Avoid all Post Media newspapers
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National Post
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Financial Post.
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Montreal Gazette
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Ottawa Citizen
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Vancouver Sun
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Ottawa Sun
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The Daily Gleaner
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Cape Breton Post
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Airdrie Echo
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The High River Times
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The Vulcan Advocate
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The Whitecourt Star
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Gananoque Reporter
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Pembroke Observer & News
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The Sudbury Star
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Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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The Chronicle Herald
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Toronto Sun
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Calgary Sun
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Windsor Star
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Calgary Herald
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The Province
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Edmonton Journal
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Edmonton Sun
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London Free Press.
These papers are part of Post Media Group 🇺🇸
63% of Post Media is owned by Chatham Asset Management, an american hedge fund based in New Jersey 🇺🇸
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/POSTMEDIA-NETWORK-CANADA--42378696/company-shareholders/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmedia
Allowing an american hedge fund to take over most Canadian newspapers was a huge mistake.
Don’t buy them ❌
Don’t subscribe ❌
Don’t click on their links ❌
Canadian owned media 🇨🇦
🍁 CBC (non-profit)
🍁 Globe and Mail (business)
🍁 The Walrus (non-profit)
🍁 The Tyee (non-profit)
🍁 Investigative Journalism Foundation (non-profit)
🍁 The Toronto Local (for-profit)
🍁 The Toronto Star (business)
🍁 The Hamilton Spectator (business)
🍁 CTV (business)
🍁 The Halifax Examiner (business)
🍁 The Narwal (non-profit)
🍁 National Observer (business)
🍁 Le Devoir (non-profit)
🍁 Le Soleil (non-profit)
🍁Le Journal de Montréal (business)
🍁 La Presse (non-profit)
The problem with the US owning these papers is that the US can prevent any criticism, objective or subjective, against the US. The US owners can prevent any ad or column that is not aligned with their own US-centric policies. Just like you’ll never see an ad for EVs in the Irving Oil papers of the Maritimes.
Good list. Just wanted to add a thought about search engines as well. I’ve been using Kagi (it’s a paid service) which has the option to customize searches to pin, raise, lower, or block sites. I have most of the post media sites blocked (as well as a lot of US media sites) and sites like thetyee, cbc, france24, etc set to raise to the top. No ads, ai turned off, search is a pleasant experience now.
Edit to add: it is American unfortunately, but it’s the best search engine I’ve found. I’ve been operating under the adage “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” so after cutting ties with the vast majority of US companies, there are still a couple I send money to, like Kagi and Signal.
The EU alternative to Kagi however I don’t use paid searches so I can’t comment on them.
The Gazette has such a huge influence on the anglophone Quebecois population. It’s not only U.S. owned, it’s also francophobic as hell.
What the fuck is The Chronical Herald? That sounds like a spoof in a cartoon, like Townsville or something.
Everyone know it’s local news for Metro City.
Fuck Stephen Harper and the conservatives for allowing Americans to buy our media. Never forget.
Toronto Sun has always been right wing garbage Ontario blue collars love.
Liberal Party has been in power for much longer than I can excuse them ignoring this.
Liberal Party has been in power for much longer than I can excuse them ignoring this.
Is that Canada’s version of “thanks Obama” or “blame Biden”?
What can be done after the sale? ban them?
I am actually asking, not trying to defend the liberals here (although I do think Harper is at fault here)
What can be done after the sale? ban them?
That’s not too far fetched for our liberal government, Bill C21 and their use of Order In Councils to ban firearms that have been available for sale in this country since the 70’s.
All because someone who obtained firearms illegally, killed some cops in Nova Scotia and paraded around town dressed as one of the officer’s on a mass-killing spree, folks who are licensed firearms owners have to suffer the consequence of this numbskulls actions, makes complete sense.
The culture around guns in Canada has been infected by American gun culture. Used to be guns were for hunting or maybe some hobby at a shooting range.
If your identity revolves around being a gun owner, not a hunter or some other hobby that uses guns, then you’re in the group of people that is the the reason why guns need to be banned. The point of that culture isn’t to consider a gun a tool that’s part of a hobby, but a way to have power over others. People in that mindset are just one bad day away from using those guns to harm people.
I don’t really care how it’s done, not my job. I just seek the desired end result and I’m not seriously expecting anyone to actually try because most Canadians don’t give a shit.
Hmmm I disagree here. First building and destroying are not equal so there may not be much one party can do when the other one destroys something; therefore, you seem to be taking a position that the Liberals (in this case) should have done something not even knowing if “something” is actually possible
Second, I sort of agree Canadians may not care much but that is in huge part to them not knowing/understanding what the situation is.
Just now I forwarded this list to my list of contacts and most were surprised by at least a few of the entries in that list
The idea that it’s impossible to deal with is hilarious. You can be frustrated and down vote me for refusing to be an armchair politician giving worthless advice on an unrealistic pipedream regarding what to do exactly as if I’m at all in a position to open my uneducated gob on specifics I don’t understand though if you want.
I don’t get how you find the idea that something is impossible “hilarious” (not that I said it was, that was just me making an argument) yet accept you know absolutely nothing about it. If you find it hilarious, I would assume you know of at least a few avenues to address it.
We are in a very informal forum to share ideas, I am not asking for an actionable plan I will put take to my office as an MP. I am simply asking what can be done about foreign ownership of newspapers.
What is your opinion worth overall if you take an absolute hard stance on topics you apparently knew fuck all about and refuse to back it when asked out of benign curiosity?
All I implied was basically I’d vote for someone who promised to try and nkw you’re tearing my head off for being honest. You come across like a hostile git so I’m not willing to engage with you further.
Interesting that all of the major papers in Alberta are owned by post media. Are there any Canadian papers in Calgary or Edmonton? Or just right wing propaganda?
I was thinking the same about Vancouver. Sun and Province both US owned
Don’t read the American press, they’re all capitulating and willfully excluding the truth on this trade war.
You can see it for yourself with their both-sidesing bs.
Le Devoir is fantastic. Great journalism and the writing is very good. If you want to level up your French it’s worth it to subscribe.
I wish I had paid attention in French class. I guess it’s not too late to learn it again.
Absolutely! CBC has a free app called Mauril! It’s paid for by our tax dollars, might as well use it.
CBC is more concerned about their budget and offending the PCs than actual journalism.
Winnipeg Free Press
Came here to say this. I want them to have a national edition - that I might subscribe to.
Please support your favorite newspaper.
Good journalism is expensive. When local newspapers and independent newsrooms collapse, communities face severe consequences: public corruption goes unchecked, local government spending balloons without oversight, and disinformation fills the vacuum.
We need to subscribe to newspapers again. Or at least pick up the weekend edition. That said, I wish there was a way I could pay x amount each month and get access to a handful of newspapers.
What about publications like The Walrus?
They are fully Canadian (AFAIK) but not quite a newspaper. I’ve been tempted to subscribe but their articles are usually fairly long and fleshed out (which is a good thing, I just don’t always have the wherewithal to read them consistently)
PostMedia also owns SaltWire, a network of Atlantic community papers that includes the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the Guardian (PEI), the Cape Breton Post, and the Telegram (Nfld).
They also own the Moncton Times & Transcript, Saint John Telegraph Journal, and Fredericton Gleaner. Fucking Irvings sold them.
I think they probably own all of the newspapers in Atlantic Canada.
They gutted a lot of those newspapers, it’s nearly killed local journalism. If it weren’t for the CBC, there wouldn’t be local journalism. Not good that it’s a crown corporation that’s the only one doing it, but it’s better than having nothing.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/
For consideration
This shit should be banned
Who owns Quebecor Media now?
Replying to my own question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebecor
It’s owned by Quebecor Inc, a fully Canadian conglomerate traded on the TSX.
So if you aren’t sure about the trustworthiness of an independent paper, there’s at least one fully Canadian media conglomerate besides CBC.
Well the Thomson Family is Canadian. They’re billionaires (so maybe not all that trustworthy) but they’re Canadian. So that would Globe & Mail and Thomson-Reuters (though that would be international, not Canadian).
It’s still Pierre Karl Peledeau … but he’s a billionaire and shouldn’t be trusted
Canada finding out that water is wet. Kinda late, but better than never
