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Archive for March 4th, 2007

Am I just getting paranoid, or is there some blatant bias going on here?

Now please keep in mind that the following article in listed in the Toronto Sun under News; not Comment or opinion: Sikh MP battles ’smear campaign’. Reporter Ajit Jain tells us of the brave face that “the youngest Liberal MP” Navdeep Bains is putting on in spite of Stephen Harper’s apparent bullying tactics.

This is the paragraph you need to read very carefully:

We all know how Harper got up in the House of Commons and started reading from a report in the Vancouver Sun that the Liberals were opposed to extending life of two sunset clauses in the Anti-Terrorism Act to protect Darshan Singh Saini, Bains’ father-in-law, who reportedly is on the RCMP list of potential witnesses in the ongoing Air India criminal investigation.

Is that really what the article reported? Or did Kim Bolan simply list some facts, and let the reader draw his or her own conclusion?

We don’t even know exactly what spin the PM was planning to put on the article anyway, because he was shouted down by an obviously well-orchestrated howling chorus of self-serving, sanctimonious Liberals. However, I don’t see Reporter Jain mentioning that little tidbit.

So, if you’re outraged about this, please consider voicing your opinion.

Letters to the editor can be sent to: editor@tor.sunpub.com

Monday Update: Rachel Giese’s column (Harper’s a Bad Boy) is even worse, but at least it’s an opinion column. She’s obviously anti-Harper and pro-Gore. Hard to take first thing in the morning.

Can you last 24 hours without using a computer?

Michele Mandel (“A Day without the Net”), has interviewed Montreal computer programmer Denis Bystrov, who along with friend Michael Taylor has issued a world challenge - Can you shut off your computer for 24 hours?. The big day is aptly scheduled for Saturday, March 24.

There are some awesome You Tube videos available on the main site. My fav is “Alternative uses for your laptop“. It is a must-see! (And turn up your speakers).

As well as getting a much-needed break from internet addiction, I see a side benefit to this - It is just possible that the energy saved from computers being shut off all over the world may have enough global impact in the reduction of our collective carbon footprint, that we can finally tell David Suzuki and Al Gore to shut the h*ll up!!!