The Province Newspaper: Mattress Ads as News
So CanWest’s imperial media used to own 1/3 of the free Metro daily paper in Vancouver. They have clearly learned something from Metro‘s tendency to skip any actual news on the front page and just run an ad because today, The Province decided to mostly skip any news [real, soft or nearly] and run a [...]
The Province Newspaper Flexes its Fear-Mongering Muscle Again
In their tradition of tabloid, sensationalist pseudo-journalism, The Province newspaper in Vancouver, pablum flagship of the CanWest media domination in town, described the Pemberton rock festival as “Rock ‘N’ Roll ‘N’ Chaos.” Astonishing, this chaos. CTV news tonight said the RCMP kicked out a small number of people from the event over the weekend, considering [...]
Our Precarious Neoliberal World
Canada22′s 2008 Canada Day message spoke of $140 barrels of oil and $1.50 litres of gas. This week we have seen more evidence of our precarious economy making us think about how growth-based capitalism is fundamentally toxic and cancerous to our planet and our society. On Tuesday this week we saw Joseph Stiglitz, former chief [...]
Canada22: Who Will We Be Over the Next 7 Generations?
There are cracks in Canada’s maple leaf. If you look closely you can see that it is a vibrant symbol, but it is drying and decaying under assaults on its cohesion. And today, Canada Day 2008, on our nation’s 141st birthday, we should take stock. A barrel of oil broke $140 today and gasoline in [...]
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