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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦

@gregorytaylor.bsky.social
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U Calgary associate professor. Communications policy and various random thoughts, usually music.

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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No journalism outlet should be writing these "Trump predicts.." headlines anymore, unless accompanied by a crying laughing emoji.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The irony of working in a Communications Studies department with really bad internet is not lost on me.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A good news media industries story. I hope it finds an audience. I think it will. www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
cbc.ca
CBC/Radio-Canada announces return of Hockey Night in Canada in PWHL partnership | CBC Sports
CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada is returning for a 90th season this fall after all. But instead of six-plus months of NHL action, the longest-running sports program in the world will air eight prime time...
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
while this poll is heading the right direction, I still find 23% to leave crazy high. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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With time running out, new poll suggests Alberta separatism support is slipping | CBC News
With a little more than three weeks to go until the Oct. 19 referendum, a new poll done for CBC News suggests support for separation has softened since spring.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This seems like a perfect opportunity to see if the middle powers rhetoric has any substance. Other countries need to support the EU. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
theglobeandmail.com
Trump administration to join Elon Musk in challenging EU’s fine on X
EU tech regulators fined X late last year for breaching online content rules
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm still amazed that the President of the U.S. can just publicly spout utter nonsense and the general population doesn't bat an eye. Lesson for future leaders: just lie incessantly...there's no political consequence.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Interesting and timely new initiative by The Walrus and Friends of Canadian Media.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good crowd at pro Canada concert. Ominously being circled by trucks flying Alberta flags. Friends of Canadian fascism.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
speaking at this great event in Red Deer today. www.ruralconnectivity.ca/arcforum
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"It is early days. But something enormous is under way. Even as the old world order cracks, a new one is forming. And Canada is at the centre of it." Crazy times. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: We may look back on this as the week Canada began to take its fate into its own hands
Mark Carney’s pivot to Europe comes as the old world order is cracking, and a new one is forming
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Signs of a political spine. Too late for Colbert. www.reuters.com/world/us-sen...
reuters.com
US Senate panel approves bill to bar government officials from pressuring networks on free speech
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee ​approved legislation Wednesday to ‌bar government officials from pressuring private companies ​to censor speech, ​citing threats by President Donald ⁠Trump's admini...
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
agreed.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"sovereign internet"? I'm intrigued. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Carney's announcements at investment summit include tax incentives to lure foreign investors | CBC
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
big news in Calgary tonight.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When American progressives get confident, I get nervous.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Largely true. I think most Albertans can't believe this is actually happening and are not engaged. And if you live in Calgary or Edmonton, there really isn't much debate. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: With five weeks to go before Alberta’s referendum vote, where is the pro-Canada campaign?
Fractured and with little co-ordination, the federalists could be sleepwalking into trouble
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trying out the Canadian social media, Gander. Bluesky has been OK but seems to repeat the same dozen accounts in my feed while others I want never appear. If you're trying Gander, I'm at gregorytaylor.gander.social
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Has the @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social legal department been in touch with this publisher?
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And the UPCs continue to lead in the polls. Some days I feel very much an Upper Canadian in the west. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
Alberta’s revised statement celebrating province’s birthday removes reference to Indigenous peoples
Updated version was ‘issued in error’ and the original ‘stands,’ government spokesperson says
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Great event coming up this month in Alberta. I'll be speaking on two panels. www.eventbrite.ca/e/alberta-ru...
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Alberta Rural Connectivity Forum 2026
Step into the conversations shaping rural connectivity—where Alberta’s future is built through collaboration and shared insight.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I agree with Ian Brown, there is no better veal sandwich than California sandwiches on Claremont Street in Toronto. Like him, I've looked. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/f...
theglobeandmail.com
Canada’s best sandwiches: Readers share their top picks from coast to coast
We asked, you told: From turkey kimchi melts to Montreal smoked meat (and everything in between), here are the best sammies across the country
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I agree. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Europe must stand with Canada against Trump
The EU, in the world of might makes right, is the largest of the middle powers
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This little detail is buried far down in the article: "They wanted to be able to review and potentially dictate the terms for Canada’s trade agreements with other countries, a Canadian official said." How is that not the headline? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
nytimes.com
How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War
Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was see...
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
pleased to hear this detail on the trade deal collapse. Well done PM Carney and team. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
theglobeandmail.com
Ottawa rejected last-minute U.S. demand to drop Cancon requirements for streaming services
American negotiators demanded Canada exempt big U.S. platforms from boosting discoverability of Canadian, French-language content in this country
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Because of course she does www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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As premiers rally behind Carney in trade dispute, Alberta’s Smith questions retaliation plan
Premier Danielle Smith, who has previously advocated against retaliation, said countertariffs would hurt consumers here
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"By walking away, Mr. Carney chose a road that no major U.S. ally has taken: With his country’s economy on the line, he stood up to President Trump and refused to accept the administration’s offer of a new trade relationship with tariffs permanently baked in." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/w...
nytimes.com
Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War
Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This will not hurt Carney's polling numbers. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
theglobeandmail.com
Canada declines U.S. trade deal, tariffs come into force
As of midnight, President Donald Trump’s administration is applying 50 per cent tariffs to Canadian goods
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in a statement that it had been the American side that introduced last-minute terms that were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”" Here's hoping these details are leaked by morning. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
nytimes.com
Canada-U.S. Trade Talks Collapse; Washington Imposes New Tariffs
Mark Carney suspended talks and will take out retaliatory tariffs against the United States after days of negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The media is really buying in to Trump's "deadline" tactic, which is classic reality TV. Let's hope the rumours about complete capitulation on the media sovereignty front are unfounded. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
cbc.ca
Canada 'anxious' to avoid new tariffs, says advisory board member - Canada, U.S. negotiators meeting again to finalize trade deal ahead of new tariff deadline
Ralph Goodale, a member of the Advisory Committee on Canada-U.S. Economic Relations, told CBC's Power & Politics , "we have been anxious" to avert the paused U.S. tariffs on nearly $30 billion in...
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
As if we needed further proof that these are dark times. fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
fortune.com
Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If it is in your musical alley, and even if it isn't, I suggest giving a listen to "Were the Watchtowers" by Richard Parry of Arcade Fire and the late great Dallas Good of the Sadies. Lovely send off to a great Canadian musical artist who left us far too soon.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Four text warnings from Environment Canada within 20 minutes. That's a pretty solid storm.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This used to be something both Democrats and Republicans opposed. That was a different America.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Free Speech is not absolute in Canada. Read the Charter Premier.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I went to undergrad with Lloyd Robertson's daughter. One summer evening she had a pool party. Right around midnight, I heard a voice I had heard a thousand times say "This party is a little quiet". Lloyd was extremely gracious to all of us, despite his obvious disappointment.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The same president suspected of money laundering by a major Bank yesterday and it was barely a news story? Why would he want immunity from the IRS? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
nytimes.com
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is such a strange editorial: in essence, wild fires are awful and they are increasingly common. Not a single sentence questioning why. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
theglobeandmail.com
Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear
The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Let's be very clear what this is: the obligations for foreign streamers have been removed and placed upon the Canadian taxpayer. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Ottawa plans to end 'Netflix tax,' replace with public Canadian content funding: document | CBC News
The federal government will "eliminate" the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC and replace it with government funding, it said in a court document.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My presentation at IAMCR this summer also cautioned against the Balkanization of LEO satellites. What this article conveniently omits is why countries are now feeling this step is necessary. www.aei.org/technology-a...
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Already despised within the White House, this sharp column by Chrystia Freeland is not looking to make amends. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
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Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Two years ago, our department had a meeting on the challenges of AI. The consensus was we need institution-wide policies, not the patchwork of course policies we had at the time. Two years later nothing has changed. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Universities should stop treating AI as a cheating problem
Educational leaders need to start creating a mixed model that includes both deep learning and instruction on AI tools
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I wondering if neighbouring countries are slapping tariffs on France and Spain, as is the current economic trend?
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Easy to laugh this off but this is what Trump is hearing every day.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Here a rare and welcome thing: a good news story about small market local news media.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walking past an empty football stadium full of loud cheering through the speakers. The live sports equivalent of a laugh track.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Very happy to read this. I loved the Jamaica to Toronto record and saw several of the bands in Montreal when the album was released. But why did we need a Seattle label to tell this essential Toronto story?
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Another day, another scandal that should bring down a government in any functioning democracy.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Once again, academia tends to focus on media content, but that is a small part of the story: "Media revenue made up about 13 per cent of the company’s total earnings in 2025". www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
theglobeandmail.com
World Cup proves a winner for Bell Media’s digital asset strategy
As growth in its legacy business continues to slow, telecom focuses on streaming services offerings
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Terrifying stuff. The Times will eventually win in court but the chilling effect on investigative journalism is the real goal, and it may work.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Sad but true. Calgary, I believe.
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