BlogsCanada: E-GroupMulti-partisan political punditryThe Great Canadian Wish List- May 28, 2007 There is a new phenomenon out and about in the land. The Great Canadian Wish List is the brain child of my friend Taylor Gunn. He is the push behind the StudentVote movement in Canada as well. Launched today in cooperation with Facebook and the CBC it is an innovation to get us thinking and sharing, as citizens, our ideas about the state and status of our country. The Great Canadian Wish List is using the power of old time television, thank you CBC. Then it is married to the new..http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=5ff09611-28a8-49bc-8ec0-064e5099eb92 The New Practice of "Gutter" Journalism and the Rise of the Fascist State- May 6, 2007 Since the 911 attacks it seems that giant media outlets in America have progressively sunk to new lows of gutter commentary and racist slander. And the worst examples seem the most recent. In his nationally syndicated radio program, Neal Boortz recently compared the hair of a Black congresswoman to a, "Brillo pad factory." And on the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline program, Glenn Beck, recently challenged a Black Muslim congressman to prove he isn't the terrorist "enemy." Beck had...http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=cc182425-e867-4e92-9d9c-fe63bb5ce73e West Fraser and ForestEthics Square off on Caribou Habitat- May 2, 2007 The focus on the boreal forest is heating up again. This time it is a focus around the habitat of the Woodland Caribou and certain allegations being made by ForestEthics, an environmental NGO on YouTube. The allegations claim negative impacts on the Woodland Caribou due to forestry practices of West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. in Alberta and B.C. I have done some policy research work for the Alberta forest industry in 2005 focused on what the public expectations were around that industry sustaining..http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=63cf8c3d-7cd6-471f-8389-ad2e6b6538b1 |