Finances at CBC spelled h-o-c-k-e-y

The network will not divulge losses from this season’s NHL lockout, but the outlook is dark. CBC president Hubert Lacroix last week characterized the loss as ‘a cash flow challenge.’

In the case of Innocence of Muslims, Canadian media managed to be sensational and uninformative

Is poverty a subject for storytelling?

Storytelling is the artful manufacturing of myths geared to emotional impact. Reporting is the plain assembly of facts that depict reality.

TV attack ads are toxic, indispensable: really?

Canadians are assured electronic punches ‘work’ and are therefore justifiable. What if the claim was false? What if the Mother Of All Attack Ads that inspired the whole business was proven not only vicious but ineffectual?

Parliamentary press gallery should expel Chinese news agency Xinhua

The last thing Canadian journalism needs is ‘reporters’ who freelance as intelligence agents for Beijing.

Do Tories still ‘stand up for ordinary Canadians who work hard, pay their taxes and play by the rules’?

Four years later, media realize Obama’s just human

It’s an election year in the U.S. Reflecting on the 2008 campaign raises questions about the media’s integrity and coherent journalism.

Obama casts a spell over many opinionated Canadians, remains a strange phenomenon: Korski

Senate reform just around corner, Tories say, but Brown’s been at this for 30 years or so

Today ‘reform’ is narrowly redefined to mere term limits, meaning Conservative appointees would retire after nine years so more Conservatives could be recycled in their place.

Liddell, Olympian, is dead but not forgotten

Eric Liddell, who had a little-known Canadian connection, was the true-life 1924 Olympic medalist depicted in the Academy Award-winning Chariots of Fire.

In this summer of observances, is there no acclaim for Canada’s worst poet?

For James Gay, Canada’s worst poet, there is no plaque, no government distinction, no internet immortality. It is an oversight that should be corrected.

Anything can happen any time with this government

Senate security guards have a run-in with a Hill visitor

With whitewash in hand, we now commemorate 1812

Budget bill should be called the Lobbyists’ Bill, it’s a gift for oil and gas lobbyists

Drafted in secret, frog-marched on closure, its provisions hidden from voters in the last campaign, the bill reads like it was ghostwritten at the Calgary Petroleum Club. It puts Canada dead last among G8 countries in environmental protection.

Don’t forget old what’s-his-name

The Library of Parliament erased Charles Tupper, a Father of Confederation, from an online reference guide on prime ministers.

Odd but true story: when misfortune strikes two towns

Does no one see a problem in Elections Canada looking into Elections Canada?

Police must be relentless, fearless, and meticulous in pursuit of truth. Yet the nation’s vote police, Elections Canada, are short on all counts.

Toews makes it harder for prisoners to buy puzzles and prayer mats

Lougheed gets lionized as greatest premier of the era

So it is that 27 years after he left office, Alberta’s Peter Lougheed is praised lavishly by media.