Duane Bratt, Political Science Professor at Mount Royal University, came on my show to discuss the broader implications of Alberta NDP Premier Notley's attempt to block reporters from TheRebel.media from the legislature.
As he notes, given the evolving media landscape, "It's a problem that didn't exist two weeks ago."
WATCH my entire conversation with Duane Bratt HERE.
Back in reality, a 70% drop in the price of oil is the story.
bill Smith – " a large part of the population has morphed into bat-shit crazy beyond recognition"
The problem is the “echo chambers”, where extremists of various stripes go off into their corners and feed themselves mostly false interpretations of reality. The problem exists on both the left and the right. However, do not despair, that’s the internet, and quite a lot of people are still pretty sensible.
Mike Piesse – “33% approval and dropping faster than …”
A few percent of people who would have voted NDP otherwise voted Liberal. Sounds pretty stable to me.
Tony Benjamin – “The mainstream media also feeds the myth that conservatives are dangerous, radical, extremist and a threat to Canada”
Uhhh, would that be the same mainstream media that specifically endorsed the Conservatives in the last election?
Ellie Kay – " “HARM” was done here"
The site probably raked in additional tens of thousands in donations as a result of the scandal, and attracted significant attention, probably including new readership. It would be virtually impossible to prove that this was in any way damaging.
“Any transfer of Tax Payer Provincial Funds that the NDP is currently in control of transferred to the TheRebel.media is something that we should all support.”
As I suspected. Most of you folks only oppose government spending on media when it doesn’t say what you want it to say.
Please don’t think I watch the National or the CBC, I record the show on Thursdays to catch Rex. Well on fast forward to get to Rex, I avert my eyes lest I vomit at the sight of the tax-funded parasite Mansbridge and his tax-funded leftist cronies.
So far she’s tried to unionize farmers and now journalists.
Dear Diary;
Normally I like to give the impression that I enjoy fantasizing about a good cat-fight, but with that little dust-up going on in Alberta between Sheila and my left-winger what’s-her-name I could use a feel-good story going out there about this wonderful government and its natural benevolence towards the news media.
I don’t remember if I promised this or not, but in any event Hedy Fry (who’s in my cock-us) is going to chair some heritage committee thing for a study which will “stimulate definitive action” on the financial struggles of large national media outlets with regard to how lawmakers can help Canadian journalism survive.
Even her NDP critic, Pierre Nantel, said he welcomes the study and says, “it will be important in particular to see how the media is serving Canada’s linguistic minority communities” yes, we all know who he really means by that, (but shhh. mum’s the word).
How could anyone support this NDP nightmare?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-18/jobless-benefits-claims-double-canadas-dying-oil-patch-construction-jobs-plunge-84
Good job Notley you piece of shit.
What a waste of government resources, but the dirty pig Notley doesn’t care.
Hope that next cigarette kills you Notley.
I saw this first-hand… I believed Canada was fairly normal, not very left or right, very stable… I go away for a decade, then come back… to my shock, a large part of the population has morphed into bat-shit crazy beyond recognition.
It looks if this lefty insanity increases any more, we have peaked and now collapsing… in Rome, it was drinking leaded water, in Canada it is drinking orange or green kool aid, or red iced tea….
It looks to me that Canada is just entering its obama period now… I can predict in 2019, or 2023 at the latest, we will have something akin to Sander / Trump… maybe we’ll have O’leary and some currently unknown commie.
I see us at a cross-roads, but still not too late to get things back on track.
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