BubberMiley

You'll never get the majority of people in this country who don't go to church to agree to give up the term "marriage."

How could criticizing their health care system possibly be construed as anti-Americanism? They pay more money per capita than we do (when you count insurance premiums--not just taxes), and yet 30% of their citizens have no coverage at all. Is criticizing the Canadian health care system anti-Canadian? Some would probably say so, but I disagree. That's just debate, not hate. There's a big difference between criticizing a political system and promoting hatred. Again, not wanting Canada to give up on its historical identity and become a Republic is nothing against the Americans. I think the U.S. is a great country, and I don't think Americans are so insecure as to perceive differences of opinion or policy as acts of aggression toward their way of life. Again, it's not anti-American to be anti-Bush, and it's not anti-American to not want to do everything just like them.

There's a big difference between being anti-American and anti-Bush. I don't personally know anyone who I would consider to be anti-American, but most everyone I know is anti-Bush.

But if you look at the panel on the National, it's made up of Chantal Hebert (not exactly an extreme lefty), Andrew Coyne (a federalist conservative) and Allan Gregg from the Strategic Counsel (a market research firm--pretty centrist to right-wing, I would say). if anything, that's skewed to the right.

Do people actually read the Sun?

I wouldn't say their news shows are left or right wing. If anything, The Hour has a youth bias, so I can see how some conservatives can't relate. And Mansbridge was a lot harder on Martin in the Town Hall session than he was on Harper. In fact, Harper was treated with kid gloves with a lot of soft questions and every opportunity to state his position.

My point is that CBC is balanced. You just wouldn't know it because everybody else is tilted to the right. ust by their portraying the left point of view, you see it as bias because nobody else even acknowledges the left exists.

Corporate media is media owned by large corporations (see Bell, Canwest, etc.). And advertisers are mostly interested in people with money, so having a right-leaning bias fits that nicely (where I come from, it's the poor neighbourhoods that vote NDP, the rich areas vote CPC--that's just the way it is). So when the news coddles the wealthy with "what they want to know," and only ask the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation for their take on issues, the lefties have nowhere to go but the Mother Corp. Until tomorrow anyway.

Winnipeg is basically divided into rich south and poor north (always has been). There are break-ins here, of course, and I do often lock my doors when I go out. But I have these stupid doors that, if they're set on lock, I just have to close them and they're locked. I'd be locking myself out of the house all the time if I kept them set that way all the time. I figure, if some psycho wants in, they're gonna get in. In the meantime, I'm not going to sit here and worry about it.

I think it's okay for them to be different from the corporate media and show both sides of the story. To a CPCer who's used to having their ideas gently reinforced by the MSM, the CBC is probably unnerving because there are people talking whom they actually disagree with. My point is, the corporate media is so universally biased, the CBC's balance seems right out of left field by comparison.

Actually I live on the south side of Winnipeg (and it's about as segregated as any American city that way). If I lived in the North End, I admit it would be a very different story and I'd probably have five locks and a handgun.

Exactly. The corporate media has no interest in expressing alternative points of view, so the public system is the only place that will ever happen. Compare how often the Frontier Centre for Public Policy or the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation are asked for their perspective on issues as opposed to left-wing organizations--there's absolutely no balance in the mainstream media. The concept of the liberal media is a myth dreamed up by the corporate media to make it seem like they're doing their job.

I live in the murder capital, Aboriginal-gangland-central Winnipeg. I just think minding my own business will do me a lot better than alarm systems and locks and paranoia.

But when every other media outlet in the country (except maybe the T.O. Star) is biased heavily to the right because they're owned by large corporations, at least the CBC creates some balance.

So she lied. I don't lock my doors. Is it really necessary? Have you ever had anyone try to get in your house but stopped because the door was locked?

Liberated from this mortal coil, anyway.

Bush will give Harper a few tips on how to lose that ridiculous gut he's acquired this campaign.

No, he would never tease the so-cons in his party like that. They would vote yes before realizing the so-called humour.

Hate to break it to you, but the 'no insult' rule is broken most regularly by the other poster, in fact, I'm surprised the moderator allows it. Yeah, Argus only breaks it when he knows he's lost the argument.

I think he mentioned "parts of Europe" too, but it's irrelevant anyway.

Prime Minister Dryden will take Quebec and Ontario in 2008, because he was such a good goalie for the Habs and GM for the Leafs.

But the federal government has taken responsibility for traditionally provincial responsibilities like health care and (almost) daycare to distribute resources towards a minimum standard for all provinces (see Canada Health Act). That way Alberta doesn't have cadillac care and Newfoundland no care at all. You may disagree with that because you probably don't live in a have-not province, but without such equalization we would wind up with a situation of first and third world provinces even worse than we have now.

Some feel it's more of a crime for you to kill someone because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. than to kill them for their money or because they're in bed with your wife. And, if you look at crimes like lynching, that may be a reasonable way to look at it.

It's still a crime to kill him--just not a hate crime. But I don't get the supposed rampant anti-American talked about here. Perhaps its a regional thing. I come from Manitoba, where North Dakota last year unilaterally decided to build a pipeline to funnel salty water from Devil's Lake into the Red River and Lake Winnipeg in contravention of the boundary waters treaty. Two weeks before they were to do it, they agreed to put a filter on it before proceeding, then proceeded anyway without any real filter. Even in that environment, I have heard very little (if any) of what I would call anti-American sentiment. I imagine it's the same in Alberta, even after the unreasonable cattle ban. A lot of people are anti-Bush, but so are a lot of Americans. I think a lot of the claims of anti-Americanism are politically motivated to take advantage of wingnuts like Carolyn Parrish, and making it seem like a great number of Canadians think like her does our two countries' relationship more harm than good.

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