A lot of our Canadian media is owned by US billionaires and does not represent your fellow Canadian's opinions.
Avoid the National Post, Ottawa Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Toronto Sun, Edmonton Journal, The Vancouver Sun, The Gazette, and The Province.
The billionaire purchased media will radicalize a small racist and stupid portion of your population. That portion will grow like a cancer. Then the billionaires will pick some reality tv star or other bad actor to step up and take the reins of this hate group. Fight it now or lose your country like US citizens have.
I’ll drop this here. Chretien’s daughter married the son of the guy who owned most of Canada’s papers. So for those 12 year he received very g favourable press. Then after the liberal party tanked, some of the assets were sold off.
Fukan A, always follow the money!
Behold the Winnipeg Free Press, one of the last bastions... find your locally owned news and support them.
Celebrate and protect the CBC! They are biased, but all media is biased no matter how much it tries not to be, and the worst ones try to hide it. The CBC does not hide its bias but does not generally let it obscure the actual facts, and if you think it does don't even bother trying to argue with me you can just fuck right off and go watch your "truthful fox news" which certainly won't obscure any facts for you.
It is your job as an informed citizen and consumer of media to think critically about the inherent bias of every source and adjust your interpretation accordingly, not to ignore valid sources entirely.
I'm hesitant to pimp Ground News here even though I already sound like an advertisement for them, but I do have to point out they are also Canadian, so if you want a broader perspective maybe they can help with that. Full disclosure: I do personally have a Ground News subscription, and it has changed the way I approach news sources, but I honestly don't think anyone needs it as long as you are willing to think critically about the media you consume. The bias is usually obvious right from the front page. You don't have to be a genius to put the pieces of the puzzle together to figure out what narrative a given news source is trying to promote.
I have always found the CBC to be reliable as they will post corrections when they get their facts wrong.
I tried Ground News for awhile but found it just as easy to compare headlines between mainstream and independent news outlets to figure out the biases. Though I agree it is an excellent source.
The Tyee newsletter is independent and Canadian. It is Vancouver-based and is funded by alternate means rather than billionaires.
Many of the comments on those news sites are also written by Russian military personnel
I'm pretty sure over half the comments on the entire internet are just Russian bots.
How does one watch/support the CBC from outside the country, one wonders.
Try the apps, they might work? Not sure. There's Gem which is video and CBC Listen which has news, great radio journalism and podcasts, and music playlists.
If that doesn't work just seek out the many CBC podcasts, I recommend starting with Ideas for lecture or documentary style, or Quirks and Quarks for short form science journalism.
If you use an extension like "ublacklist" or a userscript like "Google hit hider", you can add the URL of those companies, and they will not show up in your browser search.
I've also started using Startpage.com for search (European) and set the region to Canada so it only shows me pages that are Canadian, and it works better than other region settings I've used in other search engines. Not perfect, but quite good. I wish it had the option to show all regions except American sites, but I'm sure that's possible with an extension or something.
We absolutely need to get rid of oligarch US media, they want to annex us!! We cannot allow their toxic media to poison more Canadians against Canada. We have to fund the CBC, and sideline foreign owned US media somehow.
I'll fix that a lot of anything in Canada is owned by US. Like our national parks every attraction in Banff and Jasper is owned by Americans.
What about people born in Canada that say 100% of all Canadian news do not reflect any of their views?
Canada needs to adopt laws forcing them to display, on on all their pages, a big "submissive to USA" banner.
(... and more broadly, for every product, a "x% tainted by USA's components" label)
Or better yet, nationalize those papers. America shouldn’t be controlling Canadian news.
As an American I support this message.
But neither shouldn't a government. Government independent journalism is also very important
Exactly. America has stated its goals 1) to destroy Canada’s economy in order to achieve 2) annex us 3) to just take Canada (militarily). There is NO WAY most of the media in the country should be American-owned, it’s already normalizing annexation talk. Enough!!!
Holy fuck that's a scary proposal.
I mean. Postmedia is already mostly funded by the federal government. Think it was in 2022, they received $9.9 million, while their operating profit was 13 million.
A list of their Assets: