By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
The exposure by WRISEUP.COM of the conspiracy between rogue publisher John Cruikshank and rogue executive editor Michael Cooke of the allegedly “Liberal” and “liberal” Toronto Star that singhandedly assured the election of a Conservative majority federal government on May 2, 2011, should be enough to prompt the immediate dismissal of both of them.
After all, a covert undertaking by the devious pair that thwarted any possibility of the Liberal Party returning to power in Ottawa could well be construed as an act of gross misconduct on the part of the duo that runs the newsroom of Canada’s largest daily newspaper, which had been a major power in the Liberal Party for decades.
True, even if the Liberals had managed to hold on to the 36 Greater Toronto Area seats Cooke and Cruikshank covertly delivered to extreme-right-wing Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, they would still only have won 70 seats out of a total of 308 in Canada’s House of Commons and the party would still have wound up in third place. But combined with the 103 seats won by the social-democratic NDP, it would have been enough to give Canadians a left-leaning majority coalition and prevent the Tories from implementing a hidden agenda that is already causing serious damage to millions of poor, working-class and middle-class Canadians.
But will the directors of the Toronto Star, who purport to be diehard opponents of the Conservatives, have the integrity and the courage of their supposed convictions necessary to do the right thing and turf out this dangerous duo? Or will they be too embarrassed by their own failure to perform due diligence before putting this pair in charge of Canada’s largest newsroom? read more »
Daily Archives: June 15, 2012
Will Torstar punish its rogue editors who engineered the Conservative election win?
Ramming garbage down Canada’s throat
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
As I write this column, Canada’s House of Commons should just be wrapping up a mammoth sitting — more than 24 straight hours — to vote on hundreds of amendments the various opposition parties have introduced in an effort to try to protect the Other 99 Percent of Canadians from the harm they will suffer under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s omnibus so-called “budget” Bill.
True, the 400-plus-page Bill does have a tremendous amount in it related directly to the government’s spending plans for the next year — almost all part of a harsh “austerity” plan that will severely punish poor, working-class and middle-class Canadians through draconian cuts to spending on health care, education, social programs, scientific research, food inspection, drug testing, old-age pensions, etc. and by adding thousands of civil servants to the ranks of millions of Canadians already unemployed or severely underemployed — despite the fact this far-less-than-honest government continues to insist that Canada is not in a recession.
But in addition to the horrific economic implications of this budget-from-hell, there are literally dozens of major changes to many other laws that the Conservatives have tried to hide in the massive tome and steamroll into law before anyone could catch on to what they’re up to. By then the damage will be done. And for a great many Canadians the damage will indeed be very severe. read more »
