Canada’s Government Owned News Media

MacDougall: Press must call out PMO’s lies

At some future point, historians will need to judge precisely when the free press died in Canada. And while historians are rarely able to identify the exact moment of an institution’s death, this past week is in with a strong shot.

Not that you’d know it. The much-vaunted “free press” certainly isn’t saying much about its own demise. The mighty Parliamentary Press Gallery, a not-infrequent thorn in my side when I was director of communications to Stephen Harper, has been quiet as a mouse. Strike that. The gallery is the dog that isn’t barking.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

DeepDive: New polling shows government funding of the news industry could further erode Canadians’ trust in the media

Canadians are losing their trust in the media. According to a report from the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, overall trust in the media among the Canadian population has fallen from 55 percent in 2016 to 40 percent in 2023. Among English-speaking Canadians, trust in the news is even lower with just 37 percent saying they trust the media in 2023.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

In a country where immigrants are the majority, anti-immigration politics are obsolete

Among the less commented-on results of the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election was the performance of the People’s Party of Canada, the populist-nationalist party led by former Conservative cabinet minister Maxime Bernier. If you missed it, here it is: they got 234 votes, or 0.63 per cent of the total.

What a disappointment this must be for the PPC, after winning 2.67 per cent of the vote in the riding in the past general election. But it’s in keeping with the trend nationally. In the 2021 election the PPC took nearly 5 per cent of the vote. Nowadays it’s mired in the two-to-three-per-cent range.

Coyne bullshits for a living, but this nonsense is below even his typically low standards.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Canadian government gives generously to Canadian media … to foster independent journalism?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canadian government has proposed a new budget, including $42 million in additional funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

The increased subsides are purportedly to ensure that “Canadians across the country, including rural, remote, Indigenous, and minority language communities, have access to high-quality, independent journalism and entertainment.”

Because nothing fosters “independent journalism” like having the government pay your bills! Canadian taxpayers rejoice!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Oh Brother … Star wets itself because Poilievre met with folks who hate Trudeau

Pierre Poilievre is courting support from groups that spew hate. Is this really the alternative to Justin Trudeau we want?

Perhaps Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was feeling too comfortable.

After all, his party is ahead of the Liberals by 20 points in public opinion polls. The poll aggregator 338Canada.com has the Conservatives winning a 207-seat majority in the House of Commons, if an election were held today — a Brian Mulroney-sized landslide, and that’s without the Bloc Québécois’ seats.

The Conservatives, according to Abacus Data, lead across all age brackets, education brackets, even gender lines.

Trudeau’s media is getting desperate. At this stage outside of Toronto and Ottawa you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who likes Junior.

The Diagalonians should sue the Star.

RCMP documents contradict mainstream media claims Diagalon is a ‘far-right threat’

Internal RCMP documents reveal law enforcement concluded controversial Diagolon does “not pose a criminal or national security threat,” contrary to the Public Safety Minister’s remarks.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Conservative Party, WTF?

Poilievre mean to journalists says CBC

Could be twins, at least on spiritual plain says CBC

What, if anything, should voters make of Pierre Poilievre’s attitude toward journalists?

What should voters make of Pierre Poilievre’s criticism of journalists?

All politicians disagree from time to time with the way they’re depicted by journalists. Any number of them have been vocal about it, publicly or privately. (The late Brian Mulroney, who has been fondly remembered over the past week, was known to harangue journalists on the phone when he disagreed with their coverage.) Sometimes their complaints have been justified.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Government Owned News Media, CBC, Conservative Party

CBC Says Government-Facebook Feud to Blame for Declining Website Traffic

Ottawa’s financial fight with Facebook has damaged CBC’s popularity online, according to financial statements that show the media firm lost millions of website visitors last year.

CBC.ca has long been the most viewed news site in the country with content uploaded by upward of 1,000 staff writers and editors.

The public broadcasting corporation’s third quarter financial report revealed the English language website had dropped 23 percent from 20.7 million in 2022 to roughly 16 million unique visitors per month last year.
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Few Canadians Support Gov’t Subsidies for Media, Federal Polling Finds

Most Canadians would rather see federal funding spent on urgent needs such as affordable housing than on media subsidies to prop up failing news outlets, according to in-house Privy Council research.

Ottawa commissioned a poll just weeks before doubling newsroom payroll rebates to an additional $129 million. The survey, first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, found few Canadians were in favour of the federal government’s support of the news industry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Toronto Star VP says mainstream media must be permanently funded lest ‘pseudo-journalists’ take over

A Toronto Star executive and former Liberal staffer Ryan Adam has called for permanent funding for the mainstream media from Big Tech companies lest so-called “pseudo-journalists” take over the profession.

During a panel discussion with the U.S. group Ethnic Media Services, Adam claimed that the government must force Big Tech companies to fund media outlets or independent media will dominate the industry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Government Owned News Media

The House of Cards Crumbles: Why the Bell Media Layoffs and Government’s Failed Media Policy are Connected

Bell’s announcement this week that it is laying off thousands of workers – including nearly 500 Bell Media employees – has sparked political outrage with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau characterizing it as a “garbage decision.” The job losses are obviously brutal for those directly affected and it would be silly to claim that a single policy response was responsible. Yet to suggest that the government’s media policy, particularly Bills C-11 and C-18, played no role is to ignore the reality of a failed approach for which there have been blinking warning signs for years. Indeed, Trudeau’s anger (which felt a bit like a reprise of his Meta comments over the summer) may partly reflect frustration that his policy choices have not only not worked, but have made matters worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Only a Third of Canadians Trust News Media: Survey

Only one-third of Canadians consider the news media in their country to be trustworthy and unbiased, a new Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission research paper says.

“Canadians’ impressions of the quality, variety and depth of content as well as trust in media are relatively weak,” said the Public Opinion Research Tracker, as first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter. The survey the report is based on was conducted by Ipsos Limited.

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Trudeau says he’s furious over Bell Media layoffs, calling it a ‘garbage decision’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trash-talking BCE Inc.’s widespread layoffs, calling the cuts a “garbage decision.”

Trudeau says he’s furious over Bell Media’s decision to end multiple television newscasts and that the corporation should know better.

The outlet made program cuts Thursday after its parent company announced job reductions and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.

I’m sure Bell will maintain their current high standard of sycophantic coverage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Liberals, NDP and “Other” Voters make up 57% of the 25% of citizens who think Canada gives ‘too much support’ to Ukraine making Conservative voters Evil Trumpists who evily want to put Canada 1st Says CBC

 

“I don’t want to overemphasize it … but what is burgeoning, what is starting to sort of grow from out of the weeds into a fairly healthy seedling here, is this almost the Trump-esque, ‘Canada First’ mentality,” she said.

Growing number of Conservative voters think Canada gives ‘too much support’ to Ukraine, poll suggests

A survey released Tuesday morning by the Angus Reid Institute says a quarter of Canadians believe Canada is offering “too much support” to Ukraine in its fight, up from 13 per cent who said the same thing in May 2022.

Conservative supporters are a driving force behind that result, according to the poll.

The percentage of Canadians who voted for the Conservative Party in the last election, and who now say Canada is doing too much to assist Ukraine, has more than doubled — from 19 per cent in May 2022 to 43 per cent now — according to the public opinion research group’s findings.

Whole lot of spin goin on. Funny how CBC missed the part about how Liberal and NDP voters must make up the remaining 57% of of the 25% of Canadians who think we give too much to Ukraine. Are we to assume that Liberal and NDP voters do not wish to put Canada 1st?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, WTF?