My Interview with The Late Lee Kwan Yew
An Interview With Lee Kwan Yew INROADS MAGAZINE SPRING 1992 Born to a wealthy Chinese family, Harry Lee, as he was then known, returned to Singapore in 1950 with a Cambridge law degree (earned...
View ArticleAsia Pacific Foundation of Canada reposts my Lee Kuan Yew blog
Just up on the newly designed Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s website. My interview with Lee Kuan Yew
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Widespread Opposition Grows Against Victims of Communism Memorial – Make Your...
To: Mayor Jim Watson and City Councillors, Ottawa (click for contact info to make your opinion heard) From: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Canadian Society of Landscape Architects...
View ArticleCBC’s Damaging Inability to Make Clear Policy Statements
Yesterday, June 10, a day after Evan Solomon was fired for running his own private art brokering business out of his office at CBC TV’s Power&Politics, Ottawa Morning (CBC’s morning radio program)...
View ArticleA Tasteless, Jingoistic, Paramilitary Embarrassment at the RCMP Musical Ride
Black-uniformed officers in body armour assume combat postures, the sharp “bang” of stun grenades, smoke bombs releasing white clouds, a huge, black armoured-personnel vehicle circling the scene .…...
View ArticleCourse Correction by CBC: Peter Mansbridge No Longer A Patron of the...
According to the website of the controversial Never Forgotten war memorial proposed for Cape Breton Island, the name of Peter Mansbridge, the CBC’s Chief Correspondent and anchor of The National, has...
View ArticleWho Are Canada’s Top 1% Earners … A Snapshot
Just out from the Institute for Research on Public Policy .. Who Are Canada’s Top 1 % Earners Lots of details on Canada’s richest folks here, comparing 1981 with 2011 (the latest good data available)...
View ArticleLooking Inside, Looking Ahead … At The CBC
Two new items about CBC prompt this morning’s comments on the struggles inside my former employer. The first is John Doyle’s excellent column in today’s Globe&Mail A New and Better CBC Must Start...
View ArticleI’m Rex Murphy! No, I’m Rex Murphy! …. CBC’s Sham.
After I recently argued that CBC must stop calling Rex Murphy “just” a freelance opinionator, several people wrote to explain to me that there are actually two Rex Murphys at CBC. They’re right, at...
View ArticleNigel Wright’s Testimony is Offensive and Insulting to Canadians
“I had an obligation to fulfill my end of the arrangement with him (Duffy). I couldn’t think of another way of doing it.” Is anyone else profoundly insulted and deeply offended by this self-effacing...
View ArticleBoss Life: Surviving Your Own Small Business – If You’re Lucky.
I seldom review books here, but this one really deserves it. I first stumbled onto Paul Downs when he was writing for the New York Times’s You’re The Boss blog, where he regularly chronicled the...
View Article“Well, Look Peter, I’m Actually NOT An Economist”– What Stephen Harper Didn’t...
Monday night, the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge made the mistake of referring to Prime Minister Stephen Harper as an economist: “Given your track record on analysis … and you’re not alone as an economist ….”...
View ArticleCBC News Isn’t Playing Fair – revised
NOTE SUNDAY EVENING SEPT 13TH: This post was originally put up on Friday night Sept. 11th, soon after Elizabeth May’s interview on The National. This Sunday evening, the 13th, I was made aware of an...
View ArticleOpinion vs. Reporting: There Is Still An Important Difference, CBC News!
Just asking ….. Should Keith Boag, CBC’s senior journalist in Washington, cover the ongoing sad state of politics in the US by offering strategic political campaign advice to the US Republican Party?...
View ArticleLincoln Electric, 67 straight years without layoffs, 82 straight years of...
Lincoln Electric, which I profiled in my book SPARK, just announced its 2015 employee profit-sharing results, backed by the firm’s now 67 years-long unbroken no-layoff promise. 2015 details (2014 in...
View ArticleCBC Threatens Its Own Future …. The Danger of Mixing Journalism and Opinion
After my post last week complaining – and yes, worrying – about CBC journalist Keith Boag’s personal opinions about Donald Trump, I told myself to lie low. It’s the holiday season. That turns out to...
View ArticleCBC Officially Responds To My Blog on Mixing Journalism and Personal Opinion
This afternoon, I received the following letter from Jack Nagler, CBC’s Director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement, replying to my blog on what I see as a worrisome trend at CBC of...
View Article“The Danger and Sham of Journalistic Neutrality”– Really?
There was a mini-firestorm in the US media world this morning when National Public Radio (more or less, akin to the CBC in Canada) found itself explaining the important difference between reporting...
View ArticleMike Duffy Was Not Exonerated!
Am I the only one reading the Globe and Mail on a Saturday morning and feeling very very queasy about the almost overnight near re-hagiografication of Mike Duffy in the media and the punditocracy?...
View ArticleMegyn Kelly’s Master Class In Bad Journalism
One question in a Republican debate last fall about Donald Trump’s attitudes towards women – and his angry misogynistic tweet soon afterwards – instantly transformed Megyn Kelly into … a tough...
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