Oh Canada

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

I recall from the Media in Review from Forbes that Canada media is generally
left of US ... what I am seeing indicates that when it comes to protection
against terrorism, Canadians are more willing to sacrifice Constitutional
guarantees than Americans.

Other folks may be interested in these Forbes Critical Review of Print Media
1-800-825-0061
... basically they list the top 500 or so most influencial journalists in
America, with a publication for the work of a year at a time.  What were the
big stories of that year, which media got the story right, and which were led
astray.

Forbes took this publication over from an earlier outfit that had features I
liked but are now gone.  There were lists of major publications & TV in USA
and Canada, with reviews of how they compared to each other in quality of
coverage.

The journalists get rated with codes meaning such things as
A byline not to be trusted
Barely meets criteria, seldom offers anything new
Barely competent
Above-Average reorting and delivers skillful arguements
Provocative well informed, unquestionably fiar, with sharp insight
Exceptional approaching the very best

Perhaps we need a rating system like this for web sites

When you call to order a recent Media Guide, they will try to sell you on
subscribing to their MediaCritic but I tried it for a year & found it to be
very dim compared to the publications put out by the various schools of
Journalism.  In other words when it comes to Journalists & would-be
Journalists critically evaluating their profession's competence & fairness &
etc. we get much better coverage from academia standards than from another
outfit in the same biz.

I never did find their web page, but I was watching the Canadian Broadcasting
Service, via C-Span, & one Canadian said Canadian blood has bought freedom
through NATO & Canada should continue to be part of the solution, not part of
the problem.

Apparently the Prime Minister of Canada will soon be traveling to the USA to
renew support for the US fight against terrorism.  I imagine that in the
aftermath of that visit, there will be a clearer message about what the
Canadian government plans to do, that will satisfy the Canadian press.

http://www.nationalpost.com/
The Canadian National Post On Line has several interesting stories

I guess Iran has no formal diplomatic relations with the USA, but does with
Canada.
Iran has sent a message to George Bush in care of Canada's Prime Minister,
declaring that they are not opposed to US military action in their region
against terrorists.  The message also asks that the scope of US action be
targeted at the terrorists, Iran not approving of any wider scope military
action.

Another story talks about a federal jury in White Plains, a suburb of New
York which has issued warrants for the arrest of material witnesses to
details of the plot.  Some of these people are cooperating & some are not.

http://www.fyiedmonton.com/htdocs/edmsun.shtml

The Edmunton Sun has a front page story that seems to editorialize that the
Prime Minister is failing to spell out details his people are looking for.
However, it appears like this is the first time that Canada has formaly
declared war on terrorism.  Apparently the opposition party is on the top
leadership's case to be more supportive of America than has already been
stated, and to be more vigorous about protecting Canadian infrastructure from
terrorist threats.

http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/editorial.html

Editorial Pages of Calgary Sun show unhappiness with Canadian Government not
being forthcoming about what their leadership is going to do about a clear
and present danger.  This newspaper included an American flag to help
Canadians show their support.

http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/C/20010919/wxbord?

hub=homeBN&tf=tgam/realtime/fullstory.html&cf=tgam/realtime/config-neutral&vg=

BigAdVariableGenerator&slug=wxbord&date=20010919&archive=RTGAM&site=Front&ad_p

age_name=breakingnews

Toronto Globe & Mail has a bunch of stories I had not seen in the US media.
Air Canada is suffering in the impact on the economy
Israel is backing away from some actions at the request of George W Bush
There's a story about what profiling is happening on the Canadian Border,
which I tried to forward directly because it seems relevant to recent
discussions & possibly of interest because our technical skills parallel the
folks being apprehended.
The head of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce was arrested for making a joke
about the bombing that was considered to be in bad taste. Ooh, Canadian law
on being politically correct must be stricter than in the USA ... the only
way such a person might be arrested here would be to protect the idiot from
mob action.
What a Jihad is & what it is not - clarification.
Info on this new internet worm.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

Sep 11 Links:
Great discussion archives
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TYR
http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-nontech

Countries on WWW & their TV station web sites
http://www.c-span.org/international/links.asp

Newspapers World Wide
http://www.wheretodoresearch.com/news/foreign_newspapers.htm
http://www.wheretodoresearch.com/news/US_Newspapers.htm

Intelligence Briefings by country
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/17/asia.support/
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
http://www.economist.com/countries
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/search/list/index.html
http://www.debka.com/
http://www.stratfor.com