Or, another way of writing the Title of this Post: "Ferry waves the
Nazi card in his writing, again"
Just last week, Naomi Yamamoto, BC Minister of Advanced Education, stood up in the BC Legislature and started to explain to the Opposition, and the rest of those present in the House, that she didn't know how an email between her Government and the Province newspaper ended up in the hands of a Third Party, that shouldn't have had any access to it at all.
the Province newspaper was rightfully upset with this transgression. This Trust between two parties having been shattered and leaving many unanswered questions as to other emails that might have been shared with supporters of the BC Liberal government.
"... Tap, tap, tap...." from the
seat to the Left of Minister Yamamoto, Minister Harry Bloy set the record straight. He admitted to circulating the email to a Third Party, to that someone outside of Government and to an entity that was being investigated by
the Province newspaper, quietly, by first asking questions of Yamamoto's Ministry.
On Wednesday, in
the Province (newspaper), Columnist Jon Ferry introduced the "
Nazi Card", and implied that someone from the Teachers had used that specific word. However from reading Mr. Ferry's column, he never really comes out and says that the Teacher wrote the word "
Nazi", nor does he quote the date from when the "Letter to the Editor" was published, if indeed it was a Letter to the Editor at all.
From Jon Ferry's column on Wednesday
Snip "...
They've got to start toning down their over the top rhetoric about Bill 22, the back to work law, and other contract issues. At least if they want the public's respect.
Comparing teachers' treatment by Victoria with that of the Jews by Hitler and the Nazis, for example, works against the very thing they say they're fighting for.
Yes, Wendy Turner, president of the Cranbrook District Teachers Association, wrote to our newspaper to say that, as a child, she'd read Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl and had asked her parents, "How could they do this to people?"
Her parents told her it was because the German people didn't realize what was happening until it was too late. "Why was it too late?" she apparently asked. "Because by then it was the law!"
" Snip - Jon Ferry the Province
It's Mr. Ferry last paragraph, last sentence that leaves readers asking whether this was written by Ms. Turner, or Mr. Ferry, solely to stir up
the Province (newspaper) readership:
"Why was it too late?" she apparently asked. "Because by then it was the law!"
"she apparently asked"? ------ That's Mr. Ferry writing, so is the next sentence of
"Because by then it was the law!"
As much as
the Province (newspaper) complains of the BC Government sharing emails between Ministries and Cabinet, what about
the Province (newspaper) its self, and who do they share email with, eh? Do all columnists have access to the Editor's email inbox? Does the Editor pass specific emails to specific columnists? How long are emails held for, life of the writer, or longer?
Mr. Ferry writes: "...............someone wrote to our newspaper to say.................".
Is Mr. Ferry cherry picking comments from incoming emails, UNPUBLISHED emails, and taking comments out of context to suit his column punchline!
If anything, Mr. Ferry's employers at
the Province (newspaper) should have provided the letter that Ms. Turner wrote to the newspaper, it should have been published, in whole, before Mr. Ferry went on his rampage.
Typically, when a Letter to the Editor has been published, subsequent comments, like Mr. Ferry's column would note the Date of the publication in brackets, and in his column Wednesday there isn't a whisper of that crucial piece of information. Sort of leaves the reader to wonder if from all those emails that
the Province receives over the years, are they collecting a dossier on
You and
You and
You... just like good old CSIS, so that at a later date they can bring it out and attack,
You. You being those of the public who have taken the time to write a Letter to the Editor, falsely believing that your Letter to the Editor was being read by the Editor. Every Letter is being held by
the Province, to be shared with others for a later Edition.
I've
searched the internet looking for keywords that Jon Ferry has used in his column to attack Wendy Turner, and the BCTF, Wednesday morning, I found one hit, but it was Mr. Ferry's column in
the Province (newspaper). I took the next step and checked out the ProQuest search engine at my public library using first Ms. Turner name and again the only instance that I found was Mr. Ferry's column in
the Province (newspaper). I then used Jon Ferry and Nazi in ProQuest and what an eye opener that was. I've included some of them down below and it appears that columnist Ferry uses the
Nazi card quite frequently in his writings, but who can remember all of them.
If only Ms. Turner had called the Christy Clark government's Bill 22-
Nazi, would Mr. Ferry have accepted her viewpoint or........... still gone on his rampage.
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AirCare II: The sequel promises to be even worse than original: [Final Edition]
Ferry, Jon. The Province [Vancouver, B.C] 15 Aug 2000: A14.
Snip And it is all to satisfy the tiresome wave of environmental Nazism which continues to help the NDP turn B.C. into one of the poorest -- and most boring -- jurisdictions in North America.
"Vehicle emissions testing is almost like a religious movement," notes Montreal consumer protection consultant Paul Coninx who adds that Greater Vancouver ozone levels are "miniscule" compared to those in most major U.S. cities.Snip
Snip Third, it should put the eco-Nazis to work building better roads to ease the pollution caused by our traffic bottlenecks. Fourth, it should scrap AirCare which is so out-dated it's, well, a right royal Canadian air farce -- one that should not be allowed any longer to pollute our air waves.Snip
jferry@theprovince.com
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'Safety Nazis' put shiv to chivalry: [Final Edition]
Ferry, Jon. The Province [Vancouver, B.C] 30 Apr 2002: A16.
Snip The last couple of weeks have not been good ones for me. Continuing road works in downtown Vancouver and truck breakdowns on the Second Narrows bridge have made commuting from the North Shore a slow torture -- one compounded by radio host Rafe Mair's incessant rants about fish farms.
So it's refreshing, after finally arriving at work, to read uplifting newspaper stories about those who do something noble and brave, even when they don't get thanked by our growing army of safety Nazis. Snip
Jon Ferry is a Province deputy news editor. He can be reached at jferry@pacpress.southam.ca)
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New Waterbus service undergoes pier review
Ferry, Jon. The Province [Vancouver, B.C] 27 May 2009: A.6.
Snip This apparently would mean the trip to Jericho from North Van would take about 15 minutes. Sure, it might cost $7.50 each way, but it'd be a cheap price to pay for avoiding UBC's parking Nazis. Snip
jferry@theprovince.com
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Hospitals are no places for food Nazis; Banning 'bad' choices is an unhealthy extreme
Ferry, Jon. The Province [Vancouver, B.C] 18 Sep 2009: A.24.
Snip The food Nazis are everywhere these days. And they're going after everything from sweetened soft drinks to chocolate bars and other snacks in the carts that do the rounds in the wards of Vancouver General Hospital.Snip
Snip But I doubt sweet reason will prevail. I believe political correctness, as it invariably does in Vancouver, will win out. And it will drive some patients nuts -- because, shocking as it might seem to the food Nazis, not everybody likes fruit and granola bars.Snip
In fact, I strongly suggest VGH ditches this issue altogether, and spend its time instead making its patients more contented.Snip
Snip After all, hospitals these days can seem rather cheerless places. And serious weight gain tends to have more to do with stress and other psychological issues than with minor dietary hiccups.
Indeed, I'm grateful to the Jim Foster of diet-blog.com for putting all this into perspective by making a distinction between healthy eaters who allow for not-so-healthy food in their diet, and food Nazis, who don't believe in fun and agonize over every food morsel. Healthy eaters, Foster says, focus on making good diet choices for themselves. Food Nazis, on the other hand, "not only control their own diet, they tell everyone else what to do as well" and "want to ban everything."
Food Nazis, in fact, are like eco-bigots, cycling zealots, anti-Olympic fanatics and other extremists.
They are control freaks who, when they get out of hand, as they invariably do, need to be put firmly in their place. Snip
jferry@theprovince.com
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Here's a must read for another take on the Jon Ferry Wednesday edition of
the Province (newspaper):
This was done by Wendy Turner, president of the Cranbrook District Teachers Association who, Ferry says, apparently wrote a letter to The Province that did so. I say apparently because for the life of me I can’t find Turner’s letter in the online version of the letters to the editor section of The Province. Or, indeed, anywhere.- From Godwin's Flaw:
Just who started the rhetoric Mr. Ferry, the Teachers or
the Province (newspaper)?
And this:
The Province cartoon compares teachers to Hitler
