Nothing funny about this year’s Press Gallery Dinner
The PM skipped a situation where he would not have been able to avoid addressing the most immediate question on everyone’s mind about David Johnston’s resignation.
From Ukraine, with love: Trudeau skips Press Gallery Dinner, Blanchet and Singh launch counteroffensive on humour
The Globe and Mail’s Steven Chase and Robert Fife receive the Charles Lynch Award for their reporting on foreign election interference; the gallery presents giant novelty cheque to fund emerging journalists.
Canadian news is in trouble: we can’t afford to let tech giants make its financial difficulties worse
We fail to understand how there can be any consideration of excluding certain news providers based solely on the underlying industry or the technology in which they have traditionally operated.
‘Great damage to our democratic system’: Senator Woo takes aim at media in wake of foreign election interference report
David Johnston’s report noted that ‘when viewed in full context with all of the relevant intelligence, several leaked materials that raised legitimate questions turn out to have been misconstrued in some media reports.’
Copyright is king in the battle for Canadian content
It is through their ownership of intellectual property that Canadians companies can prosper, grow, and take risks while funding new opportunities.
Canada’s writers need a functioning market, not endless promises
While our inflation rate steadily grew by 27.6 per cent, Canada’s authors were forced to absorb an 80 per cent decline in crucial income. How is anyone expected to survive that kind of fiscal collapse?
For Poilievre, the CBC is a hot-button issue
While many see the public broadcaster as a beloved national institution, for hardcore Canadian conservatives, the CBC is a biased, pro-Liberal, bastion of ‘woke’ leftism, a mortal enemy that must be battled at all costs, and Pierre Poilievre knows this.
The Online News Act will make the internet less open and secure for all Canadians
The internet relies on a decentralized structure to allow access for all. The unprecedented top-down control reflected in the Online News Act will deprive Canadians of an open, global internet.
‘Our democracy, just like our journalism, is not dead yet,’ says Tremonti on World Press Freedom Day
Politicians also have a role to play in stopping threats against journalists, says Anna Maria Tremonti. ‘[We need] people who can look beyond party politics to a way forward, no matter which party is the government of the day.’
Media, Bill C-18, and Indigenous inclusion
Bill C-18 assumes that Indigenous storytelling is only for the Indigenous community. That’s like saying Tanya Talaga’s books can only be read by Indigenous Peoples, or that APTN’s contribution is only for Indigenous communities. Come on people, it’s not 1991 anymore.
