As Canada's federal election is less than a month away, the CBC is now a full-fledged left-wing partisan mouthpiece. If you thought the BBC was bad, it has nothing on its bastardized clone. Canada's public broadcaster—despite its cute mandate to reflect the views of all Canadians—has devoted itself to mocking Conservative Leader Prime Minister Stephen … Continue reading The CBC’s Insolent Election Bias
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An Immodest Proposal for Helping Displaced Economic Migrants of the World by Relocating them All to Canada
The widely ridiculed Mother Canada statue planned for Nova Scotia's Cape Breton is going to be erected for the fallen Canadians of overseas conflicts. But it could very well be repurposed as our version of the Statue of Liberty; a welcoming beacon for the millions of displaced people scattered across the world. Mother Canada's outstretched … Continue reading An Immodest Proposal for Helping Displaced Economic Migrants of the World by Relocating them All to Canada
Trumped-up charges: The Donald and his friend Goliath
Trump's Bombastic Bomb # 1 Back in the middle of June, Donald Trump's announcement speech marked the first time there has been such an overblown hairy ado over a coiffure and rape since Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock satirized the frivolity of eighteenth-century high society in 1712. Trump's rape comments and wispy locks were … Continue reading Trumped-up charges: The Donald and his friend Goliath
Enough Bluster and Bluff on the Trial of Duff — the Media are Fit for a Cuff
Canadian media is stricken with garrison mentality. The twentieth-century literary critic Northrop Frye first coined the term to elucidate on a theme he noticed recurring in Canadian literature. Garrison mentality refers to the archetype of a small community preserving itself by demanding all inhabitants conform to the settlement's rigid sense of propriety (applicable to the … Continue reading Enough Bluster and Bluff on the Trial of Duff — the Media are Fit for a Cuff
CBC’s Impudent Prettification of the Niqab
Ever since Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared the niqab a symbol of an anti-women culture back in the middle of March, the mainstream media has been in a febrile hysteria. Never mind the modest concession asked for -- simply removing the blatantly patriarchal garb during the citizenship ceremony -- the mainstream media cried wolf. The … Continue reading CBC’s Impudent Prettification of the Niqab
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