Blue Like You

Via Girl on the Right , we have this provocative Toronto Star letter from Toronto City Councillor, Adam Vaughan :

…Letters from outside the city and indeed from across North America have been trickling in since council made its decision. My favourite letters are the ones being sent from the U.S. Gun owners there are now urging a boycott of Toronto. Considering that most of the problems with guns on our streets emanate from south of the border, I couldn’t be happier …

What do you say, U.S. Tourists? Could you possibly make his dreams come true and boycott Toronto altogether? Get your friends and families to join in. Toronto clearly doesn’t want you.

On the other hand, there are some other fine Canadian cities that would welcome you. I’m thinking Calgary, Niagara Falls, Montreal…

I’m sure they’d be willing to help out Adam Vaughn and take some of these gun-totin’ U.S. tourist dollars off Toronto’s hands.

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Saturday Update : Alright, alright! We have a heavy lobbying group for the city of Edmonton in comments - another great Canadian city for U.S. tourists to discover. And it sounds so much more appealing than Toronto the Bad !

CBL - David Miller Lies Again .

This decision is about as dumb as it gets. The CBC is actually planning bump Marketplace out of its slot in favour of U.S. programming. In fact, Connie Woodchuck says it has been temporarily shelved (H/T National Newswatch ).

Marketplace! This is just dumb, dumb and dumber . Only by cancelling The Mercer Report or Hockey Night in Canada could they top this one.

Marketplace is one of a meager selection of Mothercorps productions that has any redeeming value at all (IMHO). Witness the relevancy regarding the recent "Product of Canada " announcements regarding consumer food products!

But they’re keeping Little Mosque ?

This just proves what a ridiculous waste of taxpayers’ money this archaic institution has become. Why shouldn’t it be offered on a user-pay basis just like every other broadcaster in this country?

Back in a previous post we discussed the merits of the CBC and the debate is still raging on . I should be selling tickets.

Please join in either there or here and air your thoughts.

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Update : Interesting Globe piece here by Marsha Lederman regarding the fact that Marketplace doesn’t run commercials during the body of the show. Well, couldn’t they change that?

And you gotta love the hubris here:

…He (Richard Stursberg, vice-president of English services) added that CBC’s audience and ratings improved this year, and he vowed to maintain the uptick in 2008. "We are on a very big roll," he told the crowd. "CBC continues to be the most important cultural institution in Canada. We beat Global in prime time for the first time since 1995."