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CBC Radio Nerdz IX
Sun, 2011-02-20 09:03
#1
CBC Radio Nerdz IX
Sun, 2011-02-20 10:30
#2
Michael Enright lead topic this morning : women in publishing...like, where are the women magazine writers? Also an interview with Brian Deer, the investigative reporter who blew the whistle on the vaccination/autism lies...he had to learn medicine from scratch.
The Lancet was antagonistic and worked with Wakefield to discredit him from Feb. 2004, finallly recanting after British Medical study. Unfortunately, the cranks have entered the controversy, still on Wakefield's side, and still influencing parents.
Sat, 2011-03-05 15:51
#3
Just heard that CBC's Fifth Estate did a real number on G8 arrests last week...a fellow with the prosthetic leg, his leg, walking aids and glasses taken away. He is finally offered a ride home after explaining he could not make it to the bus stop. Another fellow arrested in his wheelchair. My daughter was shaken by this, and will show me the program next week.
But we have not heard any discussion about this "out there."
Have I missed discussion about the Fifth Estate program "in here?"
Sun, 2011-03-06 08:46
#4
On Sunday Morning, today: "Revolutions then and now," a look back at the American and French revolutions and Europe in 1848.
Mon, 2011-03-14 04:59
#5
Rex Murphy didn't allow any pro-Tsunami advocates onto "X-Country Checkup" today.
Mon, 2011-03-14 14:41
#6
Any grownups listening?
Tue, 2011-03-15 02:38
#7
Gian Ghomeshi sounded as if he were trying to add some gravitas to his opening remarks this morning (Japanese people live just down the street from us on this tiny globe) by refraining from saying "Happy Monday," which is his usual, annoying, greeting.
Sun, 2011-04-10 13:24
#8
Sunday morning's Michael Enright introduced Prof. Henry Mintzberg of McGill's management studies who dissed the corporations and their propensity to blackmail countries into lowering the corporate tax rate.
At Mintzberg.org you find this appeal to the electorate:
I have prepared this page because I believe the Canada we know is at risk. Please feel free to circulate it and replicate it on other websites, etc. By the way, I have never been a member of any political party in Canada, although one once listed me mistakenly.
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This election is theatre: ignore the campaigns and the promises (which are just attempts to bribe us with our own money.) What matters is what the people who are elected can and will do. And that is best judged by what they have done.
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What the Conservatives have done suggests that, with a majority, our most cherished institutions-Medicare [PDF], the CBC [PDF], others-will be threatened. As a prominent minister was overheard just after the 2006 election: "If we get a majority, they won't recognize this country."
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Do not necessarily vote Liberal. Or NDP. Or Bloc. Or Green. Or Independent. If the majority of voters split their votes again, the Conservatives will go forward again. So please drop your party preference: this election is about the future of Canada. If you cherish what this country is, vote for whichever candidate in your riding has the greatest chance of beating the Conservative-in other words, the one who is ahead of these others.1 Consult the latest poll in your riding, or else see the results last time [PDF]. (See also www.Catch22campaign.ca. for information on this.)
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If enough people do this, we will likely end up with a coalition government, which could well be the best solution. (Recall that cooperation of the NDP with the Liberals gave us Medicare fifty years ago.) This election has to be about the country, not about its personalities. In fact, such a coalition may well prefer as prime minister someone who is not now the leader of any of the parties.
Sun, 2011-04-10 18:55
#9
I like how Dr. Mintzberg was allowed to comment on the folly of believing in the neoliberal economic agenda, suggesting that we'd be nuts to let Harper lead us down the path that is currently destroying the USA.
On a lighter note, the Sunday Morning piece on yodelling has inspired a few selections for tonight's show.
"Pame Sti Honolulu" anyone?
Sun, 2011-04-10 19:30
#10
There was no "allowing" him to comment. Enright backed Mintzberg into a corner and forced him to call the corporations' actions blackmail.
Mon, 2011-04-11 10:48
#11
Senator Pam Wallin (who once made money pretending to be a journalist) just said on The Current that a Liberal government would "roll back tax relief to corporations."
It was like listening to Preston Manning without the squawk.
Mon, 2011-04-11 11:38
#12
'Tax relief' = soup kitchen and bread line imagery on behalf of those impoverished corporations.
Mon, 2011-04-11 19:39
#13
The yodelling piece made my day.
Mon, 2011-04-11 21:30
#14
The feedback to the yodel tunes I played on my show was pretty positive, too. Yodelling is such a fun sound, like banjo music.
Hmm, well, maybe not all banjo music. Dock Boggs's sound can be rather lowdown and mean.
Thu, 2011-04-14 17:38
#15
Anyone know what's up with all of the Liberal Party ads on CBC in Toronto recently?
Fri, 2011-04-15 13:34
#16
I've only heard Liberal ads on CBC....Maybe Harper figures his voters aren't CBC listeners (duh) but why no NDP ads?
I do have a complaint that I hear the same ad over and over again...In 3 hours I heard the health care ad 3 time..It's a major issue for me in this election, but repeating the same thing is just going to cause people to tune out...at least run different ads in some sort of rotation
Sun, 2011-04-17 12:38
#17
Interesting discussion on Wisconsin this morning on The Sunday Edition.
Tue, 2011-04-26 07:38
#18
Karen Gordon is better than Jeff Douglas, though Douglas is improving in a Barbara Budd fashion.
I've been listening to CBC Windsor's morning show lately. I've been hearing clips from the Marxist-Leninist party fairly regularly on the newscasts. That's something I do not hear anywhere else. Kind of refreshing.
I once had a lengthy conversation with the then head (co-chair?) of the Ontario Communist party, ahead of the '08 election, Elizabeth Rowley. She was an interesting person. She ran in Windsor.
What does everyone think of CBC radio's election coverage?
Tue, 2011-04-26 09:09
#19
k d lang is on Q this morning.
Thu, 2011-04-28 05:43
#20
I sense that CBC newsroom spines are stiffening as the polls give new hope of continued life for our public broadcaster, Fp.
Thu, 2011-04-28 07:58
#21
You mean they won't be endorsing the Conservatives?
Cross Country Checkup should be very interesting this Sunday.
Thu, 2011-04-28 09:45
#22
Caissa, the CBC does not "endorse" anyone...how could it?
We are talking about individuals...and particularly newsrooms ..."tending" to want to preserve their asses.
Rex Murphy was a plant to assuage Conservative opinion...along with a couple or other programs and people. I'll listen to Michael Enright this Sunday morning but manage to miss that bubbling fountain of brain baffling bullshit, Rex, that afternoon.
Thu, 2011-04-28 09:48
#23
I was being sarcastic, George. I should have added a smiley.
I'll be listening to Enright as well and the House on Saturday.
I don't care what Rex has to say. I'm interested in how the parties are planning on attacking the air time on CCC.
Thu, 2011-04-28 21:01
#24
The House's Ms Petty also leans to the right.
And I take back my favourable review of CBC Radio 1. They are still being wormy.
Sun, 2011-06-19 11:55
#25
Enright spoke with Amira Hass this morning. I hope people were listening.
You wouldn't hear that interview on "All hits-C95" now, would you?
Sun, 2011-06-19 13:46
#26
I listened to most of it. Hass is intense and it came across well in the chat.
Anyone catch Brian Topp, Barry Weisleder, and Judy Rebick on The Current? I thought it was a well done bit. And I'm simply astounded that rabble isn't promoting Judy's growing presence more on the site.
One thing that Judy repeated several times was the fact that in political debate polemic, me vs you, absolutism, is really not progressive or useful. Both Topp and Weisleder sounded like they were out to score points, where Judy wanted to talk. Big difference.
Mon, 2011-06-20 11:36
#27
I listened to most of it. Hass is intense and it came across well in the chat.
The best part was when Enright, after putting down his nail file and adjusting his ascot, exhaled,"You know, I was once discussing the affairs of the world with Amos Oz, yes, that Amos Oz, and he told me the problem in Palestine was that the Israelis should man their checkpoints with older soldiers, not their youngest members."
Hass ripped into that one by saying, no, the problem is that there are checkpoints.
Mon, 2011-06-20 11:37
#28
laine lowe
The best part was when Enright, after putting down his nail file and adjusting his ascot, exhaled,"You know, I was once discussing the affairs of the world with Amos Oz, yes, that Amos Oz, and he told me the problem in Palestine was that the Israelis should man their checkpoints with older soldiers, not their youngest members."
Hass ripped into that one by saying, no, the problem is that there are checkpoints.
Who wrote this? That exchange was a thing of beauty. LOL, putting down his nail file and adjusting his ascot, lolololol!
Tue, 2011-06-21 11:39
#29
laine lowe
I think every conservative group/forum, blog and organization has unleashed their braying "privatize" dogs to "freep" the CRTC on-line consultations on CBC Radio and Television licence renewals.
We all know the CBC needs fixing but if Harper takes this on-line feedback as his only measuring stick (ignoring stakeholder submissions and hearings), he will definitely move to sell the CBC and its assets. (Probably sell it for a song to Sun Media.)
Here is the link:
Tue, 2011-06-21 13:37
#30
Jian replayed an interview with Clarence Clemons this morning. Enjoyable!
Tue, 2011-06-21 13:42
#31
Who wrote this?
Uh, the guy you quoted?
Tue, 2011-06-21 14:50
#32
laine lowe
Who wrote this?
Uh, the guy you quoted?
Sorry AQ, when I first read it, I thought it was in a quote box. My eyesight is not the greatest. Anyway, your description was spot on.
Tue, 2011-06-21 15:16
#33
No sweat...and never say you're sorry. I was wondering if I hadn't made my "quote" clear.
Tue, 2011-06-21 20:10
#34
laine lowe
As much as I love to whine about the good old CBC days, I still would be horrified if it were to carved up and sold off to the lowest bidders or left to try to find commercial revenues (privatization). Sometimes I think the executive brass want it privatized, thinking they could hang on to their positions and reap the huge bonuses given to privated sector executives.
Fri, 2011-09-09 10:58
#35
Evan Solomon will be the new host of The House.
Fri, 2011-09-09 11:31
#36
Evan Solomon will be the new host of The House.
*headslap*
Oh my god.
It's not just his politics. He's just a hack in so many other ways.
He hosted The Sunday Edition a few weeks ago and during a piece on the Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) he mistakenly referred to her family as "Ghirardelli" - the name of the American chocolate company.
I wonder who his handlers are going to be.
Sat, 2011-10-01 12:31
#37
As much as I love to whine about the good old CBC days, I still would be horrified if it were to carved up and sold off to the lowest bidders or left to try to find commercial revenues (privatization). Sometimes I think the executive brass want it privatized, thinking they could hang on to their positions and reap the huge bonuses given to privated sector executives.
Here's the latest on that front, laine, from a Globe letter yesterday:
"So I read in The Globe that,Tory Surveys Seek Voters' Opinion On CBC Funding (Sept. 24). Great, I think, they want my opinion. Think again. The 10-question National Critical Issues Survey was only sent to Conservative supporters. When asked about this, the party spokesman explained that it was important that the party keep in touch with its membership to know what issues are of concern to them..."
Mon, 2011-10-10 11:50
#38
Ironically, one is required to watch CPAC to see how the Conservatives have organized the destruction of the CBC, french and english.
Using a charge by Peladeau's Quebecor, utilizing the pretext of unfairness, they are even using the very underfunding of the CBC to claim shortcomings in its news seervice...the demise of local news programming.
What a horror show of Neo-con brutality, ignorance, and Orwellian mind control.
Mon, 2011-10-10 12:31
#39
Using a charge by Peladeau's Quebecor, utilizing the pretext of unfairness, they are even using the very underfunding of the CBC to claim shortcomings in its news seervice...the demise of local news programming. What a horror show of Neo-con brutality, ignorance, and Orwellian mind control.
Sadly it's not just NeoCon; they have some help from the opposite end of the spectrum.
There are enough people on the left who have used the increasing right-wing control over the CBC to call for its destruction, rather than trying to fight the assault on our public broadcaster.
Thu, 2011-10-13 20:08
#40
Using a charge by Peladeau's Quebecor, utilizing the pretext of unfairness, they are even using the very underfunding of the CBC to claim shortcomings in its news seervice...the demise of local news programming. What a horror show of Neo-con brutality, ignorance, and Orwellian mind control.
Sadly it's not just NeoCon; they have some help from the opposite end of the spectrum.
There are enough people on the left who have used the increasing right-wing control over the CBC to call for its destruction, rather than trying to fight the assault on our public broadcaster.
Nihilists with a death wish...or just plain ignorant of what it would mean to replace the CBC with Fox North and Sun News. Not worth debating that mindset. The folks at friends.ca have just put out their fund-raising 2012 calendar (if you're interested) with lots of flashbacks of programming...and kudos to Prime Minister Bennett for bringing forward the legislation (1932)that gave birth to the CBC (1936) , quoting him as saying it was a necessary nationalist response to U.S.control of the airways, and to link up the disparate parts of dear old Canada. (You can see how the message is aimed at embarrasing today's Washington-loving neo-con. Lovely stuff).
Thu, 2011-10-13 21:27
#41
And not just standing up to the Americans.
I remember hearing the story (on Ideas, I think) of the very first CBC television broadcast. THey were just ready to go on air when a bunch of loud, partying politicians and bureaucrats (including the minister, if I remember right) came walking down the hallway toward the studio. Mavor Moore, who was producing the show, locked the door on them, and the cameras went live.
Sat, 2011-10-29 18:47
#42
An early happy birthday, courtesy of Rob Ford.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/belongs+Ford/5625856/story.html
Sat, 2011-10-29 21:33
#43
laine lowe
Is it just me, or does it seem that the CBC is finally fighting back from the Conservative assault? It's about time.
Sun, 2011-10-30 08:55
#44
I'm afraid they can't call the Conservatives out. That would be the death knell, "proving" the CBC's left "bias", even though it has been trying violently to counter that by such stunts as hiring Kevin O'Leary. Not working.Too many media claiming a need for freedom of expression out of one side of their mouth but working their anti-public wiles from the other. Strange how folks claiming affinity with the left can be unaware of what awaits them in the approaching purely-private universe, eh? And many of them speaking from the perspective of "taxpayers." :)
But, hey, we get Michael Enright's Sunday edition special this A.M.., and 75 years of CBC history. Great Gaia it got good by the 50s.
Thu, 2011-11-03 00:01
#46
laine lowe
Happy 75th, CBC! Here's to another 75 years...
That's what I'm hoping for. I still don't switch my dial to any other radio station even if I am the first to whine about certain programs or their coverage. It's still far better than anything else on offer. And when the CBC does something well, it really is stellar in comparison.
Thu, 2011-11-03 02:50
#47
The man in charge of bombing Libya back into the stone age, NATO's Canadian commander, 'Operation Unified Protector', Charles 'The Butcher' Bouchard, interviewed on CBC's As it Happens, Wednesday in Part 2
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/2011/11/02/the-wednesday-edition-p...
"Mission Concluded. The Canadian commander of the NATO air campaign in Libya explains why he believes the operation was successful"
Thu, 2011-11-03 07:21
#48
The man in charge of bombing Libya back into the stone age, NATO's Canadian commander, 'Operation Unified Protector', Charles 'The Butcher' Bouchard, interviewed on CBC's As it Happens, Wednesday in Part 2
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/2011/11/02/the-wednesday-edition-p...
"Mission Concluded. The Canadian commander of the NATO air campaign in Libya explains why he believes the operation was successful"
I'm sure that you listen to CBC Radio all the time, NDPP, and wouldn't play the game of cherry-pick to justify your own strange bias against the public radio that now is the only source of criticism of the Cons still operational on a large scale. Of course we CBC listeners salivate at the prospect of the generals being interviewed. It seems that the Cons, who are ready to shut down the CBC because of its tendency to criticize them, demand equal air time for theirs.
Or would you reduce your ideological world to a blinkered state that divorced from the real world, the tug of political war underway in this struggling democracy, already being shut down by the bastards in power ?
Is the (winter) sky blue? :)
Mon, 2012-01-09 18:26
#49
I find every time I turn CBC Radio 2 on in the late afternoon, I have to immediately turn it off again. Rich Terfry's "Drive" show is indistinguishable from commercial pop radio. I want to say everything sounds like Blink 182, mixed in with some Christian pop, but that would be a little unfair. But only a little.
I don't know if Terfry himself is to be blamed, or if this "upbeat" pop mandate is coming down to him from above, but I find the show mostly unlistenable.
How I miss Disc Drive.
Thu, 2012-01-26 15:34
#50
The man in charge of bombing Libya back into the stone age, NATO's Canadian commander, 'Operation Unified Protector', Charles 'The Butcher' Bouchard, interviewed on CBC's As it Happens, Wednesday in Part 2
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/2011/11/02/the-wednesday-edition-p...
"Mission Concluded. The Canadian commander of the NATO air campaign in Libya explains why he believes the operation was successful"
I'm sure that you listen to CBC Radio all the time, NDPP, and wouldn't play the game of cherry-pick to justify your own strange bias against the public radio that now is the only source of criticism of the Cons still operational on a large scale. Of course we CBC listeners salivate at the prospect of the generals being interviewed. It seems that the Cons, who are ready to shut down the CBC because of its tendency to criticize them, demand equal air time for theirs.
Or would you reduce your ideological world to a blinkered state that divorced from the real world, the tug of political war underway in this struggling democracy, already being shut down by the bastards in power ?
Is the (winter) sky blue? :)
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting informs us that Steve and Co. are planning to cut #100 million from the CBC budget. Friends carries this promise from James Moore the day following the May election:
"CBC funding secure, heritage minister says
May 3, 2011
Conservative Heritage Minister James Moore says his government believes in the CBC as a key cultural institution and has no plans to cut its funding following his party's recent electoral victory.
"We believe in the national public broadcaster. We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC. That is our platform and we have said that before and we will commit to that," Moore told CBC News in Vancouver on Tuesday morning.
"The CBC is the infrastructure around which Canadian arts and culture is built, so of course it is central and it is key," he said.
"It is essential for respect for all of our official languages and all of the regions of the country — broadcasting in aboriginal languages in the North," said Moore..."
Friends will provide you with the phone number of your MP on their website.
Thu, 2012-01-26 20:23
#51
laine lowe
Harper has been lying through his teeth. He also claimed that the cuts across public services would be capped at 5%. Not so much anymore.
I noticed another fob to the Harper Government™ mind set in CBC Radio 1 programming. It's called "Type A":
Type A is a series that celebrates strong personalities who are not afraid to speak their minds.Type A pulls up its bootstraps from Calgary, Alberta, the most vibrant city in the country, where "A" stands for accountability. The hosts are consultant and political strategist, Rod Love, and TV producer and columnist, Karin Klassen.
Their starting point is this: if you take care of the economy - everything else will take care of itself. Over 10 episodes, the series will dig at the underpinnings that are crucial to a prosperous Canada. From education reform, to how to build a better corporation, Type A gets to it through the bottom line.