I like what the guest David Betz said about Carney on Trish Wood’s latest podcast. I’m paraphrasing but he said Carney is the perfect embodiment of what a leader is in our post-national world. He’s a citizen of the world not of Canada. His “leadership” is nothing more than being a middle manager at a global company.
The lieberals won every highly contested riding last time out. Its statistically impossible. I forget my source but i believe it. The CCP doesn’t fuck around.
As for this election- create a narrative that gives a possibility of winning (all lies, of course) and then steal it. Everyone will believe their own cynicism and dejection and just be flabbergasted at the level of chinadian stupidity.
Of course, the alternative is ; folks are stupid enough to go from pedo castro to pedo carnage. Elbows up!!
Tough to be certain about anything. Boosters anyone??
I don't want to believe that Carney will win, but there is a subsection of the Canadian population that would inject antifreeze into their jugulars if the CBC told them to.
In my gut i still think PP will win but why wouldn’t shameless pedos go for the steal. If you’re stupid enough to believe the lies thats on you, is their thinking.
Its still all theater but the grift is so much easier if the architects vs lietician puppets get to execute the plan.
Now, the Conservatives are backtracking on cutting all the media subsidies.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
And based on the current federal election and the last BC election I would say that hate voting (otherwise called strategic voting) has become the norm in Canada (ie: voting against a party not voting for any party).
Too much is not enough: The lobbying from News Media Canada
To understand where the push for government subsidies has come from, one needs look no further than News Media Canada (NMC), an organization representing roughly 570 Canadian “news publishing titles,” from Torstar, Postmedia, and the Globe and Mail to “‘mom-and-pop” publishers like the Wellington Advertiser. NMC describes its role as “an advocate in public policy for daily and community media outlets” that promotes “the benefits of news media across all platforms.”
NMC has been lobbying for direct subsidies from the federal government since at least 2019. Initially, NMC framed the need for subsidies as temporary. In 2019 House of Commons committee hearings on the Labour Tax Credit, NMC’s then-chair Bob Cox said the program was “envisioned to be for five years,” referring to the credit as a “transitional program and temporary help.” “I don’t like the idea of a long-term subsidy for newspapers that becomes permanent,” he told the committee.
But six years later, the tax credit has become permanent, its rate has gone up, and more subsidies have been brought in. NMC’s desire for government support has only increased, both in terms of formal government lobbying and written advocacy in the National Post (an NMC member). Over the past two years, the Post has published five op-eds written by NMC’s president and CEO, Paul Deegan, or its chair, Dave Adsett. In October 2023, Deegan urged governments to “establish tax measures to incentivize businesses to advertise with private-sector Canadian news outlets”—a sentiment subsequently echoed by the Post editorial board.
Deegan’s op-ed also proposed that all governments should “earmark 25 per cent of their advertising spend toward trusted Canadian news sources.” Seven months later, the Government of Ontario duly obliged—and Deegan praised Ontario’s decision in a Post op-ed the very same day, with Post columnist Michael Taube echoing the sentiment less than two weeks later. Deegan and Taube seemed to be reading from the same script, arguing the policy “does not involve any additional taxpayer dollars” and “doesn’t come at any cost to the taxpayers.” The sleight-of-hand was impressive, albeit misleading: whose money does a retail monopoly on alcoholic spirits and online cannabis purchases spend, if not the taxpayers’?
NMC’s public advocacy did not stop there. In February 2024, Deegan co-authored an op-ed in Postmedia’s Vancouver Sun urging British Columbia to adopt policies similar to Quebec’s labour tax credit and the federal Local Journalism Initiative. In July 2024, Adsett wrote a Post op-ed that praised the Online News Act and attributed its success to the fact that NMC “started making noise about the need to force these tech companies to pay us.” Adsett also critiqued Google’s choice to distribute funds through the CJC rather than the conglomerate of which NMC is a part, and claimed the CJC board “must be reconstituted to make it more representative of the industry at large” (i.e., by including NMC members). In December 2024, Deegan—the NMC’s only listed lobbyist—wrote an op-ed calling for stronger lobbying registry rules. Although he didn’t mention journalism, one suspects Deegan’s proposal for stronger rules for “foreign corporations try[ing] to influence Canadian public policy” would apply to Google and Meta.
Finally, in March 2025, Adsett wrote a Post op-ed that both praised the existing federal news policy but also raised three issues he hoped would be raised during the election: first, Canada Post should reinstate its old policy on “the distribution of free newspapers”; second, the federal government should “follow Ontario’s lead and earmark 25 per cent of ad spend to Canadian news publications”; and third, the feds should “Close the loophole in Section 19 of the Income Tax Act that allows for the unfair deductibility of foreign internet advertising” (i.e., letting business deduct expenses for advertising from non-Canadian companies). The article’s subhead implored readers to “Ask your local candidate where they stand on protecting Canadian newsrooms.”
While various provinces have some form of digital tax credit to reimburse digital media production and labour costs, Quebec is the one province that directly funds news media. Quebec provides print media companies a with tax credit of up to 35 percent of an employee’s salary to a maximum of $26,250 per year, provided that company “has an establishment in Québec” and “publishes original written content of general interest designed specifically for Quebec’s population” on a range of current-affairs topics. In 2024, Hub contributor Michael Geist suggested that the net effect of the federal and Quebec policies come “close to ensuring that government money and regulation cover the entire cost of news journalists at print and digital publications in the province.”
In Ontario, meanwhile, the provincial government has mandated that its four largest agencies must direct 25 percent of their advertising budgets to publishers who are “Ontario-based corporations, trusts or partnerships that have been designated as Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations by the Canada Revenue Agency.” Given that those four Crown agencies—the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), and Metrolinx—spend approximately $100 million on advertising each year, this amount is estimated to be $25 million.
In addition to subsidizing journalism itself, the federal government also forces other companies to subsidize journalism. The 2023 Online News Act compels “major digital platforms” (Meta and Google) that publish news links to give money to Canadian news organizations. Accusing “tech giants” of taking advertising revenue from journalistic outlets, the government’s goal was to establish “fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace” and “ensure Canadians have access to quality, fact-based news at the local and national levels.”
Meta opted out of news sharing after the law was passed, but Google agreed to distribute $100 million annually (indexed to inflation) to news organizations. That money is distributed through the Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC), an organization led by independent broadcasters and news publishers.
Under the Online News Act’s regulations, no more than 7 percent of Google’s $100 million will go to CBC, 30 percent to other broadcasters, and the remaining 63 percent to news outlets. The CJC estimated that this would amount to approximately $13,798 per full-time equivalent journalist at news outlets and $6,806 per eligible broadcast worker. News Media Canada, differing in its eligibility predictions, estimated the amount per journalist would be closer to $18,000.
To put the Online News Act’s support into perspective, the CJC estimate is a little over 16 percent of an $85,000 salary. When combined with the 35 percent support through the Canadian Journalism Labour tax Credit, this would mean that about 50 percent of a journalist’s salary could be covered either directly or indirectly by the federal government.
The CJC began distributing the $100 million in March 2025, weeks before the federal election began. This funding was barely mentioned among the news outlets that received it: only a single Canadian Press story on the topic was picked up by the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and the Financial Post section of the National Post in the weeks following announcement (by contrast, there were 16 unique stories across these three venues about Google’s decision to distribute the funds through the CJC in 2024). The Hub proactively disclosed that it received a payment of more than $22,000, which it promptly donated to charity. When asked about the precise amount organizations would receive, neither the Globe and Mail, Postmedia, nor the CJC itself responded to inquiries from The Hub.
I totally agree with the rigging at the riding level... and it's plausible that the agenda is set by the Privy Council, but I've never been too clear on that part of things. If you have anything that could help me figure out how the Privy Council works, I'm all ears.
I like what the guest David Betz said about Carney on Trish Wood’s latest podcast. I’m paraphrasing but he said Carney is the perfect embodiment of what a leader is in our post-national world. He’s a citizen of the world not of Canada. His “leadership” is nothing more than being a middle manager at a global company.
1000%
You should write something saying that!
to me Its the ontario and quebec issue with so many seats.
Yeah, that's an even bigger issue... Maybe I'll write something about that...
please do, I’m not totally informed as like I’d like to be for canadian politricks
100% rigged. Like everything else.
The lieberals won every highly contested riding last time out. Its statistically impossible. I forget my source but i believe it. The CCP doesn’t fuck around.
As for this election- create a narrative that gives a possibility of winning (all lies, of course) and then steal it. Everyone will believe their own cynicism and dejection and just be flabbergasted at the level of chinadian stupidity.
Of course, the alternative is ; folks are stupid enough to go from pedo castro to pedo carnage. Elbows up!!
Tough to be certain about anything. Boosters anyone??
You and I think alike.
I don't want to believe that Carney will win, but there is a subsection of the Canadian population that would inject antifreeze into their jugulars if the CBC told them to.
In my gut i still think PP will win but why wouldn’t shameless pedos go for the steal. If you’re stupid enough to believe the lies thats on you, is their thinking.
Its still all theater but the grift is so much easier if the architects vs lietician puppets get to execute the plan.
Now, the Conservatives are backtracking on cutting all the media subsidies.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
And based on the current federal election and the last BC election I would say that hate voting (otherwise called strategic voting) has become the norm in Canada (ie: voting against a party not voting for any party).
Didn't hear that! Could you share a link?
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/just-like-that-its-no-longer-about?r=9g54g&utm_medium=ios
Too much is not enough: The lobbying from News Media Canada
To understand where the push for government subsidies has come from, one needs look no further than News Media Canada (NMC), an organization representing roughly 570 Canadian “news publishing titles,” from Torstar, Postmedia, and the Globe and Mail to “‘mom-and-pop” publishers like the Wellington Advertiser. NMC describes its role as “an advocate in public policy for daily and community media outlets” that promotes “the benefits of news media across all platforms.”
NMC has been lobbying for direct subsidies from the federal government since at least 2019. Initially, NMC framed the need for subsidies as temporary. In 2019 House of Commons committee hearings on the Labour Tax Credit, NMC’s then-chair Bob Cox said the program was “envisioned to be for five years,” referring to the credit as a “transitional program and temporary help.” “I don’t like the idea of a long-term subsidy for newspapers that becomes permanent,” he told the committee.
But six years later, the tax credit has become permanent, its rate has gone up, and more subsidies have been brought in. NMC’s desire for government support has only increased, both in terms of formal government lobbying and written advocacy in the National Post (an NMC member). Over the past two years, the Post has published five op-eds written by NMC’s president and CEO, Paul Deegan, or its chair, Dave Adsett. In October 2023, Deegan urged governments to “establish tax measures to incentivize businesses to advertise with private-sector Canadian news outlets”—a sentiment subsequently echoed by the Post editorial board.
Deegan’s op-ed also proposed that all governments should “earmark 25 per cent of their advertising spend toward trusted Canadian news sources.” Seven months later, the Government of Ontario duly obliged—and Deegan praised Ontario’s decision in a Post op-ed the very same day, with Post columnist Michael Taube echoing the sentiment less than two weeks later. Deegan and Taube seemed to be reading from the same script, arguing the policy “does not involve any additional taxpayer dollars” and “doesn’t come at any cost to the taxpayers.” The sleight-of-hand was impressive, albeit misleading: whose money does a retail monopoly on alcoholic spirits and online cannabis purchases spend, if not the taxpayers’?
NMC’s public advocacy did not stop there. In February 2024, Deegan co-authored an op-ed in Postmedia’s Vancouver Sun urging British Columbia to adopt policies similar to Quebec’s labour tax credit and the federal Local Journalism Initiative. In July 2024, Adsett wrote a Post op-ed that praised the Online News Act and attributed its success to the fact that NMC “started making noise about the need to force these tech companies to pay us.” Adsett also critiqued Google’s choice to distribute funds through the CJC rather than the conglomerate of which NMC is a part, and claimed the CJC board “must be reconstituted to make it more representative of the industry at large” (i.e., by including NMC members). In December 2024, Deegan—the NMC’s only listed lobbyist—wrote an op-ed calling for stronger lobbying registry rules. Although he didn’t mention journalism, one suspects Deegan’s proposal for stronger rules for “foreign corporations try[ing] to influence Canadian public policy” would apply to Google and Meta.
Finally, in March 2025, Adsett wrote a Post op-ed that both praised the existing federal news policy but also raised three issues he hoped would be raised during the election: first, Canada Post should reinstate its old policy on “the distribution of free newspapers”; second, the federal government should “follow Ontario’s lead and earmark 25 per cent of ad spend to Canadian news publications”; and third, the feds should “Close the loophole in Section 19 of the Income Tax Act that allows for the unfair deductibility of foreign internet advertising” (i.e., letting business deduct expenses for advertising from non-Canadian companies). The article’s subhead implored readers to “Ask your local candidate where they stand on protecting Canadian newsrooms.”
Provincial funding of Canadian news
While various provinces have some form of digital tax credit to reimburse digital media production and labour costs, Quebec is the one province that directly funds news media. Quebec provides print media companies a with tax credit of up to 35 percent of an employee’s salary to a maximum of $26,250 per year, provided that company “has an establishment in Québec” and “publishes original written content of general interest designed specifically for Quebec’s population” on a range of current-affairs topics. In 2024, Hub contributor Michael Geist suggested that the net effect of the federal and Quebec policies come “close to ensuring that government money and regulation cover the entire cost of news journalists at print and digital publications in the province.”
In Ontario, meanwhile, the provincial government has mandated that its four largest agencies must direct 25 percent of their advertising budgets to publishers who are “Ontario-based corporations, trusts or partnerships that have been designated as Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations by the Canada Revenue Agency.” Given that those four Crown agencies—the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), and Metrolinx—spend approximately $100 million on advertising each year, this amount is estimated to be $25 million.
In addition to subsidizing journalism itself, the federal government also forces other companies to subsidize journalism. The 2023 Online News Act compels “major digital platforms” (Meta and Google) that publish news links to give money to Canadian news organizations. Accusing “tech giants” of taking advertising revenue from journalistic outlets, the government’s goal was to establish “fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace” and “ensure Canadians have access to quality, fact-based news at the local and national levels.”
Meta opted out of news sharing after the law was passed, but Google agreed to distribute $100 million annually (indexed to inflation) to news organizations. That money is distributed through the Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC), an organization led by independent broadcasters and news publishers.
Under the Online News Act’s regulations, no more than 7 percent of Google’s $100 million will go to CBC, 30 percent to other broadcasters, and the remaining 63 percent to news outlets. The CJC estimated that this would amount to approximately $13,798 per full-time equivalent journalist at news outlets and $6,806 per eligible broadcast worker. News Media Canada, differing in its eligibility predictions, estimated the amount per journalist would be closer to $18,000.
To put the Online News Act’s support into perspective, the CJC estimate is a little over 16 percent of an $85,000 salary. When combined with the 35 percent support through the Canadian Journalism Labour tax Credit, this would mean that about 50 percent of a journalist’s salary could be covered either directly or indirectly by the federal government.
The CJC began distributing the $100 million in March 2025, weeks before the federal election began. This funding was barely mentioned among the news outlets that received it: only a single Canadian Press story on the topic was picked up by the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and the Financial Post section of the National Post in the weeks following announcement (by contrast, there were 16 unique stories across these three venues about Google’s decision to distribute the funds through the CJC in 2024). The Hub proactively disclosed that it received a payment of more than $22,000, which it promptly donated to charity. When asked about the precise amount organizations would receive, neither the Globe and Mail, Postmedia, nor the CJC itself responded to inquiries from The Hub.
I fear/feel so! Be it by the CCP or other entities...
I totally agree with the rigging at the riding level... and it's plausible that the agenda is set by the Privy Council, but I've never been too clear on that part of things. If you have anything that could help me figure out how the Privy Council works, I'm all ears.