Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Canada’s Politics and Government News Source Since 1989

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | Latest Paper

Set the CBC free

We need a radical new approach: an end to annual appropriations and ministerial oversight for CBC/Radio-Canada in exchange for an endowment fund that would see public and private media adequately supported in perpetuity.

For an entire generation of Canadians, a future without the legacy news industry is already here

The current government has been grappling with how to assist the responsible news industry as it adjusts to a transformed economy. But the legacy media have a political problem, one that the current government can’t help with. In fact, the more it tries to help, economically, the more it inflames the news media’s political problem: the government-in-waiting is out to get them.