Jason Gladue

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@Gregnormanjr Got the 🦈 in you! Man I worshipped your dad and all that he done

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@Baggeridgebaggy Handsome guy. Take care and celebrate his life

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@AnthonyKim_Golf @malbongolf Get Bryan a body bag 😂

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@eamonlynch Just hanging one out hey

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

RIP my man

[Alex Cimo @Cimoooooooo]

Stage 4 cancer patient running an 8-minute mile.

No excuses because I’m on vacation.

You only have one life. Take care of your body to make the most of it.

#FuckCancer

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@pathenri Oh fuck off

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@PaulStanleyLive Get him a body bag 😂

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@shanebacon Let’s gooooo

[JB 🇨🇦 @JackieBee_16]

This is the douchebag that threw the rotisserie chicken or duck or whatever the hell it was on the ice last night.

These losers need to be fined and banned from Rogers Place

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@TheAnnaMurphy @McAllisterBruce @RicMcIver You put yourself out there. Get thicker skin or just grow up

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@bruceanderson Must suck to wake up every morning lol

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@atRachelGilmore Go away ha

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@PaulChampLaw 😂

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@MickeyBitsko22 @WTHRcom 🤡

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@itspriionly Jason

[Lauren Hunter @HunterAtHome]

As an Oilers fan who watched the team lose in 2 back to back Stanley Cup finals, now seeing the Blue Jays lose a World Series final….

I hurt

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

This👇”story” is an object lesson for why trust in legacy media has plummeted, and alt right media audiences have grown.

Here CTV “digital news producer” @AngeMAmato (she/her) writes a story about “experts” calling the use of Sec. 33 “a threat to democracy.”

Who are the experts?

A left wing academic, and a left wing activist. The latter, Howard Sapers, is a former Liberal MLA (which the article does not mention) for a party that is so marginal, it has not elected an MLA in over a decade.

For good measure CTV goes on to quote two left wing union bosses, who of course are predictably outraged.

A more accurate headline would be “Four people on the left angry about use of Notwithstanding Clause.” Which is the opposite of news. It’s the ultimate “Dog Bites Man” non-story.

Did the CTV producer make any effort to post a balanced story by asking for comment from academics / lawyers / think tanks who support use of Sec. 33? Did she call the @CDNConstFound or the @MLInstitute’s Judicial Power Project? Did she attempt to reach any of these four scholars, who just published their views in a @nationalpost op-ed last week? https://t.co/R1Amug7rFj

Did she have an editor who asked why her story lacked any attempt at balance?

And did anyone at CTV pause for a moment to ponder how tendentious it is to accuse a democratically elected legislature of acting “undemocratically” by invoking a power whose entire purpose is to ensure democratic accountability?

She provides some historical context about prior use of Sec. 33. Why does that context not include the fact that most democratically elected provincial governments (including Alberta under Premier Lougheed, and Saskatchewan under NDP Premier Blakeney) agreed to adopt the Charter *only if* it included the Notwithstanding Clause to allow democratically elected Legislatures to ensure a democratic check and balance against the abuse of undemocratic, unaccountable judicial power?

Why does she not mention that for the first 33 years of the Charter era, the Canadian Courts ruled that there was no constitutionally protected right to strike?

Why doesn’t she quote an expert pointing out that Allan Blakeney defended the Saskatchewan Legislature’s 1982 use of Sec. 33 to end a strike as “a legitimate use of the Notwithstanding Clause?” Or refer to Peter Lougheed’s 1987 commitment to use Sec. 33 if the courts invented a right to strike?

Many thoughtful criticisms can be levelled against Section 33. Being undemocratic is not one of them.

So why do we see so much agitprop like this masquerading as news from so many legacy media outlets?

IMO, there are two possible answers:

1) They are blind to their own biases; and / or

2) People like @AngeMAmato believe that they have a moral imperative to be “progressive journalists” which trumps the boringly old fashioned professional imperative to be objective and balanced.

Whatever the reason, “journalists” like this have no one to blame but themselves for growing distrust of legacy media, and the consequent emergence of non traditional media platforms.

[Jason Gladue @serialjay]

@AndieWinnipeg Oh the faux outrage 😂

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@Naam_kafi_hai Jason