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“taxpayers in the West - the most likely to take offense from the cartoon - pay to subsidize the Toronto Star.”
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Media bound to pay the price for selling their freedom to (selectively) offend
Plus! Justin Ling signs on with the Star, trans stories censored and what was the CBC thinking when it comes to safe supply?
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November 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“taxpayers in the West - the most likely to take offense from the cartoon - pay to subsidize the Toronto Star.”
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“We have known for 40 years that once Baby Boomers like your faithful servant turned bald and grey that the system would be unsustainable. But that single, terrifying “American-style” slur has halted reform at every turn.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
Tens of thousands are dying on waiting lists following decades of media reluctance to debate healthcare
Plus! More unnecessary online smartassery taints the craft and “sources say” stories continue to be all the rage
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November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
“We have known for 40 years that once Baby Boomers like your faithful servant turned bald and grey that the system would be unsustainable. But that single, terrifying “American-style” slur has halted reform at every turn.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
“The pattern of behaviour indicates to the public that news organizations do not take their obligation to the truth seriously.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
Breaking News: the public actually expects journalists to determine the truth of statements they report before they report them
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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November 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“The pattern of behaviour indicates to the public that news organizations do not take their obligation to the truth seriously.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
“Editor in Chief Brodie Fenlon confirmed that the CBC’s newsrooms are the least biased he’s ever worked in.”https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/cbc-cashes-in-on-carney-as-the-news?r=885ov&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Editor in Chief Brodie Fenlon confirmed that the CBC’s newsrooms are the least biased he’s ever worked in.”https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/cbc-cashes-in-on-carney-as-the-news?r=885ov&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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BONUS EPISODE:
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November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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“an object lesson for why trust in legacy media has plummeted, and alt right media audiences have grown.”https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/how-one-major-media-torqued-its-coverage?
October 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“an object lesson for why trust in legacy media has plummeted, and alt right media audiences have grown.”https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/how-one-major-media-torqued-its-coverage?
“Missing in media coverage were the voices of those who find repulsive the idea that Vancouverites should be denied the right to choose for themselves what events they find morally acceptable.” open.substack.com/pub/Petermen...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“Missing in media coverage were the voices of those who find repulsive the idea that Vancouverites should be denied the right to choose for themselves what events they find morally acceptable.” open.substack.com/pub/Petermen...
Journalists should not be easy prey for politicians open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
PM's speech shows how easily newsrooms are played by politicians announcing the same things over and over again
Plus! Global’s oops on Trump in the crosshairs and assuming what Stephen Harper thinks may not be the best idea!
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October 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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“The test for media will be to see whether - as so far appears to be the case - they will comply and comfortably go along with the language shell game the government prefers or the language that best serves their readers” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
Response to Carney’s deficit shell game will determine who media have decided to serve
Plus! CBC’s “Intifada Evan” shows the Ombudsman who’s boss and Rebel News puts another tick in the debates win column
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October 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“The test for media will be to see whether - as so far appears to be the case - they will comply and comfortably go along with the language shell game the government prefers or the language that best serves their readers” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
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NEW PODCAST:
• @petersankoff.bsky.social on Canadian self-defence law
• @pagmenzies.bsky.social on overhauling Canada's arts & media funding system
• Plus, updates on Alberta's ballooning deficit and Ottawa's newfound bullishness on Canadian LNG exports
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• @petersankoff.bsky.social on Canadian self-defence law
• @pagmenzies.bsky.social on overhauling Canada's arts & media funding system
• Plus, updates on Alberta's ballooning deficit and Ottawa's newfound bullishness on Canadian LNG exports
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PODCAST: Alberta's ballooning deficit, Ottawa bullish on LNG to Europe, Clarifying self-defence law, Overhauling arts & media funding
In this episode, updates on Alberta's budget and Ottawa's interest in LNG; plus interviews with law professor Peter Sankoff and MLI's Peter Menzies
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August 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NEW PODCAST:
• @petersankoff.bsky.social on Canadian self-defence law
• @pagmenzies.bsky.social on overhauling Canada's arts & media funding system
• Plus, updates on Alberta's ballooning deficit and Ottawa's newfound bullishness on Canadian LNG exports
robbreakenridge.substack.com/p/podcast-al...
• @petersankoff.bsky.social on Canadian self-defence law
• @pagmenzies.bsky.social on overhauling Canada's arts & media funding system
• Plus, updates on Alberta's ballooning deficit and Ottawa's newfound bullishness on Canadian LNG exports
robbreakenridge.substack.com/p/podcast-al...
“it’s unlikely the Liberals will lose an election anytime in the foreseeable future. The overwhelming majority of media depends on them financially. Their appointees control the Senate, the courts, most public institutions, and decide which journalists you can trust.”
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Peter Menzies: Canada’s last remaining independent media outlets are dropping like flies
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October 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“it’s unlikely the Liberals will lose an election anytime in the foreseeable future. The overwhelming majority of media depends on them financially. Their appointees control the Senate, the courts, most public institutions, and decide which journalists you can trust.”
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“Strings requiring compliance and promotion of “acceptable” views will eventually be attached to the funding. Almost every media will comply.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
The “ the soft, silent takeover of the nation’s press” rolls on relentlessly
Plus! CBC gives the latest church arson a pass, The Rewrite asks why and you get to decide if the explanation is satisfactory
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October 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Strings requiring compliance and promotion of “acceptable” views will eventually be attached to the funding. Almost every media will comply.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
“A study of the former East Germany found that “decades of socialist rule left scars…of consensus (that) outlasted the Berlin Wall. “ open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
A society without the capacity for civil debate teeters on the brink of Mao’s visionary nightmare
Media must help us reclaim the vocabulary to freely exchange ideas or default to “power grows from the barrel of a gun”
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October 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“A study of the former East Germany found that “decades of socialist rule left scars…of consensus (that) outlasted the Berlin Wall. “ open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
“Eventually, I expect, all news organizations will have to take the cash - addiction, after all, is autonomy - and accept the regulations that will follow as sure as summer follows spring.”
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When subordination of media becomes the path to saving democracy, 2 + 2 might just as well = 5
Plus! More CBC misinformation in headlines, movie set announcements outed and does Postmedia work on weekends anymore?
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September 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“Eventually, I expect, all news organizations will have to take the cash - addiction, after all, is autonomy - and accept the regulations that will follow as sure as summer follows spring.”
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Who gets to cancel Jimmy Kimmel?
YouTube video by The Hub Canada
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September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“We all know there is not a single university in our country that would have permitted Kirk to speak, likely citing the “security” artifice that so often is accepted by media at face value.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
Cancel culture wins ultimate victory as murder of Charlie Kirk ghoulishly celebrated by radical Left, media included
Meanwhile, CBC journo declares nuclear family to be an extremist construct. Plus! Old school journos fight back
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September 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
“We all know there is not a single university in our country that would have permitted Kirk to speak, likely citing the “security” artifice that so often is accepted by media at face value.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
“In a secular state, in an increasingly secularized society, reporters, commentators, editors must play a key role in preventing monopoly ideological expression.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
Media jump on one book-burning bandwagon and run away from another
Journos campaign against Alberta’s school policies while completely ignoring Hamilton’s efforts to ban ads quoting the dictionary
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September 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“In a secular state, in an increasingly secularized society, reporters, commentators, editors must play a key role in preventing monopoly ideological expression.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
“I can’t decide which one - confirmation bias, anchor bias, affinity bias or bandwagon bias - best applies. Maybe all four.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
Betrayal of newsroom fundamentals is creating a free flow of misinformation
Failure to follow the basics causes a report from a misrepresented organization to go global. Plus! Journos battling journalism, Libs getting tight with the hard right is OK and more!
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September 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
“I can’t decide which one - confirmation bias, anchor bias, affinity bias or bandwagon bias - best applies. Maybe all four.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
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August 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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This week’s Full Press podcast with guest @SabrinaMaddeaux rocking it! youtu.be/9MXq7mpVnWI?...
Why Trump’s new enemy is Canadian media
YouTube video by The Hub Canada
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August 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This week’s Full Press podcast with guest @SabrinaMaddeaux rocking it! youtu.be/9MXq7mpVnWI?...
The defence of the powerful is a new first instinct in journalism open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
When collective and individual rights clash, media must focus on holding the powerful accountable
Plus! How Canadian Press is priming the pumps for billionaires and hedge funds to get even more taxpayer money and how our press just ignored - en masse - the Arab League's call for Hamas to surrender
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August 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The defence of the powerful is a new first instinct in journalism open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
What you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
It’s only a matter of time before the government attaches strings to mainstream media subsidies
Misinformation is not exclusive to alternative online news organizations
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August 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
What you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/petermen...
The signals will be significant nationalnewswatch.com/2025/07/24/c...
Carney’s First Telecom Test: Will He Reinforce the CRTC or Rewrite…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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