tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post8060920150901376575..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: Is This Why The Con Media Hates Justin Trudeau So Much?Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-21690911478442558842018-02-05T13:42:24.588-05:002018-02-05T13:42:24.588-05:00Lagatta is oh so correct about harassment not bein...Lagatta is oh so correct about harassment not being restricted to the right wing. Until there are fewer "boys" in the club things will remain the same. it was interesting to note it was reported that until women became at least 30% of the group, things remained an old boys club. People laughed when the NDP has "quotas" for female candidates, but given what we now know, about the "30% rule" they were ahead of the game. <br /><br />When groups are gender balanced, there isn't quite the same games going on. What is important is people get called out on their inequitable behaviour. e.a..fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-16393772911897754272018-02-05T10:48:06.423-05:002018-02-05T10:48:06.423-05:00Great Middle Eastern food though... If you do acce...Great Middle Eastern food though... If you do accept that job, live in Gatineau. Two of my cousins live in Aylmer and in Old Hull. lagatta à montréalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02610410709900333230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-79723801243575943942018-02-05T10:44:51.288-05:002018-02-05T10:44:51.288-05:00Given the number of bars and lounges in the Mother...Given the number of bars and lounges in the Mother of Parliaments, hardly surprising!<br /><br />Also a boys-will-be-boys culture endemic among those who attended private schools. Boris Johnson. Prince Phillip without a filter...lagatta à montréalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02610410709900333230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-6814924020628316192018-02-05T09:15:21.359-05:002018-02-05T09:15:21.359-05:00hi anon@11:53...I'm certainly not suggesting t...hi anon@11:53...I'm certainly not suggesting that Oosterhoff is a champion of women. And I can understand your distrust of social conservatives, since I share that view. But he is young, and as a young person I was interested in what he had to say about the toxic atmosphere on the hill. Maybe one day, if he tries to tie me to a burning cross, I'll change my mind about him... ;)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-82610300567792994902018-02-05T09:11:22.691-05:002018-02-05T09:11:22.691-05:00hi RT...you make some good points, and I am glad t...hi RT...you make some good points, and I am glad that what is going on in Ottawa is finally getting some attention. Although I have to say that what is going on is not unique to the Peyton Place on the Rideau. I get exactly the same vibes when I stay in Quebec City. It's another small town, a beautiful place to visit, but a horrible incestuous power place to live in.<br />I've been offered a chance to work in Ottawa, and although I'm sure that many good people live there, it's definitely not for me, and I had to bite my tongue to stay polite.... ;)<br />Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-81954855464757756872018-02-05T09:05:52.038-05:002018-02-05T09:05:52.038-05:00hi anon@4:55...I read Patriquin's story, and w...hi anon@4:55...I read Patriquin's story, and while I agreed with him that Warren Kinsella's insinuations were over the top, I thought his claim that those (men) who work on the hill were all stressed out also ridiculous. For if you haven't done anything wrong, why would you be stressed? And his notion that any of that damages the #Metoo movement is also ridiculous, because that movement is much bigger than what is happening in Ottawa...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-37307167046261517122018-02-05T09:02:12.115-05:002018-02-05T09:02:12.115-05:00Hi Steve...the Toronto Star is no longer a liberal...Hi Steve...the Toronto Star is no longer a liberal paper. It is getting more right-wing by the day. An this was shown by something that happened about ten days ago, when a story was printed with the editor's notes as part of the text. And those editor's notes clearly showed that the Star's bosses wanted the writer to put as positive spin as possible on the departure of Patrick Brown. I made screen caps of the notes before they were deleted, and may use them at some point to reinforce my belief that our media is hopelessly biased...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-87809208597581907092018-02-05T08:57:45.802-05:002018-02-05T08:57:45.802-05:00hi lagatta...what you say may be true, ad there ar...hi lagatta...what you say may be true, ad there are bad apples in every journalistic tribe. But if you see what is happening here, and you look at what is happening in Britain, it's clearly mostly a rightwing problem. In fact the problem in Britain is even more acute, and if we are not careful we could end up in the same boat...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-91280112599272685742018-02-05T08:54:49.599-05:002018-02-05T08:54:49.599-05:00hi rumleyfips...yes I also read that post and wasn...hi rumleyfips...yes I also read that post and wasn't impressed. Like some of the dinosaurs on parliament hill he seems to think that sexual harassment is a game, and thinks that what Trudeau is doing is bad, when in fact it's what any decent man should do. And if he didn't do what he is doing, the new generation would not support him, and our future would go down the drain. Men are who we are, and sex is a game we like, but unless we respect others how can we expect others to respect us? Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-66301542739309676222018-02-05T08:49:01.055-05:002018-02-05T08:49:01.055-05:00hi Jackie...yes, beyond the reason why the Con med...hi Jackie...yes, beyond the reason why the Con media is so biased, is the need to strike back at the and the other toxic Trudeau haters. For in my opinion they have been allowed to create an atmosphere resembling the Salem Witch trials, where Justin is portrayed as corrupt and evil for among other things taking a vacation and wearing colourful socks. Progressives have to get more engaged, and remember that we are in a war with monsters who will destroy us unless we destroy them first. And we won't be able to do that until we start hitting them where it hurts...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-61535354658411819722018-02-05T08:43:20.464-05:002018-02-05T08:43:20.464-05:00Hi Mark...yes, I agree with you. We should not jud...Hi Mark...yes, I agree with you. We should not judge people on who they are, but on what they do and say...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-84622010581244400312018-02-05T08:42:03.083-05:002018-02-05T08:42:03.083-05:00hi anon@10:11 AM...I an well aware that Oosterhoff...hi anon@10:11 AM...I an well aware that Oosterhoff is a social conservative. But I've heard him interviewed, for a social conservative he seems reasonably decent, and I thought what he had to say was interesting and important. And tells us that the ugliness in Ottawa continues...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-16391626546658768472018-02-04T18:26:02.104-05:002018-02-04T18:26:02.104-05:00Just another confirmation that Ottawa is a place w...Just another confirmation that Ottawa is a place where the wide eyed with political ideals and personal ambition go to be killed by self interested power brokers of all stripes. Not the best prognosis for a country reliant on proactive leadership smoothing some of the structure wreaking turbulence that lies ahead.<br />In another sense Ottawa symbolizes the creeping death of the American dream and highlights some of the crony capitalist good old boys club networks that are helping to kill it. Success and prosperity through hard work, determination and initiative is slowly dying along with the middle class that believe in it. The older journalists hate Trudeau because their dream is dead but rather than blame those responsible they see Trudeau as an elitist who surfed the benefits of the past dream only to effortlessly jump on a new wave leaving them drowning in the under tow. They are disillusioned and desperate enough to follow anyone that promises a return to the days of yore. Many of their younger replacements view the past as a suckers game and are cynically gaming the system and view the public as malleable short memory empty vessels. In many respects we behave in that manner only accelerated with the help of social media. <br />RTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-26310684386443935742018-02-04T16:55:28.889-05:002018-02-04T16:55:28.889-05:00I found the Off story shocking, and I wonder why i...I found the Off story shocking, and I wonder why it took so long for the Con media to start exposing its own dirty laundry. Martin Patriquin's claim that those who work on Parliament Hill are the real victims is a joke. If they're feeling like victims, serve them right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-79161261993377707612018-02-04T16:50:57.880-05:002018-02-04T16:50:57.880-05:00Well, you know what they say about a broken cuckoo...Well, you know what they say about a broken cuckoo clock. That being said, speaking of Bible-thumping maniacs, when is Scheer going to be taken to task for elevating the Richard Spencer wannabe Dane Lloyd who has a long and public history of ranting on Facebook about "feminazis"? Over the objection of Rona Ambrose at that. "Elbowgate" was an accident overblown by the press. Scheer is the one who really muscled a woman out of his way. He can try to cover his tracks all he wants by trying to blame the Liberals as "hypocrites" for protesting against Rachel Harder's confirmation, but it's he who needs to answer for his affiliation with known woman-haters like the junior Nazi in his caucus with the tiki-bro haircut.<br /><br />Then of course there's the Rebel Media connection. In this age of #metoo, someone should ask him why he finds it appropriate to hire as his campaign manager a longtime colleague of Ezra Levant, a man who for years employed the known rape apologist Gavin McInnes, who in turn is friends with another notorious Internet rape-defender named Mike Cernovich, the progenitor of the "pizzagate" conspiracy theory against Hillary Clinton? There really aren't that many degrees of separation between Scheer and rape-defenders all around. And it all goes back to Hamish Marshall and Ezra Levant.<br /><br />Plus, if we're going to talk about false allegations, then why chum around with Levant at all, considering he himself once insinuated that Trudeau had sexually assaulted a young bride, who <i>asked him</i> to pose for a photo where he gave her a friendly kiss on the cheek? And, in his own way, sexually harassed Pierre Trudeau posthumously by calling the man a "slüt"? What about calling Environment Minister Catherine McKenna "Climate Barbie," fanning the flames of the "Nannygate" BS to paint Sophie as a selfish and inattentive mother, or the disgusting "Madame X" article he posted about Maggie, planting a poison seed in the already diseased minds of his deranged mob cult with a rumor that <i>she had an affair with Donald Trump</i>??? THIS is the man who Scheer thinks is upstanding and respectable enough to be the standard torchbearer for the mainstream Conservative Party???<br /><br />I don't know much about this kid Oosterhoff, but I do know that Andrew Scheer has a LOT to answer for. Maybe not personally, but there's an old saying that you can judge a man by the company he keeps. Something about lying down with dogs, or rolling in the mud with pigs. And that's an insult to dogs and pigs.Jackie Bluenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-51529799749427755752018-02-04T15:43:46.269-05:002018-02-04T15:43:46.269-05:00I think Wynee must have canceled her Star Subscrip...I think Wynee must have canceled her Star Subscription. Lots of flowers for the Cons lately. First a enormous puff for Brown, today a con editorial full of bouquets and whats next a Ford endorsement?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-23981915545208930502018-02-04T12:49:47.070-05:002018-02-04T12:49:47.070-05:00I do want to remind people that the toxic journali...I do want to remind people that the toxic journalistic culture does not always skew rightwing. I worked for years (as a freelancer) at the CSN communications department, and was deeply involved in the La Presse strike (no, not the one in 1966!!!). Booze was not the only substance it involved - Nicotine, of course, and often cocaine, and lots of strong black coffee - certainly the most innocuous of those substances, but it played a part in the bomb just as caffeine - and sugar - do in those strong alcohol and caffeine drinks young teens get bombed on nowadays. <br /><br />But no way were those people remotely cons. <br /><br />One of my friends from that period died from a combination of substances. Another, who was a colleague but NOT a friend, kept threatening to kill his (estranged) wife, when he was high on cocaine, booze and god knows what else. Wife's brother, who is one of the sweetest men I know and an excellent father, had to assume the old macho avenger schtick and threaten to beat up the violent macho ijut. It worked... <br /><br />The younger journalists and other wordsmiths I know are much more health and life-balance conscious, but they still all work freelance and you know how unsettling that can be, even if they ape Foglia and Alain Gravel and cycle everywhere. lagatta à montréalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02610410709900333230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-28279777456979735172018-02-04T11:53:48.127-05:002018-02-04T11:53:48.127-05:00I'm just saying let's not crown him as a c...I'm just saying let's not crown him as a champion of women. He is young enough to change but I doubt he has.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-6530949778655907192018-02-04T10:55:25.154-05:002018-02-04T10:55:25.154-05:00After I read this I read a piece by the BayBabbler...After I read this I read a piece by the BayBabbler that I hoped was ironic but instead was just sad.<br /><br />He thinks federal party leaders are unmanly for trying to eliminate sexual harassment in the halls of power. <br /><br />He congratulates himself once for trying to protect an MP , seen romancing someone not his wife, from exposure. What a hero.<br /><br />Pity that such a sexist dinosaur posts on Progressive Bloggers; his views are not progressive.rumleyfipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346146988416679423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-70213761402343977972018-02-04T10:54:19.411-05:002018-02-04T10:54:19.411-05:00Yet, in this case, he is right. Fighting him when...Yet, in this case, he is right. Fighting him when he's wrong does not have to mean refusing to acknowledge when he's right.Mark Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-36890625811507530232018-02-04T10:11:42.657-05:002018-02-04T10:11:42.657-05:00Oosterhoff is a Bible thumping maniacOosterhoff is a Bible thumping maniacAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com