Why Tom Clark Left CTV

A week ago it was announced that Tom Clark, host of Power Play left the network.  Many were speculating about the reason why. This just may be it.

Tom Clark left CTV’s Power Play after the broadcaster cancelled plans to offer him an anchoring position on the national news, Howard Bernstein, a former television producer who has worked for most of the major English networks in Canada, wrote on his blog Wednesday.
“I understand that Tom was upset that he didn’t get Lloyd Robertson’s job. After more than three decades of hard work, it had to have come as a severe blow to see someone else get the job he had coveted and felt he had worked so hard for,” Bernstein, a broadcasting industry insider, wrote on his blog, Medium Close Up.

From Bernstein's blog:

I don’t know why Lisa Laflamme got the job. I do know that CTV’s original plans were for Lisa and Tom to co-host the news. Where that went awry I don’t know. I have heard some people speculate that with Katy Couric and Diane Sawyer taking over U.S. newscasts, CTV decided to make a splash by hiring a woman. I have also heard speculation that some considered Lisa’s age (she’s much younger than Tom) the deciding factor. I think Lisa was a great choice. I believe it is unfair to bring gender into the discussion. Lisa did everything the network asked and more. She is a fine journalist and a credit to CTV News. Would Tom have done just as well? We’ll never know. I do know that Tom would have worked just as hard and been a credit to the job. Would audiences have responded to Tom as they seem to be responding to Lisa? I’d like to think so.

It looks like this might be a case of affirmative action. Seems that Tom was ticked that Laflamme got the coveted anchor's job instead of him.  Did he not want to co-anchor with Laflamme? Did he leave on his accord or was he canned?  Who knows?  In my opinion the ratings are going to tank with Laflamme in that anchor chair.

It's not that I'll miss him, he was overly partisan anyway.  I'm just curious that's all.  Maybe it's about time some other Liberal shills on that network left too, like Craig Oliver. It's about time he retired anyway.   Bob Fife, Hanoi Giggles Jane Taber would be better for CTV too if they left.  Maybe they could move Giggles over to ETalk, she's more of a gossiper  anyway.  It would be a better fit for her over there. 

Who will be the permanent host for Power Play?  I don't know, but I bet whoever it is, they will be another Liberal shill.

Poor Justin Trudeau

So communism doesn't work. Looks like little Justin is sad today because of this news  Don't think hes' taking it well.

FORMER Cuban president Fidel Castro said the "Cuban model" of communism no longer works, an apparent admission that the economic policy that underpinned the country's revolution more than 50 years ago had failed.

It's well known the Trudeau and his boys  have been admired and have been good friends of Fidel Castro and Cuba for years.  Justin's dad,  took his Viva Cuba tour in 1976 and then when his dad died, Fidel who rarely goes out of his country came to Canada to attend the funeral. of his best bud.

To hear Fidel make that startling confession must be crushing for Justin.  All their social programs haven't worked?  Please say it isn't so.   Justin's dad was trying to turn Canada into a Cuban socialist utopia with the countless social programs and the horrible NEP, that was a nothing but wealth distribution program that still haunts us in the western Canada today.
Justin was hoping to continue with his dad's work now this.  If it hasn't worked for Cuba, how can it possibly work for Canada?  Maybe that's why he's having second thoughts about his political career.
Ya think?
 

Censorship Against SunTV

There has been an all out attack from the left to prevent SunTV News Channel to get on the air. Paul  Scheidereit  claims it's all about censorship and it won't work.

The vociferous — and at times unhinged — attacks by critics on the proposed new Sun TV News channel, or "Fox News North" as its detractors like to call it, are really about censorship.

He goes on to say that the critics of this new channel who say that it SunTV will just spew hate-filled propaganda have vitriol themselves.

Critics say the channel will spew "American-style" right-wing hatred, citing as an example — who else? — Fox News and its brand of "propaganda" that has "poisoned" U.S. politics.
Well, I don’t recall U.S. politics, or TV coverage of many bitterly partisan struggles, being all that genteel prior to Fox’s arrival. And though there’s no question that U.S. cable TV news and commentary today can be harder-edged than what is the norm here in Canada, to label Fox News as the sole source of overheated political commentary is ridiculous.
Why? Because there’s certainly no lack of excessive vitriol on the left in America. Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, anyone?
(Or in Canada, for that matter. Heather Mallick, anyone?)

Kory Teneycke pointed out that an American special interest group funded by socialist billionaire George Soros has circulated a petition against the  all news channel was signed by Margaret Attwood and other bogus signatures.Want to know what Soros is all about?
Glenn Beck has a good take on who George Soros is, the one who's funding this campaign.  He is one scary dude.
Free speech?  I think not.  It seems the lefties don't want any  another voices but them. They believe in free speech as long as it agrees with them. They don't want facts and truth to get out there.  They don't want the public thinking for themselves.  They are afraid SunTV will be successful and they will lose their influence on the way you think. 

That is why we need SunTV more than ever!

Cracking Down on Bogus Asylum Seekers

With reports of another Tamil migrant ship on it's way, the federal government is looking for ways to target  human trafficking. and other measures to block future mass arrivals of smuggled would be refugees.

The Conservative government is working on legislation and program changes that target human smuggling following last month's arrival of the MV Sun Sea off the B.C. coast.

 Prime Minister Stephen Harper has told Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to deal with what the government is calling "mass arrivals" of smuggled would-be refugees.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney traveled to Paris on the weekend to discuss bogus asylum seekers and human trafficking with his counterparts over  in Europe.

Canada is turning to Europe for partners in a widening fight against human trafficking and bogus asylum seekers.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney met over the weekend in Paris with counterparts from European nations that are also choice destinations, leaving with commitments to projects that could include a joint campaign to persuade unqualified migrants that they aren’t welcome. It was the first stop on a tour that includes talks with officials in India, China and the Philippines on ways to combat immigration fraud.

Ezra Levant has an idea. Encourage those bogus asylum seekers to go  to a peaceful country in Asia that has the UN seal of approval.

Great news: There is a country in Asia willing to take Sri Lankan Tamil refugees by the thousand — with the United Nations’ seal of approval.
And they’re already doing it. In the first six months of 2010, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says the generous country accepted 1,857 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, who had been staying temporarily in India.
UN refugee spokesman Michael Zwack says these Tamils are now “rebuilding their lives.” The UN quoted one Tamil refugee, a 39-year-old woman, who said she was pleased with her new home for a pretty good reason: “Peace.”
So where is this wonderful place that Sri Lankan refugees are going to by the thousand?
Sri Lanka.
That’s right. Thousands of Tamil refugees are returning to Sri Lanka — because it’s safe. Within Sri Lanka itself, internal refugee camps for displaced Tamils are winding down, as Tamils go back home

Meanwhile, you have those bleeding hearts out there who seem to think that the Harper government wanting to crack down on this crime is just a about the politics of fear.

The second boat of Tamil migrants couldn’t have chosen a worse time to arrive.
We were we told that these people were aliens jumping the queue and feeding off our tax system, that the Tamil Tigers are establishing a government in exile and sending more boats.
As the boat came closer, our collective intelligence was increasingly insulted. We were hysterically warned of terrorists on board. Rejecting the concept of innocence until proven guilty, the Conservatives still continue to spread these unsubstantiated allegations.
Not only does this slander those involved, it undermines the trust the public places in their government. The danger in throwing around terrorism allegations is that it opens the door to a boy-cried-wolf situation.
Harper’s efforts have largely been successful. With weak media seeking the latest sensationalized story, the Conservatives have gained support from tough-on-crime voters and the pesky Afghan torture scandal is far off the radar.
Terrorism means using fear to coerce. It seems this is exactly Harper and Sarkozy’s approach to public debate.
The Tamil migrants deserve the fair process afforded to all claiming refugee status. The Roma in France deserve concrete moves to help them assimilate into society. The Canadian and French electorates deserve governments that don’t steep to scapegoating when faced with tough questions.
While the Tamil migrant situation is less elaborate than the French expulsion of Roma people, it sets a shared and dangerous precedent. Using xenophobia as a political tool is dangerous, cowardly, and undermines democracy. I trust Canadians will be smart and courageous enough to see past the fear-mongering and focus on getting answers to our real questions.

Go figure!  I think it's about time something was done.  The sooner the better.  Canada has been way too  soft on immigration and refugees for far too long.  Let's just hope the opposition parties support this, although I'm not holding my breath.

So Who's Keeping Secrets?

Taxpayer funded Mothercorp, CBC is always hammering PM Harper and his government for keeping secrets and not being open and transparent in not releasing certain documents,Afghan detainee documents for example. They accuse the government of hiding something and demand documents to be released.
Well, Mothercorp just may be the ones with something to hide.  There have been numerous requests to Access to Information for information regarding the CBC and they refuse.

 OTTAWA - CBC may demand accountability from the government but Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster is going to court once again in order to keep its own affairs secret.
The CBC will square off against the information commissioner, an independent officer of Parliament, in a Montreal courtroom on Sept. 13. After hearing from a number of sources, including Sun Media, about problems with CBC’s response to access to information requests, the commissioner subpoenaed a number of files. The CBC refused.
It’s not the first run in between the state broadcaster and the Access to Information Act. The CBC became subject to the act in 2007, since then close to 900 complaints have been filed. While some of those cases were resolved and a small number were found to be without merit, as of June the information commissioner had 498 active complaints against CBC.

Just who do they think they are?  Why are they fighting from having information released even after being subpoenaed by the information commissioner ?  They have been subject to the Access to Information Act for the last three years now. What are they afraid of?  Are they keeping secrets they don't want the taxpayers who's funding them to know?   Another case of hypocrisy?  Pot calling kettle black?  

How about if we hold back funding until they comply?  Or just not fund them at all  anymore?