.
    The Lords of the CBC can bask in the glow of award that means nothing. About a story that’s a ghost of feverish minds.
    Quite the accomplishment.

  35. In truth, Maher would write one or two new sentences and the rest was cut and paste from the same old story. As bad as the obvious political agenda was, the fact that there were SOO boring made it all even worse — same stuff repeated over and over again. I think the Citizen is slowly but surely collapsing.

  36. Ezra was bang-on, with one glaring exception, and it hurts his credibility – not as badly as some of the media people he touched on, but still . . .
    Levant was either dead wrong or intentionally misleading on the Maher and McGregor story counts. Maher, for example, did not write 1,057 robocalls stories. That would be humanly impossible – at least if the guy wants to sleep once in a while.
    I was curious about that astounding number, which implies an obsession that’s gone well beyond creepy, and checked the Informart database Levant got his information from. It shows the Ottawa Citizen published 121 bylined Maher stories mentioning robocalls from 2012 to now. That’s still a lot, but a thousand less than Ezra’s crediting him with.
    Because the Citizen is part of the Postmedia chain, several other papers have the option of running Maher’s story each day, and Ezra’s obviously including that in his count – in other words, if one Maher story runs in 10 papers, Ezra’s counting it as 10 stories. Various Postmedia websites can also run the story if they so choose, which again was presumably added to the count. But rather than letting us know that, Ezra left the impression Maher wrote, as one misled poster above notes, three robocalls story PER DAY. Uh, no.
    The media – Maher, McGregor, et al – come off badly in this one. Ezra’s great at exposing the follies in our system, but he needs to dispense with needless exaggeration. It’s not necessary. I hate it when the global warmies do it, and I hate it when our side does it, too.

  38. “The CBC are like girls in Middle schools who write love letters to themselves (These days e-mails).”
    On that note, is it just me or do most of the (predominantly female) CBC cub reporter staff look like they’re high school co-op students?

  39. Tyruscobb,
    Agree with you on the number of articles. Ezra was needlessly misleading by not spelling out that the number included the same article appearing in multiple publications.
    No need to exaggerate.

  41. Wytchywoman, not always!
    Although he milked the hell out of it, his takedown of Suzuki was largely fact-based and effective – AND entertaining.
    You can bet that the Sun’s and Suzuki’s lawyers went over the material with a fine tooth comb.

  42. Yes, the Georgia Peach makes a good point. Reporters are fixated on BIG numbers,the larger the better.
    At least Ezra didn’t equate the number of pages written to “football fields”. (The articles would cover eleventy football fields!)
    But no need to exaggerate.

  43. I once did a search of Omar Khadr on CBCs website, came up with over 1000 stories. once they get their hooks into something they sincerely believe in , in that case it was that dear Omar was a babyfaced 7 th grader unjustly accused by the big bad Bush, they go wild.
    a few days after he was convicted , the number of stories had been reduced to less than 50 ( Clearing the archives) as they slunk back into their collective depression
    I think CBCpravda reported maybe once that the lieberals came forward and admitted to robocalls
    Come on Mr. Harper , tear down this wall. one last stake in the heart of the lying CBC

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