Ezra Levant – The great Obama cover-up’ (Sunday Sun, Sept. 4, 2011)
It is interesting to read that Ezra Levant is not above employing immigrant, religion and race-related fear-mongering when discussing President Obama this week. He even manages to squeeze in the...
View ArticleRE: THE SOURCE with Ezra Levant (Aug 26, 2011)
I am fascinated to hear Ezra Levant stating that “The one thing they (CBC) will never tolerate is a diversity of opinion” and “Only now that the Sun News Network is alive has there ever been any other...
View ArticleOTTAWA SUN – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
The news is there for all to see: Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is the “Debt Devil”. In case readers didn’t believe it, there is an accompanying cover-cartoon depicting a red-coloured McGuinty with...
View ArticleDavid Warren – ‘Money talks’ (Ottawa Citizen, October 5, 2011)
David Warren recommends that rather than complaining about banks, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators should purchase bank shares so they too can reap dividends. This would allow the demonstrators...
View ArticleJohn Robson – ‘Leaders give no reason to trust them’ (Ottawa Sun, October 2,...
In a recent Sun editorial John Robson claims to have avoided watching the Ontario leader’s debate. The general assertion of the editorial is that televised debates display more style than substance...
View ArticleJohn Robson – ‘Occupiers’ hollow outrage truly obnoxious’ (Ottawa Sun,...
John Robson has recently made the argument that the ‘Occupy’ movement is full of folks who do not know how to wash (yes, yes, yes, we get your lame on-running joke about how failing to shower is not a...
View ArticleMichael Hlinka (business commentator) – CBC Radio One, Ottawa Morning...
Michael Hlinka really should be writing for the Ottawa Sun. His regular business commentaries fall into that same overly-simplistic and entirely predictable vein. Business = good. Anything that...
View ArticleMichael Hlinka (business commentator) – CBC Radio One, Ottawa Morning...
Michael Hlinka is the master of avoiding counter-arguments. All of his economic opinion is presented in a manner which suggests it is both logical and obvious – not so much his views as just the way...
View ArticleKelly Roche – ‘Unhappy Holidays’ (Ottawa Sun, December 18, 2011)
The page two Ottawa Sun headline is glaring: ‘UNHAPPY HOLIDAYS’. It would seem that a group of protesters had the previous day gathered on parliament Hill. At issue for the demonstrators was the idea...
View ArticleSUN NEWS PRESENTS… – a series by Joanne Richard
I guess there is nothing wrong with a little cross-pollination … a little cross-marketing … a touch of the old synergy. Lately I’ve been reading in the Sun pages the ‘Sun News Presents…’ pieces by...
View ArticleConrad Black – Margaret Thatcher’s controversial policies have stood the test...
I guess it was to be expected with the release of new film The Iron Lady that a lot would be written about Margaret Thatcher in early 2012. One can’t help but presume that Thatcher herself would...
View ArticleSarah Palin defending Newt Gingrich - Fox News/Fox Nation - January 29, 2012
When recently asked about how Newt Gingrich, given his 20 years in Congress and role as Speaker of the House, could be portraying himself as a Washington outsider, Sarah Palin responded: “Yeah how can...
View ArticleDavid Frum: Conservatism for Liberals? – CBC Radio One, Ideas, March 8, 2012
David Frum sketching his general political outlook: “I’m a conservative, I’m a Republican, I believe in limited government and markets and reduced business regulation and … national security, these...
View ArticleDavid Warren – ‘In Defence Of Real Sex’ (Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 2012)
While reading David Warren’s column from May 20 one is struck by his casual admission that he has not attended the ‘Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition’ at the Canada Science at TechnologyMuseum. Clearly he...
View ArticleDavid Warren – ‘A voice against passive collusion’ (Ottawa Citizen, June 10,...
In his June 10 editorial David Warren picks up on a phrase he read in a Terry Eagleton interview – the expression being ‘passive collusion’. For Warren this axiom summarizes what it wrong with...
View ArticleDavid Warren – ‘Our moral software is pre-installed’ (Ottawa Citizen, July 8,...
“For two generations or more, the vanguard of the Left have been working tirelessly, through every government department or other agency they’ve been able to infect, on re-coding our moral software....
View ArticleConrad Black – various UK interviews – October 2012
“… I’ve been persecuted half to death. I don’t have any shame. I’m proud of what happened. I’m proud of having been in a US federal prison and survived as well as I did… Let me tell you something,...
View ArticleTerry Glavin – ‘Stephen Harper is right not to trust the history...
Of course the title of Terry Glavin’s recent editorial begs the question: what history establishment? Who could he possibly be talking about? Oddly enough he is not describing himself or the...
View ArticleHypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury (November 3, 2013)
On the electoral politics front here in Canada, we have been living in pretty interesting times of late. Who would have guessed, even a few weeks back, that a newspaper such as the Sun would have...
View ArticleHypocrisy II (November 10, 2013)
It has always been a trait of the right to dismiss left-leaning folks as radicals or dreamers. The notion being that ‘progressive’ ideas about health, justice, the environment and economics are just...
View ArticleThe Conservative track record … or: I might have been born at night but it...
In spite of a looming recession, the use of tax dollars to bribe Canadians to vote Conservative (a bribe many families will have to pay back via taxes after election)In spite of recession Conservatives...
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