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From the May 2 NYT: Standing in front of a television camera last week, the chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, Terry McAuliffe, uttered four words that the Fox News Channel would not soon forget. “Fair and balanced Fox!,” he exclaimed, noting that the network was the first to project Mrs. Clinton’s Pennsylvania primary win. Fox [...]
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Economist Todd Hirsch says that too many argue Canada's economy needs what he calls “faster horses” — more tax cuts for business, more social spending for the poor. But the problem is a horse-drawn-buggy economy, when Canada needs to think about a transformation on the scale of mass production of automobiles (his opening anecdote is [...]
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The Globe and Mail's Lawrence Martin uses the Conservative government's decision to kill the government's Access to Information database to review the many and creative ways the Harperites attempt to control the information agenda. From the column: (behind a paywall for non-subscribers) Hardly a week goes by without the Conservative government, with the subtlety of [...]
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The Tories quoted ATI expert Alisdair Roberts in question period today to justify their decision to kill the CAIRS database. Roberts then uncharitably crapped on their talking points. From CP via CTV.ca: Under outraged questioning Monday in the Commons, (Prime Minister Stephen) Harper said the plug was pulled because CAIRS is expensive and slows access [...]