On Monday the Globe and Mail, for reasons we can only imagine, gave a “comedian” named Bob Robertson a national platform on which to embarrass himself. It worked.
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‘Body language expert’ offers ‘insight’ on Rob Ford, it is ‘terrible’
On Friday, Canada’s newspaper of record published a video of reporter Hannah Sung interviewing Diane Craig, a body language expert and “executive trainer with Corporate Class Inc,” to discuss how Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s body language conveys what is going on in his personal and professional life right now. It was an illuminating discussion that somehow managed to fall short even of the low, low bar set by the description “interview with a body language expert.”
The Globe and Mail is only interested in rich readers
"Fuck off, poor people!" says Canada's national newspaper
After instituting a paywall on their website last year that allows readers to access 10 free articles per month, publisher and chief executive Philip Crawley spoke to Journalism.co.uk about what the paper has learned about its readership and how that has affected the paper’s behaviour.
Shining beacon of humanity Ryan Gosling publishes animal rights op-ed
If we’ve done one thing right as a nation, it was creating and then selflessly sharing with the world Ryan Gosling. We could have kept him to ourselves, forever a lanky, scene-stealing sidekick in beloved second-rate comedies, but we are too pure of spirit for that. We are, after all, Canadians.
Margaret Wente has some thoughts about women in the military
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente has responded to the Pentagon’s decision to allow women to serve in active combat roles in the US military. Wente had several things to say, several of which contradicted not only common sense but other things Wente said in the very same column.
Canadian pundits, there’s more to the Idle No More protests than political theatre
People of the Canadian punditocracy, let’s have a chat. Please come in, take off your coats, and have some coffee. What I have to say is going to hurt, but it’s in everyone’s best interest. I promise.
Here’s another sloppy column by Margaret Wente with misleading attribution
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente has a certain schtick when it comes to her writing. When there’s nothing in the news that grabs her eye, one of Wente’s friends inevitably steps in and provides the inspiration.
How to get around the Globe and Mail paywall
Here are a few ways to get around the Globe and Mail’s metred paywall once you reach your 10-article limit.
Someone finally notices thousands of barrels of oil spilling into Alberta muskeg
An oil spill from a pipeline in northern Alberta pumped 22,000 barrels of oil mix into muskeg earlier this month. That’s right, 22,000 barrels of that sweet, sweet ethical oil.
A brief history of the government’s war on environmental science
On the eve of May Long Weekend, when good patriots celebrate the reign of Queen Victoria by getting drunk on, in, or beside a freshwater lake, the federal government delivered another wave of walking papers.
Globe columnist writes a confusing diatribe about Tina Fey being old, ugly and unfunny
Globe and Mail columnist Lynn Crosbie has written something that is aggressively bad. It takes Tina Fey to task for being too hot, except she’s not hot at all, or something — and why is she trying to sell us hair dye when she’s so unfunny?
Globe and Mail to introduce paid subscriptions for its website
The Globe and Mail is following in the footsteps of the New York Times by introducing a metered paywall system for its online content sometime this fall.
Globe and Mail endorses PC in Alberta election despite the fact that newspaper endorsements don’t mean anything
With breathtaking arrogance, a bunch of Toronto elitists put down their cocaine-caviar martinis long enough to tell hard-working Albertans what to do, endorsing premier Alison Redford in Monday’s Alberta provincial election.
98 per cent of new judges in Canada are white
Of the 100 new federal judges appointed in the last few years, 98 were white. The only exceptions were two Métis judges, one in B.C. and one in Nova Scotia.