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Marc Edge

@marcedge.bsky.social
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Media columnist for Canadian Dimension and author of eight books, including The Postmedia Effect (2023) and Tomorrow's News: How to Fix Canada's Media (2024). Find me at www.marcedge.com.

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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
dissenting politicians in the US have introduced the Bad Deal Act . . . I say let's go back to the Old Deal Act internationaltradetoday.com/article/2026...
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Bad Deal Act Introduced in Both Chambers
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich went to court asking to be allowed to travel to the U.S. and Caribbean to report for Rebel News while under house arrest . . . this does not mention how hard the judge laughed #cdnmedia www.rebelnews.com/breaking_jus...
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BREAKING: Justice Heather Perkins-McVey denies Tamara Lich’s request to travel internationally for work
Justice Heather Perkins-McVey has dismissed Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich’s application to vary her conditional sentence and permit international travel for work.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the RWNJ BC Conservative party reportedly hired a private investigator to target critics, including current and former MLAs, as well as CHEK-TV’s political correspondent #cdnmedia cheknews.ca/bc-conservat...
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B.C. Conservatives hire private investigator to investigate CHEK’s Rob Shaw along with current, former MLAs
B.C.’s Opposition Conservative party hired a private investigator to target its critics, including current and former MLAs, as well as CHEK News’ political correspondent.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
for years, Ken Doctor wrote about the news business, then in 2019 he started his own local publication called Lookout Santa Cruz, which has just achieved profitability through a combination of "big accountability stories and smaller know-your-city stories" www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/many...
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“Many have said it couldn’t be done”: Local news site Lookout Santa Cruz is profitable thanks to ads and memberships
Buried in an opinion piece about California's Community NEWS Act is the announcement that Lookout Santa Cruz has achieved something remarkable (and rare) in local news: It's profitable. Six years aft...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
More than 62,000 people have been arrested across the UK over the past five years for online speech offences, according to a new report by Big Brother Watch dailysceptic.org/2026/09/06/m...
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More Than 60,000 Arrested in Five Years for ‘Communications Offences’ in ‘Orwellian’ Policing Crackdown – The Daily Sceptic
Over 62,000 people have been arrested for online speech offences in five years, according to a new report by Big Brother Watch. That's an average of 34 a day! Why police our tweets and not our streets...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hamilton's CHCH-TV has dropped its Saturday evening newscasts as its business has been “co-opted by foreign attention miners who care only about enriching themselves by keeping people addicted to their apps, and not about properly informing us.” #cdnmedia broadcastdialogue.com/chch-tv-canc...
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CHCH-TV cancels Saturday evening newscasts due to economic pressures - Broadcast Dialogue
CHCH-TV in Hamilton is cancelling its Saturday evening newscasts due to ongoing economic pressures, reducing weekend local television news coverage.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
UNESCO research covering 97 countries finds that declines in press freedom are associated with a 1-2% reduction in real GDP growth and that every $1 invested in journalism can generate more than $100 in public savings digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2026/08...
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UNESCO data makes the economic case for supporting journalism
Journalism is expensive to produce, yet much of the value it creates is easy to take for granted. News competes for attention with social posts,
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
former Harvard goalie Mark Carney makes a big save for Team Canada against Mafia Don
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ottawa blunders again by entrusting media research to hacks and flacks #cdnmedia Researchers come with a track record of bias, questionable methods marcedge.substack.com/p/ottawa-blu...
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Ottawa blunders again by entrusting media research to hacks and flacks
Researchers come with a track record of bias, questionable methods
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
oops, I did it again #cdnmedia marcedge.substack.com/p/ottawa-blu...
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Ottawa blunders again by entrusting media research to hacks and flacks
Researchers come with a track record of bias, questionable methods
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Noelle Allen @noelleallen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Some good reporting on Ottawa's fear of tech firms.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation Feds plan to instead throw more taxpayer dollars at a media clamoring for increased subsidies #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation
The Carney government is continuing its retreat from Justin Trudeau’s attempts to regulate the Internet, ditching policies targeting mostly American companies while promising more government funding f...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I am sick and tired of waiting for this to appear elsewhere, so Ima just go ahead and post it on my blog #cdnmedia marcedge.substack.com/p/ottawa-has...
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Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation
Feds plan to instead throw more taxpayer dollars at a media clamoring for increased subsidies
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
laid off radio workers on the West Coast are hoping to undo some of the recent damage done to local media by Canada's biggest -- and greediest -- corporations #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Radio workers hope to resurrect stations axed by Big Media
In the wake of Big Media’s latest round of radio closures, workers are refusing to let local broadcasting die. Co-operative ownership offers a viable alternative to corporate consolidation, writes Mar...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Americans should rightly be wary of another mega-media merger and heed the negative outcomes that high levels of media control have brought in #cdnmedia www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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12 states sue Paramount over Warner takeover, say merger would 'extinguish competition' | CBC News
Twelve states, including California and New York, sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, arguing that the $81-billion US merger would "extinguish competition" in Holly...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper chain, has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape #cdnmedia ricochet.media/media/dumpst...
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‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right
Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My column is now up on Canadian Dimension: Media academics to blame in part for our news mess Corporate donations to universities might help to explain a lack of critical media research #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Media academics to blame in part for our news mess
How Canada’s press fell into the hands of private equity firms and hedge funds, while its broadcasters were captured by telecom giants, should be a central question for journalism and communications s...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
communication scholars must shoulder much of the blame for the sorry state of our news media . . . this post is timed to coincide with my presentation today to the Canadian Communication Association conference in Windsor #cdnmedia marcedge.substack.com/p/media-acad...
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Media academics to blame in part for our news mess
Corporate donations to universities might help to explain a lack of critical media research
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A media subsidy introduced as part of the massive 2019 newspaper industry bailout could soon be extended to broadcasters, despite them being mostly owned by our highly-profitable telecom companies #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Senate report makes case to expand newspaper subsidies to Big Telecom
A media subsidy introduced as part of the massive 2019 newspaper industry bailout could soon be extended to broadcasters, despite them being mostly owned by our highly-profitable telecom companies, an...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
a new Senate report seemingly argues for a media subsidy introduced as part of the massive 2019 newspaper bailout to be extended to broadcasters, and the cost to taxpayers could be billions, but the report is deeply flawed and obviously biased #cdnmedia marcedge.substack.com/p/senate-rep...
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Senate report makes case to expand newspaper subsidies to Big Telecom
Some of Canada’s most profitable companies could soon get billions in public money as a result
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
a new Senate report seemingly argues for a media subsidy introduced as part of the massive 2019 newspaper bailout to be extended to broadcasters, and the cost to taxpayers could be billions, but the report is deeply flawed and obviously biased #cdnmedia marcedge.substack.com/p/senate-rep...
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Senate report makes case to expand newspaper subsidies to Big Telecom
Some of Canada’s most profitable companies could soon get billions in public money as a result
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
In Postmedia Newspapers, HRC Argues Long-Term Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis Will Never Be Achieved Until Hamas Is Defeated honestreporting.ca/in-the-intel...
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In Postmedia Newspapers, HRC Argues Long-Term Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis Will Never Be Achieved Until Hamas Is Defeated
Nearly two years have passed since the October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel, when scores of innocent Israelis were maimed, raped, tortured, more than 1,200 brutally murdered, and over 250 kidna...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Save the Wyoming 8 #newspapers wyofile.com/longtime-wyo...
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Longtime Wyoming newspaper executives to buy, reopen eight shuttered newspapers - WyoFile
Overjoyed newsroom staff in communities across Wyoming are back on the job with pay after corporate closure laid off 30 employees.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
she solicited the comment with her post . . . now she has courageously blocked me from responding
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
NP: Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Tuesday he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act #C18 nationalpost.com/news/politic...
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Carney suggests he's considering rescinding Online News Act
Mark Carney suggested he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act to ensure local news spreads wider and faster.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Rupert Murdoch's New York Post plans to launch a California Post in LA . . . it will look and feel similar to its NY counterpart, delivering journalism, entertainment and celebrity gossip, sports news, local news and opinion with an edgy voice #newspapers www.axios.com/2025/08/04/n...
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New York Post to launch California Post newspaper in LA
Los Angeles is home to the second-largest concentration of Post readers, per News Corp.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"After a scorched-earth lobbying campaign, the DoJ walked back its own lawsuit blocking a $14 billion tech megamerger pursued by tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise just weeks before the case was set to go to trial." jacobin.com/2025/08/big-...
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The Big Tech Lobby Has the DOJ in a Stranglehold
A secret lobbying effort by Hewlett Packard Enterprise has pushed Donald Trump’s Justice Department to reverse course on the tech giant’s $14 billion megamerger and led to the ouster of top department...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley" www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
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The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now
The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is making so much money that it has authorized a new US$1 billion Stock Repurchase Program and it intends to accelerate the pace of its buyback newscorp.com/2025/07/15/n...
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News Corp Authorizes New $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program and Intends to Accelerate Pace of Buyback - News Corp
News Corp Authorizes New $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program and Intends to Accelerate Pace of Buyback Total authorization to increase to $1.3 billion including $303 million remaining under the Compan...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Straight Arrow News has more than doubled its audience by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why www.journalism.co.uk/news/-why-di...
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How Straight Arrow News turned radical transparency into rapid audience growth
Derek Mead reveals how he's more than doubled his audience base by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
the Hearst chain has bought the Dallas Morning News for $75 million to add to its dailies in Houston, San Antonio and Austin . . . Hearst bought the Austin American-Statesman for an estimated $70 million in February #newspapers www.poynter.org/business-wor...
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Hearst buys the The Dallas Morning News, and 140 years of local ownership ends - Poynter
Deal builds Texas hub for Hearst, shrinks remaining locally focused public newspaper companies to two.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Generative AI assisted in the writing of an article in The Hub today, it notes at the end . . . could that explain this whopper? "Readers recognize when [media] outlets use their platforms to advance their own self-interests rather than the public interest." thehub.ca/2025/07/03/r...
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Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: The future of news in Canada: A call for rethinking public subsidies
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Andrew Coyne's list of complaints about our system of federal government adds up to less of a mountain than a series of molehills that fails to support his dire warning that "the very notion of Canadians as a self-governing people is dissolving before our eyes" canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Canadian democracy in ‘advanced disrepair,’ claims Coyne
A long-standing maxim in the newspaper business holds that the longer you spend as a journalist, the more jaded and cynical you become. As a high-profile columnist for national newspapers since 1985, ...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The Hub's feature today "It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding" was made possible by Irving Shipbuilding because of course it was #cdnmedia thehub.ca/2025/06/26/d...
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DeepDive: It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding
How Canada can learn from its proud shipbuilding past to secure its future, diversify its economy, and boost its manufacturing capabilities
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
the Texas chapter of non-profit journalism funder Press Forward will focus its efforts on rural and local news in that state's South-Central area, where news deserts are rampant www.poynter.org/business-wor...
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Q&A: Press Forward’s Texas chapter is betting big on rural and local news - Poynter
Jesus Garcia-Gonzalez explains how the San Antonio Area Foundation is building a model to support underserved newsrooms in South-Central Texas
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
it must be like a dream come true for bank executives to place their own commentaries in our subsidized news media . . . I wonder if RBC or Mr. Stackhouse would care to disclose how much this cost them #cdnmedia thehub.ca/podcast/audi...
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‘A critical year in Canada’s history’: John Stackhouse and RJ Johnston on the ‘G7 gas club,’ the weaponization of energy, and Canada’s efforts to become an energy superpower
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
the Halifax Examiner, which practices radical transparency by posting its annual financials online, rebounded to a profit of $32k last year from a loss of $21k in 2023, thanks largely to an increase of $19k in donations #cdnmedia www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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Here's the Halifax Examiner's tax return - Halifax Examiner
We hold ourselves to the same standard of public accountability that we expect from other institutions and governments.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Four local journalists have joined forces with Unifor and the Union Cooperative Initiative to launch a Save Our Local News campaign aimed at creating a reliable news publication in the Vancouver suburbs of New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities #cdnmedia www.unifor.org/news/all-new...
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Former Unifor members laid off from Glacier Media papers launch their own newspaper co-op
VANCOUVER—Following the closure of Glacier Media’s digital community newspapers in April and May, which affected the jobs of Unifor Local 2000 members, journalists are now banding together to form a w...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Ditch Weekly is a newspaper about Montauk, Long Island that is written and edited by locals ages 13 to 17 (free gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/s...
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They’re 15. Wait Until You Read Their Newspaper.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The Hub's mass emailing today admits that its Deep Dive is sponsored by Financial Planners Canada, yet the article online acknowledges FP Canada . . . is that because it is trying to disguise the source behind this paid content? thehub.ca/2025/05/29/d...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Bell made a 2024 profit of $10.6 billion, which was more than the GDP of many countries, at a profit margin of 43.3% . . . Rogers made $9.6 billion at a margin of 46.7% . . . but sure, go ahead and bail them out #cdnmedia www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/05/27/c...
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CRTC Urged to Bail Out Bell and Rogers’ Newsrooms: Unifor | iPhone in Canada
Unifor tells the CRTC that Bell and Rogers can't sustain local news without help, urging strong regulation and funding support for Canada's media industry.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
a report titled "Universities versus the public" by the conservative Macdonald-Laurier Institute claims that "there’s growing public frustration over the blatant left-wing bias and politicization of our post-secondary institutions" in Canada macdonaldlaurier.ca/canada-at-a-...
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Canada at a Crossroads – Volume 6: Degrees of separation - Universities versus the public | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
In both the United States and Canada increasing numbers of people report limited or no confidence in universities and think they are poorly managed. The public is losing faith in part due to universit...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Conservative media are grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage Right-wing media are getting desperate for any evidence to prove the Tories’ election loss was the result of Liberal media bias #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Con media grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage
Fresh off what must have been a crushing election loss by their favoured Conservatives, right-wing media are getting desperate in their quest for any evidence that it might have been a result of large...
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
30 TVA layoffs in its television division bring its total elimination of jobs since 2023 to 650, or half of its workforce #cdnmedia broadcastdialogue.com/quebecors-tv...
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Quebecor's TVA Group eliminates 30 positions - Broadcast Dialogue
Quebecor's TVA Group announced Wednesday it is eliminating 30 positions, primarily within its television division.
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
a 2017 amendment in Alberta allowed municipalities to place public notices on social media and websites rather than in newspapers . . . publishers say they’ve seen a once stable revenue stream evaporate as a result and 30 community newspapers close theijf.org/advertising-...
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Advertising bylaws another nail in the coffin for local media, newspaper publishers say
Changes to Alberta’s municipal governance rules have jeopardized a stable source of revenue for newspapers and politicized funding, industry argues
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
ouch . . . the Chicago Sun-Times ran a special section on Sunday that licensed content from Hearst's King Features, including a summer reading list created using AI . . . unfortunately, it recommended books that do not exist #newspapers chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...
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Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Peter Menzies is grasping at straws now . . . the Winnipeg Free Press is owned by a publicly-traded company which must alert investors to possible financial headwinds . . . including political uncertainty in its latest warning, he argues, shows favoritism thehub.ca/2025/05/20/p...
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Peter Menzies: With mainstream media in bed with the Liberals, Canada needs independent journalism more than ever
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Richard Stursberg writes in the Globe that the CRTC has let U.S. streamers "operate unhindered. They remain completely unregulated, bearing none of the burdens of the Canadian-owned broadcasters to provide Canadian news and entertainment." #cdnmedia www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The CRTC has failed to protect the Canadian broadcasting industry
As a governing body, it has done nothing to hold outsiders to the same rules and regulations as our own media outlets
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Alberta Views has devoted its May issue to the question of whether Canada should subsidize its news media . . . my contribution voices a minority position in the affirmative #cdnmedia albertaviews.ca
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Alberta Views - The Magazine for Engaged Citizens
Recognized for its editorial excellence, Alberta Views Magazine is one of the most respected publications in Canada.
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