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It's called 'balancing the view.'

Sure Ken Burns, but I would also think that James Cameron would be into something like that too. James Cameron's 'War of 1812.' I am so there.

Yeah, which perfectly describes the grogy-type. Makes crap up and when asked to produce evidence plays the shrinking violet card.

Both PMs Diefenbaker and Mulroney were Progressive Conservatives, not to be confused with the current Conservative Party of Canada.

Sure, but there is quite a bit on PBS I don't watch too. Little Mosque is syndicated so it generates revenue, Dragon's Den is one of the highest rated shows in Canada during the week and Don Cherry, well, he'll be there until he turns into a mad Howie Meeker. CBC could help produce more docs, but they also have the doc channel and it is pretty good. Nature of Things is usually pretty good. Fifth Estate can have some good shows and stir it up from time to time. What I really detest is 'Being Erica.' For the life of me I can't figure out who in the hell cares to watch that crap. It makes me angry just thinking about it. :angry:

To be fair to quislings, they actually did have the threat of communists under their beds.

LOFL! Well, sure, I mean compared to Rwanda or Vietnam, we got it good son. Eh? The problem is, the CPC were just elected in May. Do you really think that this will be the "most that comes out of Ottawa" in the next four years? To be sure, according to your logic, it will only get worse. When you are elected on the notion that you will clean up the system, and then your loyal minions start pork barrelling and then lying to Parliament, well, thank God it will only be four years. I mean, it's not like we are Libya or something.

The problem with a Canadian PBS is that outside of major metropolitan areas, there wouldn't likely be the available viewership/donations to make a regional station affordable. So regions covered by the CBC over the air would be SOL, especially many rural, remote and northern areas. I would imagine that the CBC is a fairly large customer of one telecommunications provider or another. Since the CBC cacked jPod, I have no time for much of their programming, except for HNIC, news and some documentaries. However, here is one of the best benefits of the CBC: they can operate smaller stations in smaller markets. CHEX is a Peterborough based station that covers both Peterborough and Oshawa and areas in between. The major GTA stations carry almost no news or local programming about these smaller cities. CHEX is a CBC affiliate, which means that they are a privately owned broadcaster (CORUS owns CHEX) that pays affiliation fees to the CBC to pick up bulk feeds for certain programs. To me, this is a more effective form of ownership where such ownership can exist. All other areas could be covered by CBC owned and operated stations and back in the day, there used to be quite a few under this scheme. One of the best aspects of CBC programming is that they can produce more quality material without being bound to the commercial demands of any particular advertising sector. History and Discovery seem to be suffering from this phenomenon, if it actually exists. They have had to dumb down their programming to attract the number of viewers to afford the advertisers that pay for their broadcasting costs.

I think the call sign for WNED actually says Buffalo/Toronto since they take in some pretty good coin from the GTA.

Well, if he is asleep then he can't be making embarrassing comments about Nelson Mandela or others. So that is a bonus right there. I am sure PM Harper wishes a few other MPs would fall asleep as much as he wishes a couple of them would stay awake.

On what grounds?

Not quite. The Information Commissioner can rule on the validity of using the special exemption or releasing the information. Often times a department will refuse to release information on the grounds of one expemption or another and the Information Commissioner is the sort of ombudsman of the process.

Just about the dumbest thing I have read on MLW to date.

I hardly think so. How does this compare to the all the information that they have released in the past under the ATI Act? Are you aware of that amount? I bet you aren't. Regardless, this case is the test of the redactability of information based on a particular exemption that is unique to the CBC. If they had embarassing information that was not exempted from disclosure, they would have to release it wouldn't they?

Municipal emails contradict Clement to show direct hand in G8 project wish-list: NDP Too bad recursive deletion of emails didn't extend to municipal email systems.

No one is asking Peter Kent to be a tree.

You want to know the difference?? I'll tell you the difference! Almond Joy. There. I said it. While we may be mostly RC comfortable in our skins, as is sometimes generalized, you tight-assed Lutherans have Almond Joy. All we get is friggin "Bounty." Now, I'll grant that Bounty and Mounds are similar, and rather equal, but we don't have the one with the damned almond on top. We used to, but now it's gone. And that is what the entire religious divide comes down to, the damned almond on top. I am not talking some generic liturgical chocolate covered almonds, or those flat, austere milk chocolate bars laced almond chunks, with I am talking a simple chocolate covered bar of delicious coconut with an almond on top. It does give joy. And Canadians are rather joyless at times. So our religion is thus. Almond Joy. Don't underestimate it's power. (Sure we have Big Turk, Coffee Crisp and Smarties, but none of these have almonds. Or coconut. You know what I mean.)

I don't think it is reasonable that a minister has to answer questions in the House without vetting them first. This would allow the Minister of the Environment to get up to speed on certain questions that are raised by the Opposition. In other news, Bev Oda doesn't know what a forgery is.

That's the game dude. Bloat something, then cut it and look like a hero. Or, conversely, cut the crap out of something, say nurses, then at election time, hire them all back. It's called 'cycical politics.' Did he bloat the ON public service?

Could also be a period time they are giving them to consult their legal advisors regarding an appeal of the recent judgement. Trust me, TPS does not want to be violating the Charter of Rights. Again.

You know, it is this sort of cause-and-effect economic explanation that make daily visits to MLW totally worth my time. Thanks Tilter!

No, the CPC have been satisfactorily bloating the government since 2006. All smoke and mirrors my young apprentice. It's a Harrisism, bloat the public service then make your 'cuts' for the appearances of austerity, which the cons are forever claiming. The good news in all of this is Deloitte gets a $90,000 per day consultant contract to figure out how the cut the public service.

You could start another thread: War mongering neo cons ready to bomb Syria with disturbed asbestos.