Jun 11
Last July PressTV broadcast what was undoubtedly their greatest ever fish story. Being a propaganda arm of the Iranian government they’ve told a lot of whoppers. This story is no different that way, but it does have an amusing twist. It actually involves fish- documenting the perils faced by Patricia Kelly as she battled for …
Jun 02
Joshua Blakeney is one of the most disturbing journalists in Canada. On the one hand he comes across as harmless, a babbling idiot who publishes stories worthy of the National Enquirer. Most people don’t believe his fish stories, it’s hard to take them seriously when peppered with stupidity. My favourite was the one that said the …
Feb 22
Yesterday CBC Hamilton put out a story on their website about a local activist who has a surprise visit from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The article painted a picture of an innocent man being ‘threatened’ by CSIS agents for simply writing an article titled Harper Is Wrong Demonizing Iran. It sounds scary, doesn’t it? …
Feb 18
A report came out on Saturday on CBC Radio’s The House that called to question the actual number of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. The current (mostly) accepted number, approximately 600, is based on a report created in 2010 by the Native Women’s Association of Canada. The NWAC was commissioned and funded to …
Feb 10
It’s no secret now that Canadian activist movements have a problem with violence. Every major activist event in the past few years has been stained by violent acts- the 2010 Olympics, G20, the student fees protests in Quebec. Yet, despite the fact such violence very few activists have dared to speak-out. People who have, like …
Oct 16
I’ve been writing a lot about Iran’s state-owned PressTV. This station first came to my attention when they covered the story about Patricia Kelly’s criminal prosecution for illegally selling salmon. It shocked me how manipulative their coverage of this story was- it was incredibly overdramatic, and they misrepresented the truth in a number of ways. …
Oct 14
I first learned about the existence of Alfred Webre back in July through my research on Kevin Annett, a con-artist who has been profiting off of the pains of Canada’s indigenous communities. Webre had partnered with Annett and was promoting his lies- despite the fact there was overwhelming evidence that Annett was up to no …
Sep 08
I was at St James Park yesterday, about to do something rather fun and exciting. A friend sent me a message that Canada’s withdrawing diplomatic staff from Iran. It felt a lot like the moment I learned about 9/11 from an email. All that it said was “I guess we’re at war now”. I’ve …
Sep 05
Q: What do you get when you put propagandistic monkeys behind a keyboard? A: The PressTV editorial staff… Wow, every time I think I’ve seen the worst reporting from Joshua Blakeney and PressTV they amaze me with more propagandist idiocy! Today, Blakeney went above and beyond- with very little information, he decided to sensationalize the …
Jul 31
The Stó:lō fish story continues to get more interesting each day- today is no exception. The more I follow this fish tale, the more obvious it is that this is an excellent study in how Canada’s radical Marxist left manipulate stories and people in order to build a ‘movement’. I’ll begin with a recap of …