Can Somebody In The Know Please Tell Us What The Heckfire...

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....Is Going On At Postmedia News?

First it was the decision to give McGregor and Maher the time and space to go after an old story, hard.

Which became what we all now know, at the very least, to be 'The Robocall Scandal'.

And now, we get stuff, real stuff, like the following from Peter O'Neill:

OTTAWA — New Democratic Party MP Don Davies says it never occurred to him when he innocuously snapped a photo at an anti-racism march in Vancouver last month that he would suddenly become the latest target in an increasingly vicious Canadian political culture.

That single act would result in the Vancouver MP being described in the House of Commons, and in a news release from Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, as a cheerleader for "anarchists and anti-capitalist mobs" and a defender of the rights of "violent foreign criminals, war criminals and bogus asylum claimants."

It was even argued by one of Kenney's colleagues that the photo shows that Davies and the NDP may be sympathetic to anti-Israel terrorists, human smugglers, violent anti-capitalism protesters, and anarchists who believe the Canadian state is an "illegitimate occupying power" on aboriginal territory that should be known as Turtle Island, not Canada...

{snippety doodle-dandy}

...While some say little has changed in the often-brutal history of Canadian politics, others suggest a new level of U.S.-style wedge politics is having a major impact on political discourse involving both MPs and "civil society" groups.

"It sounds like some of our toxic political strategies have moved north of the border," said David Mark, a Washington-based senior editor with Politico.com and author of Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning....

I mean, next thing you know somebody from PMedia is actually going to go back and start doing real retrospectives, a la Alison at Creekside, about what was said, when and by whom, regarding, say, the Great F-35 Swindle.

Clearly, this is a crazy mixed-up world we live in.

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