“I hear what I think are explosions at the Ford dealership,” posted one person Tweeting live from Slave Lake.
“The cars are blowing up, one by one.”
[…]
Frustration about information flow also started to build as the evening television newscast came and went with nary a mention from our national broadcasters. In this community’s moment of greatest need, CBC was sleeping.
I’m with Bob – take the money to rebuild Slave Lake out of the CBC budget.
They were still getting it translated into 8 indian dialects.
If it wasn’t Harper’s fault, or Jack didn’t save some kittens…..
Are they doing a special on necrophilia? That is the CBC pattern. When Kelowna was burning a few years ago that is what they were doing.
Folks, give CBC a break. There was no fire in Toronto. In fact you couldn’t even see smoke from Toronto. How were they supposed to know?
Of course, all the national media is focussed on the real important tragedy. The death of the Liberal Party.
Priorities.
CTV had a brief piece on the Slave Lake fire, it served as a segue to a longer story on the Peace River oilspill.
The people at the CBC have an aversion to using the word ‘slave’. It’s politically incorrect and may imply that Negroes inhabit Northern Alberta which would confuse their naive audience.
It is so complicated being an elite Liberal. You just can’t say anything.
But you can watch Hockey Night in Canada in Punjabi, dontcha know?
You’d think CBC would jump at the chance. Covering the flood situation in Manitoba was causing so much cognitive dissonance, leftie heads were exploding. After all global warming is supposed to cause droughts. Drs. Fruitfly and MacDonald told us so.
The Harper gov’t should take half a billion from CBC’s budget, give it to CTV to cover Canada’s remote communities.
CBC spokesman this morning
But but but. Quebec. Liberal. Jack Layton.
Lactating mothers, Harper regime. Heather Mallick
But universal daycare, pay for profit healthcare
But but Toronto maple leafs rebuilding year number 43
Arts cutbacks cause global warming and fires
Great Slave Lake probably all voted Con, plus they all work for Dirty Oil and eeeevile Big Lumber.
Is there any reason CBC would care what happened to such enemies of the state? I mean, televising CBC employees handing out mithai burfi and dancing on Front Street might be, I don’t know, a little unseemly?
CBC is busy creaming its collective pants over the Quebec recount which gave Vlad Layton another seat.
And Slutwalk. Don’t forget Slutwalk.
Now don’t be too hard on the CBC…..I mean they only get $1 billion plus per year from taxpayers for their operation. They probably are having trouble getting an Antonov An-225 (they wouldn’t use a US aircraft you understand….they wouldn’t want to be associated with the capitalists and imperialists south of the border) to transport their equipment and staff to the area.
Plus that was Alberta burning, just like 9-11, those b*st#rds had it coming!
The ceeb will do an in-depth piece with a carefully balanced panel of left, hard-left, and ecotard members. They will conclude that these western troglodytes are guilty of the heinous crime of emitting vast amounts of unregulated carbon.
Then they will resolve the gaia desecrators should be fined, and taxed more, and the money should go to their moral superiors.
That will put the carbon spill out.
phantom – Great Slave is in the NWT.
It was the weekend. How many non English speaking interns would it have taken to do a story?
I’m sure they got right on it after the union rate drive to start work Monday morning.
Not to make light of such a terrible situation, but if you really wanted to get the CBC there to report on it, tell them Stephen Harper burned down the local abortion clinic.
“The people at the CBC have an aversion to using the word ‘slave’.”
Posted by: Abe Froman at May 16, 2011 10:04 AM
My wife, frustrated at the lack of news coverage of the fire on ANY of Bell TV channels, was following the comments flowing from facebook. One of the comments, its’ avatar that of a young black woman, stated Slave Lake deserved to burn, having the word Slave in its’ name as the reason. Obviousl ignorant of the Dene Tribe, yet willing to deal the race card, sad.
oops, obviously ignorant of the Dene Tha
The CBC is trying to figure out how to make this a story about “global warming”. That takes time. They have to find our where Soozooki is so that he can pontificate on the matter.
Twitter, not facebook, sheesh.
Best comment goes to Waterhouse @ 1035
And in the comments of the CBC story up now, you get dreck like this:
“Record flooding, record wildfires, and yet cbc feels compelled to censor comments pointing to the obvious connection to global warming and Alberta’s complicity in it.
I guess political correctness is more important than the survival of our planet.
Tra la la la la….let’s all pretend like nothing’s wrong and this is perfectly normal.
Nothing to see here folks. Move along.”
Pathetic.
Bear, Slave Lake is in Alberta, North – west of Edmonton up highway 44. Sheesh – Easterners!
There are two places that African Americans can whine about. Slave Lake is in Alberta. Great Slave Lake is in NWT. Both are named after the Indian tribe, the Slavey. Let the American Blacks take up their grievance with them.
Thanks for doing the CBC’s job mandate (reporting ‘news’ for all regions of Canada) once again Kate. The CBC has never fulfilled any ‘mandate’ – they sprew propaganda – soviet style. Canadian taxpayers are fools for backing such a seedy batch of has beens. This tragic fire in Slave Lake is not in an area of any interest to CBC; hence it is a non event. I do think that Bob’s idea is a good one.
The CBC’s lack of coverage should provide adequate justification for a severe budget cut.
Slave Lake is a town in northern Alberta. Great Slave Lake is a body of water in the NWT. Double sheesh. (from an easterner with a map)
“There are two places that African Americans can whine about. Slave Lake is in Alberta. Great Slave Lake is in NWT. Both are named after the Indian tribe, the Slavey. Let the American Blacks take up their grievance with them.
Posted by: Louise at May 16, 2011 12:38 PM”
Louise has it right,except that Great Slave Lake has the town of Yellowknife on its northern shore,so named for the Deh-Cho,or Yellowknives in English.The Dene live along the Mackenzie up to Norman Wells,where the Quichwan live. Masi Chow.
And some kid on Twitter “thought” they heard cars blowing up? They call it Twitter for a reason!
@Mikewa – I’m from Alberta, I have relatives that “lived” in Slave Lake, which is located on LESSER SLAVE LAKE and it’s nowhere near GREAT SLAVE LAKE which is what the phantom referenced.
Maybe try a map next time, or at least pay attention in grade 4 geography next time you hit the school.
“See d). Nice try, luser.”
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what’s a luser?
anyway, it’s all in the hands of God and He knows who deserves to get burned out. He’s very very fond of flames you know.
heh heh heh.
‘tommy douglas not dead enough’
‘slave lake AB not turned to ash enough’
were the exploding cars hybrids? you right wingers should be please about that.
Getting “news” to the people who pay for it 16 hours late and too late to do any good is “close enough for government work”.
Now the government urgently needs to assess the utility of such “news”.
Free enterprise will rebuild everything that was there, and more, in a year.
Unlike Tommy Douglas (may his death inspire all he stood for to die) style statist solutions, where rebuilding would span twenty years, or more.
Thought I’d check out the Canoe website…
Apparently the new hires came from the Ceeb – not a word about the tragedy in Slave Lake.
the bear said: “phantom – Great Slave is in the NWT.”
Dude, I’m channeling CBC here. Something bad happened to Somewhere In The West, they are having a party and handing out candy.
Besides, the NWT was claimed by Denmark wasn’t it?
In my own defense, I may not know where the town of Slave Lake is but I do know where the CBC building is on Front Street.
And really, of the two which is more important to Canada? Lets face it, the whole town of Slave Lake is burning down and people in Toronto don’t even know (or care half a damn) about it. If 250 Front St. burned down, you can bet the people in Slave Lake wouldn’t stop hearing about it for weeks.
Its like Kate says. A bunch of sluts go for a walk in Toronto because some mean policeman called them sluts, that’s an international viral meme, baby. A town burns down in Dirty Oil Alberta, meh.
/sarc (in case anyone was thinking I’m serious)
mmmm, nope, this one
http://twitter.com/#!/kady
I’ve been following news about Slave Lake through the Weather Channel as well as on this blog. Someone tell me why the CBC is necessary?
Re: above. Once the playoffs are over, of course. 🙂
snappy dresser at 1:48 PM: “you right wingers”
That would make a great name for a blog. Or better yet – “we right wingers”.
It could be the Canadian answer to Pajamas Media.
CBC has its priorities: “Little Mosque on the Prairie” trumps “Big Fire on the Prairie”
CBC is still asleep. This is happening and you have to go to Oz to find it:
Canadian and British warships patrolling waters off Libya beat back a boat attack on the port of Misrata hours after the city’s airport fell to rebels, NATO officials said.
The Canadian frigate HMCS Charlottetown and British destroyer HMS Liverpool came together with a French gunboat not under NATO command to fight off the advance by forces backing Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, the military alliance said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/nato-ships-join-port-battle-20110513-1em4k.html#ixzz1MZ4KSPjG
Heard that whiny,snivelling voice of cbc’s Briar Stewart on radio,asking some of the evacuees if they were ‘satisfied’ how this was all handled..the implication being,the RCMP screwed up,the Gov’t screwed up..and will that evil Harper do enough to fix this.
What Bob said.
CBC is interested only in reporting on its favourite poster children and ignoring or denigrating what it opposes.
Yay! good one Kate!