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the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, a nonprofit that owns the Baltimore Banner, is rescuing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which was set to close next month #newspapers post-gazette.com/local/city/202…

@FoodProfessor Menzies is paid by the free-market Macdonald-Laurier Institute to criticize government involvement in media . . . La Presse is profitable mostly due to its tablet app, whose video ads can’t be skipped by readers before they get access to its free content thehub.ca/2024/05/10/la-…

Peter Menzies is one of the most respected voices on media integrity in Canada. He has spent decades in the industry, including senior editorial roles at the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun, and has long been a principled advocate for free expression and editorial independence. I had the pleasure of speaking with him recently. This weekend, he wrote the following about what happened with La Presse: “There was considerable coverage in francophone media of the plight of Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie University economist also known as The Food Professor. English-language media, though, generally gave the story a pass. After 25 years of writing columns for La Presse, one of the nation’s largest and most heavily subsidized news organizations, Charlebois was cancelled for noting on social media what he thought was a troubling trend in recent years: more journalists leaving out parts of his analyses that conflicted with Liberal government policies. One of those policies involves, of course, subsidizing media and La Presse was unapologetic: It will not tolerate those who critique media’s economic relationship with those in power. ‘Charlebois has publicly and directly attacked the integrity, independence, and rigour of journalists in this country whose work is financially supported by standardized government programs,’ La Presse’s François Cardinal told Le Journal de Montréal. ‘La Presse is committed to maintaining a strong bond of trust with the public (but), we cannot accept that one of our contributors undermines the credibility of the Canadian media and, in doing so, erodes the public’s trust in us.’ I spoke with Charlebois, and he’s fine. La Presse had never paid him anyway and he’d already had three offers from other platforms. Many Quebec media were asking for interviews, he had hundreds of supportive emails and, he said, National Post – which has historically silenced criticism of the media/government money arrangement – even suggested he write a column for them about his "sacking". It’s the moral and ethical confusion of La Presse (which turned a $9 million profit last year thanks to subsidies, or what management there call, in an Orwellian twist, ‘standardized government programs’) that prompts despair. For them, the very real conflict of interest posed by financial dependence on politicians isn’t the issue at all. What it finds offensive is that anyone would point that out or even, as Charlebois did, raise an eyebrow. In doing so, it just proved the point that taking money from the government has an impact upon what its newsroom deems to be ‘acceptable views.’ Still, La Presse and its funders have all the power to argue that what was, less than a decade ago, sacred is now profane. The Rewrite could be, in the not too distant future, the only place left in the country where a view and a vision of media independence that once proudly dominated journalism will still be permitted.”

This describes him rather well

@jabo_vancouver ask him if he remembers Topo Gigio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topo_Gigio

My dad just pronounced Tolopilo "Triple-Oh-Leo".

@SadClubCommish 25 shifts 21:07 = 47.1 seconds

Nobody loves a quick shift more than Petey. It's hilarious.

@davehall1289 he was robbed of an assist

I wasnt able to watch tonight's game. How did Kirill Kudryavtsev look, folks?

@Canuck_Faithful Rossi 2 Ohgren 0 Buium 0 Points 2

4 point night for the Hughes trade boys.

@DhaliwalSports @AlexTran677026 nuh-ZINK!

@AlexTran677026 Great show Sargent Schultz “I know nothing!!!”

Can you name him?

@TrevBeggs Petey has had injuries

Cody Glass, drafted one spot after Elias Pettersson in 2019, scored his 19th goal of the season today. Pettersson has scored 15 goals this season. Can't say I ever saw this one coming. #Canucks

Twitter drives only around 1.5% of traffic to news sites, a report has found, but it “excels at both conversational and breaking news [and] serves a unique place in the link economy. News really does ‘start’ on Twitter.” niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-lin…

McClatchy journalists are revolting against AI as 'a Betrayal' . . . reporters refusing to have their bylines attached to AI-generated stories, citing credibility concerns . . . McClatchy's hedge fund owner also owns most of the largest dailies in Canada nationaltoday.com/us/ca/sacramen…

Greece will impose a social-media ban on anyone under the age of 15 mediapost.com/publications/a…

@Canuck_Faithful @Pete___Hughes you mean Top 1

@Pete___Hughes I feel confident at any top 3 pick.

I could really see Caleb Malhotra on Brantford being a real riser on Draft day, going super high, like as high as #2. NHL Teams love bloodlines, plays a premium position and is dominating Playoffs (recency bias is always big, look at Brady Martin last year). Canucks know family.

@LeafRollin I was kinda busy writing books for a while, but I'm back marcedge.com/author3.htm

@marcedge1 Holy shit, are you still on here? Goddammit. I had hoped you wete a rage farming bot, not a real person.

I'm sure that I'm in the moniroty of this opinion but it doesn't really matter that Max Sasson has 13 goals. He's not an NHL player. Very poor hockey sense. Good skater, very little else. Get a pick for him if you can. #Canucks

@mattsekeres @abbycanucks @Canucks but half of this year’s Vancouver Canucks team played on last year's Abby Canucks team

Last year’s @abbycanucks could beat this year’s NHL @Canucks. Tell me I’m wrong.

@jackshafer bad idea

Let's drop the big one and see what happens.

@JustinM_NFL @UNMLoboFB Newby? I wonder what they'll call him.

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@Canuck_Faithful @Canucks_Enjoyer Jack is 6-1, 189 and has 12 points in 12 games for Abby this season . . . third-round pick by the Bolts in 2020 . . . we traded Jett Woo to the Sharks for him

@Canucks_Enjoyer Thompson?

Stenberg-Pettersson-Preston Ohgren-Rossi-Boeser Alriksson-Cootes-Patterson Douglas-Raty-Karlsson Buium-Hronek DPetey-Willander MPetey-Thompson Demko Tolo

@davehall1289 @steveroller7 but you don't have to go from Vancouver to reach similar beauty without taking a ferry

@steveroller7 @marcedge1 Hey, im still here for a reason! Its an absolutely beautiful place. The best, in my opinion.

The Island is an incredible place to live/grow up — I’d have a hard time adjusting anywhere else. But nothing ruins a day more then returning from a long trip, waiting hours for your sailing… only to have it delayed, cancelled, or missed altogether. The struggle is very real and one those on the mainland will never understand 😅