Canadian far-right influencer Lauren Chen and her husband, Liam Donovan, are alleged to have helped Russia spread disinformation through American commentators. Image from YouTube. I used to enjo...
With our beleaguered Liberal government now plunging in the opinion polls and facing the final year of its mandate, Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, could be its final showdown.…
Pierre Poilievre holds George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a prop during Question Period, March 30, 2023. Photo courtesy CPAC. It isn’t even Labour Day yet and federal ...
Photo by Richard Akerman/Flickr Context is something journalists are supposed to provide in reporting on matters of national importance, but it has been sadly lacking so far in coverage of…
Newsroom of the New York Times, 1942. Photo by Marjory Collins/Wikimedia Commons. One of these things, as they sang on Sesame Street, is not like the other ones. Rebel News…
Postmedia emerged this week as the surprise buyer of troubled Saltwire, which publishes more than 20 papers in Atlantic Canada, including the Halifax Chronicle Herald. Photo by Tony Webster/Flickr. ...
The Free Press Building in downtown Winnipeg. Photo courtesy Heritage Winnipeg. Some old-time journalists are dead set against public subsidies for journalism despite our news media dying on the...
Photo by Alex Proimos/Wikimedia Commons The recent Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism signed by right-wing think tanks, publications and journalists calling on news media to stop taking t...
Photo by Dominic Smith/Flickr Canada vs California: How Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants Howard Law Lorimer, 2024 It has long been said that history is writt...
Photo by Anthony Quintano/Wikimedia Commons There’s nothing we at Canadian Dimension like more than a good collective. After all, Canada’s original socialist magazine has been produced since 1975 by a…
A man holds a copy of the Epoch Times at the “Million MAGA March” at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 14, 2020. Photo by Elvert Barnes/Wikimedia Commons. Where…
Photo by greenzowie/Flickr In a classic case of “better late than never,” an Ottawa think tank has issued what it calls the Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism urging news media…
There’s a new kind of journalism in Canada of the non-profit variety, and it comes with a wonkish bent. It’s been called think tank journalism by The Economist magazine, which…
Alt-weeklies have fallen on hard times recently with the flight of advertising to social media, but Prairie Dog and its Saskatoon sister newspaper Planet S have endured through ingenuity and…
“Pink slime’” journalism is a murky world of partisan websites and print outlets that deceptively pose as local news to push political candidates and parties. Photo by lane Becker/Flickr. The…
“The Fin de Siècle Newspaper Proprietor” by Frederick Burr Opper, Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1894. Image courtesy the Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons. Having been down a couple of rabbit holes recently…
Cartoon by Greg Perry The hare-brained Online News Act has only been in effect for a few months, but already it has proved a disaster for small and emerging news…
For-profit media ownership has decimated journalism in Canada and continues to gouge us with some of the highest prices in the world for telecommunications services such as cellular phones, cable…
It’s too bad that David Eby, BC’s new NDP premier, isn’t Canada’s prime minister, because at least he isn’t afraid to take on Big Media in this country. We call…
Israel “Izzy” Asper and his son Leonard Asper in the early-2000s. Photo courtesy La Presse. One of the benefits of teaching overseas, as I was forced to do for most…
