Peter Menzies

Jan 14, 2025 | thehub.ca | Peter Menzies

Welcome to my Full Press column, a bi-weekly round-up of the interesting stories in media worth paying attention to. Be sure to catch The Hub’s accompanying Full Press podcast, debuting this week. Online legislation lies front and centre in Trudeau’s legacy Of all the things the Justin Trudeau government will be remembered for, in the long run, one of the most consequential will have been its inability to understand the internet.

Dec 6, 2024 | catholicregister.org | Peter Menzies

Now, decades later, Karla Poewe has delivered a moving, intimate look at the other side of the story. Defeat as Childhood Experience: WWII’s Shadow Remembered, Revisiting and Researched (Vogelstein Press) is an extraordinary recollection of the life of a young German child coping with the nightmare of war.

Nov 28, 2024 | readtheline.ca | Peter Menzies

By: Peter MenziesEngland is not a safe space for social media users. That’s because, given what just happened to Daily Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson, it’s possible that posting something that offends a philosophical, theological, political or ideological foe — and many of us have a few of those — could result in the police being told that the post is capable of inciting hatred. That’s a criminal offence.

Nov 22, 2024 | thehub.ca | Peter Menzies

It was almost exactly a year ago when it became obvious that the predictions critics of the Online Streaming Act had made were going to come trueThen, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was about two-thirds of the way through its first public hearing aimed at implementing the act (also known as Bill C-11) since it came into force in the spring of 2023.

Oct 31, 2024 | thehub.ca | Peter Menzies

The Canadian news industry’s dependence on the federal government has taken another deeply uncomfortable step away from the ideals of a free, independent, and trusted press. The Trudeau government’s new Changing Narratives Fund announced by the Department of Heritage shifts funding away from agnostically subsidizing news organizations and into the realm of financing favoured topics created by preferred people. Frankly, it’s outrageous.