Monthly Archives: May 2010

Paul Wells: But as McDonald points out on her book’s last page, I admitted last summer, when Tony Clement was making up transparent lies to camouflage the cutting of tourism-promotion grants to gay and lesbian community events, that I often … Continue reading →

By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Author Marci McDonald will probably wind up having a debate on an Internet radio program with a lady that she critiqued in her book. And Kari Simpson is “loaded for bear”. … Continue reading →

Marci McDonald, who has won many prizes and held many prestigious positions in Canadian journalism, has just released a very bad book on what she posits is an increasingly menacing Religious Right in Canada. Let’s start with the title: The … Continue reading →

By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. In a brand new interview, Marci McDonald is paraphrased as saying that “demonizing” the Christian right in Canada was not her goal when writing The Armageddon Factor. The “so-hot-off-the-presses-you need gloves” … Continue reading →

By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Two quick items that I spotted on blogs today, for what they are worth, as they say. Brian Lilley, a radio reporter back east who also writes for the conservative internet … Continue reading →

By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. In Marci McDonald’s new book, Brian Stiller, who served as leader of the Evaneglical Fellowship of Canada from 1983 to 1997, is viewed with some apporoval. She writes about him at … Continue reading →

I had just gone to my computer to file a quote from page 153 of The Armageddon Factor when a post caught my attention. First this from the book. Page 151: With her striking looks at tactical smarts, Kryskow has … Continue reading →

By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Deborah Gyapong, the noted Canadian conservative journalist, continues to be dismayed with what she sees as the “you scratch my back…” press coverage of Marci McDonald’s book. I mention this to … Continue reading →