Cavoukian [Raffi] said he hopes people tune out Cherry’s first-intermission segment during today’s Leafs-Canucks tilt as a statement to try to stop the current rash of concussions and eliminate fighting from the game.
Raffi’s music gives me post-concussion symptoms.
I know P.M. Harper is a hockey fan but if the Conservatives really want to make a $4 Billion dent in the deficit, they are going to need to change their tune on the biggest waste of taxpayer dollars.
This is not good news for fiscal conservatives.
Conservative Heritage Minister James Moore says his government believes in the CBC as a key cultural institution and has no plans to cut its funding following his party’s recent electoral victory.
“We believe in the national public broadcaster. We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC. That is our platform and we have said that before and we will commit to that,” Moore told CBC News in Vancouver on Tuesday morning.
As Kate says at SDA, “Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.”
It is now with great happiness, I congratulate Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his excellent win tonight.
This is the results of the BRINW poll I was running over the last number of months. Conservatives have spoken and have given him the majority he asked for. Now it is time for him to deliver that badly needed reform.
52% – Scrap the CBC
32% – Kill the HRCs
10% – Lower Taxes
The other 6% was for other and most people wrote in “All of the Above.”
Goodbye Iggy. Goodbye Bloc. Layton, you can ask your question first now. Harper actually doesn’t need to answer.*
* Heard on CBC.
So, if you are on the CBC Vote Compass, and you keep taking it but you give different answers each time, of course it thinks you are a Liberal.
It actually thinks you are Michael Ignatieff!
Here are my thoughts on heading to the polls this spring.
I don’t mind having the opportunity to make my voice heard officially. I just wish I was able to vote for a fiscally conservative party rather than the 1990 Liberals.
If the Conservative party cannot get a majority in this election with the cast of characters currently leading the opposition parties, then it is purely due to the Conservatives not being conservative.
The Liberals have no message, other than they aren’t led by Harper. The NDP says the same things as always so they’ll get their usual group of crazies. The Bloc will promise to leave Canada, or at least take the rest of Canada’s money but because they say it in French, no-one will notice.
So anyone that realizes that we cannot afford to continue burning money in the CBC bonfire can only vote for the Conservatives, hoping that we get a majority and pleading that there actually is a secret agenda in place so that we can start cutting the waste.
Do we need a tea party in Canada? No, we had the Reform party. We just need a Conservative party that acts like it is actually conservative.
Stephen Harper says Canada will stand against “anti-Israel rhetoric” at international organizations like the United Nations as long as he is prime minister — “whatever the cost.”
Ignatieff doesn’t get it.
The Opposition leader also levelled criticism at Harper for Canada’s failure to win a temporary seat on the UN Security Council, saying it was not a “moral victory” to lose out on a position from which Canada could have defended Israel on the international stage.
“If Canada wishes to defend Israel against Iran, as it should, it would have been nice to be on the UN Security Council,” Ignatieff said.
So Ignatieff is suggesting that Harper should not support Israel because we don’t get to be in a symbolic role at the UN with the other Israel haters? Or is he saying we should flip-flop between being a Israel supporter when we have a seat and a hater when we don’t?
The head of Iran’s soccer federation issued a public apology and a member of his staff resigned after the federation mistakenly sent a New Year’s greeting to its counterpart in Israel, Iranian officials announced Sunday.
There are dozens of editors working overtime at the CBC, trying to figure out how to blame this on George W Bush.
It is an inconvenient movie in an inconvenient location. I can hear it, I can see the remote from where I am sitting, but I can’t get up the desire to go and turn Al Gore off. Sure, no one is watching the TV but I only have so much energy to deal with myself.
I guess I’ll just have to wait for the snow to start reeking havoc with our power grid to have the TV turn off itself.
Don’t worry, I’m not listening to him anymore. I turned up my music.
Now, to continue my letter to the CBC to complain about the influence of American politicians on our National broadcaster. What about the Canadian content? We need more HOCKEY!
Reporting from inside _________ Airport where thousands of angry and frustrated travelers are stranded, this is __________ with ______ news. They aren’t getting the answers they need from Air Canada. _______ is trying to get from Montreal to Newfoundland. He gets put on a flight… it is cancelled, repeat.
Every year, the same old news broadcasters send out the same old reporters to cover the same old story. Let me help with some advice.
If you are in Canada, it isn’t unexpected to be stranded in an airport during a blizzard in December. It is also very normal for Air Canada to suck. Why in the world is that news?
Stephen Taylor pointed his readers to The Tea Makers blog post for today which talked about the underlying reason behind the decision to pick an old movie over a key CFL game.
Have you ever watched CBC-TV and said to yourself “WTF?”
Or listened to CBC Radio. Or watched CBC Newsworld. Next time it happens look at the calendar and you’ll find that it’s July or August. Probably August.
Because the summertime is when the A-Team takes a much-needed vacation and leaves the reigns to the B-Team, a rag-tag band of not ready for prime-timers who finally get their chance to be in charge. This happens from the top down, from the “on-air personalities” to the lady who doles out the money through the petty cash wicket.
OK, let me get this straight. Everyone that knows what they’re doing goes on holidays at the same time? Interesting. I think it’s time to shut the CBC down for the summer then so its not complete morons making decisions in the absence of the incomplete morons.
Better yet, just stop the government funding and see if the A Team is actually an A Team. My guess is that they would last about a week before the pink slips started flying.