Fired Health Whistleblowers, Election Items & Mainstream Media Bias

Hearings for fired Health whistleblowers months away Paco Francoli, The Hill Times, May 2nd, 2005

'We have no income and the case is not starting,' says fired Health Canada Dr. Shiv Chopra.

Displaying start of article containing 1277 words - The three Health Canada whistleblowers who were fired last year after openly criticizing Canada's drug approval process are still months away from getting a shot at clearing their names.

This comes as a major letdown for Dr. Shiv Chopra who was fired on July 12 along with veterinary scientists Margaret Haydon and Gerard Lambert. [. . . . ]

Ontario must do its duty -- Its voters can save the Liberals -- yet, they must not Ezra Levant, May 2, 2005, Calgary Sun

The Liberals are dead in the West and French Quebec. Only Ontario can save them now. Will they?

And do they know what Alberta and Quebec will do if Paul Martin's corrupt party is renewed by Ontario?

[. . . . ] There is only one reason Ontarians should not -- must not -- vote for the Liberals. And that is because to vote Liberal is to join in the brazen, public, shameless corruption of Canada's public institutions. For Ontario to vote for the Liberals is to condone, and excuse, and become accomplices to the corruption being unearthed by Gomery. And don't think for a moment that a Liberal win in the next election won't be held up by the Liberals as the public's acceptance of its conduct. That's what the Liberals did after the 2000 election, when they won in the face of the Shawinigate scandal -- where Chretien personally pressured the president of the Business Development Canada to give a loan to an acquaintance. [. . . . ]

Martin, meet your maker -- The Liberal party has been in power too long and has lost its way, John Crosbie reasons May 2, 05

[. . . . ] quoting "what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation

"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go."

Every concerned Canadian should give exactly the same advice to Martin in this present Canadian crisis. [. . . . ]

Liberal government death watch Paco Francoli, The Hill Times, May 2nd, 2005

[. . . . ] Right now Tory strategists have their hopes pinned on a non-confidence motion their leader snuck by the Liberals before the break calling on the "government to resign." Despite Liberal efforts to fend it off, the Tories are confident this motion will come to a vote the week of May 16-20, probably on May 18.

According to the Standing Orders, or rules of the House of Commons, such a motion must be debated for three hours. The Tories already debated it for nearly two hours on April 22, and now the government must bring it back within 10 sitting days to finish it off.

The last hour will be debated on Friday, April 13. The vote will then be deferred to the following Tuesday or Wednesday, because votes never take place on Fridays. [. . . . ]

Conservatives eye dramatic defeat of Liberals Angelo Persichilli and Kate Malloy, May 2nd, 2005

The Liberals may be trying to delay defeat of the government, but if they're defeated this week it could be a 54-day election campaign and if they're defeated later in the month, the next election could be longer than the minimum 36-day election campaign, say some top Liberals.

But nothing is absolutely certain, the dramatic political situation is volatile and fluid and everything depends on the timing of the government's defeat.

However, if the Conservative and Bloc Québécois succeed at bringing down the government this month, the Liberals, according to one top government source, will go for a 54-day campaign.[. . . . ]

Grits counting on electile dysfunction -- WHAT IF they held an election and nobody came?

As reluctant Canadians are dragged kicking and screaming towards a probable spring campaign, the likelihood looms large that voters will stay home in droves.

Call it electile dysfunction on a national scale -- Canadians so angry and disillusioned with the shambles in federal politics that they can't bring themselves to vote for anyone.

It was bad enough that last year's election set a 100-year record for voter absenteeism, Paul Martin and his Liberal government having been handed power by barely 20% of the registered electorate. [. . . . ]

Tom Brodbeck on the mainstream media bias

Two-tier reporting is just plain bogus Tom Brodbeck, April 17, 2005, Winnipeg Sun

If anyone is looking for a concrete example of how the news media in this country treats the Conservative party differently than the Liberal party, check out the coverage this past week of the Fraser Institute's piece on health-care reform.

[. . . . ] More than a quarter of Liberal MPs voted against same-sex marriage this past week in the Commons.

Conservatives who vote against same-sex marriage (I'm for same-sex marriage by the way) are painted as narrow-minded, Christian-right extremists.

But when Liberals vote against it, they're just "thoughtful."

It's two-tier reporting.

And it's bogus journalism.

Note that this is from Apr. 17, but the same thing happened this week and the mainstream media did not dwell on Liberals who voted against same sex unions being termed 'marriage'.

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