Sunday June 17 2012 – McFadyen’s Miscalculation/CRTC asks questions, Kick-FM documents about illegal committee “lost” from Red River College

Summary: Today's podcast starts off with a Father's Day reflection on how the men in my family helped make me who I am - and the rest of the podcast shows why some influential authorities and influence peddlars  in Winnipeg wish my dad and zaida had encouraged me to be a doctor instead. ********************** So much to cover, some of the overflow is found below as special blog content, but here's what you'll hear about - A review of the media reviews of the Manitoba Legislatuve session, including the excellent Canadian Press coverage and the Winnipeg Sun; - Tom Brodbeck's exit interview with outgoing PC leader Hugh McFadyen reveals the philosophical miscalculation that rendered the Tory ability to get a message out in the 2011 election impotent - because the party failed to stand for meaningful principles when the NDP didn't; - The NDP sucking up to unions while running a huge deficit, Hydro wants a rate hike, Liberal leader Jon Gerrard's call for the Children's Advocate and Premier Greg Selinger to each show some ethics; The civics lesson is focused on Coun. Justin Swandel thinking we should spend $1/2 M on boaters like him; Public consultation about Crescent Golf Course bites Coun. Jenny Gerbasi oifen tuchas; and a blogger flays the crappiest parking meters and parking website this side of Montreal; Finally, the podcast ends with a few brief comments about two recent developments: 1) - An official  reply to the CRTC proves that Red River College Dean of Business Graham Thomson was a liar when he claimed that a shady self-styled "Executive Committee" had any authority or mandate to make programming - or ANY - decisions on behalf of the campus radio station Kick-FM and could have canceled our radio program in 2010. NO wonder it was such 'twisted fun' for the alleged business professional. THE STATION HAS ADMITTED NO PROOF EXISTS, and a lot of  people were asking for it from Thomson when community programming was censored by an illegal and immoral cancelation that was justified by a fake and unauthorized "policy change". The role of the College lawyer Robert Buisson, in not acting to verify the authority of the Committee  is now front and centre.   Their illegal decision also drove the station further into debt and increased dependancy on the funder, RRC.        How convenient.    2 ) - The coincidental timing of the Friday announcement of the pending departure of Margo Goodhand from the Winnipeg Free Press.   The same week, it was revealed an "Executive Committee" of Kick-FM that had no legal authority, acted on her un-investigated bogus complaint  -- after a secret meeting with the person she complained to, the College president Stephanie Forsyth. Margo's complaint was not about my actual radio broadcasts -- because Margo the editor admitted she never listened to them. It was about, well, me being who I am, a citizen journalist who had to be censored because free speech  is not allowed when it is about her newspaper and could not be risked on the College-funded airwaves . The result being that barely 18 months later, Goodhand and  Forsyth are figurehead partners in the Citizen Journalism training business.  Which is what I did at Kick-FM -- until the complaint policy that left Rick Baverstock in charge of volunteers was sidestepped so TGCTS could be eliminated.  Not to forget ! that the Free Press is on the air in the same timeslot, with a station whose representative on the Board in a seat designated for the COMMUNITY, didn't hesitate to go along with gutting the time slot on the campus station. Between the newspaper and the College,  numerous lies were told to the National Post, to listeners, to bloggers,  and even to Board members, to cover-up how citizen journalism was discriminated against by Red River College and prevented from being taught to Cre Comm and other students or even volunteers the College had nothing to do with.