Neither Corus Entertainment, the parent company of Global News, nor Mulroney himself responded to multiple requests for comment about whether The West Block host sharing video game footage in the middle of a war is in alignment with Global News’ journalistic standards.

The debunked video continues to remain visible on Mulroney’s X page more than 24 hours after PressProgress first contacted the media outlet and its host.

Corus and Mulroney did not address other social media postings by Mulroney over the weekend.

There are a lot of other posts…

Another post shared by Mulroney celebrated the military strikes and warned readers: “Don’t let the left fool you with their anti-war propaganda.” The post continued with “Long live America. Long live Israel. Long live Iran.”

Global News has previously fired its own journalists for sharing opinions about Palestine on their personal social media accounts. In 2023, Global fired Palestinian-Canadian journalist Zahraa Al-Akhrass, suggesting her social media posts violated the company’s policies and created a “perception of serious, journalistic bias.”

Internal emails reviewed by CBC News showed Global News managers had ordered the journalist to remove postings that included hashtags like #freepalestine, #gazaunderattack and #gazagenocide.

Corus provided no response to questions about why sharing content on social media with hashtags like “#freepalestine” could give rise to perceptions of bias but not posts that declare “long live America” and “long live Israel,” let alone posts suggesting left-wing “anti-war propaganda” is a lie.

Iranian-Canadians will also tend to have far more historical context than the amnesic and imperialist Western mainstream media. Who overthrew the democratically elected government in Iran (under which women’s rights were quite good) and brought in the current regime in 1953? UK and US. Who tore up the nuclear non-proliferation agreement thereby necessitating these bombings (in their own twisted rhetoric)? One Orange Asshole in 2017. How did Irag and Afghanistan fare after US involvement? How might a non-Zionist view what’s happening in Gaza?

The levels of analysis aren’t even in the same league. This CTVNews is just consent-manufacturing, not news or journalism

I don’t think she, or Iranian-Canadians at large, are naïve, as much as I think Bell Media and mainstream media generally want to paint a very distorted picture (e.g., unthinkingly pro-Western Imperialism) of what’s going on and how people feel about it

It just seems a bit shariah to me

Sounds a bit Islamaphobic to me

Can I get a “Fuck Auston Matthews” while we’re at it? 😝

All mainstream media does is give publicity to Chump

poses to Albertans as referendums
Imposes on Albertans as distractions

Against Smith-associated healthcare execs who made these decisions that led to preventable harm. Granted it won’t fix all the problems in the province as you point out

I want to see criminal charges

What all this amounts to, for me, is a province that understood the stakes of the measles outbreak and of the impact of preventable illness on a beleaguered health care system, yet failed to share what it knew, in real time, about the harm being done to its most vulnerable citizens. Despite internal emails indicating miscarriages, stillbirths, and at least one infant death, the province released no clear, timely data to clinicians or the public. Heavily redacted records confirmed officials were actually tracking these harms while debating whether—and how—to report them.

FFS!

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Not just the US, but Russia, China - imperial powers that effect regime changes - have improved their game in the last 2-3 decades (per your timeline). They’ve evolved from publicly endorsing a group, which carries the ‘costs’ of have to appear to support them in some response. Now, they’re more underground, they sew disinformation, they hire paid protesters, etc. - what they’re doing is out of the public’s eyes and thus costs them a lot less. Privately meeting with civil society groups is this new version imo

Totally agree with everything you’ve said

I think I’m coming to terms with the thought that all the talk of making polluters pay has just been there to manufacture consent for the extraction by calming the population that it’ll be taken care of

Kinda like ‘carbon capture’ 🤪

If we never make polluters pay their fair share, why would they think they’ll ever have to? ffs

JFC

Here’s a striking trivia factoid: the biggest dam in the world is in northern Alberta. If you rank dams by the amount of construction material piled into them, the winner is the Syncrude Tailings Dam in the oilsands. Much less trivial is the astonishing amount of toxic waste and looming cleanup costs swelling behind it and the many thousands of other fossil fuel operations spread across the land.

Canada’s oil and gas industry is steadily building an environmental time bomb. It’s one that communities, particularly First Nations downstream, have been struggling to highlight for many years. But now that it’s become a fiscal time bomb as well, maybe the money managers will get more traction. Most of these liabilities have been downplayed to investors and kept off the books but, last week, an investor advocacy group warned that Canadian oil and gas companies have a gaping blind spot in their accounting — one that could already exceed half the companies’ value, measured in market capitalization.

Investors for Paris Compliance wrote to the audit committee chairs at 14 big oil and gas companies ahead of their annual general meetings, putting them on notice about “material gaps” in their financial disclosures that amount to billions of dollars in decommissioning costs.

At the heart of the problem is a staggering liabilities gap between what companies disclose and what independent estimates suggest they truly owe to clean up old wells, oilsands operations and other industrial scars on the land. It’s hard to say how big the gap really is but a recent analysis by Investors for Paris Compliance arrived at a “conservative” estimate of about $113 billion.

I love this quote - it provides a little more context - from CBC’s coverage:

“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason,” said Eby, ahead of the closed-door meeting in Ottawa.

Alberta chief justices from all three levels of the court system have issued a rare public message underlining the importance of judicial independence.

Though the Tuesday statement provides no context, it comes on the heels of comments about judicial authority made by Premier Danielle Smith, who said on her Saturday radio show that she wishes she could “direct the judges.”

Judges almost never speak publicly beyond decisions they issue in court.

The letter, published on the Alberta Courts website, is signed by acting Chief Justice of Alberta Dawn Pentelechuk, Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Kent Davison and James Hunter, Chief Justice of the Alberta Court of Justice.

The three judges wrote that the separation between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government is essential to a functioning democracy.

“It is equally important that each branch respect and support the independence of the others,” they said.

YES! More of this leadership please 😛

Wait, I thought all high grocery costs were due to the carbon tax, inflation, and supply chain issues - all beyond the control of the Canadian grocery cartel /s (shocked Pikachu face)

Are we sending Avi a plushtodon as a kudos? :P

Crypto’s the path towards a fairer society economically-speaking, good to know /s