Here is a partial list of Canadian daily newspapers that wrote positively and uncritically about the Fraser Institute's bogus tax freedom day this year:

If most of us still get our information about elections from the corporate media -- including the CBC -- then the way the media frame the campaign could determine the election's outcome.

Will Harper finally get his long-sought majority, so he can shift from incremental change to the blitzkrieg approach perfected by the New Zealand Labour government in the 1980s?

Or will he be relegated to yet another minority, in which case he continues to move his agenda forward step by step?

Canadians went into election mode faced with two competing narratives for them to consider. In the one presented by the opposition parties, the Harper government is ethically challenged and can't be trusted.

Trust the Vancouver Sun to whitewash corporate shenanigans.

Case in point, the annual meeting of the Bank of Montreal in Vancouver on March 22.

The bank has become a major target of public hostility in Wisconsin, where last December it bought the Marshall and Ilsley Bank for $4.1 billion.

While BMO shareholders listened to CEO Bill Downe present his rosy forecasts for profits from this acquisition, public and private sector workers and their supporters protested in front of the M&I branch in Madison, Wisconsin, ground zero in the corporate attack on public sector unions.

It turns out that the bank and its top executives led the list of contributors to Republican Governor Scott Walker's campaign fund in 2010.