Headlines that make you go...Hmmmmmmmmm...

[Thinktank]

this headline should make everyone in Canada go Hmmmm is Polievre a two-face?

Poilievre condemns 'vile' views of German politician seen lunching with Conservative MPs

To see if something is wrong with Polievre listen to Christine Anderson below


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/p ... -1.6759453

[Babba_not_Gump]

RBC fires female CFO Nadine Ahn over secret relationship with employee who received promotions and bigger pay
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -bank.html

RBC execs: "sorry ma'am, we wanted performance in the boardroom, not the bedroom".
As for him, hopefully she looks after him considering she pulled in $3 million US last year.

[my5cents]

And all this time I thought RBC was only screwing me.

[my5cents]

News Item: Utility Workers Injured
"Two Toronto utility workers injured working on hydro vault, area power knocked out"

The photo below headline is of 4 British Columbia Ambulances

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Were the Toronto utility workers working in BC ? Nope "...working at a Toronto hydro vault"

Rule one - Gotta have a photo with every story
Rule two - Doesn't matter if the photo has nothing to do with the story.

[ok-weezy]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4 ... n-Okanagan

In my experience of living here..40% chance of rain means nothing. Not going to get rain in Kelowna. The hills will get some...

[Bigbacardi]

This St. John's trans man thought it wasn't possible for him to get pregnant. Then it happened

Really?
Man gets pregnant?

[my5cents]

This St. John's trans man thought it wasn't possible for him to get pregnant. Then it happened

Really?
Man gets pregnant?

Links are helpful

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... -1.7275310

No, not really.

Isn't this a nothing burger ? A biological female idenfiying as a male gets pregnant. The issue was that "he" had been taking male hormones and hadn't had a period in eight years, but did get pregnant.

[GordonH]

This St. John's trans man thought it wasn't possible for him to get pregnant. Then it happened

Really?
Man gets pregnant?

Links are helpful

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... -1.7275310

No, not really.

Isn't this a nothing burger ? A biological female idenfiying as a male gets pregnant. The issue was that "he" had been taking male hormones and hadn't had a period in eight years, but did get pregnant.

Damn when an egg & sperm doesn’t understand this isn’t the plan.

[Bigbacardi]

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/500347 ... ncial-Park

Sympathy for the drowning victim.

But the title? He died after drowning? Shouldn't it be he died of drowning, or from drowning....
But not after drowning.

[my5cents]

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/500347 ... ncial-Park

Sympathy for the drowning victim.

But the title? He died after drowning? Shouldn't it be he died of drowning, or from drowning....
But not after drowning.

Yup, died after drowning is like dying after dying.

Another. With all the media coverage of the landslide that blocked the Chilcotin River, lots of bad reporting. Like the reporter that stated: "a section of the Chilcotin River was blocked by a landslide". No the Chilcotin River was blocked completely not a section.

[my5cents]

I admit I'm old and don't use a scooter or a skateboard, so maybe I'm confused by the headline coupled with the photo.

"Sooter Competition At Park
Pros, amateurs at scooter competition in Penticton"

Then a photo depicts some kids on skateboards. Aren't skateboards, skateboards, and scooters, scooters ????

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... -Penticton

Scooter.jpg

Or is this just another example of the rules.

Rule 1. Every story needs a photo.
Rule 2. If you don't have an appropriate photo, refer to rule 1.

[my5cents]

"Langley man dead after downing in Cultus Lake"
https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/505916 ... ultus-Lake

Man Drowns.jpg

Isn't that like saying: "man dead after dying" ?

• drown
  /droun/
  verb
  gerund or present participle: drowning
  die through submersion in and inhalation of water.
  "two fishermen were drowned when their motorboat capsized"

[my5cents]

OK, always critical of nonsensical headlines, here one that should make you smile.

Headline: Glove-Maker Changes Hands

https://www.castanet.net/news/Business/ ... affiliates

[Catsumi]

^^^

Krap! Maybe just the mood I am in now, but was hoping for a story about women’s handmade, beautifully stitched and gorgeous gloves ….and found ugly, hockey gloves instead.

Booooo!

[GordonH]

This headline makes it sound as if a trailer sold for 2.8 million, in actual fact it was the entire trailer park that sold for that price.

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