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Commentorinchief's avatar

Canadian media is definitely worse if that is even possible from what I have seen. The government paying them off ensures it.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Here we go again. Here in Quebec the media is part of our secular humanist liberal democracy. The Montreal Gazette represents a small but vocal ethnic community. Ourmedia is as close to being fully democratic under our economic system.

I failed to detect any political or social bias during our six weeks of political campaigning.

Our last two elections expressed Quebecer's satisfaction with both Ottawa and Quebec City.

I agree with John Ralston Saul. Cynicism is democracy's greatest threat.

I subscribe to La Tribune because I trust them. I subscribe to the Washington Post, New York Times, Montreal Gazette and Toronto Star because I know there slants.

You want a media you can trust you must pay the piper.

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François Couture's avatar

The level of satisfaction you see with Ottawa and Quebec City is unprecedented because the media are bias toadies parroting government talking points. They have been bought. We’ve seen news organizations in Quebec loosing government support because they criticized the government. People naively believe the msm is still trustworthy. I hope most wake up soon. Democracy and freedom are at stake.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

I am 74 years old. The people are satisfied with the government because they are healthy wealthy and secure. I watched Quebec go from a theocratic plutocracy to a liberal democracy. I watched the University of Quebec turn peasants into doctors, lawyers, engineers and business executives. I remember when New York 21 was rich and we were poor.

I remember Vermont before Bernie Sanders and we called it Mississippi North.

I remember the Montreal ghetto in which I grew up.

We got problems but our grandchildren know the difference between Darwin and the myths, legends and literature of my ancestors.

I remember when people like me weren't welcome in either Catholic or Protestant Quebec and I feel welcome and honoured in a place I wasn't to live in 50 years ago..

I don't like France or England they both hated people who didn't conform to whatever pure laine means in a species that killed off all the competition.

The Greeks, the Romans, the Dutch, the Belgians, the Russians, the English, the Americans, the Holy Romans are not friends of liberal democracy.

Bill21 is my kind of legislation.

I remember my first job and the people in charge were always in charge and most couldn't adapt to technological change.

Most people see only a flat world when we can simulate black holes in space.

Give me a break. I lived in Canada's bible belt. My wife was born in Nashville.

Noah in the bible was the town drunk that is why he wasn't evil.

We are products of natural selection just like my garden snails.

My MLA and MP both respond to my demands and my newspaper makes them pay attention. That is democracy. You can't always get what you want and maybe that is why Quebec believes democracy is worth the travails of compromise.

The gods can take care of themselves . Quebec is taking care of citizens and Je me souviens.

I was born during the padlock laws and my father understood his place in Quebec's theocracy.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Dear Rest of America.

I read your blog. I read your opinions. I thought I offered clear and informed opposition and you banned me for a century.,

I like informed debate. I was brought up to question.

I think I know what it means to be Christian and I don't believe you are anything but a Roman but I am old and have been a stranger in strange lands all my life.

I know what people believe. They believe the things that make it easier to survive their moral and ethical and physical realities.

I am a Deist, I reject all religion whether is be theological, economic, social, or political

If you want to talk Christianity lets talk about Jesus not Rome.

I understand the poetry and the humanity. My God is the God of the universe not the Temple.

I am slow, so slow that at 74 I have more to learn about the world now than when I was 60, 50, 40, or thirty.

I do not understand your public personna. I have only questions to ask. I do not understand why you insist on knowing the answers we were to discover for ourselves.

The bible says we became human when we ate the forbidden fruit.

Yes, I do talk to Jesus. He is part of me because I am a part of the Universe.

I know Jesus believes in Darwin.

I know the difference between the moment and the infinite. I studied First Centuru Judaism and the Roots of Christianity with a a Rabbinical zealot.

I believe I understand what Jesus said but I also understand he could neither read nor write because he was a simple peasant not chosen to lead by divine providence.

David was anointed by the High Priest, Jesus was pissed upon by the chosen of God.

Real Christians understand being pissed upon. America's Evangelicals are pissers who like pissing on people they are not Christians.

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Indecisive decider's avatar

Dude, are you drunk?

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