I was there earlier this week, for a Fight The Right interview. We looked around for a while, and I picked up the Edmonton’s Rock’n’Roll Bitches ‘Wild West’ EP, plus a button featuring The Sturgeons, our best friends (and label mates) in Calgary’s punk scene.

Sad to see another record store slip under the waves. Hits and Misses will be missed.

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“Canadian Hindu Advocacy” is a group that says it plans to screen the Innocence of Muslims propaganda film that has stirred up chaos and death in the Middle East. Who are they? BCL has more here. Most recently, they have been associated with Jewish Defence League, hosting British white supremacists like the “European Defence League” and stirring up anti-Muslim hate.

What’s interesting, too, is Canadian Hindu Advocacy’s symbiotic relationship with Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney. It’s a relationship that needs to be investigated, I’d say. More here and here.

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Very sorry to hear of his passing. A great Canadian.

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Well-written, carefully reasoned and – as with all of his treatises on this subject – completely full of shit.

Kay can write about “red lines” all that he likes. But nothing can obscure the fact that there’s a great big one at the National Post, and it starts at Jonathan Kay’s computer.

Oh, and at the Sun? In my two years of writing for them, I have never been prevented from writing about anything.

Never.

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Here’s Michael Harris, aptly-named Ontario PCC MPP FOR A KITCHENER-AREA RIDING. At a PRESS CONFERENCE.

Oh my Lord Almighty, I love these guys. I hope they never, ever change.

THeir awsum!

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…but I (and you) knew that already. Which is beside the point: the Sun folks, whose opinions I vehemently disagree with 99 per cent of the time, are open about all this. They don’t pretend to be free of bias, like too many other media organizations do. They’re proud of their bias.

The Sixth Estate folks missed a couple things, too: Bonokoski sought a Canadian Alliance nomination, and Worthington was a Progressive Conservative aspirant. There may be others, I can’t recall.

Point remains, however: nobody – with the exception of media fantasists – believe the media is without an agenda. My take: if you’ve got a view, be honest about it.

My view, meanwhile, is the only right one!

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And no less than B’nai Brith agrees Jim McDonnell’s characterization of opponents as Nazis is a disgrace:

“There is no place in Ontario for invoking the racism, hatred and violence that characterized Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime to pursue a political agenda. Such a comparison is insulting to all Ontarians, especially to the Jewish community and the Holocaust survivors and their families within it…We feel that without an appropriate and informed apology, Mr. McDonell’s original unacceptable statement still stands. Blaming others for misinterpreting his words does not constitute an apology.”

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From a respected Toronto municipal columnist:

In essence, someone has to save the mayor from himself. He cannot be rehabilitated. He doesn’t “get it” when it comes to appropriate behaviour of a public official. He is surrounded by too many people who embolden him and too few who can knock sense into his ample skull.

But there is a tipping point, a straw that will send the embarrassing bundle that’s Rob Ford tumbling into obscurity. You can bet on Rob Ford being Rob Ford — which means he won’t see it coming.

From a respected Conservative analyst, in the pages of the Sun no less:

No one disputes Ford’s passion for the game of football and helping kids, but does this give him a free pass to ignore and skirt rules and regulations he does not agree with?

If it was just a one-off situation, most people would look the other way. But as the litany of the mayor’s bad judgment calls is revealed, what lessons are these kids actually learning from him?

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