Tom Mulcair Joins Sun Media Newspaper Chain As National Columnist

This time he really has gone too far.

lol..how does it feel to be woke?

For all the naysayers who said that we read Thomas Mulcair wrong, this certainly is vindication. This is the Canadian equivalent of joining Fox News. Disgusting.

As ugly as the Sun can be, IMHO there's also a dismal sameness between the various msm platforms unfortunately. As a token, toothless lefty, Mulcair will have a little box to say whatever he wishes, add a faux 'balance' to the SUN brand, and maybe even help sell a few more papers, which is doubtless the intention. Based upon his lackluster NDP performance[ 'I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and circumstances' etc], I'm sure the Canadian ruling class has nothing to fear. Perhaps that's why Trudeau recently announced he is going to subsidize the msm with nice fat cheques of the people's tax-dollars to continue their fine work keeping Canuckleheads so ill informed, stupid and subservient to power.

Doesn't matter what he writes.  He's giving credibility to a right-wing media outlet.

Further down memory lane, I also remember Dave Barrett in the 80s writing at least one column for Alberta Report, which was the ancestral publication to Rebel Media, and which, frankly, made Levant's outlet look moderate. 

And Pam Barrett, an Edmonton NDP MLA and later party leader, did a stint hosting a phone-in show on a local talk-radio station that was otherwise dominated by right-wing crazies.  

R.E.Wood wrote:

nicky wrote:

Why don’t we wait and see what Tom actually writes?

Wait no longer:

Maxime Bernier makes Andrew Scheer appear middle-of-the-road

https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/columnists/mulcair-maxime-bernier-makes-...

Not sure what, if any, cui bono analysis you could do of that column. Normally, saying that a far-right winger makes a right-winger look moderate is done to benefit the right-winger, eg. the Lake Of Fire attacks on Wildrose re-electing the Alberta Tories in 2012.

However...

That’s where Max comes in. He becomes the shield for Scheer to parry those attacks. Right-wing ideologue? You must be referring to my friend Maxime Bernier …

Scheer will always appear middle-of-the-road by comparison to Max la Menace. In a campaign where personal attacks will abound, that can only help Scheer.

This doesn't sound like Mulcair really wants people to think that Scheer is a moderate, just that that's how it's going to "appear" during the campaign, as a result of the contrast with Bernier. Back to my earlier comparison, Alison Redford's hacks didn't tell people that she "appeared" moderate, they really wanted people to think she was.

The column seems just more an attempt at Insider Baseball predictions, rather than an attempt to convince the reader to vote one way or another.

voice of the damned wrote:

That said, I've always had doubts about how genuinely left-wing Mulcair is, but that's based on his history of party affiliation, not which newspaper he ended up working for after leaving politics.

I've asked this before and never received an answer so I'll ask again.

Wanting to get into provincial politics in Quebec, which party is a left wing federalist supposed to run for given that there are no viable left wing federalist options? People criticize Mulcair for having ran for the Quebec Liberals, but they're never able to state which party he should've ran for instead.

nicky wrote:

Why don’t we wait and see what Tom actually writes?

No! Let’s keep this rampage fueled by all kinds of assumptions going.

The imperialist corporate media needs a further radical materialistic media outlet to strengthen and maintain its own cloak of feeble progressive image to protect the corporations Trojan horse of materialism. 

Ken Burch wrote:

pietro_bcc wrote:

voice of the damned wrote:

That said, I've always had doubts about how genuinely left-wing Mulcair is, but that's based on his history of party affiliation, not which newspaper he ended up working for after leaving politics.

I've asked this before and never received an answer so I'll ask again.

Wanting to get into provincial politics in Quebec, which party is a left wing federalist supposed to run for given that there are no viable left wing federalist options? People criticize Mulcair for having ran for the Quebec Liberals, but they're never able to state which party he should've ran for instead.

Indeed.  I have criticized Mulcair a lot, but never understood why the Quebec Liberal thing kept getting thrown out there as proof that the NDP should have known better than to choose the guy.  There are a lot of reasons for people to have issues with Mulcair having been leader, but why was THAT brought up over and over again?  And why was it belabored, endlessly, by the federal Liberal sympathizers on this board?  Who the hell were those folks to judge on that point?

All I know is I saw Mulcair twice on Politics with Don Newman (around 16 or 17 years ago) identifying himself as a supporter of Alan Rock when talking about who should succeed Chretien. He was on a panel with another Liberal MNA.

It's funny how a Liberal MP , MNA, MPP, etc.. are all scum until it's convenient.

I never bought him as a New Democrat and I thought everyone else would share the sentiment here. But no....Thomas changes his name to Tom and everyone thinks he's Tommy Douglas.

He was and always has been a typical Liberal that leans slightly to the right. Just a corporate suit with no intention on improving our decrepid society in any way .

I don’t like jagmeet Singh either.

alan smithee wrote:

It's funny how a Liberal MP , MNA, MPP, etc.. are all scum until it's convenient.

I never bought him as a New Democrat and I thought everyone else would share the sentiment here. But no....Thomas changes his name to Tom and everyone thinks he's Tommy Douglas.

He was and always has been a typical Liberal that leans slightly to the right. Just a corporate suit with no intention on improving our decrepid society in any way .

 

Nobody EVER thought Mulcair was Tommy Douglas.

WWWTT wrote:

Misfit wrote:

I don’t like jagmeet Singh either.

LOL! Why?

out of all the leaders that will end up with seats in the house, he’s hands down the best one! And also the best for Canadians.

Uh . . . that's not saying much.  Look at the alternatives.

Aristotleded24 wrote:

nicky wrote:

Why don’t we wait and see what Tom actually writes?

I agree with nicky on this one. Sure, Mulcair becoming a columnist with a right-wing newspaper raises a few eyebrows, but we'll know for sure what is happening after we've seen more of what he has to write.

Me too.

Ken Burch wrote:

alan smithee wrote:

It's funny how a Liberal MP , MNA, MPP, etc.. are all scum until it's convenient.

I never bought him as a New Democrat and I thought everyone else would share the sentiment here. But no....Thomas changes his name to Tom and everyone thinks he's Tommy Douglas.

He was and always has been a typical Liberal that leans slightly to the right. Just a corporate suit with no intention on improving our decrepid society in any way .

 

Nobody EVER thought Mulcair was Tommy Douglas.

Perhaps. But if you can go to old threads from when Thomas Mulcair became the leader of the NDP, I had been attacking him and exposing him as the right leaning Liberal that he actually is.

Quit defending him. Trust me, you wouldn't be doing so 15 years ago.

alan smithee wrote:

Ken Burch wrote:

alan smithee wrote:

It's funny how a Liberal MP , MNA, MPP, etc.. are all scum until it's convenient.

I never bought him as a New Democrat and I thought everyone else would share the sentiment here. But no....Thomas changes his name to Tom and everyone thinks he's Tommy Douglas.

He was and always has been a typical Liberal that leans slightly to the right. Just a corporate suit with no intention on improving our decrepid society in any way .

 

Nobody EVER thought Mulcair was Tommy Douglas.

Perhaps. But if you can go to old threads from when Thomas Mulcair became the leader of the NDP, I had been attacking him and exposing him as the right leaning Liberal that he actually is.

Quit defending him. Trust me, you wouldn't be doing so 15 years ago.

I'm NOT defending him.  Mulcair should never have been the leader.  It's not defending Mulcair simply to point out that nobody was ever delusional enough to think he was even remotely similar to Tommy Douglas.  And as to absurd comparisons, not only was Mulcair not Tommy, it was ridiculous for anybody to think that voting to replace NDP MPs with Liberal MPs could ever, in any universe, have been a vote for a candidate to that NDP MPs' left.  Nobody but the wealthy benefited from the Liberal Party taking seats from the NDP.

That is correct. But if they got rid of snivelling Trudeau then they would have him as an option. However the Liberals would not consider Bob Rae either because of his past with the NDP.

I'm not going to echo the right wing branding of Trudeau by calling him by his first name.

Trudeau should step down for someone who at least seems more responsible. Having said that, it's the PARTY that creates  policies. It's the party that writes out their platform.

Like it or not, The Liberals won a majority because Thomas Mulcair was pushing in centrists and moderates. The Liberals ran LEFT of the NDP as the NDP went the old school Liberal/Conservative way. We all know how that story went.

I'm not going to cheerlead Scheer, not even for money. You are all conveniently or ignorantly cheerlerading for the CPC. Who the hell do you think will take over from the Liberals?  I'll give you a hint : it ain't gonna be the NDP.

So I have made up my mind and will vote Liberal again because they promised to expunge the records of those arrested,convicted and/or went to jail. They also promised to do something about our 25 year old at this point,huge social problem which is housing. Fuck health care. I think our system is good. It needs to be expanded but it's not a massive issue. What is however is the housing crisis nobody even talks about.

And this is more important to me than voting for a party that can hardly break 20% hence not having a chance in hell of making up the government in 2019.

Mulcair is trashing Trudeau because that's the fashionable thing to do. You can't shit all over the Liberal party's priorites of expunging criminal records and doing something about HOUSING. Our cities are turning into a playground exclusively for the rich. Housing is more important to me than Trudeau bashing.

nicky wrote:

Unfortunately, by betraying his promise on electoral reform "Justin" has presented us with the false choice once again of Conservatives vs  the Just a Little Bit BBetter than The Conservatives Party.

The Liberals could have legislated a simple blanket pardon to everyone with a conviction for possession of cannabis but instead have promised a cumbersome and expensive alternative. No thanks.

And if you believe they will alieviate the housing problem you must believe that this will be the first promise they ever keep.

However bad Scheer may me, it sticks in my craw that his awfulness is thrust in our faces as the reason we have to vote for a callow narcistic unprincipled mediocrity who would not be considered fit for a small town school board were it not for his pedigree.

What party keeps all their promises? I remember a couple of years ago when someone said they'd eat their hat if the Liberals legalized cannabis. Guess what? They did. I hope that hat wasn't too large.

If they are going to keep that promise, I have faith that they will do something about our housing situation,

There is absolutely,positively no fucking chance that I'm going to accept Scheer. I don't care who he is up against. Unless it's Bernier's party.

Sorry. I very much disagree with you. There is NEVER a reason to sit by and idly let the CPC come back to power,especially after 10 years of fuckhead Harper. We just got rid of them, no one ever learns their lesson. apparently.

"Trudeau" is a far better choice than Scheer. And the Liberals are leagues and leagues better than the CPC. FACT.

BTW, your average everyday Canadian doesn't care about electoral reform. I can assure you that that won't be an issue in October. The only people who support and understand electoral reform are political junkies. Your average Canadian couldn't give 2 shits.

You make perfect sense and your words are worth keeping in mind. My fear is the CPC becomes the government, they do NOTHING about housing,they strangle the pot stores out of business and redistribute the market back to the underground. The Liberals are running on the deficit. The Cons get elected and it will be the same old same old with these bastards, 'Oh, the Liberals left us with a huge deficit and now we're going to have to make some tough choices'

Tory times are hard times. Especially if you are poor and that includes the working poor.

My riding is just what you said. Maybe I don't have to vote Liberal but if the Libs and Cons were neck and neck, it would be my DUTY to vote Liberal.

I'll tell you why I get triggered by Conservatives. Everything I said above. I don't buy into the false equivilancy between the Conservatives and the Liberals. I would rather live for the next 40 years with the Liberals in power than the Conservatives for 4 years.

This is where I'm coming from. You don't have to agree with me but that's my motivation.

The Liberals may have "legalized" cannabis possession by removing it from criminal sanction.

They have however sattached so many administraqtive penalties to aspects of possession that it is scarcely legal or convenient to possess. They have also deferred major aspects of regulation to the provinces which have often attached rediculous restrictions.

As well, the Liberals have resisted a blanket pardon for poossession convictions.

You you may remember F R Scott's poem about another Liberal PM, Mackenzie King, in which he wrote: "Never do anything by halves that you can do by quarters."

Oh yeah....check out what Kenney's United Fascist Party is doing in Alberta.,.expect that type of bullshit if the CPC wins the next election

I wonder if Thomas will eviscerate them...doubt it

Would you quit with the Justin bullshit.... that's not progressive it's right wing...you sound like Agolf Twitler...grow up