Jacked Up: Raitt-Gate
So the opposition want Lisa Raitt to resign over the fact that secret documents were left at CTV for almost a week. I can see the rationale, especially since Harper himself said that cabinet ministers...
View ArticleLeftist Jab: CTV Quebec City Bureau Chief Kai Nagata Quits: Rips TV Journalism
In what is the most spectacular long blog post I've read from a TV personality ever, former Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata explains why he quit his job.This came to my attention via Fagstein's...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The State of Journalism
Thanks to Dr. Dawg for posting this link to an essay by Kai Nagata, who writes about why he recently quit his job as a reporter for CTV. His observations about the current state of television...
View ArticleArt Threat: CTV’s Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata tells why he quit his job
Kai Nagata was CTV’s bureau chief in Quebec City at 24 years of age. That was until he left the world of centrist journalism earlier this week and revealed his reasons and his criticisms of the state...
View ArticleCTV: Now Reporting Breaking News From July 2010!
Everyone has known about this for a long time. I have been out of the country for three years, and out of Ottawa for the better part of eight years, and I knew. There is no excuse, none, for failing...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Top General Nails CTV Reporter as Harper Mule
Oh, this is juicy. Chief of Defence Staff, General Walt Natynczyk saw the Harper government’s hand at work when CTV reporter Bob Fife got his hands on flight logs showing the general had used an...
View Articlecmkl: Cut staff but not services? That’s unpossible
Now when I was a journalist, if someone made an assertion as daft as the one above, I would have left it out of the story just because it made no sense. But if you’re CTV, you apparently leave it as...
View ArticleDon Martin woes: When telling Dimitri Soudas and Bell boss to “go fuck...
Don Martin: badass I would have loved to been a fly on the glass. I wonder how many free speech warriors from the right will race to Don Martin’s defence? Don Martin, the new Canadian hero. Speaking...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: VikiLeaks30: A Little Deserved Contempt
I enjoyed all three of the videos that play in succession on this CTV page. Kady live blogging in the background is amusing. I supposed most people get funny facial expressions while they are writing,...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Green Party of Sask AGM ; Hot Wind
I helped out at the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s AGM this year. It’s the first Green anything AGM I’ve been to. I’ve previously been to a Sask Liberal leadership convention as a member a decade ago,...
View Articlecalgaryliberal.com: Harvey Locke (Calgary-Centre Liberal candidate) on CTV
Harvey Locke was on Don Martin’s Power Play last night talking about his campaign in Calgary-Centre. Click here to watch the clip!
View ArticleThe Ranting Canadian: CTV: Toronto sets warm weather record, Manitoba digs...
CTV: Toronto sets warm weather record, Manitoba digs out from storm : This weekend, Toronto and other areas of southern Ontario set all-time high records for temperatures in January. In response,...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Two polls show how, and maybe why, Alberta’s Tory coalition is...
Weakened but still standing: The mighty Tory edifice. Don’t panic. This is a metaphor! Below: Alberta Premier Alison Redford. It’s interesting to juxtapose the results of two new polls on related but...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: A Little Something For Your Friday Consideration
We are about to go out exploring downtown Edmonton, so just a little something for your viewing pleasure today. It might be useful to bear in mind the context within which this should be viewed, the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Campaign Dairy Volume 3: My website arrives
Here’s a peek at the interior of DavidClimenhaga.ca – my campaign website. Below: Yours Truly, looking serious. It’s about the point in a campaign where voters start paying attention to who the...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: If the Prime Minister Obstructs Justice, Isn’t...
CTV reports the following: The Prime Minister’s Office has been withholding from the RCMP an email about the $90,000 cheque Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff wrote to Sen. Mike Duffy… RCMP...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: CBSC Dings CBC
From the release: Ottawa, August 7, 2013 – The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning news reports broadcast on CTV News Channel on February 25, 2013. Two...
View ArticleIn This Corner: It’s TV’s golden age … except in Canada.
There is no doubt that we are living in a golden age of television. Once looked down upon as a lesser form of entertainment in relation to the lordly world of the ‘cinema’, television has now usurped...
View ArticlePushed to the Left and Loving It: Will Mike Duffy’s Chickens Come Home to...
“Because my family has no money, I’ve decided to become a prostitute. That’s right, I’m going into politics. ” ― Jarod Kintz, The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You During...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: CBC Wrecks Another Debate #elxn42
I’ve long called for More Debates, Not Fewer Debaters, and CBC again disappoints. Not much watchdog press left in Canada. No wonder people reject mainstream journalism for real reporting online.#cbc...
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