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Month: September 2017

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adminSeptember 30, 2017September 30, 2017

Famed Winnipegger Monty Hall dead at 96: reports

Monty Hall, the Winnipeg-born host of Let’s Make a Deal, has died, according to media reports. Hall was 96. Sharon Hall said her father died …

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Famed Winnipegger Monty Hall dead at 96 – Manitoba News

If not for the prejudice of the times, Monte Halperin, the Jewish butcher’s kid from Winnipeg’s north end, might have entered medical school and Monty …

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George Takei, Lady Gaga among those slamming Trump for Puerto Rico tweets – Entertainment

George Takei, Lady Gaga and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among those in Hollywood hitting back at Donald Trump after his latest tweets directed at Puerto Rico’s …

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Toronto pleased to host ‘magnificent’ Invictus Games, mayor says – Toronto

Toronto Mayor John Tory says the Invictus Games have been “magnificent” and the city was pleased to host the week-long event in which wounded, ill …

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‘Our resilience can make everything possible’: Star-studded Invictus Games closing ceremony underway – Toronto News

The curtain is falling on the Invictus Games in Toronto. The closing ceremony is underway at Air Canada Centre to cap the week-long Games, which …

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‘An emotional moment’ as first same-sex couples set to wed in Germany – World

Almost 40 years after their first kiss, Karl and Bodo are getting hitched. The two civil servants from Berlin are expected to become the first …

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Far-right, anti-fascist protesters temporarily shut Quebec border crossing – Politics

A standoff between far-right groups and anti-fascist protesters along the Canadian side of the U.S. border forced police to temporarily shut down the crossing near St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, …

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Far-right, anti-fascist groups clash across Ontario, Quebec over asylum seekers – Politics

Anti-immigrant groups rallied along the Canadian side of the U.S. border and in Ottawa on Saturday, with counter-protesters also making their presence known, as concerns heighten over the issue …

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Air France plane makes emergency landing in Goose Bay after engine blowout over Atlantic – Newfoundland & Labrador News

An Air France plane en route to Los Angeles from Paris made an emergency landing Saturday in Goose Bay, N.L., after one of its engines blew …

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U.S. ‘probing’ for direct talks with North Korea, Tillerson says – World

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged on Saturday that the United State is maintaining direct channels of communications with North Korea even as tensions …

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North Korea needs to stop firing missiles to ‘calm things down,’ Tillerson says in China – World

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Saturday for a calming of the situation on the Korean Peninsula, but said it was incumbent on North …

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Spanish police block polls to try to prevent Catalan independence referendum – World

Spanish police sealed off schools earmarked as polling stations and occupied the Catalan government’s communications hub on Saturday in an effort to prevent a banned independence …

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Catalans prepare to defy Madrid in banned independence vote – World

Tens of thousands of Catalans are expected to defy Spanish authorities and attempt to vote in a banned independence referendum on Sunday, raising fears of unrest in the …

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Trump says Puerto Rico mayors ‘want everything done for them’ – World

Donald Trump posted a series of tweets this morning slamming Puerto Rico’s mayors, including saying they “want everything to be done for them,” a day …

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What is the ‘mainstream media,’ anyway? – Canada News

“I hear a pejorative label for somebody who doesn’t agree with your point of view,” says Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts, when …

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"I hear a pejorative label for somebody who doesn't agree with your point of view," says Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts, when asked what comes to mind when he hears the term "mainstream media."

Seated in the front-row chair assigned to him in the White House press room, Canadian-born Roberts, who has worked in the U.S. since 1992 for CBS News and CNN in addition to Fox, adds, "I think that it's a moniker that has been created to describe people that have a different political bent, or a different editorial bent than the person who's ascribing that label to them. I don't think there's really any such thing as the mainstream media."

But many Americans see it otherwise. 

  • Watch The Investigators with Diana Swain Saturday at 9:30 p.m. ET and Sunday at 5:30 p.m. ET on CBC News Network

"In this administration, the reporters just yell and scream and interrupt the president every time. It's really unreal."

That's Neil W. McCabe, recently announced president of the upstart news site Big League Politics. Earlier this year he left his job as a reporter at Breitbart News, known for its right-leaning views.

Though the website says Big League Politics is neither conservative nor liberal in its leanings, McCabe believes strongly that President Donald Trump is being unfairly treated by the "mainstream media."

Former Breitbart reporter on mainstream media in the U.S. (The Investigators with Diana Swain)9:15

"The big media outlets — the CNNs, the New York Times, the Washington Post — they put out that narrative that carries the day. And that narrative is usually the establishment narrative, and it doesn't always reflect what's going on."

Both men were interviewed in Washington for this week's edition of The Investigators with Diana Swain, which asks how the once-benign description of well-established news outlets has mutated into a kind of slur.

'Lamestream media'

Trump has frequently taken it a step farther, referring to the "lamestream media."

Roberts concedes the current relationship between the press corps and the Trump presidency is "antagonistic" and "hotter than it's been in recent memory."

There may be some irony here, in that one of the only news outlets Trump routinely singles out for praise is Roberts' employer, Fox News. The network's high profile commentator Sean Hannity is openly supportive of Trump, and the Fox and Friends morning show Twitter feed is frequently retweeted by the President.

Fox News' John Roberts on covering the Trump White House (The Investigators with Diana Swain)5:40

As a journalist whose job is to hold the administration to account, does Roberts find the president's praise awkward?  

Roberts says, "We have the editorial side of Fox, and we have the news side of Fox, and those things don't really cross over very much. So my job here at Fox is to fairly and accurately cover this White House. And to not inject my own opinions into anything that I'm covering, to look at things through a lens of impartiality and report on it that way. And that's what I've always done."

Though not referring specifically to Roberts, McCabe thinks fairness and impartiality are precisely what's lacking in the "mainstream media."

'There's a hostility'

"Certainly you gather that there's a hostility with virtually every reporter in that room, compared to what happened with President Obama. There was a fawning of President Obama. There was a celebration of President Obama. There's no celebration of Donald Trump among the reporters at the White House," he says.

Asked if that media divide puts Americans in the position of having to get their news from multiple sources and sides to get a truthful picture, McCabe shrugs and says, "It's called the marketplace of ideas."

Breitbart, Fox News, and the mainstream media (The Investigators with Diana Swain)22:20

"I hear a pejorative label for somebody who doesn't agree with your point of view," says Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts, when asked what comes to mind when he hears the term "mainstream media."

Seated in the front-row chair assigned to him in the White House press room, Canadian-born Roberts, who has worked in the U.S. since 1992 for CBS News and CNN in addition to Fox, adds, "I think that it's a moniker that has been created to describe people that have a different political bent, or a different editorial bent than the person who's ascribing that label to them. I don't think there's really any such thing as the mainstream media."

But many Americans see it otherwise. 

  • Watch The Investigators with Diana Swain Saturday at 9:30 p.m. ET and Sunday at 5:30 p.m. ET on CBC News Network

"In this administration, the reporters just yell and scream and interrupt the president every time. It's really unreal."

That's Neil W. McCabe, recently announced president of the upstart news site Big League Politics. Earlier this year he left his job as a reporter at Breitbart News, known for its right-leaning views.

Though the website says Big League Politics is neither conservative nor liberal in its leanings, McCabe believes strongly that President Donald Trump is being unfairly treated by the "mainstream media."

Former Breitbart reporter on mainstream media in the U.S. (The Investigators with Diana Swain)9:15

"The big media outlets — the CNNs, the New York Times, the Washington Post — they put out that narrative that carries the day. And that narrative is usually the establishment narrative, and it doesn't always reflect what's going on."

Both men were interviewed in Washington for this week's edition of The Investigators with Diana Swain, which asks how the once-benign description of well-established news outlets has mutated into a kind of slur.

'Lamestream media'

Trump has frequently taken it a step farther, referring to the "lamestream media."

Roberts concedes the current relationship between the press corps and the Trump presidency is "antagonistic" and "hotter than it's been in recent memory."

There may be some irony here, in that one of the only news outlets Trump routinely singles out for praise is Roberts' employer, Fox News. The network's high profile commentator Sean Hannity is openly supportive of Trump, and the Fox and Friends morning show Twitter feed is frequently retweeted by the President.

Fox News' John Roberts on covering the Trump White House (The Investigators with Diana Swain)5:40

As a journalist whose job is to hold the administration to account, does Roberts find the president's praise awkward?  

Roberts says, "We have the editorial side of Fox, and we have the news side of Fox, and those things don't really cross over very much. So my job here at Fox is to fairly and accurately cover this White House. And to not inject my own opinions into anything that I'm covering, to look at things through a lens of impartiality and report on it that way. And that's what I've always done."

Though not referring specifically to Roberts, McCabe thinks fairness and impartiality are precisely what's lacking in the "mainstream media."

'There's a hostility'

"Certainly you gather that there's a hostility with virtually every reporter in that room, compared to what happened with President Obama. There was a fawning of President Obama. There was a celebration of President Obama. There's no celebration of Donald Trump among the reporters at the White House," he says.

Asked if that media divide puts Americans in the position of having to get their news from multiple sources and sides to get a truthful picture, McCabe shrugs and says, "It's called the marketplace of ideas."

Breitbart, Fox News, and the mainstream media (The Investigators with Diana Swain)22:20

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