Plus! Big media just don’t care when churches die, who is the PM’s Maple Maia and the best journo burns of the week

Plus! Starstruck journos give Eurasia’s Missus PMMC a free ride, CBC suspends Jew but not you know who and Postmedia turns its back on the National Newspaper Awards

Terror is a term that cannot be used casually but when it is objectively true, cannot be denied. Plus! Journal building up for sale and Western Standard ready to referendum rock and roll

Anger and emotion take centre stage, some meet the journalism challenge, some don’t, while CBC triggers America and then swiftly surrenders to political pressure. Sign Up!

Plus! The Star expects more Carney $$$, CBC’s lost objectivity dissected, who killed Jason Arday and the trans debate claims a media victim

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Hong Kong cracks down on book stores and freedom as both countries pursue goals of social cohesion

Plus! The Globe breaks media silence on puberty blockers, Grits' seventh lost MP gets a pass and Indigenous writer challenges orthodoxy

Plus! No coverage of largest media lawsuit ever, silence is no longer violence and journos continue to use words they don’t understand

Canada tried to shake down Big Tech with a digital services tax—then folded fast when Washington pushed back. Here's what really happened.

Plus! Subsidized media double down on intimidating criticism, Press Progress crippled by lawsuit and CBC chooses some interesting sources for war on Harry Potter

Plus! Robert Fife comes clean on media's bias against Conservatives, Coyne worries Cons are disloyal to the country and - you betcha - CBC continues to grow as private media keeps on shrinking

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Plus! PMMC puts a Yankee Doodle Dandy Democrat in charge of the PMO, most media sign off on that and Corus turns Alberta stations into Zombie TV

Plus! Why the Globe didn’t get invited to the Yanks’ July 4 party and how Rogers went full corporate pirate

If we can't handle the truth, there's no hope for reconciliation. Plus! Kapelos lays it on the line, the Soo loves the CBC and the subsidized Star cancels a critic

Plus! Maclean’s loses its bearings. And! Canadian Press loses it’s biggest client as Postmedia officially drops out this week

Plus! Another subsidy soldier falls, Coyne gets in a dig and CP is losing Postmedia, which is shutting down its Toronto presses

A special treat - a podcast - for The Rewrite subscribers and wannabe's as the number of independents shrinks

Plus! Bell and Rogers join the corporate welfare queue as Mark Carney’s Liberals move to add hundreds of millions more in debt by directly funding “broadcasters,” too

Few questions raised as Liberals continue to steamroll election result. Plus! What you weren’t told about EU enthusiasm and a magical Magyar media moment

Suggesting government loot might influence news can get you cancelled. Plus! A Liberal standing O for infidelity, more hiding from Kamloops questions and an epic correction!

Plus, the trans movement is threatening to impoverish Western Standard and The Rewrite celebrates its second anniversary! Party!

Major broadcasters don’t seem capable of dealing with the fact non-journalists like Joe Rogan have usurped their role. Plus! A bunch of bouquets!

Plus! CTV gets sneaky with its fixes, fake news goes viral and why the CBC's At Issue panel is just terrible TV

The cultural institutions we've created to protect us from American imperialism have failed

"Whichever lie it is, it’s a lie that sharp reporters everywhere should be asking Prime Minister Carney about in the wake of his Davos speech"

Plus! Journos have to rely on Fox News to learn about PM's chat with Trump and Canada's new strategic partner and media mate - China - leads the world in arrested newshounds. Let's gooooo!

Media gobbled up unnecessary provocations of the USA, then turned on the Prime Minister's accurate and sensible praise of a country built on the Plains of Abraham

Plus! The Logic editor slams unnamed sources, Ombudsman says CBC wrong to ID Jewish MPs and woo boy journos continue to self-harm on social media

Plus! The CRTC reveals its dinosaur instincts, another study points to CBC bias, columnists on the take and the fight to reveal Kamloops secrets

Canadian delegation appears to have taken its cues from editorial provided by Chinese state media while our PM's history with the Middle Kingdom overlooked

Plus! Radio-Canada praises Maduro, CBC/CTV minimize Iran protests and good heavens why are our media letting Freeland walk away with her secrets?

Plus! Politico warns that the far right’s stealing Christmas, a CBC content analysis ruffles feathers and more! Happy New Year

Bari Weiss shows all the sense and sensibility required and paid the price for trying to make a story better

2025 signalled the conclusion of hope for media in a nation that prefers subsidies to innovation and independence

Just in time for Christmas, the Liberals make a deal with the Bloc that will suppress religious expressions of belief

Thirty years developing Ideas has produced a compelling book crying out for the Mother Corp to get it right

Plus! Door opens to put sacred texts on trial. Sorry journos, AI says you’re surplus to its needs, the PMO's monkeys are flying and look out - Lilley’s crashing the boards!

A couple of journos wade through their industry’s moral and professional fatigue. Plus! BBC under fire, sources burn politicos and the Dinger delivers a zinger

Plus! Justin Ling signs on with the Star, trans stories censored and what was the CBC thinking when it comes to safe supply?

Plus! More unnecessary online smartassery taints the craft and “sources say” stories continue to be all the rage

Who knew? Plus! Online smartassery by reporters continues to curse the industry, Vancouver loves Harry Potter (shhhh!), layoffs continue and newspaper revenue now in uncontrolled descent

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Plus! Global’s oops on Trump in the crosshairs and assuming what Stephen Harper thinks may not be the best idea!

Press Gallery members denied access to Carney's Egypt photo opportunity dutifully repeat anonymous, unverified claims elevating the Prime Minister's importance