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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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?
If journalists in Canada are hoping to convince the public that they’re anything other than paid for hacks of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, they’re going about it in odd ways.
Case in point was the news conference held by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday on the issue of auto theft.
Whatever Ken McDonald, the Liberal MP for Avalon, said or meant to say about Justin Trudeau’s leadership, the most cutting assessment of the prime minister published this week might have come from Jeanette Dyke, a patron of Tiny’s Bar and Grill in Paradise, N.L.
“I just cannot take Justin Trudeau anymore,” she told Radio-Canada. “He has charisma … but to me he’s annoying.”
Those comments speak to the most basic challenge of political leadership. The TV cameras that watch politicians daily magnify every facet and quirk of their personalities. And like a houseguest — one who can be blamed for every grievance about the economy, or the real estate market, or the price of gas — a political leader’s odds of overstaying their welcome grow with each passing day.
This article by CBC paints Canadians as shallow idiots who no longer like Justin Trudeau’s hair hence their enduring disdain for the PM.
CBC hints socks and selfies may yet resurrect Trudeau’s political fortunes and in the process protect their paychecks.
Only superficial references are made to the economic ruin his asinine high-school quality policies have caused Canadians.
CBC’s reputation is irreparably harmed and needs to be defunded.
Omg – Tucker just dared CBC News to come interview him after the show.
What will they do? https://t.co/HMxNfPTD0o
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) January 24, 2024
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) may draft a “code of conduct” for newsrooms as part of the Online News Act, cabinet said in a legal notice.
The Department of Canadian Heritage said newsrooms are subject to CRTC guidance on ethics under the Online News Act, which took effect Dec. 19. It will take several months to fully come into force.
“The CRTC may regulate the following areas: Creation of a code of conduct (and) a complaint process pertaining to how groups of eligible news businesses are to be structured and their conduct under the Act,“ the department wrote in a ”Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement,” which was first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
A federal program allowing news publishers to claim a tax credit for portion of journalists’ salaries is set to increase, the Liberal government announced Tuesday.
The government’s fall economic statement announced an increase to the Canadian Journalism Tax Credit, a refundable tax credit allowing qualifying news outlets to claim up to 35 per cent of up to $85,000 in salary for a qualified employee.
We are in a war that we neither wanted or started, but we intend to finish it by dismantling Hamas. My interview on Canadian @CTV pic.twitter.com/AhmRlnBcsp
— Jonathan Conricus (@jconricus) October 15, 2023
Pierre Poilievre’s push to keep convention focused on economy falls to grassroots votes for social policies
QUEBEC CITY—Efforts by Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to keep his party focused on an economic message to win the next election took a blow Saturday as the party’s grassroots voted in favour of social policies likely to give the Liberals a renewed line of attack.
The majority of party members voted in favour of a ban on providing medical or surgical treatments to minors questioning their gender identity, as well as one that voiced support for “women-only” spaces like bathrooms.
What sort of monster gets their jollies from mutilating children? I wonder at the medical schools that churn out Mengele’s spiritual offspring.
The Star suggests that any criticism of immigration policy is RACIST
“… New Housing Minister Sean Fraser embarked into that perilous territory a few weeks ago when he said Canada might need to crack down on universities attracting foreign students without the means to house them properly.
… That didn’t stop Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre from accusing Justin Trudeau’s government of whipping up resentment against immigration.
“I think Justin Trudeau would love Canadians to blame immigrants for the housing crisis that he has doubled. But immigrants are just following the rules that he put in place. So how can we blame them and not him?” Poilievre told reporters.
… Little wonder, then, that Poilievre walks quickly backward from any argument with the Liberals over immigration numbers. The current Conservative leader hasn’t minded lifting a few pages from Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada — globalist conspiracies included — but he hasn’t joined the “no mass immigration” chorus of the Bernier crowd.
Sorry Star, people don’t blame immigrants for the housing crisis they blame our corrupt political class, their crony capitalist pals and their lickspittle journalist hirelings.
A deplorables moment? Questioning mass immigration makes you part of the “Bernier Crowd” according to Delacourt who works for the corporate welfare parasite Toronto Star. After all, it’s racist to resist having your economic and physical security sacrificed for the corporate bottom line.
One summary of the tenure of Canada’s progressive-feminist, euthanasia loving Liberal government is that it gives Hanlon’s razor – the supposition that one should never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity – a real run for its money.
