OTTAWA, 1872 – Canada’s big three town crier companies – Bytown Criers Inc, Sunrise Guys, GoldenThroat Criers – are petitioning Ottawa for a bailout claiming that the proliferation of daily papers of news, or “Newspapers,” is dramatically affecting their profitability as advertisers no longer see the value in conventional town criers.

Reginal Shoutsmith, chief crier of Bytown Criers Inc. and head of the Upper Canada Town Criers Guild, says that the vital service Read the rest of this entry »

I love it when Jack Layton tells the gov’t to do something.  It usually makes me scratch my head and belly-laugh at the NDP logic.  Today, Mr. Layton has a suggestion for Mr. Harper that pretty much confirms that his ultra-socialist mind has no idea what’s really going on out there.

Jack met with a few hundred locked-out workers of the Quebecor owned newspaper Journal de Montreal.  During the emotional discussions, Layton basically told workers, “We got your back!”  Yeah, working class hero Jack Layton and the NDP support those workers against the actions of Quebecor.

Layton is “supporting” the locked out Quebecor workers (also at Le Reveil du Saguenay) by calling on the federal government to pull all advertising from both papers.

This is where I scratch a cavern into my head.

Most politicians should be aware that Read the rest of this entry »