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:
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Advertising
The Flyer Force
Go!Local
Publishing
Broadsheet dailies and weeklies
National Post
Financial Post (administratively part of the National Post)
Belleville Intelligencer
Brantford Expositor
Calgary Herald
Cape Breton Post
Chatham Daily News
The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
Cornwall Standard Freeholder
Edmonton Journal
Kenora Daily Miner and News
Kingston Whig-Standard
London Free Press
The Gazette (Montreal)
North Bay Nugget
Ottawa Citizen
Regina Leader-Post
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
Sault Star
Sudbury Star
Timmins Daily Press
Vancouver Sun (not related to the tabloid Sun newspapers also owned by Postmedia)
Windsor Star
Tabloid dailies
Calgary Sun
Edmonton Sun
Ottawa Sun
The Province (Vancouver)
Toronto Sun
Winnipeg Sun
Community newspapers
Postmedia owns newspapers that serve smaller communities across Canada, including:
Airdrie Echo (tabloid)
Bow Valley Crag and Canyon (tabloid)
Brockville Recorder and Times (broadsheet)
Chatham This Week (tabloid)
Clinton News-Record (tabloid)
Cochrane Times (Alberta) (tabloid)
Cochrane Times-Post (tabloid)
Cold Lake Sun (tabloid)
Drayton Valley Western Review (tabloid)
Edson Leader (tabloid)
Elliot Lake Standard (tabloid)
Fort McMurray Today (tabloid)
Fort Saskatchewan Record (tabloid)
Goderich Signal-Star (tabloid)
Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune (tabloid)
Hanna Herald (tabloid)
High River Times (tabloid)
Hinton Parklander (tabloid)
Kincardine News (tabloid)
Kingston This Week (tabloid)
Lakeshore Advance (Grand Bend; tabloid)
Lloydminster Meridian Booster (tabloid) sold to Lloydminster Source Ltd
Mid-North Monitor (Espanola; tabloid)
Mayerthorpe Freelancer (tabloid)
Nanton News (tabloid)
Owen Sound Sun Times (broadsheet)
Peace River Record-Gazette (broadsheet)
Pincher Creek Echo (tabloid)
Red River Valley Echo (tabloid) closed 2020
Sarnia Observer (broadsheet)
Sherwood Park News (tabloid)
Simcoe Reformer (tabloid)
St. Thomas Times-Journal (tabloid)
Stratford Beacon Herald (broadsheet)
Vulcan Advocate (tabloid)
Vermilion Standard (tabloid)
Whitecourt Star (tabloid)
Winkler Times (tabloid)
Woodstock Sentinel-Review (broadsheet)
Former assets
24 Hours (Toronto, Vancouver) sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40]
Barrie Examiner sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40]
Bradford Times (tabloid) sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40]
Camrose Canadian (tabloid), closed 2018
Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40]
Niagara Falls Review (broadsheet) sold to Torstar, 2017
Norwich Gazette, closed 2018
Orillia Packet & Times (broadsheet) sold to Torstar and closed, 2017[40]
Pembroke Daily Observer (broadsheet), ceasing print edition 2018
Peterborough Examiner (broadsheet) sold to Torstar, 2017
St. Catharines Standard (broadsheet) sold to Torstar in 2017
Strathmore Standard (tabloid), closed 2018
Magazines
Financial Post Business
Living Windsor
Muskoka Magazine
Kingston Life Magazine
Interiors Magazine
Backpack Magazine
Cannabis Post
Muskoka Visitor Guide
Ontario Farmer Magazines (Hog, Beef, Dairy)
Swerve
TVtimes
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!!!
Canada’s bourgeois controlling your media isn’t meaningfully better than the Canadian government, at least the Canadian government needs to pretend to represent you.
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Or better yet, nationalize those papers. America shouldn’t be controlling Canadian news.
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:
Tap for spoiler
Advertising
Publishing
Broadsheet dailies and weeklies
Tabloid dailies
Community newspapers
Postmedia owns newspapers that serve smaller communities across Canada, including:
Former assets
Magazines
Online
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!!!
As an American I support this message.
But neither shouldn’t a government. Government independent journalism is also very important
In Norway we have both. I think it’s a nice balanced solution.
Canada’s bourgeois controlling your media isn’t meaningfully better than the Canadian government, at least the Canadian government needs to pretend to represent you.
Holy fuck that’s a scary proposal.