After an hour with CKNW’s mid-morning talk show, I conclude that it provides misinformation more pervasive than does a jock-sniffing sports call-in show. Unfortunately, Corus Radio has a province wide stage for […]
Pervasive misinformation
Spin, misinformation and disservice to regular citizens
Corporate media mouthpieces have been quick to deride Warren Buffett for his call to stop coddling the mega-rich. Michael Smyth, perhaps trying to protect his tenure at the top dog, lifted his […]
Here you learn "the rest of the story"
I pay little attention to AM radio nowadays. My audio library of spoken words—gathered mostly from American and European sources—is much more informative. However, while in the car last week, I heard […]
Thieves get rewarded even when thievery goes awry
A charitable group I follow is Coffee Kids, an organization that works in Latin America to improve education, health awareness, microcredit and food security in small coffee-farming communities. An item in the regular […]
Wealthcare for welfare bums
Bill Good is selling another load of codswallop today on CKNW. Something about the British Columbia film industry and HST being inseparable. Don’t believe it. Film and video production in BC has […]
Flip, flop and don’t fly
The former Mrs. . . Bruce Allen‘s Reality Check on NW today indicates he may not be supporting Patrick Kinsella‘s new project, which is an effort to keep fingers on the public throat pulse […]
Watts in the news is a Liberal dose of politics
November 14 update: Mayor Watts declines to run for the Liberal Party leadership. As a commenter here stated, she puts her family first at this stage of life and also says her […]
Ex-top dog turns to day time infomercials
Things must be getting tough at the Corus Radio flagship in Vancouver. They’ve long had a history of renting out blocks of weekend air time for commercial content vaguely disguised as news and information. […]
Judged by the company you keep
Corus Radio and CKNW have long featured “Business Analyst” Michael Levy. Lately he has been one of the point players in NW’s effort to help an unpopular government sell the unpopular harmonized sales tax […]
Lie to me, some more – updated
I wondered when folks at the Fraser Institute would weigh in, aiming to convince people that HST is good to great for ordinary British Columbians. That predictable message arrived today. Strangely, a […]
Synergy?
From a forum at RadioWest.ca I was listening to the 11:30 news on CKNW yesterday morning. It was sponsored by doggydoo.ca, a pet waste removal company. Could there possibly be a more […]
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On the subject of Wealth Extraction... Has BC Hydro Chair Mr. Clark studied info comparable to this video? Should Hydro…