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The Electric Pencil

The Electric Pencil focuses on media analysis and social critique, examining and comparing the mainstream media to progressive, independent media.

Be afraid…

Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 17:00 in conservatives, fear, Stephen Harper, canadian election

Carole Goar has a strong piece in the Toronto Star today about Harper’s politics of fear, where Canada is a “country whose citizens worry about teenage killers; oil-hungry foreigners prowling their Arctic waters; terrorists lurking in the...
Image already trumping issues

Posted on Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 17:02 in environment, Stephane Dion, opus Dei, Stephen Harper, carbon tax, dawson college, la presse, federal elections, julie couillard, vincent marrissal, saint-bruno-st-hubert

Vincent Marrissal has it right this morning. The La Presse political columnist points out that he can’t remember a more negative start to an election campaign, with nearly all leaders, except perhaps Elizabeth May of the Green Party, going nega...