Steven Guilbeault has been taking the temperature of the Liberal Party caucus as calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation mount.
The environment minister was in Toronto this week to meet with Members of Parliament who were awestruck by Monday’s upset defeat in the Toronto–St Paul’s byelection. He spent Thursday working the phones with Liberals across the country trying to take stock of how bad things really are…
UPDATE: Here’s the archived version thanks to reader ADD.
@jez247: So let me get this straight. The journalists who provide stories to @BBCNews and @SkyNews and others which demonise Israel often without any evidence, are also the same people holding hostages. You couldn’t make it up.
Read the whole thing.
Macdonald-Laurier Institute- The Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism
Today the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) unveiled The Ottawa Declaration; a public call by some of Canada’s leading independent news and current affairs outlets for the media industry to reject the federal government’s payroll subsidies for journalism.
Since the 2019 federal budget, the government has established multiple programs for digital news outlets to subsidize their journalism. The majority of this support has taken the form of payroll subsidies totalling some $489 million in budgeted funds. Currently, most private digital news outlets can claim up to $30,000 in payroll subsidies for every journalist they employ. With the implementation of The Online News Act (C-18) payroll support could conceivably double and see half or more of the salaries of most journalists working in Canada for private digital news outlets paid for by government coordinated subsidies.
“Just say no”. An extremely good thread by James Lindsay;
Woke Marxists use a suite of techniques that are called “entryism” (the art of entering) to infiltrate institutions and take them over from within.
There are five basic stages in this model of infiltration:
1) Demand access.
2) Demand accommodation.
3) Demand a seat at the table (demand power).
4) Demand to run the table (demand controlling power).
5) Demand to run the room (demand total power).
It’s not just woke takeovers — the same dynamic is used to take over organizations by all kinds of actors.
The audio version is here.
LIES BY OMISSION: The New York Times and other major media outlets had sixteen years to report on the restrictions they faced in reporting in Hamas-controlled Gaza. Crickets.
Related: Things you’ll never see on the @CBC.
Zerohedge; Project Veritas Implodes Six Months After Firing James O’Keefe
Project Veritas has reportedly imploded roughly six months after bad actors infiltrated the undercover whistleblower organization and orchestrated the ouster of founder James O’Keefe.
Earlier Thursday, the Project Veritas X account tweeted: “SOS Hannah Giles just fired us all,” before it was quickly deleted. […][
“Since James quit, the donations dried up…the donations never resumed,” one source told the Post Millennial, adding “The board were desperate to bring Hannah on board because they thought it would be cute but the problem is she’s a charlatan and a fraud. Everything she’s ever done has been a failure and she lied to everyone claiming she had all these donors she could bring in.”
James O’Keefe, meanwhile, can be found here at his new venture, O’Keefe Media Group (OMG).
The best in #cdnmedia are unpredictable — they go where the evidence takes them. Then there are the suck-ups, looking for access, or the Order of Canada or, best of all, an appointment to the senate #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/Z7FYzIV6Xj
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) July 5, 2023
When they tell you who they are believe them.
Last Thursday, I sat in a studio in Newark for the above interview with Ben Shapiro. It was a wide-ranging and oddly friendly discussion between a former Breitbart staffer and the author of Andrew Breitbart’s mostly infamously obscene obituary, in which the fact that the interview could even happen at all was among the most interesting things about it. (Video at the link)
Get your mind out of the gutter.
New York Post- Biden’s new press secretary sparks conflict-of-interest concerns over relationship with CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux
The Haitian-born press pick gushed about her relationship with Malveaux in Jean-Pierre’s 2019 memoir, “Moving Forward.”
“Most of all, I want to say that every word of this book was written with love for my partner, Suzanne Malveaux, and our daughter, Soleil Malveaux Jean-Pierre. You are my life,” she wrote, also thanking “the Malveaux family.”
From the headlines we’re seeing these days, it’s as if Steve Bannon has taken over all the major media outlets…
Related: Psaki to leave Biden administration for post at MSNBC
Members of the Canadian obsolete media are upset over how the New York Times is covering what’s going on in Ottawa. For example… It all works unless you actually look at the pictures or videos plastered all over the internet.
NYT- Truckers Arrested at Gunpoint as Police Advance Against Ottawa Protest
NYT- Canada Live Updates: Police Clamp Down on Ottawa Protesters
All the news that’s fit to tweak.
National Post- Sean Connery’s James Bond was ‘basically’ a rapist in 1965 film, says director of No Time To Die
Finally got around to watching this one tonight. All the good things I’d heard about it where accurate. Very good movie.
How’s about already has.
From the Globe and Mail
I don’t want to alarm you, but you might like to know that the federal government is about to take over the media.
Perhaps you will think I am exaggerating. But before the spring is out, based on its own announced timeline, there won’t be a patch of grass on the media landscape – broadcasting or newspapers, digital or analog, curated or user-generated – that the government does not either regulate or subsidize or both. If takeover is not the word, what is?
Broadcasting, of course, fell to the state long ago. Every minute of every hour of every day of what is broadcast on Canadian radio and television is overseen by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), with its sprawling mandate to protect the public from material that is harmful, degrading or American. Though since much of the content it scrutinizes, classifies and regulates in such detail has already been put through the bureaucratic wringer at the front end via various subsidy councils, it hardly seems worth the effort.
See if this gets you past the firewall.
This one qualifies for the Die Hard award.
@JackPosobiec — Look at all the physical cognitive dissonance tells the AFL-CIO president gives in this clip. He knows how bad he screwed up backing Biden