Shawna is the once editor of the Telegraph-Journal who lost her job during the wafergate scandal, possibly due to the inappropriate laying on of muscle by the federal Tories.
Showing posts with label Wafergate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wafergate. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Shawna Richer is Back
...writing for her old paper The Globe and Mail.
Shawna is the once editor of the Telegraph-Journal who lost her job during the wafergate scandal, possibly due to the inappropriate laying on of muscle by the federal Tories.
Shawna is the once editor of the Telegraph-Journal who lost her job during the wafergate scandal, possibly due to the inappropriate laying on of muscle by the federal Tories.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wafergate Wind Up: He's Back, Where's She?
The company also announced the reinstatement of Jamie Irving as vice-president, about six weeks after he left the Telegraph-Journal as publisher when the newspaper issued its apology to the prime minister.
Irving will be in charge of the newspapers' daily operations, but will report to Reynolds on editorial matters and journalistic practices.
The boss' son always gets off easy.
Irving will be in charge of the newspapers' daily operations, but will report to Reynolds on editorial matters and journalistic practices.
The boss' son always gets off easy.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Just A Thought
The oh so horrible errors in the Telegraph Journal's "cracker caper" story (I'm tired of wafer-gate), which inspired a front page apology and got editor-in-chief Shawna Richer fired--are still there in the on-line version of the Telegraph-Journal story. Or at least the current and cached versions are identical.
Strange bunch,over there at the TJ, to make such a big fuss and then make no corrections.
Strange bunch,over there at the TJ, to make such a big fuss and then make no corrections.
Wind At Our Back?
...or meaningless twitches in the numbers?
A survey by Angus Reid Strategies for the Toronto Star shows the federal Liberals with 34 per cent support and the Conservatives with 33 per cent – a statistical dead heat. The result is a warning for any party thinking of plunging into a fall election: No wind of change is blowing across Canada.
The CPoC vote share hasn't changed since the last go round, but the Libs are up four points. Stephen Harper seems to be defying the conventional wisdom that a government's polling numbers improve during summer when they can traipse about handing out money. And I don't know when the polling period for this latest survey ended--is it possible that the return of wafer-gate has actually damaged the Tory numbers?
Meanwhile, my secret sources tell me that this latest Tory scandal is about to get even deeper--its no longer just about crackers! Now there's pork rinds involved!!!
A survey by Angus Reid Strategies for the Toronto Star shows the federal Liberals with 34 per cent support and the Conservatives with 33 per cent – a statistical dead heat. The result is a warning for any party thinking of plunging into a fall election: No wind of change is blowing across Canada.
The CPoC vote share hasn't changed since the last go round, but the Libs are up four points. Stephen Harper seems to be defying the conventional wisdom that a government's polling numbers improve during summer when they can traipse about handing out money. And I don't know when the polling period for this latest survey ended--is it possible that the return of wafer-gate has actually damaged the Tory numbers?
Meanwhile, my secret sources tell me that this latest Tory scandal is about to get even deeper--its no longer just about crackers! Now there's pork rinds involved!!!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Rumor: Heritage Canada Prepared Talking Points On Wafergate
Sources tell me that Canadian Heritage's protocol officers, perhaps having seen a live feed of the event, or witnessing it in person, were preparing talking points re "where did the wafer go?" on the very day of the LeBlanc funeral. If so, the Tories saw they had a problem even before the infamous TJ article appeared and were already making an effort to defuse it.
An access to information request has already been filed in an attempt to retrieve these talking points.
If true, this shouldn't be surprising. Silly talk of a Liberal conspiracy aside, all sorts of people saw the original video on the day of the funeral. Even Rick Mercer, on July 10th, noted that his first reaction had been
"[The wafer is] in his pocket as we speak.... It's in his pocket with the gum."
And, oh yes, fingering Liberal Party figures by name as being responsible for the "conspiracy", or as bearing responsibility for getting to the bottom of the "conspiracy", is the kind of thing that can get you sued.
An access to information request has already been filed in an attempt to retrieve these talking points.
If true, this shouldn't be surprising. Silly talk of a Liberal conspiracy aside, all sorts of people saw the original video on the day of the funeral. Even Rick Mercer, on July 10th, noted that his first reaction had been
"[The wafer is] in his pocket as we speak.... It's in his pocket with the gum."
And, oh yes, fingering Liberal Party figures by name as being responsible for the "conspiracy", or as bearing responsibility for getting to the bottom of the "conspiracy", is the kind of thing that can get you sued.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Someone In The Harper Gov. Laying Muscle On The Irvings?
Yesterday we get this story-- Tories talk teamwork to salvage shipbuilding--in which "four federal cabinet ministers" lasso Canada's largest shipbuilders, one of these being the Irving-owned Halifax Shipyards, and "encourage" them to "work together" to salvage a number of Tory sponsored defense projects.
Today, we get a grovelling apology out of the Irving-owned Telegraph Journal re wafer-gate. In addition, the names of the newspaper’s editor, Shawna Richer, and the publisher, Jamie Irving, are off the masthead in this morning's edition. Quite odd, as there is at least some independent evidence that Harper did not in fact eat the communion wafer immediately, and unless Monsignor Brian Henneberry, vicar general and chancellor in the Diocese of Saint John, was wildly mis-quoted, then both of the statements the TJ has retracted have at least some support.
Stephen Taylor suggests that TJ reporters Rob Linke and Adam Huras threatened legal action against their own paper. It occurs to me, though, that its just as likely the Tories are applying legal pressure to an Irving owned newspaper as a means of getting its shipbuilders to fall in line.
Today, we get a grovelling apology out of the Irving-owned Telegraph Journal re wafer-gate. In addition, the names of the newspaper’s editor, Shawna Richer, and the publisher, Jamie Irving, are off the masthead in this morning's edition. Quite odd, as there is at least some independent evidence that Harper did not in fact eat the communion wafer immediately, and unless Monsignor Brian Henneberry, vicar general and chancellor in the Diocese of Saint John, was wildly mis-quoted, then both of the statements the TJ has retracted have at least some support.
Stephen Taylor suggests that TJ reporters Rob Linke and Adam Huras threatened legal action against their own paper. It occurs to me, though, that its just as likely the Tories are applying legal pressure to an Irving owned newspaper as a means of getting its shipbuilders to fall in line.
Stephen Harper to Catholics: WTF Is This Cracker?
The Telegraph Journal's apology to Harper this morning made me decide to dig around a bit into the wafer-gate scandal. After all, nobody actually saw Harper put the communion wafer in his pocket, but what is wrong with this statement from the original story?
A senior New Brunswick Roman Catholic priest is demanding the Prime Minister's Office explain what happened to the sacramental communion wafer Stephen Harper was given at Roméo LeBlanc's funeral mass
I still don't know, but I did find this rather humorous bit of mini-news from the Catholic Blog In the Light of the Law:
Update: Sources say Harper consumed the Host, some claiming right away, others, just after Mass when he asked a Catholic what to do with it.
No word as to the Catholic's response.
A senior New Brunswick Roman Catholic priest is demanding the Prime Minister's Office explain what happened to the sacramental communion wafer Stephen Harper was given at Roméo LeBlanc's funeral mass
I still don't know, but I did find this rather humorous bit of mini-news from the Catholic Blog In the Light of the Law:
Update: Sources say Harper consumed the Host, some claiming right away, others, just after Mass when he asked a Catholic what to do with it.
No word as to the Catholic's response.
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