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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 · 17/09/2026
the quarterback formerly known as Ralph Brock
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@cailinaseirinn.bsky.social
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
About 60% of Lookout Santa Cruz’s revenue comes from advertising, with another 40% from memberships . . . Lookout launched a second newsroom in Eugene, Oregon, in 2025 . . . Doctor hopes to have Lookouts in five locations — all in cities on the West Coast — by the end of 2028.
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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
The laws have also been used to shut down or age-restrict internet forums on political parties, British history and even famous artworks . . . horror film posters, advice on supporting a friend through chemotherapy, 1970s punk bands and "annoying papercuts."
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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...
digitalcontentnext.org
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
show-off
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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 · 11/08/2026
Reach for the Top
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
blame Trump
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
you see, that's what he means when he calls us "nasty"
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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...
canadiandimension.com
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...
canadiandimension.com
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...
cbc.ca
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 · 07/06/2026
you have to be out of the country for a while to hear the oot and aboot
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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...
canadiandimension.com
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 · 20/05/2026
I am Edge NI
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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...
canadiandimension.com
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...
marcedge.substack.com
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 · 11/04/2026
I delivered that issue to homes in South Burnaby
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I am dingle by choice
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I called Capital One a few days ago because I was unable to activate the new card they sent me, which required that I download their app and take a picture of the QR code on the card . . . they made me jump through a bunch of hoops to activate it, but I just tried to use it and it still doesn't work
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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 · 07/08/2025
erm, perhaps you don't realize what a disaster this legislation has been . . . this should help to explain it canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com
The Online News Act has been like MAiD for emerging media in Canada
Big Media in Canada, which are ruthlessly squeezing every last loonie out of our once-profitable news media, used their remaining political influence to shake down the digital giants with the Online N...
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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
not the honor system?
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
entertainment
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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 · 04/08/2025
they are timeless
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
diaper rash
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I agree it was their best, but there are a few almost as good . . . I have recently come to find Up underrated . . . E-Bow is their best song in my book
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
it's very simple . . . China, Brazil and the UAE are all so-called BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia) . . . China will start selling flying taxis to two other BRICS countries in a couple of years
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
send in the gators
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Marc Edge @marcedge.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"Their goal is to systematically dismantle the free press and rebuild it as a network of propaganda organs designed to protect and uphold the regime and the oligarchs. . . . not from the overt censorship of opinion, but from the construction of an ecosystem where that opinion is rendered impotent"
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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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