I miss Radio3 so much. Indie music in Canada in the 2000s-2010s was astonishingly good.

Perhaps "I'm NDP" is a succinct description of how a person leans in the Canadian political landscape that might be informed by decades of voting behaviour, or even personal involvement in the political sphere. Or, perhaps it is a rigid and irrational us/them orientation like how you personally have interpreted it

Murder does have a specific definition, you are correct in that.

What's happening in Gaza meets that definition, so you are wrong in that.

Soldiers sniping obviously innocent people (including women going to church, and hostages trying to escape in their underwear waving white flags) is definitely murder.

Yes. Murder has very specific definitions. (Note the plural.) Let me help you out with this, Sparky:

murder

/ ˈmɜr dər /

noun

1. ~~Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder, ormurder one ), and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder, or murder two ).~~

2. ~~Slang. something extremely difficult or perilous: That final exam was murder!~~

verb

3. ~~Law. to kill by an act constituting murder.~~

4. to kill or slaughter inhumanly or barbarously.

5. ~~to commit murder.~~

The slang definition doesn't apply, so ~~2~~. A newspaper is not a court of law, so the legal definitions are gone: ~~1~~ and ~~3~~. That leaves 5 (which itself is just a reference to the legal definition, so ~~5~~) and 4.

I think 4 applies fully here. What's happening in Gaza is definitely a slaughter, definitely inhuman, and definitely barbarous. This is also the correct register for informal reportage not related to legal actions.

So perhaps if you want to argue based on definitions you should fucking read the dictionary first, Sparky. Or get used to people pointing and laughing at you in your clown pants.

It always has been, but people have forgotten.

There's a word for it: propaganda.

Really?

In a letter responding to a complaint filed by a reader, the public broadcaster acknowledged that they’ve used terms like “murderous,” “vicious,” “brutal,” “massacre,” and “slaughter” to refer only to Hamas’s attack on Israelis on Oct. 7.

But when it comes to the Israeli army’s bombing of Palestinians, which has killed more than 22,600 people as of Friday, CBC says they prefer to use terms like “intensive,” “unrelenting,” and “punishing.”