Boges

Because that's what Good Friday is. You're seriously offended by that?

4-2 Start to the season. Could easily be undefeated. Starting pitching has been fantastic!

The CBC is acting like a petulant child over this. Instead of looking at their middle management to cut the fat they're cutting programming people might like and actually doing things that affect their mandate like trying to sell ads on one of their radio stations. BTW why does Newsworld get any public money? It's on cable so you have to pay a provider to receive it, it advertises and it competes with Sun News.

Oh so racial insensitivity: Bad. Voicing your support for a brutal dictator: Not as Bad.

What if the manager of the Mariners called Ichiro is nip?

She was the owner, it's not like she'd suspend herself.

Wow CBC has the hatchet out big time. http://www.toronto.com/article/722144?bn=1 Poor Mark Kelley.

You have the right to your opinion. But suspending Ozzie is clearly not illegal.

But if the remarks affect profitability of the company, said company should have the right to discipline him. Should Don Imus have sued because he was fired for calling a group of female basketball players "Nappy-headed Hoes"?

I'm not even talking about Human Rights Tribunals. I'm just talking about the subjective offensiveness of praising Castro. Someone in Little Havana and someone in Canada who loves Cuban cigars and visit Cuba on vacation will have differing views of the issue.

What if you can do both?

Are you calling Ozzie Guillen a sellout? You clearly don't follow beisbol?

We could also talk about the Masters issue here. They don't allow female members. That's discrimination too, but most people don't care, because it's the south and it's golf. It's all about the audience you are trying to appeal to. Remember the NPR broadcaster that got fired for saying Muslims make him nervous on a plane. You think if he worked for Fox News and said that he'd be fired? Time and place is what's important here, not the subjective importance of what he said from someone in Canada.

Would you say the same if he was white and said the KKK are good? Or saying homosexuality should be illegal? Remember when people freaked out because Rush Limbaugh said that activist who wanted her employer to fund her Birth Control a slut? You have the right to say what you want, but you don't have the right to avoid a negative reaction from your employer.

What if he had said that Hitler wasn't so bad? The team built their new stadium in little Havana and are hoping to gain support from a fan base that pretty much ignored them when they played in Fort Lauderdale. If you fled Cuba because of Fidel and the manager of a team that's trying to court your support came out in support of Fidel, wouldn't you be a bit PO'd?

I like how he dropped a cabinet minister blast. Wait the NDP have never been in power in Quebec? You mean he was a Liberal?!?!?!?!?

Awww shucks you've grown to know and love my compassionate conservatism? I'm blushing.

Such vitriol for peeble in the Rock. BTW regarding the ad. I can see the CPC attack ads already.

This millenial generation seem to have this whole "The world owes me something" attitude.

The Liberals demise can be attributed to many things. Adscam was a pretty significant scandal. I don't think the CPC has seen a scandal that can compare to that at this point. But more importantly the Alliance and PC's merged. Initially people leery of Stephen Harper but he's increased his support in each subsequent election.

Good job numbers are "minor" The economy trumps all. If the CPC balances the budget and unemployment is down no one is going to care about F-35's or Robocalls in Guelph. Had the figures showed Canada lost 80,000 jobs who would you be blaming. I personally don't attribute these things to governments, but many do. BTW the NDP's new leader making his first ad in French says a lot about where his priorities lie.

Canadian kids are lazy? Who knew!

Enjoy it, Whatever you believe. Just don't do what these guys did.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/05/nap-time-at-ttc Yeah like a machine can't do this job more effectively.

I read that 64% of the CBC's budget is from the Feds. Now I've been told none of the sports get gumint money. So Don Cherry's wages don't come from Ottawa. But I'd venture people like Strombo and Jian Ghomeshi's do. Astral's beef is that they're playing both sides of the game. If they want to be fully funded by the government then don't show ads. Like TVO, but now CBC 2 wants to compete with them in ad sales. I'm sure they still get some of their money from the government though. As I said it's an unfair advantage. The big problem with the CBC we don't know exactly where the government money goes. On how much of it actually goes to fulfilling their nebulous mandate.