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Al Cook
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She looks like a Byrne drawing from the 70's!
That's who that face was!!
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Todd Serotiuk
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Joined: 12 February 2006
Location: Canada
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I could go on for hours about my distaste for Mr. Black. But I'd rather share a story about Barbara Amiel. In my final year of a political science degree at the University of Toronto, I took a class called "Ideas and Ideology in Canadian Politics" with a great left-leaning professor. He was in his 60s, smoked a pipe and wore tweed jackets with elbow pads. The classic professorial image. He was a funny affable old guy, who really believed the key to teaching was to inspire passion. On the first day of class, he was explaining the history of political theory and how the definitions of conservative and liberal had changed from their classical meanings and continue to evolve. "I recall my good friend and former student Barbara Amiel," he told us. "A terribly smart woman. You don't write a column for the Times of London just by being just another pretty face. Well, Barbara was trying to convince me one day that her conservative views were actually the radical ones -- that her way of thinking comes from Adam Smith, who was a true liberal and that makes her a true liberal at heart. I looked at her and said, 'Barbara, you're the most reactionary bitch I've ever met in my life!'" From that moment, I knew I was gonna have a good time in that class.
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Neil Lindholm
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Joined: 12 January 2005
Location: China
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Sigh. I am again in the opposite thought to many of my fellow Canadians on this board.
I remember when Conrad Black started up the "National Post" (A second national paper in Canada. Before that, there was only one, the "Globe and Mail") and the left-wing faction at the University went ballistic. They had protests and denouncements and refused to sell the paper on campus. They formed "fair speech" clubs and did everything they could to villify him. They wore buttons and tee-shirts that said (IIRC) "I don't read Conrad Black" and "I don't read the National Post". His crime? He hired actual reporters for the paper who actually investigated the stories. Refusal to accept the leftist status-quo. Bylines by real journalists (a rarity). I was amazed by the intelligent writing and thoughtful editorials and especially the writings of Conrad Black, who is extremely articulate. Well, this was not acceptable to the "progressive" faction in Canada, who disliked any discussions about their beliefs. You would not believe the nonsense they would come up with to attack him on the campus.
The National Post editorial slant was against the ruling Liberals and they were very effective in attacking them, a main reason why Chretien blocked his peerage.Petty and childish political abuse. Even though Conrad Black never once mandated what his papers would print, he was still attacked as a demigod who would ruin Canadian media. Of course, when he sold the paper and Izzy Asper, the new owner (a staunch Liberal) blocked the editors from writing bad things about his political buddies, the progressive factions never said a word. Free speech only if it is speech they agree with.
Canada has a habit of attacking success. Maybe he is arrogent but so what? He is a success and that should have been celebrated. Now that he has legal problems, which I admit I don't know anything about, they are dancing with glee.
Also, he has a hot wife. I haven't read much of her writings but I always like looking at her picture.
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