In <101a48o$3rn78$3@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
[snip.... regarding Toronto police...]
here's a post I made elsewhere:
Toronto Police document accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing
I was travelling through Canada yesterday and heard
an interview with a Toronto Sun columnist who... was
talking about the Toronto Police and, welllll..
[Toronto Sun]
Lilley: Toronto Police document accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing
TPS officials say they aren't taking sides but the language in the document says otherwise.
The knock against the Toronto Police Service over the past 19 months is that they have engaged in two-tier policing. Specifically, when it comes to policing protests that are pro-Palestinian, in many cases outright
pro-Hamas, that TPS takes a hands-off approach - that is when they aren't delivering them coffee and donuts.
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https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/toronto-police-document-accuses-is >> rael-of-ethnic-cleansing
I've always found Brian Lilley to be one of the few good journalists. He >tells it like it is and I think he's pretty fair. If he says something,
you can take it to the bank.
In <101askk$3rn78$6@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
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rest [watch for line wrap]:
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/toronto-police-document-accuses-is
rael-of-ethnic-cleansing
I've always found Brian Lilley to be one of the few good journalists. He
tells it like it is and I think he's pretty fair. If he says something,
you can take it to the bank.
Amusing sidenote: I was travelling to Windsor/Detroit, so I
picked up a copy of the Toronto Star looking for the article.
Lots of good stuff (and damn, newspapers are expensive these days..).
Didn't find the column.
Sent e-mails (well, web forms..) to CBC. They replied
that, well, duh, I had gotten the paper wrong (but, being
Canadian, they didn't laugh at me...) and were kind enough
to kick me direct URLs.
Amusing sidenote: I was travelling to Windsor/Detroit, so I
picked up a copy of the Toronto Star looking for the article.
What article? The Lilley opinion piece?
Sent e-mails (well, web forms..) to CBC. They replied
that, well, duh, I had gotten the paper wrong (but, being
Canadian, they didn't laugh at me...) and were kind enough
to kick me direct URLs.
I'm not surprised you failed to find Brian Lilley in the Toronto Star,
which has a decided leftist slant. Lilley is in the Toronto Sun, a
successful tabloid that skews more to the right.
I'm not sure why you asked the CBC where to find Brian Lilley's column
though ;-) They aren't a public information service, although they
apparently came through in this case.
In <101avvb$3rn78$8@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
[snip]
Amusing sidenote: I was travelling to Windsor/Detroit, so I
picked up a copy of the Toronto Star looking for the article.
What article? The Lilley opinion piece?
eyup. I heard the interview on the Marconi and
wanted the complete clip.
.....
Sent e-mails (well, web forms..) to CBC. They replied
that, well, duh, I had gotten the paper wrong (but, being
Canadian, they didn't laugh at me...) and were kind enough
to kick me direct URLs.
I'm not surprised you failed to find Brian Lilley in the Toronto Star,
which has a decided leftist slant. Lilley is in the Toronto Sun, a
successful tabloid that skews more to the right.
I'm not sure why you asked the CBC where to find Brian Lilley's column
though ;-) They aren't a public information service, although they
apparently came through in this case.
forgive me, I'm from the States (don't hold it against me!?)
and misremembered, I had the wireless
tuned to "newstalk 1010"
which is part of bellmedia, and that's the web site where
I made my enquiry.
In <101b2sn$3rn78$9@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
tuned to "newstalk 1010"I'm confused. I've never listened to Newstalk 1010 but 1010 is an AM
which is part of bellmedia, and that's the web site where
I made my enquiry.
radio frequency so I assume it is a radio station, although I suppose it >>may be a website as well.
tuned to "newstalk 1010"I'm confused. I've never listened to Newstalk 1010 but 1010 is an AM
which is part of bellmedia, and that's the web site where
I made my enquiry.
radio frequency so I assume it is a radio station, although I suppose it
may be a website as well.
In <101b436$147$1@reader1.panix.com> danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> writes:
In <101b2sn$3rn78$9@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
tuned to "newstalk 1010"I'm confused. I've never listened to Newstalk 1010 but 1010 is an AM
which is part of bellmedia, and that's the web site where
I made my enquiry.
radio frequency so I assume it is a radio station, although I suppose it >>> may be a website as well.
oh, to clarify a bit more. When I couldn't find the op-ed
in the paper I looked up the radio station and... found
their website which had a "contact us" clickthgouh
Okay, thanks for clarifying that.
Did you know that you can listen to Lilley any time on YouTube (even in
your car if your car or cell phone can get YouTube)? Just search on
Brian Lilley. I watch his videos all the time, although I don't think
every print article makes it into YouTube versions.
In <101b6r3$3rn78$11@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
[snip]
Okay, thanks for clarifying that.
Did you know that you can listen to Lilley any time on YouTube (even in
your car if your car or cell phone can get YouTube)? Just search on
Brian Lilley. I watch his videos all the time, although I don't think
every print article makes it into YouTube versions.
do they allow us folk in the States (don't hold it against me!?)
to see this stuff?
misc back story: about 15 years ago there were two films
that the National Film Board of Canada produced, and I
had to ask a Canadian friend of mine to shill for...
One of them was, umm, I forget the title and I can't
find it in a quick search... anyway, it was a documentary
of Israelis going to India to decompress/vacation after
their military service. I completely forget what the
other one was...
On 2025-05-29 11:04 PM, danny burstein wrote:
In <101b6r3$3rn78$11@dont-email.me> RhinoSeriously? Do you really believe we prevent our pundits' videos from
<no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
[snip]
Okay, thanks for clarifying that.
Did you know that you can listen to Lilley any time on YouTube (even in
your car if your car or cell phone can get YouTube)? Just search on
Brian Lilley. I watch his videos all the time, although I don't think
every print article makes it into YouTube versions.
do they allow us folk in the States (don't hold it against me!?)
to see this stuff?
being seen outside the country? ;-)
Mind you, I've never tried accessing Lilley or other commentators from
the US so I suppose it may be geo-blocked the same as some American
movie trailers are geo-blocked here. Why don't you give it a whirl and
see what you get. I'd be curious to know if we geo-block outgoing
political commentary.
misc back story: about 15 years ago there were two films
that the National Film Board of Canada produced, and I
had to ask a Canadian friend of mine to shill for...
One of them was, umm, I forget the title and I can't
find it in a quick search... anyway, it was a documentary
of Israelis going to India to decompress/vacation after
their military service. I completely forget what the
other one was...
Again, I have no idea if the National Film Board geo-blocks the films
you can see online so I want you to try this: go to https://www.nfb.ca/ channels/exploredocs_new_releases_en/ and click on one of the films
there. It doesn't matter which one, we're just trying to see if it will
play for a user with an American IP address. Let me know what happens.
The NFB, like CBC, is taxpayer-funded so they may well take the line
that their content should be free to Canadians but blocked from everyone else. Then again, they may realize that Canadians aren't always in
Canada so they may allow their content to be visible everywhere even if
that means there will be foreigners looking at it for free too.
The Toronto Sun, on the other hand, is a for-profit business and that's
what would drive their decisions about geo-blocking their content.
By the way, if you ever get the chance, check out the NFB offices in
Canada. The NFB is headquartered in Montreal and I was there on business
once and had a bit of free time at one point so I went to the NFB
office. I was intrigued to find that you could watch a selection of
films right there in the office. They had special chairs with TV screens fixed to them and each chair had a separate feed. Each visitor could
watch something different. It was all free. Mind you, this was 30 years
ago and they may do things very differently now. Also, I don't know if
their other offices are set up the same way. Still, it might be worth checking out if you are near one of the bigger cities.
Oh, I almost forgot, I deeply amused a Jewish friend a few years ago
when I found an NFB film on YouTube that was an animated telling of a
Jewish folk tale set in some past century. It was about a Jew somewhere
in Eastern Europe - very possibly Poland - who was setting out on a long journey on foot. He didn't really know his way to his destination and at
the end of the first day, he decided to go to sleep on the side of the
road but didn't want to forget which way to go the next morning so he
set up his shoes to point in the appropriate direction. Anyway, my
friend knew this story very well and was impressed that it had been filmed.
Out of curiousity, I just tried a couple of YouTube searches - "NFB
Jewish" and "NFB animated" and found all kinds of both films. Unless
they're geo-blocked you may find the documentaries you were looking for.
In <101a48o$3rn78$3@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
[snip.... regarding Toronto police...]
here's a post I made elsewhere:
Toronto Police document accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing
I was travelling through Canada yesterday and heard
an interview with a Toronto Sun columnist who... was
talking about the Toronto Police and, welllll..
[Toronto Sun]
Lilley: Toronto Police document accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing
TPS officials say they aren't taking sides but the language in the document >says otherwise.
The knock against the Toronto Police Service over the past 19 months is that >they have engaged in two-tier policing. Specifically, when it comes to >policing protests that are pro-Palestinian, in many cases outright
pro-Hamas, that TPS takes a hands-off approach - that is when they aren't >delivering them coffee and donuts.
========
rest [watch for line wrap]: >https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/toronto-police-document-accuses-is >rael-of-ethnic-cleansing
I've always found Brian Lilley to be one of the few good journalists. He >>tells it like it is and I think he's pretty fair. If he says something,
you can take it to the bank.
Amusing sidenote: I was travelling to Windsor/Detroit, so I
picked up a copy of the Toronto Star looking for the article.
Lots of good stuff (and damn, newspapers are expensive these days..).
Didn't find the column.
Sent e-mails (well, web forms..) to CBC. They replied
that, well, duh, I had gotten the paper wrong (but, being
Canadian, they didn't laugh at me...) and were kind enough
to kick me direct URLs.
I recently saw a copy of my hometown newspaper in paper format. We'd
always had a subscription when I was growing up; my mother kept until
she died in 2017. It had always been a full-size paper - a broadsheet I >believe - and was relatively thick even on weekdays but *now* it's a
pathetic imitation of itself. The pages were very narrow - I've never
seen a newspaper cut to that size - and there was so little in it that I
told someone else I'd call it more of a newsletter than an actual
newspaper. It was so thin that it might not have enough paper to line a
bird cage with, assuming I had a bird. I wouldn't give a nickel for it
but I think they wanted at least a dollar for it. (Apparently, the
Saturday paper is somewhat thicker but I had a weekday edition.)
Newspapers really *are* dying, particularly in print editions. Online
papers may hang on a while longer until they completely alienate
everyone with their lies.
Canada is going the way of the UK. It's a disaster.
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