755...Elizabeth May Doesn't Read My Blog

Which makes me sad.

Well, no, actually it doesn't make me sad because, apparently, the leader of the Green Party, the woman who will be the next Prime Minister of Canada if enough Canadians go insane and vote for her and the Green Party, not only doesn't read The World Famous Dan Shields, she also doesn't read the Victoria Times-Colonist, the paper of record in the riding she is going to conquer, Saanich-Gulf Islands, the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, the Ottawa Citizen, the various Suns, the Washington Post, watch CBC Newsworld, listen to 680 News or have someone to do it for her.

She is not in the loop. Nor are her people. Loopy but loop free is she.

How do I know this?

Because she was interviewed live last hour on 580CFRA in Ottawa by Rob Snow and found out for the first time, hours after little old insignificant me found out even, that the Premier of one of our esteemed provinces, Manitoba, Gary Doer, had resigned yesterday and was the new ambassador to the U. S. of A., a country whose border she is perched on today, what with her being in Niagara-On-The-Lake doing whatever it is when she is not fixing the planet.

In all seriousness darling [see, I didn't call her baby] you would think that you would try to be as current as me; being current is merely a hobby/obsession for me, for you, Madame Leader who has deluded herself into thinking she will be a Member of Parliament, it is a job requirement.

Seriously, pay attention, darling [see, I didn't call her baby this time either], pay attention.

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748...The National Capital Is Now A Big Time City

Heard on CFRA yesterday that the capital of the GWN, Ottawa, is going to get a 24 hour bus!!!

The 95 will run 24/7/365 from one end, Orleans, to the other end, Kanata, all day and all of the night.

Bytown has finally made it to the show!

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633...This Will Make Russell Barth Happy

WWL Radio in New Orleans, btw it is the CFRB, CFRA, CJAD, CKNW, WJR, you get the idea I think, of Nawlins, WWL AM and FM's Dave Cohen reports that the District Attorney of New Orleans, Leon Cannizzaro, in a Paul Martinesque move, is of the mind that trying pot smokers at the state level in New Orleans is passe.

He would like marijuana charges to be moved from the state docket to the municipal docket.

The D.A. wanted to make it clear that he doesn't want this to be misinterpreted. "I am not here advocating the legalization or decriminalization of marijuana in any way whatsoever," he told the council. Furthermore he pointed out that the maximum penalty for simple marijuana possession would remain six months in jail and/or a $500 fine.

State judges, not surprisingly, are against such a move, primarily I would think because it would mean less work for them and less work equals less money.

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629...As It Turns Out

If one were to believe what one heard on talk radio, the one outlet being CFRA in Ottawa, and if one were to believe the chatter at the Tim Horton's and the Starbucks and the McDonald's I was at yesterday [I have a serious caffeine addiction] Mayor Larry O'Brien, well, everybody knew he was going to be found not guilty.

As if.

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627...In My Defense Mr. deBeauxOs

Sir, I thank you for your comment to Post 625 but I must point out something to you, with respect and kindness.

Radio Canada, CBC French, did not have ongoing coverage of the Larry O'Brien verdict; I reiterate that the only over the air station in the Capital that had ongoing coverage of this important trial was the much maligned CFRA.

Again, I thank you for reading sir and I thank you for the comment.

WFDS

625...Larry Finds Out Now, Part Three, CFRA

Point finale: As maligned as CFRA is in this town, they are the only over the air media outlet that are giving the outcome of the Mayor Larry O'Brien trial the coverage that is deserves.

Love them or hate them, they are doing what the other 30 plus over the air stations in town are not, that is covering the biggest and most important trial in the history of this community as fully and completely as they can.

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And, as we inch closer to the verdict I stand by my earlier prediction, that being Mayor O'Brien is not guilty.

620...Alcohol In The News

Montreal is one of the world's great drinking towns. So it comes as no surprise to moi that McGill University in Montreal would be a leader in research on how alcohol affects the body.

In a study I heard on CFRA this morning and read about on Newsmax.com, McGill University researchers have determined that the more one drinks the more one's chance of getting certain cancers, esophageal, colon and lung, increases dramatically.

Esophageal went up 7o per cent with the heaviest drinkers, those who drank a minimum of 3 drinks a day over a decade. Colon went up 80 points and lung cancer 50.

Dr. Andrea Benedetti noted that casual drinkers were barely affected "It is those that drink every day or multiple times a day that are at risk."

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584...Parking Fines Dilute Good Will

Cities everywhere don't seem to get that.

Here is a letter to the USA Today from Fargo, North Dakota, a smallish town, metro of about 200,000 thousand, size of Regina or Saskatoon give or take, where one would not think these things would be problems.

More parking fines dilute goodwill

Brian Magee - Fargo, N.D.

More parking fines dilute goodwill Cities increasing parking fines to boost revenue — and moves like it — alienate the public from their governments. Government should not be seen as an enemy. When it is, the result is bitterness and lack of respect ("Parking fines easy cash for cities," News, Wednesday).

Government's central functions should be paid for by everyone, on a sliding scale, giving each person a stake in what government does. When the basic budget is funded increasingly through fines, fees or targeted taxes, such as those on alcohol or cigarettes, we attach a negative connotation to government. Then the government becomes not an ally, but an adversary.

Fines should be an annoyance and a small deterrent, not a revenue source. It's not only bad policy, it's also bad psychology.

Please alert Lowell Green to this Post; this is one of his long time [and accurate] rants.

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541...Tim Powers Doesn't Like Mikey I

Tim Powers is an Ottawa based Conservative Party hack, and I mean that in the nicest way.

He is also featured on CFRA [btw, it is a Farm Boy day!] panels discussing politics with Liberal hacks and NDP hacks. No Green Party hacks on those panels; shouldn't what's her name be complaining to the CRTC about that?

I digress.

Tim, er, Mr. Powers, wrote a seemingly thoughtful piece about the future Prime Minister of Canada, Michael Ignatieff's cabinet, buried in yesterday's Globe and Mail.

Le cut, le paste:

Iggy makes a cabinet?
Tim Powers

I know I did have a few beers last night, but when I woke up this morning to read
 Jane Taber's column about Michael Ignatieff apparently offering people cabinet
posts I thought I should have been a character in the movie The Hangover.
You know the one where the main players get so loaded that when they wake
up the next morning they can't remember what they did and how they changed
their worlds.

So a leader whose party has no platform; who at this point according to polls
 has lost what ever momentum he had in polls; who now in a recent Macleans interview
 is found to have trashed his party's Pearsonian peacekeeping traditions;
 is making a cabinet? And oh yes, he is the Leader of the Opposition,
 a mere technicality of course. This latest adventure is either
exceptionally audacious or the height of that Iggy arrogance that drives
 so many batty except it seems the great man himself and a few of his sycophants.

According to Taber's report: "The Liberal leader recently visited former B.C.
 attorney-general Wally Oppal, who was narrowly defeated in the May provincial
election, and offered him the justice portfolio if he were to run federally,
according to a source close to Mr. Oppal." If Jane's story is right
it appears that Iggy and his Liberals still haven't learned that
Canadians hate that entitlement attitude of theirs. Remember that
classic line from former Liberal minister David Dingwall:
"I am entitled to my entitlements." It was that frame of mind
that led to the sponsorship scandal, sank the Martin juggernaut
and put the Liberals on the bench.

Canadians do have this terrible expectation that people who seek
 public office work for their vote and offer some plans on what they might do.
 Presumably Iggy forgot about that while he was away. The Liberals don't have
 an inherit right to govern despite their Leader's current delusion.

In case it also slipped your mind Michael, in
 parliamentary democracies like Canada, there is a process called an
 election whereby those common folk known as the Canadian public
decide who becomes the government.

Not happy one bit, is Mr. Powers. And you thought I was snarky.

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462...It's Yer Birthday Part Two

It's Lowell Green's, 580 CFRA's talk show host, birthday.

He led off his show by alleging that one of the ZeroMeansZero blog spot writers is a known pedophile. Nice, unwarranted, shot.

Lowering yourself to their level.

Short trip, for certain but still...

Nice.

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431...Animal News

In news that will make Lowell Green and the CFRA Nation happy, Tiffany Crawford and Peter O'Neil report in this morning's Montreal Gazette that the World Wildlife Federation ranks Canada eighth out of the eight countries that make up the G8 in terms of reacting to climate change.

"Nowhere else on Earth do fewer people steward more resources, yet Canada now stands dead last among the G8 nations in protecting our shared home from the threat of dangerous climate change," said foundation spokesman Keith Stewart.

The big bugaboo is the ongoing work in northern Alberta on exploiting the tarsands which has dire consequences for the environment according to the 2009 Climate Scorecard.

May be the Green Shift wasn't such a bad idea, eh?

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429...Rednecks Of The World Unite Via CFRA

I'm driving in my car.

I turn on CFRA.

I am listening to Lowell Green.

And he gets a call from New South Wales, Australia.

From a lad who's neck is redder than Lowell's.

Twas sweet.

They did a little immigrant bashing.

Too much taxes, not enough services, damn minority gangs.

And then the lad told Mr. Green he was on his 20th beer and that were that.

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407...Nice Gesture From Allan Rock U of Ottawa

I just heard this on 580CFRA, Ottawa.

Allan Rock, the President of the University of Ottawa has decreed that if you are the unfortunate son or daughter of a slain member of the Canadian Armed forces mission in Afghanistan there is a small silver lining inside of your dark cloud.

To wit, if you decide that the University of Ottawa is for you they will give you, provided you are under 26, a four year scholarship and pay for your residence in year one.

Brilliant.

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389...Michael Jackson Died Thursday

Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson died Thursday.

Radio died right along with him. Most radio stations just kept John Tesh rolling, Ryan Seacrest babbling and voice tracking mindlessly ploughing through the playlist.

When John Lennon and Elvis Presley died, decades before consolidation, national program directors and big chains controlling everything from Toronto, Montreal, New York and Los Angeles most stations were immediately broadcasting on-air tributes, news accounts and playing wall-to-wall dead guy music.

In my town the only station that I heard going wall to wall Michael was the station that I am with, 93.1CKCU, which has, and this is a positive, a laissez faire attitude towards programming. Although the hit stations in town, TAG FM, KISS and HOT did talk about Michael Jackson they also played the songs that were programmed weeks, days, months ago. If anything, CFRA, the local right wing news talker and CBC ONE, the lefty news talker, were more on the story than the contemporary stations.

Not hating, just stating.

Score one for local TV, like Local4 in Detroit, stations that were out on the street in their towns and a big one for the Internet.

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202...If The Liberals Did That!!!

Left briefing papers lying around, under estimated the budget by a trillion or two, miscounted the power of gold, dated ex biker chicks, well, you get the picture, Lowell Green, Steve Madely and their ilk would have their panties in a knot.

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161...Many Voices Make Us Stronger/ZMZ

Here is what I posted on ZeroMeansZero a few minutes ago.

World Famous Dan Shields said...
RE: CFRA and surrendering their lic.Um, doncha think multiple voices are better than no voice? Frankly, agree or not, CFRA is at least out there and, as Lowell has said in the past, it is suprising that some of the underperforming stations, ratings are out today, look to the bottom of the list, don't go talk, hot talk, etc.Also, 540, 630,970, 1440 and 1150 are still signals assigned to this market. If CFRA and CFGO/The Team can make money on AM, one would think that a talker on a flamethrowing signal like the one 540 has would make a few shekels.ZMZ Radio?WFDS
May 28, 2009 12:37 PM

96...Thursday, CKCU, Radio Carleton

8 am til 9 30 am, 944 Rogers, 93.1 FM on car and clock radios in Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec and New York's North Country, http://www.ckcufm.com/ for the rest of the world, I will be talking to Jill Nelson about Johnny Wadd, John C. Holmes, the Elvis of porno.

In addition, Doug Hempstead updates the Tulip Festival for y'all y'all and Daniel Stringer on the UN Peace thingy at St. Paul University Thursday day.

Plus, in studio, Lindsay call me Liz Ferguson, a singer I am told, for the full 90 minutes.

Hey, c'mon over, I am funnier than CFRA, sportier than The Team 1200 and smarter than CBC One and Two.

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