Marc Edge

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month ago | 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.

2 months ago | 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.

2 months ago | 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.