Marc Edge

Ladysmith

Media Columnist at Canadian Dimension

Sessional Instructor in Media and Communication at University Canada West in Vancouver, media columnist for Canadian Dimension, and author of eight books.

Articles

Con media grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage

1 month ago | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge |Peter Menzies

Fresh off what must have been a crushing election loss by their favoured Conservatives, right-wing media are getting desperate in their quest for any evidence that it might have been a result of large-L Liberal mainstream media bias.
Canada’s corporate subsidies mostly enrich shareholders of multinationals

1 month ago | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge

Laurent Carbonneau Sutherland House, 2025 Like most subjects, Canada’s ongoing trade dispute with the United States is best understood with the benefit of historical insight, which Laurent Carbonneau provides in abundance in his new book At The Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums. Tariffs such as US President Donald Trump recently slapped on Canadian goods are hardly new, as they have been used by governments in Canada since its founding in order to aid economic...
How the Online News Act came back to haunt the federal election

2 months ago | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge

As Canadians endure one of the most divisive federal election campaigns in memory, the dominant media narrative from the right has been that most journalists are unable to cover it fairly because of the hundreds of millions in federal subsidies they have received from the ruling Liberals over the past seven years, which the Conservatives have threatened to cancel.
Rebel News again proves that it’s not doing journalism

2 months ago | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge

Until last week’s federal leaders’ debates, Rebel News and its gadfly founder, Ezra Levant, were little more than minor irritants in Canada’s media landscape, like a pesky patch of poison ivy. The spectacle of David Menzies, the Rebel’s so-called “mission specialist,” and his trademark Panama hat being repeatedly splattered against a wall by plain clothes cops for stalking politicians with his microphone thrust like a sabre even provided the odd moment of comic relief.
Media research in Canada leaves much to be desired

2 months ago | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge

The recent revelation that data offered up by a Toronto Metropolitan University research centre had for years systematically inflated the number of newspaper closures in Canada points up the weakness in Canadian media research. It’s a problem that academics have noted for decades and something I have been harping on for more than 20 years.
The Hub is getting increasingly desperate to boost the flagging Cons

2 months ago | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge

Pity the poor Hub. Mere weeks ago, it appeared that the Conservative Party it cheers on so ardently would cruise to victory in the coming federal election. Canadians had tired of Justin Trudeau after nine years as prime minister and new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had rocketed up the polls by promising to defund the CBC and cancel the subsidies our news media have been collecting for the past five years.
New report shows ‘news deprivation’ rampant across Canada

Mar 25, 2025 | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge

It may take decades to dig ourselves out from under the mountain of misinformation, disinformation and plain old BS offered up by Canada’s newspaper industry and its enablers in pursuit of the hundreds of millions in federal bailout money, tax credits and forced subsidies it has pocketed in the past few years. If we can ever spot the truth through so much propaganda, that is.
Think tank pushes more bad ideas to help ‘fix’ Canada’s news media

Feb 17, 2025 | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge

Any report published by a so-called “think tank” should be taken with not just a grain of salt but a pound of the stuff since these captured organizations are inevitably only acting out the ulterior motives of their funders. The Vancouver-based Fraser Institute, for example, has pumped out a steady stream of reports for the past 50 years extolling the privatization, tax cuts and deregulation favoured by its libertarian donors.
Here’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our media

Jan 31, 2025 | canadiandimension.com | Marc Edge

The recent national panic over alleged foreign influence on our elected officials has seen politicians and journalists alike issue calls to name the suspected “traitors,” but it turns out that the worst traitors of all may actually be in our own news media.
Gaza Death Revisionists Are The New Holocaust Deniers

Jan 29, 2025 | readthemaple.com | Geordie Dent |Davide Mastracci |Marc Edge |Alex Cosh

In January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released an order effectively stating that some of Israel’s actions in Gaza may amount to genocide. Many others, including Amnesty International, The Lemkin Institute and a United Nations Special Committee, have already concluded that Israel has committed genocide. These findings have not been accepted by Israel or its supporters. Instead, they’ve engaged in genocide denial.