Showing posts with label Globe and Mail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Globe and Mail. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Globe and Mail spin - everything is pro-Conservative

Rusty Idols: The Globe and Mail's Cognitive Dissonance

After suggesting on Tuesday that the surge of the far right and nativist vote in the recent EU election was actually a vote of confidence in capitalism, today our paper of record suggests that the landslide NDP win in Nova Scotia is actually a sign of how conservative Nova Scotians are.

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

What's not being reported about Chrysler and the union in Ontario

DTK: McGuinty: Chrysler's Problems are the Union's Fault

... As I explained, the real problem was that Chrysler had never put aside any money for the pensions it had promised its employees. Instead, it now includes the cost of those pensions as part of the current employees' labour cost.

The effect is to make the workers seem expensive relative to those at neighbouring plants when, in reality, they make about the same amount of money.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Globe's "expose" questionable.

RedBedHead: Beyond Craven: The Globe's Gaza "Expose" <read me!
Every article about the school bombing that I could find, names the school al Fakhura - somehow the Globe came up with the name "Ibn Rushd Preparatory School for Boys". One wonders if the reporter was in the wrong place entirely.