33 Replies to “August 18, 2022: Reader Tips”

    1. There are many reasons why a person gets fired. In radio which is usually live it’s a single on air comment. They even have a term for it, ‘radioed’ – your fired.

      Lisa LaFlamme wasn’t radioed. She earned her firing. Was she toxic? Undoubtedly – too many sources allude to her attitude. Upper management had had enough of her. She was unceremoniously shown the door. No thanks for the last 35 years, nothing, get out, and we’ll take the flack. She thought she was bigger than her boss or his boss the corporation.

      The roll of the 11 o’clock news is a diminished one. Very few people under age 70 get their news this way. It matters not if you have a big celebrity news reader. LaFlamme was a big ticket item in a news room of little return. Slaphead Mansbridge was rumoured to be making a million dollars a year at the cbc 20 years ago. His news cast was typically in 3rd place in a 3 horse race.

      No ox is gored more severely than a media ox. When one of theirs is deemed to have been wronged they pull out all the stops. LaFlamme got fired, too bad. My guess is she had it coming. She’ll be replaced by someone who earns a third or less of what she pulled down and will deliver the same ratings in a shrinking market.

      1. They had Omar in place, it was a matter of time.

        Ab.– like real meat on the bone stuff. If I may, I’d add that her predecessors, Harvey Kirck, Lloyd Robertson had more of an old-school journalists’ style. They read the news and then wished viewers a good night. Lisa usually liked to finish her broadcast with her personal thoughts, albeit briefly, about what she last broadcasted. Others, like Sandi Rinaldo and Omar Sachedina are more busness-like, in the style of Harvey and Lloyd.

        In my opinion, Lisa looked like she did a prescription or something before her broadcast. Her eyes looked less deeply strung-out when she did an out-of-town broadcast. Her vid about leaving was unnecessary and self-serving, people saw she looked dismayed at her firing. Will she write a tell all book now? Time will tell, or maybe she will pop up on CBC in some talk show like TAKE 30. Maybe, even as the future G.G. Ha. She’ll show them.

        P.S.
        Cable pkg here enables me to watch the nightly news at 8 pm MT. Oh the horror at 11pm!

        1. NR

          I haven’t owned a television since 1992 hence my comment about the 11 o’clock news haha.

          There is more to this story…but who cares? If she was toxic it will come out.

          Bell media obviously had enough of Lisa LaFlamme. They fired her and her buddy producer. They are prepared for the consequences of which there will be none.

  1. Now, here’s the real key to “Liberty Valance.” When you watch it the second time, the opening scene packs an emotional wallop. When you see it the second time, you fully understand how heartbroken Hallie is as they steam towards their former home. If that doesn’t get you in the gut, you may be beyond redemption.
    About fifteen years ago was the perfect time to have done a remake of “Liberty Valance.” Tom Hanks as Rance Stoddard, Bruce Willis as Tom Doniphon, Kurt Russell as Liberty, Denzel Washington as Pompey, and Laura Linney as Hallie. It could have been epic.

    1. Sometimes you can be fooled by who the stars are in a movie. I remember my Western loving self rushing to the movie house to see a new western starring Clint Eastwood (the man with no name) and Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance) called Paint Your Wagon. Boy was I pissed.

      1. I was also disappointed in that movie, but for a different reason: I was an aficionado of Broadway musicals – my parents had a record collection including “Paint Your Wagon”, and I looked forward to finally seeing the play. The movie was in no way like the Broadway show, much to my disappointment, but Harve Presnell’s rendition of “They Call the Wind Moriah” still bring gives me goosebumps.

  2. What a piece of garbage BBCNews app is! 🙁 Top news today is “Cheney: Republicans embraced Trump personality cult”. Of course didn’t read it but I was thinking about the logic of those who decided to publish this crap. So Liz was defeated big time, why would anything she says now would be relevant in any shape or form? Plus, have right in the title not a heartfelt retrospective, not a decent concession but a shameless attack on Repbs + Trump.

    1. Yeah, it’s his ‘personality’ that made him popular. Not sure if anyone posted anything related to that Atlantic article exclaiming the rosary is now a hate symbol. Turns out that queer little peckerhead who wrote it is from Toronto and received over a quarter million dollars from the government of Canada to make up stuff about all the hate on the internet.

  3. “Liberty Valance” sits alongside “The Searchers” as examples of the classic theme that Men of Violence are needed to create civilisation out of chaos… a civilisation that often has no place for them.

    The same “rough men” who ” stand ready in the night”, in the well-known quote by Orwell and the “uniforms that guard you while you sleep” as Kipling wrote.

    We see the same thing today, the failure to adequately care for our military veterans, while disparaging the causes for which they fought. A yearly parade is inadequate.

  4. Just Right 753

    Oh Canada!
    Farewell the peaceful kingdom

    Just Right 753 – April 7, 2022

    In 1995, Canadian historian Joe C.W. Armstrong published his monumental work: Farewell the Peaceful Kingdom – The Seduction and Rape of Canada, 1963 to 1994. In retrospect, it is an alarming account of Canadian politics made all the more so by its chilling 1995 prediction perfectly describing the Canada of 2022 and beyond.

    Consider what was written on page 2 of the introductory chapter: “Increasingly it is evident that technocrats will be the only ones with great wealth while the bulk of humankind sinks to a level of slavery previously unknown. In his trenchant work Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman writes:

    “’It is to be expected that the winners will encourage the losers to be enthusiastic about computer technology. They will tell them that their lives will be conducted more efficiently. But discreetly they neglect to say from whose point of view the efficiency is warranted or what might be its costs…’”

    Although there was no way for anyone in 1995 to be aware of terms like ‘Agenda 2020’ or the ‘Great Re-set,’ we have already witnessed the technocratic elite encourage us to be enthusiastic about “owning nothing and being happy.” And they’ve also announced their high-tech plans to conduct our lives more efficiently via their patented injections and ‘vax’ passports.

    Even then, it was certainly not a flattering picture of Canada that Armstrong presented in 1995. For example:

    “Canada is not a democracy. It is nearly a totalitarian society, frighteningly close to a dictatorship. The proof is overwhelming.”

    “Canadian sovereignty no longer exists.”

    “Canada’s demise is certain. There is so little love of individual freedom among the majority of her citizens that her destruction is unavoidable now. Freedom is never debated here. It is taken as a given. That assumption alone will destroy the country.”

    “After ten years of struggle to document what has happened, I find myself far more disillusioned with the general populace than I am with Canada’s leaders.”

    Every one of these observations applies to Canada in 2022.

    While Armstrong did describe the necessary condition to preserve freedom, (“it can only exist in the heart and soul of each citizen devoted to preserving it”) he lamented that “most people in this society have no idea what personal freedom is…”

    If Armstrong’s analysis of the state of the Canadian nation is anywhere near as accurate as were his predictions, Canadians fighting for freedom today may be fighting for a lost cause – mainly because they’re outnumbered by Canadians fighting against freedom. Under these circumstances, Canada’s state of tyranny is a done deal and has been so literally for decades, thanks to Canadians themselves.

    But the plot thickens when one realizes that this state of affairs is not uniquely Canadian, but global.

    Of course, no matter the past, history is always in the making. For those who value freedom, the challenge is to culture a love of freedom that will find its way into the hearts and souls of others who have no idea what personal freedom is – by first placing it into their minds.

    Maybe then the country could be put on a path that is Just Right, assuming it isn’t too late already.

    https://www.justrightmedia.org/blog/archives/12786

  5. The use of Fwench is in decline across the land including quebek. This after 60 years of mandatory fwench in every school in the country and favourable emigration practices in quebek that select future residents from fwench speaking countries like Haiti.

    A failed experiment and one that raises a huge flag. All of this points to the decline of quebek in the federation. The policies of quebek only exacerbate the decreasing influence of quebek. They are the frog in the pot.

    1. Or just more proof?
      Anything Government touches,claims to support,turns to crap.
      In retrospect we in the West should have done everything Quebec did,demanding Provincial Dominion.
      The comedy of Canada is in legislating that “French Language must be used” then speaking the pathos of Quebec..
      Kinda leaves one laughing.
      For legally one could insist anything outside Common French,as spoken in France,is improper use of said laws.

    2. And it will always be a big waste of money…the Anglos of Quebec continue to get the raw end of the stick.

    1. Calgary, Alberta this afternoon…
      was a dry 100.4° F in back range yonder, that’s 38°C, in our semi-desert climate. Yihaw! Sizzle!

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