Comments on The Burd Report: Two guest posts

Will the Pan-Am games be a stepping stone to anoth...

2009-11-13T11:42:01.043-05:00

Will the Pan-Am games be a stepping stone to another Olympic bid?

Where are the Bread not Circuses protesters that helped scuttle the last Olympic bid?

Deb, I don't think of myself as a right winger...

2009-11-13T07:25:50.459-05:00

Deb, I don't think of myself as a right winger, but I do support the Pan Am games for Toronto and area. However, the propaganda machinery you suggest is well-oiled.

The muckrakers have been chilled by the pc crowd a...

2009-11-11T18:46:31.397-05:00

The muckrakers have been chilled by the pc crowd and their human rights commission clones. Where is Foster Russell and his ilk now -- probably turning in his grave knowing how pathetic things are nowadays

Another link for Remembrance Day: The Currie Libe...

2009-11-11T15:02:00.547-05:00

Another link for Remembrance Day:

The Currie Libel Trial -- Part 2 of today's edition of The Current on CBC Radio. Here is Anna Maria Tremonti's lead for the story:

We started this segment with an editorial that was printed on the front page of the Port Hope Evening Guide on June 13th, 1927. World War One had been over for nine years. But it still managed to spark what would become one of the most sensational libel trials in Canadian history ... a courtroom battle that raised issues of responsibility and accountability in war that still resonate today.

Give a listen to the show.

The editor of The Port Hope Guide who wrote the editorial was called "a bit of a muckraker" on the show. Where are those muckrakers today?

So many cheered the news that CITY-TV, with a lowe...

2009-11-10T18:51:38.317-05:00

So many cheered the news that CITY-TV, with a lower power transmitter than other stations, was to be at the very top of the broadcast antenna on the CN Tower.

Nothing dollarable is safe.