Whither the CBC

CBC sign

Pierre Poilievre says he would defund the CBC. “I can’t wait to defund the CBC and sell off the headquarters for housing,” Poilievre posted on X this summer. I’d rate the CBC as neutral. As a left-winger I often find it too right-wing for my tastes – this is especially the case in news opinion…

An Exercise in Deception

US Federal Spending, per Scott Galloway

In his newsletter Scott Galloway writes the following: The only thing that’s passed for bipartisanship over the past four decades is reckless spending. Democrats want more social spending, Republicans want lower taxes. OK, let’s compromise — do both and fuck over our grandkids. He also writes: Let’s dispense with one of the most tired false…

Paying for News

s true that the news industry in Canada is suffering, but it’s not because of the search engines. It’s because of a failed business model that depends on tolls on data, paywalls, tracking and spyware, and content that privileged the perspective of corporations and the wealthy.

The Arc Reactor

Tory Shills

The Telegraph-Journal, an Irving spokespaper, says that nuclear is New Brunswick’s Next Billion Dollar Industry. Irving loyalist David W. Campbell, now of New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation, is involved. And there are Irving fingerprints all over this. This worries me more than the fact that it’s nuclear.

de Adder

The media in New Brunswick is not a free media. It is owned by, and speaks for, the Irvings. That’s has always been widely known but as time goes by the depth of the misdirection and deception has become more and more apparent.