Bryan

Because you're lying, that's why.

Try something new. Post something that isn't a lie. I'm not sure that I've ever seen you do that on this site.

You reposted it for me. Go read your own post. You're a liar.

Still taking those classes at the Joseph Goebbels school of debate I see.

I already did, your dishonesty and lack of reading comprehension is not my problem.

It is true. Are you ready to stop lying yet?

I agree. There definitely is a leftward slant to the moderation.

What specifically is it that you think wasn't true?

What specifically is it that you think wasn't true?

It's a perfect example of what I'm talking about. What Levant said is 100% factual. It's just not very nice.

No. If anything, he proved his detractors to be liars. The ones who protested the loudest were the most dishonest. His issue was never veracity, it was that he wasn't very nice when he pointed out that the others were lying.

You did have to pay extra to get it. And that's if the cable company even carried it at all. I had to buy an obscure "News" bundle that had Russian and Korean news channels.

Ezra's problem is one of presentation, not content. He absolutely is one of the very best journalists in the country, but his style works much better in print than it does on video.

Michael's right. The most important thing is to start by identifying what YOU want. Only then will looking at what a given candidate says be an informed choice. A lot of people from all ends of the political spectrum get caught up in identifying with their guy or their team, and simply accept that a given list of policies are their policies too because their guy says they are.

The worst thing you can do is issue threats or ultimatums to Putin. He will accept the challenge every time. If you want to negotiate with him, it really does have to be an open discussion with no lines in the sand. Building up military presence around him? That is a challenge he'll gladly accept. How many lives are the NATO countries willing to sacrifice in order to fail in attempting to send this message?

I have to agree. At least Apple is trying. They have also required all of their contracted mineral smelters to submit to independent audits to prove that they are not using conflict minerals. The ones that didn't submit? Dropped. http://9to5mac.com/2015/02/12/apple-conflict-minerals/ Over 80% of the world's coltan comes from the Congo. It's incredibly difficult -- nearly impossible economically -- to guarantee than none of the coltan you're using in your phones comes from there. Especially when you're talking about the large scale Apple needs these products. Apple doesn't care, they're demanding it because it's the right thing to do, even if it doesn't make business sense. They can't change everything, but they are in a unique position that they can use their leverage to at least start changes happening.

Yes, I see that you're being deliberately dishonest. As usual.

No. ALL of the other mainstream news outlets, whether dedicated news channels, or stations that had news shows among other programming that built their presence off of mandatory carriage were their competition.

Not facts. Deliberate misrepresentations. CBC and CTV built their audience and established their position off of many years of mandatory carriage. Their networks of multiple channels and websites were build off of that mandatory carriage. Many other specialty channels also rely on mandatory carriage.

I wonder sometimes if that's the actual endgame. Do they actually want people to decide that they have had enough so that we can have physical confrontations? It shocks me to see just how peacefulyl some of the blockade situations go over.

If CBC had to operate under the same rules as SUN did, they'd be gone tomorrow too.

As usual, you need to take your own advice.

Because the CRTC made sure of it. They weren't allowed the same carriage as other channels.

Sun's biggest problem was most of the people who were their target audience didn't watch the channel on TV. They just watched the clips of specific topics online. That doesn't pay the bills for a national network. I was certainly guilty of this. Once or twice a week, I'd check out a few of Ezra or Brian Lilley's clips. Always with an ad-blocker on too. Part of that was because only 40% of the country even had the channel available to them if they wanted it, but part of it was also because even like minded people could only take so much of the over-the-top presentation. It is too bad that the counter-balance to the overt left wing bias is gone though. Sun was really the only TV news source that even bothered to fact check in any meaningful way.

Progressive Conservative = Liberal wearing a blue suit.