Justin Trudeau announced his decision to run for the Liberal leadership in Montreal Tuesday evening. The media reaction to the news was, interestingly enough, quite different in English Canada than it was in French Canada. Remember: He’s running to be the leader of the third party in Parliament. With a little help from Storify, here’s the breakdown:
Mr. Mansbridge shows himselfo as not just a news anchor. His overwhelming addiction to politics varies the tenants of journalistic integrity assuming some integrity still exists.
Trudeau…the name alone should send chills up the spines of those Canadians old enough to recall the dubious effect of his father’s polices (which still haunt Canada to this date) as the PM of Canada !
The Ottawa Sun story titled Whistleblower accuses former federal appointee of taking kickbacks starts off with:
“A onetime federal appointee to the Port of Montreal was accused Tuesday of accepting kickbacks when he was this city’s top bureaucrat.”
During times when journalists accuse fellow journalists of plagiarism, when newspapers are struggling to survive, and when partisans accuse the media of bias, one would hope that accuracy would be a prime concern.
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Mr. Mansbridge shows himselfo as not just a news anchor. His overwhelming addiction to politics varies the tenants of journalistic integrity assuming some integrity still exists.
I can hardly wait for his first debate, He is going to cry!
God help this country if he ever becomes the PM.The “L”in liberal stands for LIAR and nothing else.
Trudeau…the name alone should send chills up the spines of those Canadians old enough to recall the dubious effect of his father’s polices (which still haunt Canada to this date) as the PM of Canada !
The Ottawa Sun story titled Whistleblower accuses former federal appointee of taking kickbacks starts off with:
“A onetime federal appointee to the Port of Montreal was accused Tuesday of accepting kickbacks when he was this city’s top bureaucrat.”
Unless I have misunderstood all the questions and replies to those questions during QP for the past few days, the purported “onetime federal appointee to the Port of Montreal” was NOT appointed to that post, in fact losing out to another candidate for that position, Patrice Pelletier, as reported here: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/general+manager+Montreal+denies+contract+rigging+says+dark/7334486/story.html
During times when journalists accuse fellow journalists of plagiarism, when newspapers are struggling to survive, and when partisans accuse the media of bias, one would hope that accuracy would be a prime concern.