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It’ll take more than bureaucratic billions to pull Canada’s military out of its death spiral
Our soldiers have stories, but since Christie Blatchford left us, no one in our media is interested in telling them
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Anna Farrow
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There's no reason to trust news based solely on unnamed sources granted anonymity for no good reason
Journalists are asking readers to have faith in them while providing fewer and fewer grounds to do so
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Peter Menzies
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Nothing says prosperity like building a bigger bureaucracy - just ask George Orwell
Canada needs more journalists able to see the obvious and question it
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Peter Stockland
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The mystery of important stories left untold by Canada’s increasingly narrow mainstream media
 • Peter Menzies
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CBC ignites fresh outrage by heaping scorn on reporters who dared to ask questions of which it disapproves
 • Peter Menzies
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Media meltdown leaves industry red-faced and very unlikely to be forgiven for its sins and its subsidies
 • Peter Menzies
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The story behind the plot to replace the leader of a G7 nation and install Carney seems doomed to never be told
 • Peter Menzies
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“There is no intention to correct, including by many people in the media who by this time know that they got the story wrong” - Jonathan Kay
 • Anna Farrow
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As if being booed by the public isn’t enough, reporters have taken to heckling each other at news conferences
 • Peter Menzies
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Yes, misinformation can have deadly consequences - something news organizations should remember and for which they should pray forgiveness
Those who support Carney’s mission to legislate speech should keep in mind that shabby reporting may be the greatest Online Harm of all
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Peter Menzies
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The collapse of news media has led to a world of funhouse mirrors and national psychotic episodes - Terry Glavin
How the perpetual paternalism of the political class keeps a boot on the neck of Indigenous people
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Peter Stockland
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“It’s what happens when Canada is run by a Prime Minister indistinguishable from a 17-year-old social justice warrior with an Instagram…
Terry Glavin tells Peter Stockland how disastrous reporting by the nation’s media created social panic, despair and reputational chaos..
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Peter Stockland
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“It’s what happens when Canada is run by a Prime Minister indistinguishable from a 17-year-old social justice warrior with an Instagram…
Terry Glavin tells Peter Stockland how disastrous reporting by the nation’s media created social panic, despair and reputational chaos
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Peter Stockland
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As much as Toronto’s media fawned over King Charles, Montreal’s longstanding antipathy for the Royals held firm
Quebec’s affection for monarchy ended with Marie Antoinette; Vive la republique!
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Peter Stockland
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“There is no intention to correct, including by many people in the media who by this time know that they got the story wrong” - Jonathan Kay
Quillette editor tries to make sense of journalists’ refusal to admit they spread social panic and misinformed the nation about Residential school…
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Anna Farrow
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Four years later, the failure to ask the most basic journalism questions about residential school graves haunts the nation
Not only was an exhausting narrative delivered through oversight, news organizations insist on letting inaccurate original stories stand
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Peter Menzies
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