Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. She should stop saying "Listen!" every time she gets a question. It sounds like she's doesn't think the reporter has the right to doubt she's a saint doing a perfect job.
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  2. Really? You don't get why people shouldn't get their news of the world from the same group that makes their laws? Really?
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  3.  @JRufu  A federal government minister appoints the head of the CBC. The prime minister approves the appointment. How much clearer could it possibly be?
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  4. An expert is anyone who agrees with the opinions of the CBC newsroom. (I posted this comment on a CBC story on their website. They scrubbed it.)
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  5.  @TheBoomtown4  Not really, since the panel host also repeatedly condones or agrees with panel assertions that the reporter isn't really a reporter, keeps getting arrested for good reason, and is making illegitimate hay out of what happened. None of those things is true and I believe he knows that. I think you're giving him a 6 because other people are giving him a zero.  But in my view, 5 being a pass, he deserves a 3. The panel gets three zeroes and a 4.5.
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  6. Now I know what she's about: lust for power. She is a treacherous snake who will do whatever it takes to reach the top. This includes turning on her boss the moment she has anything she can twist into a legitimate-sounding accusation. Trudeau made a mistake: he decided to pander to the popular prejudice that women and indigenous people are uniformly wonderful human beings (the corollary of the popular prejudice that men and people of European descent are uniformly wicked). In doing so he lowered his standards, bought packaged goods, and got what he paid for. Poison personality and nastiness shines from her face and resonates in her voice; her small-time politician father seems to be her role model. She's not helping anything, just herself. Note that she's staying in caucus to remain a leadership hopeful. This is about getting Trudeau out of her way. As an indigenous Canadian I regret Trudeau's laziness in not sourcing a better person as a first nations standard-bearer in cabinet.
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  7. 'I don't share the views of the protestors. I don't want to hear the honking of people I don't agree with. Therefore, they must pack up and leave.' Brilliant position. Great political mind.
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  8. Four panelists. 2 with ties to the Liberals. 1 NDP politician. 1 disaffected Conservative. (1) Michele Cadario, was Deputy Chief of Staff to Liberal PM Paul Martin, Sr Adv to Premier Christy Clark, BCU (formerly known as the BC Liberal Party) (Source: Twitter bio). (2) Emilie Nicolas, in the early 2010s campaigned for the Quebec Liberal Party (Source: Wikipedia FR). (3) Matthew Dubé, NDP MP, Quebec riding, 2011-19 (Source: Wikipedia). (4) Kate Harrison, PR consultant, Conservative supporter known for frequent public admonitions to Conservative supporters not to be so critical of other parties (Sources: National Post op-ed, 2020 Jan. 28; many Twitter posts). I know. Real shocker.🙄 You'd never have guessed from the discussion itself.😄
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  9. I wonder what he thinks of charity dinners. People pay several hundred dollars or more for a meal, and the charity mops up a huge and helpful amount of money. This guy would probably say, "Look at all these people, dining at the expense of a charity! How shameful!"
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  10. CBC: Fights for every dollar of government funding, always has, always will. Also CBC: "Hey, don't call us government -funded!" If the CBC were a person its doctor would offer it counselling or psychiatric medicine for this irrational behaviour.
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  11. 13:25 I love it when Marketplace interviews these industry association/lobby group types. There's something similar in all their faces, perhaps a lack of restful sleep.
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  12. Expert: Anyone in any field who agrees with the CBC newsroom's opinions.
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  13. Interesting point. Still, vanity, where it means seeing clearly while doing minimal damage to the appearance of your face, though possibly a little contemptible, is clearly far less contemptible than greed where it means a mark-up of perhaps 1000%. I'd see it more your way if glasses were simply a form of jewellery. (I couldn't care less if diamond earrings are marked up 5000%.)
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  14. George Orwell: "Excuse me while I cringebarf."
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  15.  @karnvir20  Welcome aboard. Good luck next year when you re-apply.
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  16. Welcome to the comments swamp. Paranoia, resentment, ignorance, unintelligence---and those are its good qualities.
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  17.  @masongregory278  Who knows, it might have been just one parent plus something gross on a chair she sat on.
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  18. Which Montreal panelist? There were two of them, one Liberal, one NDP.😂
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  19. What? Since Day One, long before you were born. Omg. Do you think you and the world were born at the same time? Ok, Millennial.
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  20. Yeah. So what does that make the CBC? Jerks that'll aim for what they want 'by any means necessary'. Defund these pose-addicted unprincipled scum now. They're like a bunch of high school kids dissing in the cafeteria.
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  21.  @MeMe-wz3po  I'm sorry you don't like it here. Maybe you made a mistake.
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  22.  @TikkyTakMoo  Not true. Read through these comments to hear from numerous PR-status immigrants who got CERB.
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  23. It made me cringe how poorly rehearsed she was. Her staff did a poor job, preparing her with a list of weak and banal responses, and she thus appeared out of her depth. But then, maybe she just is out of her depth; otherwise she would have reworked what they came up with. She was like someone's assistant, interviewed on TV for the first time.
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  24. The CBC News guy says that "at the time [1976] engineers probably had no idea it would become one of Toronto's biggest tourist attractions." Uh, yes they certainly did. That's why they designed it to include multiple observation decks, high-speed elevators, and a huge restaurant and nightclub. At one time the CBC staff were intelligent people of substance, and they had awareness of things that happened before they were born. Now they're millennial airheads without a clue what went on before their oldest memories.
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  25. An insufferable dork.
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  26. What makes you so sure it's the first time?
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  27. Yes, and in fact he was touring an apple orchard and the farmer handed him an apple. He was eating it when the reporter began speaking to him.
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  28. What your comment lacks in subtlety it makes up for in having the right spirit. Cheers.
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  29. I disagree. She insists that the real problem is that the Conservatives and Rebel News are going to make illegitimate hay out of it, which is ridiculous. Any such hay is absolutely legitimate. A reporter was arrested for doing his job and that's the problem, period. And if she doesn't realize it, she's part of the reek. Someone open up a window and let the bad air out of that studio.
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  30. That's a deeply fascist question. Your commitment to the hard-won freedom of the West is like a forty-ton tank resting on a layer of phyllo pastry.
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  31. This was broadcast eight years ago in 2012. Maybe that fact has something to do with the improvement (if any). Over time, competition has a way of eventually eating away at rip-off companies and industries. And maybe this very episode has had something to do with it. I don't see why not. Where did you hear about allegations of "notorious" Marketplace "scams"? I'd be interested to consult your sources. Cheers.
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  32. Yeah, independent like the ultranationalist Russians on talk shows criticizing the war effort every night on Russian government TV. By howling for the Kremlin to employ extreme measures, they're there to make the war and all government policy seem not only reasonable but actually far too restrained. Nauseating. Orwell would puke.
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  33. What does that tell you about the CBC? How about: 'By their friends ye shall know them.'
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  34. So what? A lot of Americans buy their clothes at Walmart and Target. In purchasing-power terms, median Canadian personal income passed median US personal income in 2017. I'll bet you can't handle that.
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  35. That is definitely accurate. Thank you.
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  36. Why's that necessary? U of T is what everyone calls it.
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  37. No, you don't need citizenship to get those things. Certainly not.
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  38. Trudeau identifies as a woman now?
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  39. One career Liberal staffer and party strategist. One Liberal campaign worker. One veteran NDP MP. One milquetoast Conservative supporter who specializes in admonishing other Conservative supporters to take it easy on the other parties. (I'm serious about that. That's what she's all about and that's why she was invited onto this panel.) That's how the CBC assembles an unbiased panel. That's how the CBC approaches every single news item, day in, day out.
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  40.  @snowbird9449  On the face of it you have more credibility on this than the CBC and most of its clown commenters. Do us a favour and keep it up, for they're generally a bunch of callow stoners who never grew up because they're against that kind of thing.
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  41. "Show me the money"? That's so weak that it's pretty strong evidence someone has a job they shouldn't.
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  42. I wonder what you and the guest think of charity dinners. People pay several hundred dollars or more for a meal, and the charity mops up a huge and helpful amount of money. I'm inclined to suppose you'd both say, "Look at all these people, dining at the expense of a charity! How shameful!"
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  43. ​ @JRufu  "Editorial independence" is an unverifiable claim, not a fact, and Twitter ought not to support or deny such claims made by anyone. It ought to continue doing what it is doing (and so should Google here on YouTube) — namely, alerting people to the potential link between the news as presented and the government of its originating country. Readers can take it from there. It's just a low-key factual heads-up, not "Enter, and hold on to your purse." In the case of the CBC, I think the claim of editorial independence is preposterous. The twelve directors, the president and the chairperson are all federal cabinet appointees. That is the salient fact. It constitutes a rather enormous similarity to a government department, and not by any coincidence.  I loved Neil Macdonald, Peter Mansbridge and even Knowlton Nash a little bit. As a little boy I had a crush on Barbara Frum. But as in so many other ways, it's 2023 and a great many institutions are going sour. There's no proper place left for such an optimistic venture. It's impossible to imagine the return of lightly-biased journalism at the CBC.
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  44. @jp He's simply the guy who rubbed Trump the wrong way. For the CBC to imply he's in any way a moral exemplar is just sick-making. De-fund the CBC now.
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  45. @jp What? Like the Taliban, the Republican Party, Bjork, Bieber, and ISIS? If they're objectionable, throw money at them?
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  46.  @abaig3855  I get that they have no Canadian passports, but neither do 7.75 billion other people. Do they have no passports at all? And lots of people can't see their loved ones.
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  47. If you want to back the aboriginal peoples of Canada, you are obliged to join them in supporting the pipeline twinning. Well under a tenth of the aboriginal groups which can be potentially affected by it oppose the project.
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  48.  @Occamsrazer  Wrong. No charges were laid. He was arrested and later released.
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  49.  @michaelbinbc  "1/4 speed" 😂😂 What a desperate thing to say. Since when do police decline to lay charges when there's video evidence of an assault on a police officer or a senior government minister? Impossible. Never. And you know it.
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  50. No, he's right and you're wrong (if you're saying we can't keep this from swamping the health care system and in effect the whole country). It takes around seven or eight weeks but social distancing can keep the numbers low even at this point. They'll still climb for a while, but then they'll stop climbing, then fall. Without social distancing, they'll keep climbing. Even if the infections rise from the current 250 to peak at 100,000 active cases, that's still not a cataclysmic total. What we don't want is 5 million active cases. Even if most people end up catching it, we need to be drawn out as slowly as possible.
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