Peter Menzies

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.

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.