Barry Kiefl
@barrykiefl.bsky.social
President of Canadian Media Research Inc.
The latest Angus Reid Institute opt-in survey claims Carney’s approval rating declined by 6 points. The latest questionnaire differed in an important way. The latest survey inserted a question about how Canada was performing in general before asking about approval of Carney.
September 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The latest Angus Reid Institute opt-in survey claims Carney’s approval rating declined by 6 points. The latest questionnaire differed in an important way. The latest survey inserted a question about how Canada was performing in general before asking about approval of Carney.
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As we say on the internet, "some personal news."
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
June 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
As we say on the internet, "some personal news."
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
Last two @abacusdataca election polls demonstrate why one should use demographic results of opt-in polls with extreme caution. On the eve of the election Abacus reported that Liberals had a 14-point lead among persons 18-29. Their next poll had CPC up by 9-points in this demo.
May 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Last two @abacusdataca election polls demonstrate why one should use demographic results of opt-in polls with extreme caution. On the eve of the election Abacus reported that Liberals had a 14-point lead among persons 18-29. Their next poll had CPC up by 9-points in this demo.
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Update on this story:
The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council has issued a statement announcing it can no longer accept emails about CTV Your Morning and Rachel Gilmore due to receiving a “large number of complaints”
www.cbsc.ca/make-a-compl...
The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council has issued a statement announcing it can no longer accept emails about CTV Your Morning and Rachel Gilmore due to receiving a “large number of complaints”
www.cbsc.ca/make-a-compl...
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Update on this story:
The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council has issued a statement announcing it can no longer accept emails about CTV Your Morning and Rachel Gilmore due to receiving a “large number of complaints”
www.cbsc.ca/make-a-compl...
The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council has issued a statement announcing it can no longer accept emails about CTV Your Morning and Rachel Gilmore due to receiving a “large number of complaints”
www.cbsc.ca/make-a-compl...
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Tech Fascists: We shall weaken the nation, destroy the economy, replace the dollar with crypto, replace people with AI, and create new Network State cities everywhere.
Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan.
Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan.
April 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Tech Fascists: We shall weaken the nation, destroy the economy, replace the dollar with crypto, replace people with AI, and create new Network State cities everywhere.
Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan.
Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan.
The internet has numerous stories of Lutnick claiming companies will pay *higher* taxes under Trump, exploding Trump’s tariffs-will-replace-taxes strategy.
Lutnick gives used car salesmen a bad name.
Lutnick gives used car salesmen a bad name.
March 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The internet has numerous stories of Lutnick claiming companies will pay *higher* taxes under Trump, exploding Trump’s tariffs-will-replace-taxes strategy.
Lutnick gives used car salesmen a bad name.
Lutnick gives used car salesmen a bad name.
Trump/Lutnick contradict Trump’s tariff strategy by claiming the gold card will create jobs for people *who will pay taxes*. Facebook and Instagram have removed video receipts but our FP had the story.
financialpost.com/news/economy/t…
financialpost.com/news/economy/t…
https://financialpost.com/news/economy/t…
March 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Trump/Lutnick contradict Trump’s tariff strategy by claiming the gold card will create jobs for people *who will pay taxes*. Facebook and Instagram have removed video receipts but our FP had the story.
financialpost.com/news/economy/t…
financialpost.com/news/economy/t…
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Oh yeah, respectable journalists definitely need to do whatever they can to maintain access to this stuff.
Fuck the AP, there are new hats!!!
Fuck the AP, there are new hats!!!
get a load of the look on RFK Jr's face as Trump hawks his new merch in the Oval Office
February 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Oh yeah, respectable journalists definitely need to do whatever they can to maintain access to this stuff.
Fuck the AP, there are new hats!!!
Fuck the AP, there are new hats!!!
Nice to see Elon’s net worth fell by ~8% or roughly $32 billion today. DOGE has been successful at cutting something.
February 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Nice to see Elon’s net worth fell by ~8% or roughly $32 billion today. DOGE has been successful at cutting something.
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Hamas is a brutal, barbaric terrorist organization and the common enemy of the Israeli and Palestinian people and all of humanity.
Israel says Bibas boys were among the dead bodies returned by Hamas – but not their mother | CNN
Israel says it has identified two of the dead bodies returned by Hamas on Thursday as Ariel and Kfir Bibas – but tests show another body that was expected to be that of their mother Shiri is not hers ...
www.cnn.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Hamas is a brutal, barbaric terrorist organization and the common enemy of the Israeli and Palestinian people and all of humanity.
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Eventually the Adams case will trickle down to someone who will just follow orders and dismiss it.
Make that person historically infamous.
(Recall it was Robert Bork who eventually followed Nixon’s order to fire Archibald Cox)
Make that person historically infamous.
(Recall it was Robert Bork who eventually followed Nixon’s order to fire Archibald Cox)
NEWS - As soon as DOJ's Public Integrity Section was informed it would be taking over Mayor Adams case, John Keller, the acting head of the unit and his boss, Kevin Driscoll, the senior most career official in DOJ's criminal division resigned, according to multiple sources.
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Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday as the acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. It follows the Justice Department’s directive to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
February 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Eventually the Adams case will trickle down to someone who will just follow orders and dismiss it.
Make that person historically infamous.
(Recall it was Robert Bork who eventually followed Nixon’s order to fire Archibald Cox)
Make that person historically infamous.
(Recall it was Robert Bork who eventually followed Nixon’s order to fire Archibald Cox)
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I referenced this the other day at an event and got the sense that most people had never heard of it, but looking to be ahead of its time!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
Official Trailer - CANADIAN BACON (1995, John Candy, Alan Alda, Michael Moore)
YouTube video by Trailer World
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February 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I referenced this the other day at an event and got the sense that most people had never heard of it, but looking to be ahead of its time!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
“Jacobs bought her home for $7,000 in 1947, rehabilitated it, and sold it 24 years later for $45,000. …Five years after that interview, it sold again, for $3.3 million; today, the city assesses it at $6.6 million.”
"Blame Jane Jacobs," @yappelbaum.bsky.social says. Among other sins, she "cast the displacement of a dynamic working-class community of immigrant renters in the 1950s by a stable, gentrified population of professional-class homeowners as a triumph." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
www.theatlantic.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“Jacobs bought her home for $7,000 in 1947, rehabilitated it, and sold it 24 years later for $45,000. …Five years after that interview, it sold again, for $3.3 million; today, the city assesses it at $6.6 million.”
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After Kristen Welker let National Security Adviser Michael Waltz lie and evade on NBC's "Meet the Press," she wound up her interview by asking him for his Super Bowl pick.
That's how you normalize fascists and tell them you're friendly enough that they can come back later and lie some more.
That's how you normalize fascists and tell them you're friendly enough that they can come back later and lie some more.
February 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
After Kristen Welker let National Security Adviser Michael Waltz lie and evade on NBC's "Meet the Press," she wound up her interview by asking him for his Super Bowl pick.
That's how you normalize fascists and tell them you're friendly enough that they can come back later and lie some more.
That's how you normalize fascists and tell them you're friendly enough that they can come back later and lie some more.
Musk’s Starlink connects to all smartphones…
Apple added Starlink to iOS 18.3 without disclosing it. Get the word out: don't update your Apple devices!
www.forbes.com/sites/davidp...
www.forbes.com/sites/davidp...
Apple’s New ‘Game Changer’ iPhone Update Brings Starlink Satellite Access
Apple has been “secretly working” with SpaceX and the result is that the latest iOS software update means iPhones can access Starlink.
www.forbes.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Musk’s Starlink connects to all smartphones…
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I do wonder how much this remarkable moment and picture in 2019, which went viral, is a reason for his nutty threats against Canada now.
February 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I do wonder how much this remarkable moment and picture in 2019, which went viral, is a reason for his nutty threats against Canada now.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“"Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals."
The media, especially TV networks like CNN, MSNBC and the 3 blind mice, are the willing transmitters of the show.
“"Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals."
The media, especially TV networks like CNN, MSNBC and the 3 blind mice, are the willing transmitters of the show.
February 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“"Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals."
The media, especially TV networks like CNN, MSNBC and the 3 blind mice, are the willing transmitters of the show.
“"Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals."
The media, especially TV networks like CNN, MSNBC and the 3 blind mice, are the willing transmitters of the show.
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The TikTok ban debate is a distraction from bigger issue that Congress has neglected for years, Nicole Wong, tells @kara. As Obama's former deputy CTO, former VP and general counsel at Google, and Twitter's former legal director of product, she’s one of the internet's original content moderators.
January 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The TikTok ban debate is a distraction from bigger issue that Congress has neglected for years, Nicole Wong, tells @kara. As Obama's former deputy CTO, former VP and general counsel at Google, and Twitter's former legal director of product, she’s one of the internet's original content moderators.
Republicans say they fear violence vs. themselves and family. Yet Democrats and journalists must face the same threats presumably but it doesn’t change their behavior. Funny that.
February 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Republicans say they fear violence vs. themselves and family. Yet Democrats and journalists must face the same threats presumably but it doesn’t change their behavior. Funny that.
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Incisive and intriguing piece by @ShannonGormley.bsky.social: Chrystia Freeland talks tough about Trump. Here’s why Mark Carney’s strategy is even riskier
Chrystia Freeland talks tough about Trump. Here’s why Mark Carney’s strategy is even riskier
How would Freeland respond to Trump's tariffs? What about Carney? We analyze the Liberal leadership candidates' tactics so far.
www.thestar.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Incisive and intriguing piece by @ShannonGormley.bsky.social: Chrystia Freeland talks tough about Trump. Here’s why Mark Carney’s strategy is even riskier
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January 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
@msnbc.com instead of a countdown clock implement a Trump-lies counter
January 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@msnbc.com instead of a countdown clock implement a Trump-lies counter
“What a fiasco for Trump!”
Just hours after Trump’s allies cheered when he imposed 25% tariffs on Colombian goods, Colombia responded by imposing reciprocal 25% tariffs on goods imported from the US. In addition, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said the time of being a close US trade ally is over.
What a fiasco for Trump!
What a fiasco for Trump!
January 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“What a fiasco for Trump!”
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🚨NEW: Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, calling her “the enemy of the people” and hinting he may try to take her off the air.
REPOST if you stand with @maddow.msnbc.com against Donald Trump!
REPOST if you stand with @maddow.msnbc.com against Donald Trump!
January 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🚨NEW: Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, calling her “the enemy of the people” and hinting he may try to take her off the air.
REPOST if you stand with @maddow.msnbc.com against Donald Trump!
REPOST if you stand with @maddow.msnbc.com against Donald Trump!
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This isn’t just a moronic lie.
It’s more than an insult against an ally.
Trump is using disinformation to justify applying unwarranted & hugely mutually damaging tariffs as a tactic to try to force an ally into giving up its sovereignty.
It’s a hostile takeover attempt. Or overt economic warfare.
It’s more than an insult against an ally.
Trump is using disinformation to justify applying unwarranted & hugely mutually damaging tariffs as a tactic to try to force an ally into giving up its sovereignty.
It’s a hostile takeover attempt. Or overt economic warfare.
Trump: "We're gonna be demanding respect from other nations. Canada, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada. We're not gonna have that anymore. As you probably know, I say you can always become a state. If you're a state, we won't have a deficit, we won't have to tariff you."
January 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This isn’t just a moronic lie.
It’s more than an insult against an ally.
Trump is using disinformation to justify applying unwarranted & hugely mutually damaging tariffs as a tactic to try to force an ally into giving up its sovereignty.
It’s a hostile takeover attempt. Or overt economic warfare.
It’s more than an insult against an ally.
Trump is using disinformation to justify applying unwarranted & hugely mutually damaging tariffs as a tactic to try to force an ally into giving up its sovereignty.
It’s a hostile takeover attempt. Or overt economic warfare.