This is the way the CBC remebers Adscam ... not as a corrupt Liberal Party but as a Liberal Party painted corrupt by the opposition:

The sponsorship program, now defunct, was designed to raise the federal government's profile in the wake of the 1995 sovereignty referendum in Quebec. Over its life, Liberal-friendly ad firms in that province took in millions of taxpayers' dollars.

Some of the money ended up in the pockets of high-ranking Liberal organizers in Quebec, allowing the opposition to paint the government of former prime minister Jean Chrétien as corrupt.

Poor Jean Chretien... he was treated so unfairly... why everyone knows that he and his buddies never got a dime. And Paul Martn knew nothing about it .... nor did Dion or Tobin or Copps....

via Daimnation

The Ottawa Citizen reports that the CBC are jumping into the censorship wagon:

A Booker Prize-winning Canadian writer was forbidden from reading from one of the world's most controversial anti-Semitic books on CBC Radio during Canada's Freedom to Read Week.

Life of Pi author Yann Martel said staff at CBC Radio Saskatchewan told him half an hour before a scheduled interview last Thursday that he wasn't allowed read excerpts of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf on the air.

Why, may you ask, was this Booker Prize winner reading Mein Kampf? Well, he was kind of asked to do so:

The CBC had asked Martel to do an interview on The Afternoon Edition because the author was planning to read from the book that evening at a Saskatoon Public Library event for Freedom to Read Week, an annual campaign raising public awareness about intellectual freedom in Canada.

The library asked Mr. Martel to read from any banned or challenged book, and Mr. Martel chose Mein Kampf.

"It's a horrible book, but a horribly important book, because you get in the brain of one of the monsters of the 20th century," Mr. Martel said.

As Daimnation states in support of the reading:

Know your enemy--and I mean it.

Though when you follow the link ityou find that it takes at least 2-5 months before you get the chance to start.

(also posted at The London Fog)

Picketing the Terry Fox Run is one thing, breaking out a cancer victim to put forward a point in union negotiations is another. In St. John's the media guild broke out a cancer survivor who informed the viewing public that she had cancer and will probably see it again, and when she does her friends will have to hold a fund raiser for her to pay the bills (I bet she is a strong supporter of the Canada Health Act). Why? Because she is a contract employee of the CBC and they will not hire her full time. Even worse, Canadians from coast to coast get the "benefit" of her "work and creativity" yet when she gets sick she will have to rely on her friends instead of the Crown Corp insurer. I feel for her that she is a cancer victim. And it is too bad that she did not buy her own disability insurance before she got sick, but from what I can gather, her friends acted like friends. However, the argument that we Canadians are the beneficiary of her work and creativity holds no water. One can only assume that her work is valueless or she would not need the state to pay for it. We receive no benefit otherwise we would be purchasing it. There is a famous trusts case Re: Pinion in which an eccentric old man who collected "art" and painted himself left his house, his collection and his own paintings as a gallery for the people of his home town. He allocated a portion of his estate as a charitable trust for the maintainence of the said gallery. It turns out that one requirement for a charitable trust is the existence of a public benefit. The collection of "art" was worthless. The trust was struck down for lack of a public benefit. The old man thought that he was quite the painter. He thought that he was creative. He was not. His collection was without worth. The lesson, just because you create something, it does not make it worth anything, nor does it make you creative in the sense our CBC non-employee meant, or, more specifically to the case at hand, a benefit to Canadians.

The CBC is a joke ... the Fifth Estate is doing the unauthorized biography of Dick Cheney ... Even "Canadian Content" is Anti- American.

THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF DICK CHENEY Wednesday May 25, 2005 at 9pm on CBC-TV American Vice-President Dick Cheney has walked the corridors of world power for three decades. His use of intelligence and his access to the key players in government and industry have made him one of the most powerful men in the world. This is the story of Dick Cheney's vision of America. But he has selective vision. Cheney's remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form. He's been uniquely involved in a large share of U.S. policy and strategy over the past two decades, and regardless of the outcome of this fall's election, he will continue to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the world. the fifth estate will show how he accomplished this, what it involved in terms of costs for others, and what history's judgment could be.

Who cares about ADScam, Ernescliffe or Power Corp? A made in Canada scandal is just too scandalous. Listen to my podcast here . (recorded with BlogMatrix Sparks!)