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For those of you that missed it, NATO reported yesterday that recently completed Operation Medusa, which involved the Canadian-led NATO force driving Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters out of the Punjwai area near Kandahar, and which claimed 5 Canadian lives resulted in 1,000 to 1,500 Taliban casualtiesNATO emphasized that the Taliban have not been ( Read more... )

The Canadian news media are indeed unique in the Western World... in their descriptions of the war in Afghanistan. Apparently we have the Taliban in a trap, on the run, on the defensive, etc. all very heroic and remarkable, though no other country - even the US - is reporting events in Afghanistan that way ( Read more... )

A criticism of the CBC's coverage of Stephen Harper:

Crossposted from canadiantories

I love the CBC, the do this wonderfull thing with issies that are important in the media where they collect all the facts they can and put them all together for your easy reading pleasure. Now you can argue the CBC is biased or don't know what thier talking aobut but I hold them in pretty high regard. In anycase here is the "in depth" on the ( Read more... )

So, I might be a luddite of sorts, for not knowing about this sooner, but I found this today, and thought it was a nifty internet widget. It's the CBC stream of it's news programs on the Internet, Including the National. It also plays in realplayer, FullScreen.

I thought it was nifty, and certainly politic.

CBC Internet NewsAnd, in other news, ( Read more... )

Here we have an ad from the Tory camp that is professionally directed, instead of those stiff ads theHarper did. The Air Farce had theHarper as a robot in their lampoon of those ads last night. But this new ad should suspend any Liberal plans for a negative blitz if it's as effective as I think it is.

Raiding the Icebox

Behind Its Warm Front, the United States Made Cold Calculations to Subdue Canada

By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 30, 2005; C01

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Strange to see this in the Washington Post, of all newspapers. An interesting read.

Okay, show of hands ... how many people agree with me that the Conservative tv ads are absolutely terrible?

And a second show of hands ... how many people find the new NDP ad (with the boot) terribly amusing ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/12/14/canada.martin.reut/index.html

Interesting to see how the other side reports it.