The CRTC has been busy in the last couple of days. I just heard on the radio that the CRTC has approved Al-Jazeera for Canadian consumption. This after withdrawing the broadcasting licence of a radio station that joked about the size of woman's breasts and their relation to her intelligence. They've been talking about it for a little while, but I guess Al-Jazeera's promise to be nice, made yesterday, might have been just what was needed to push some vacillating bureaucrat to say, "okay". (Am I just being cynical when I wonder whether this new 'code of ethics' of Al-Jazeera's was whipped up just to satisfy Canada?)

Our country -- which is right next to the United States, is its largest trading partner, and is supposedly its friend -- now is in the surreal situation of preventing its citizens from seeing America's top rated News channel (Fox), while providing a podium for the propagandists who want to destroy it.