So, you are convinced by the third endorsement of Harper?
The one in 2008? No, it does not convince me the Globe is particularly partisan by the standards of major newspapers.
Assuming you count the Toronto Sun as being a newspaper for grownups, there are four major dailies being published out of Toronto. The Globe and Mail is the LEAST partisan of the four.
All Harper knows how to do is attack.
Attack Trudeau. Is anyone else sick of attack ads on the third party leader when there is not even an election?
Attack Scientists. They’re not giving him the data he wants, so they must be attacked.
Attack Election officials. Tell experts that they don’t understand the reports THAT THEY WROTE THEMSELVES.
Attack Environmental non-profits by specifically ordering audits on them.
Attack Sheila Fraser, the former auditor general.
Attack Wynne for daring to bring a pension discussion into the Ontario election
Is it therefore surprising at all that he also attacks Supreme Court Chief Justice McLachlin? Attack is all he knows at this point.
Well, to be fair, maybe the Globe and Mail are not partisan; merely stupid or slow to learn.
We’re still alive! My plants, on the other hand…(well, I think they’re still alive, but after the -6 we’re supposed to get on Wednesday…) :mad:
So, PM Harper, eh? I’ll have to read the thread and catch up.
Replace “Ontario Liberals” with “Alberta Conservatives,” and we’ve got the same damned thing going on here.
If it wasn’t for you and Northern Piper, I’d never know what the hell was going on. 
A cruises-a-licious weekend of skiing. Life is good, despite Harper. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on for trying to smear McLachlin. The SCC is what protects us from the likes of him, and over the years McLachlin has proven herself to be unbiased, thoughtful and brilliant.
I agree with Rick. The Globe tends to report fairly. If anything, it’s a little left on social issues, a little right on economic/business issues. But only a very little in each case; and for the most part, I have found it to be a good go-to source for straight news, instead of a news-opinion mix.
The Star is unabashedly left-of-centre, as its Atkinson Principles indicate. The Sun was born out of the ashes of the Telegram–a respected, right-of-centre paper (much like the Star was left), but at some point, the Sun seems to have lost its way, and lurched further to the right than the Tely ever did; and dumbed things down, besides. And now that Izzy Asper’s gone, The National Post is still right-of-centre, but without “Israel Under Attack” news on every front page.
And Christie Blatchford shuttles around between all four, as the wind takes her, it seems.
And all of the available former CBA Presidents have come out in defence of the Chief Justice:
Harper’s disrespect for the Supreme Court harms the workings of government
This follows on an earlier comment from the current CBA President: Nadon spat between Harper, chief justice McLachlin called ‘disturbing’ - Head of Canadian Bar Association hopes PR battle a misunderstanding:
For shits and giggles, she should dissolve Parliament and take over as Commander in Chief the next time Johnston gets a head cold.
We aim to please!
Nope, I was wrong. Woke up to snow today. Guess I have to brush off the car again.
This is getting ridiculous!
So I have two bees in my bonnet at the moment. One is the fact that my bbq cover is under 5 cm of snow, again, this morning. The other has to do with the Alberta Gov’ts efforts to completely destroy the Alberta Teacher’s Association. I had the pleasure of listening to Thomas Lukaszuk describe how the PCs will enable non certified teachers to teach and grant them teaching certificates during the ASET AGM. I’ve also seen how documents that show they want teachers not to have Ed degrees, but allow two year teaching college diplomas that will be just as good! Additionally, the PCs want them to have to recertify, not by the ATA but a gov’t board, every 5 years and maintain a dossier. Teachers already have an assessment and standard of practice in place, so why re-invent the wheel other than to union bust and get by with cheaper labour?
Now I get the idea of maintaining currency as a professional but what other profession requires a recert every 5 years? Can you imagine the uproar if laywers had to re-write the bar every five years? Or doctors had to rewrite thier exams?
I am sooo glad my kids are almost done with the public ed system in this province. You can expect things to get a lot worse.
We’re putting our house on the market in two weeks - it would be really great if the flower beds that I spent five years working on could be green and lush for the showings, rather than under a foot of snow (or dead from being frozen). :mad:
As my brother-in-law so succinctly put it, why do we live in this fucking country? (I think I posted that before - I’m pretty sure I’ll post it again. )
The National Post is right wing, but intelligently so. The Toronto Sun is right wing in a lowest-common-denominator, rabble-rousing, populist manner.
To my eye, “partisanship” n a newspaper can take one of two forms; the paper can have clearly defined principles and an editorial viewpoint, as in fact the Star and Post do, and that’s fine. It can also twist the news and commentary and choose what stories to cover to suit that viewpoint, which is not fine. The Post used to do that but they’re not as bad as they used to be (MISSILE TRADE WAR? as a headline was not the paper’s shining moment) and the Star still does it, often to the extent of bordering on the deceptive. The Sun is so comically partisan it doesn’t really qualify as a newspaper for adults.
The Globe And Mail is in the latter sense by far the least partisan; they seem to make an honest effort to deliver an even series of facts.
As to Stephen Harper, he’s been in office too long and no longer knows how he’s being perceived. Time for him to go. Hopefully, like I said about Ontario, someone will run a good campaign against him.
The ultimate Rob Ford pix:
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-astonishing-new-video-leaked/
Speechless.
Pretty sure that’s a parody news site. Really, really hoping that it is.
Ah. Yes. Thankfully appears so.