And here we see, in real time, a Canadian reporter attempting to smear government MPs. Ms Walsh is not the only one, but the example handy. She links the MPs with a notice from the ethics commissioner's office. No explanation. 1/15 #cdnmedia#cdnpoli
It implies the MPs are in trouble with the ethics commissioner. They are not. Nevertheless, conservative trolls are already squawking on social media about another Liberal ethics violation, where there is none. This is very poor journalism. 2/15
This is using omission of an explanation to cast shade on innocent people. I have no doubt that Canadian media know that most people will not read past the very first couple of lines. They are planting the suggestion of malfeasance by omitting any detail. 3/15
Mercedes Stephenson, of Global news, simply retweets the announcement from the Ethics Commissioner which is also incredibly misleading and suggests the Liberals were guilty of something. 4/15
And, most egregiously, @CBC@PnPCBC posted an alert saying outright that these ministers were guilty. 5/15
I am sure Canadian journalists also know full well that misinformation spreads much faster than a retraction or correction. Which seems to have been their intent. Deleting a misleading tweet does not undo the damage. 8/15
This is totally unacceptable. This is our press deliberately trying to undermine our duly elected government. And they do it all the time. This was just another example. I call on the @CBCOmbud, the @CRTCeng and whomever oversees the Ethics Commissioner... 9/15
To take a close look at this. From the Commissioner's office on down, this news was worded and presented in such a way as to allow the reputation of these ministers to be impugned. This is not what the press is supposed to do. This violates journalistic integrity and ethics. 10/
The thing which actually happened was a former US Ambassador was found in violation and these Ministers have agreed to not interact with him for a year. 11/15
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And yet, CPC fans are racing around announcing 9 Liberals have been found guilty of an ethics violation and they are all criminals. Because such people grab any information that fits their worldview, and also, they don't seem to actually understand how any of this works. 13/15
The wording used by the Ethics Commissioner's office, & the way the real information was buried in a fine print document is very suspect. One might almost think Dion was channeling his predecessor, Mary Dawson. Someone needs to remind him he is supposed to be non-partisan. 14/15
But our journalists, actively misleading Canadians about this instead of looking into why the ethics commissioner's announcement was so vague as to suggest the Liberals had done something wrong.... Well, that is unconscionable. And decidedly not in the public interest. 15/15
Update: The CBC noon hour radio news just did a piece on Eric O'Toole's complaints about waiting in line for hours for a COVID test. He blames the federal government, even though it is provincial jurisdiction. CBC did not correct him.
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If you die, they can't come for your organs all willy-nilly, even if your organs are desperately needed so a newborn baby can live. They just can't. Not unless you sign a donor card. As a corpse, you cannot be forced to sustain the life of another. #cdnpoli
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Your next of kin can sign off on donating your organs, but you must be dead for that to happen. You cannot be made to save the life of anyone. Full stop. The government cannot decide you are going to donate a kidney to save someone. You have bodily autonomy. That means, you
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get to decide when and if you make a significant personal sacrifice to save or continue the life of anyone else. You cannot be compelled to even give blood, even if you have the most sought-after blood type ever. That is bodily autonomy. It is a human right that all
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Should there be legislation laying out conditions when a surgeon can remove an appendix? Should there be laws about whether or not a broken bone can be set, a virus treated, or a cancerous tumour excised? Abortion is a medical procedure. We don't have laws about other 1/
medical procedures. We don't even have laws about whether or not vasectomies or lubal ligations are ok. Although I imagine some conservatives would like to legislate that next. On the one hand they say, "It's settled law", on the other hand, they say, "Canada is one of
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only 2 countries in the world having zero laws protecting the pre-born." Which is it? Settled law? No law?
Hint: it's no law, because abortion is a medical procedure and we don't need laws to criminalise medical procedures. Healthcare is between a patient and
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Now, I understand why rich folks, the ones with big houses, and second houses they can go to for a vacation, and big boats, and motorhomes, and multiple cars, and who jet off on nice vactions to places other than their cottages, don't like what they think 1/ #cdnpoli
socialism is. Deep down, they are terrified that someone is going to try to take some of their stuff. They have visions of some large dirty family showing up on their doorstep and announcing that the government has sent them to live there. Or someone is going to come along
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and expropriate part of their big yard to build high-density housing. They are terrified of having to make do with less. And they feel that a "socialist" government would take their stuff and call it wealth redistribution.
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Let's assume you are not a pilot, have never taken flying lessons. Do you believe you could fly a 747? Let's assume you are not a doctor, have never been to medical school. Do you believe you could successfully operate on a patient? So why do people who have never ...
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been in graduate school, never done scientific research beyond grade 12 chemistry, think they know what the real researchers should be researching? Is Danielle Smith next going to be suggesting she should drive around the province telling ranchers and farmers
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how to do their jobs? Does anyone think the premier should be on job-sites giving welders tips? Should she be popping up in dentists' offices explaining why, if they only did things this other way, it would be better in her opinion?
So, why the hell does she think she and
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I think we need to have a serious talk about predatory capitalism. This is going to be a rather long rant, so get comfy. 1/ #cdnpoli #UBI #NeverVoteConservative #PredatoryCapitalism
What this obscenely wealthy property developer is saying is monstrous. He says the quiet part out loud here. The uber wealthy want billions of people in poverty so they can grow their riches faster, and so workers will once again feel 2/
grateful for their jobs and willing to work harder for less. This guy (Tim Gurner) and others like him see themselves and their financial goals as infinitely more important than the lives of most of the world's population.
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The first, simplest, and most obvious reason is that some journalists actually strongly support the right side of the political spectrum. So much so that they cannot contain their enthusiasm for Poilievre, etc, and they allow it to override any journalistic ethics
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they might have been taught.
Another possible reason, which seems plausible, is that main stream media is languishing, desperate for something exciting and lascivious to report. Peace order and good governance are lovely for living in but don't draw a lot
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