Interesting content
Being as idle and unoccupied as I am, I sometimes watch old news footage online.
CBC Archives (which goes back seemingly forever) and the main CTV News site (since 2003) are both good resources for old Canadian news... I learn new stuff every time I do a quick search for an old news clip.
For example, if you look at the story on the Liberal Leadership Convention of 1984, you see something really interesting. During Jean Chretien's address to the convention, Paul Martin (our current PM and bitter Chretien rival) is standing right behind Chretien and is smiling as Chretien speaks. This is when Paul Martin was still CEO of Canadian steamship lines and 4 years before he was even elected as a Liberal MP. Weird eh? Almost as weird as the Gagliano clip. Can't this guy keep any of his friends? All his friends appear to be a bunch of relatively young and inexperienced amateurs who seem to have no idea what they're doing. Chretien's inner circle might've been corrupt, but at least they seemed sort of competent and in control.
There's lots of other interesting tidbits that are fascinating as well. Do a quick search... particularly on the CBC archives site, and you'll learn quite a bit.
PS. Chretien is infinitely more likeable in the pre-1993 clips than he is in the post-1993 links. Odd.
CBC Archives (which goes back seemingly forever) and the main CTV News site (since 2003) are both good resources for old Canadian news... I learn new stuff every time I do a quick search for an old news clip.
For example, if you look at the story on the Liberal Leadership Convention of 1984, you see something really interesting. During Jean Chretien's address to the convention, Paul Martin (our current PM and bitter Chretien rival) is standing right behind Chretien and is smiling as Chretien speaks. This is when Paul Martin was still CEO of Canadian steamship lines and 4 years before he was even elected as a Liberal MP. Weird eh? Almost as weird as the Gagliano clip. Can't this guy keep any of his friends? All his friends appear to be a bunch of relatively young and inexperienced amateurs who seem to have no idea what they're doing. Chretien's inner circle might've been corrupt, but at least they seemed sort of competent and in control.
There's lots of other interesting tidbits that are fascinating as well. Do a quick search... particularly on the CBC archives site, and you'll learn quite a bit.
PS. Chretien is infinitely more likeable in the pre-1993 clips than he is in the post-1993 links. Odd.
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