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Avoid all Post Media newspapers

  • National Post

  • Financial Post.

  • Montreal Gazette

  • Ottawa Citizen

  • Vancouver Sun

  • Ottawa Sun

  • The Daily Gleaner

  • Cape Breton Post

  • Airdrie Echo

  • The High River Times

  • The Vulcan Advocate

  • The Whitecourt Star

  • Gananoque Reporter

  • Pembroke Observer & News

  • The Sudbury Star

  • Saskatoon StarPhoenix

  • The Chronicle Herald

  • Toronto Sun

  • Calgary Sun

  • Windsor Star

  • Calgary Herald

  • The Province

  • Edmonton Journal

  • Edmonton Sun

  • London Free Press.

These papers are part of Post Media Group ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

63% of Post Media is owned by Chatham Asset Management, an american hedge fund based in New Jersey ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/POSTMEDIA-NETWORK-CANADA--42378696/company-shareholders/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmedia

Allowing an american hedge fund to take over most Canadian newspapers was a huge mistake.

https://raybwilliams.medium.com/bought-and-paid-for-how-an-american-hedge-fund-took-over-most-of-canadas-newspapers-and-why-a5caa5547d2f

Don't buy them โŒ

Don't subscribe โŒ

Don't click on their links โŒ

Canadian owned media ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

๐Ÿ CBC (non-profit)

๐Ÿ Globe and Mail (business)

๐Ÿ The Walrus (non-profit)

๐Ÿ The Tyee (non-profit)

๐Ÿ Investigative Journalism Foundation (non-profit)

๐Ÿ The Toronto Local (for-profit)

๐Ÿ The Toronto Star (business)

๐Ÿ The Hamilton Spectator (business)

๐Ÿ CTV (business)

๐Ÿ The Halifax Examiner (business)

๐Ÿ The Narwal (non-profit)

๐Ÿ National Observer (business)

๐Ÿ Le Devoir (non-profit)

๐Ÿ Le Soleil (non-profit)

๐ŸLe Journal de Montrรฉal (business)

๐Ÿ La Presse (non-profit)

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[โ€“] Toto@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fuck Stephen Harper and the conservatives for allowing Americans to buy our media. Never forget.

[โ€“] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Toronto Sun has always been right wing garbage Ontario blue collars love.

[โ€“] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Simple words for simple people, of course they lap it up.

[โ€“] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Donโ€™t read the American press, theyโ€™re all capitulating and willfully excluding the truth on this trade war.

You can see it for yourself with their both-sidesing bs.

[โ€“] GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Le Devoir is fantastic. Great journalism and the writing is very good. If you want to level up your French itโ€™s worth it to subscribe.

[โ€“] christopher@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish I had paid attention in French class. I guess it's not too late to learn it again.

[โ€“] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Absolutely! CBC has a free app called Mauril! Itโ€™s paid for by our tax dollars, might as well use it.

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[โ€“] Canconda@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] castle88@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Came here to say this. I want them to have a national edition - that I might subscribe to.

[โ€“] karawell@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Please support your favorite newspaper.

Good journalism is expensive. When local newspapers and independent newsrooms collapse, communities face severe consequences: public corruption goes unchecked, local government spending balloons without oversight, and disinformation fills the vacuum.

[โ€“] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What about publications like The Walrus?

They are fully Canadian (AFAIK) but not quite a newspaper. I've been tempted to subscribe but their articles are usually fairly long and fleshed out (which is a good thing, I just don't always have the wherewithal to read them consistently)

[โ€“] castle88@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We need to subscribe to newspapers again. Or at least pick up the weekend edition. That said, I wish there was a way I could pay x amount each month and get access to a handful of newspapers.

[โ€“] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Weekend editions are very much a great way to protect your mental health too. There really isnt more than a handful of stories a week that are still important a few days later and the rest of it is noise meant to keep you hooked on drama.

[โ€“] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 7 points 1 week ago

This shit should be banned

[โ€“] ivanvector@piefed.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PostMedia also owns SaltWire, a network of Atlantic community papers that includes the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the Guardian (PEI), the Cape Breton Post, and the Telegram (Nfld).

[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

They also own the Moncton Times & Transcript, Saint John Telegraph Journal, and Fredericton Gleaner. Fucking Irvings sold them.

I think they probably own all of the newspapers in Atlantic Canada.

They gutted a lot of those newspapers, it's nearly killed local journalism. If it weren't for the CBC, there wouldn't be local journalism. Not good that it's a crown corporation that's the only one doing it, but it's better than having nothing.

[โ€“] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who owns Quebecor Media now?

[โ€“] adespoton@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Replying to my own question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebecor

Itโ€™s owned by Quebecor Inc, a fully Canadian conglomerate traded on the TSX.

So if you arenโ€™t sure about the trustworthiness of an independent paper, thereโ€™s at least one fully Canadian media conglomerate besides CBC.

[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Well the Thomson Family is Canadian. They're billionaires (so maybe not all that trustworthy) but they're Canadian. So that would Globe & Mail and Thomson-Reuters (though that would be international, not Canadian).

Itโ€™s still Pierre Karl Peledeau โ€ฆ but heโ€™s a billionaire and shouldnโ€™t be trusted

[โ€“] garbagehead@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Don't forget that even canadian owned media are often just repeating the propaganda put out by the united states. They also fall in line, and some on this list of canadian owned are this way.

[โ€“] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the fuck is The Chronical Herald? That sounds like a spoof in a cartoon, like Townsville or something.

[โ€“] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Everyone knows it's local news for Metro City.

[โ€“] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

If you have it in your heart and wallet, please contribute to any of the Canadian owned outlets in any way you can.

[โ€“] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Gazette has such a huge influence on the anglophone Quebecois population. It's not only U.S. owned, it's also francophobic as hell.

[โ€“] undefinedValue@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Francophobic is a wild claim. Youโ€™re going to have to provide proof or weโ€™re just going to assume youโ€™re a moron.

[โ€“] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a well known fact.

And you don't have to throw insults like that.

[โ€“] undefinedValue@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You were given an opportunity to provide proof, you didnโ€™t, youโ€™re a moron.

I don't see why I should answer someone so is disrespectful. I don't owe you anything.

[โ€“] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The problem with the US owning these papers is that the US can prevent any criticism, objective or subjective, against the US. The US owners can prevent any ad or column that is not aligned with their own US-centric policies. Just like you'll never see an ad for EVs in the Irving Oil papers of the Maritimes.

[โ€“] resin85@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting that all of the major papers in Alberta are owned by post media. Are there any Canadian papers in Calgary or Edmonton? Or just right wing propaganda?

[โ€“] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I was thinking the same about Vancouver. Sun and Province both US owned

[โ€“] imminent_nebula@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Good list. Just wanted to add a thought about search engines as well. I've been using Kagi (it's a paid service) which has the option to customize searches to pin, raise, lower, or block sites. I have most of the post media sites blocked (as well as a lot of US media sites) and sites like thetyee, cbc, france24, etc set to raise to the top. No ads, ai turned off, search is a pleasant experience now.

Edit to add: it is American unfortunately, but it's the best search engine I've found. I've been operating under the adage "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" so after cutting ties with the vast majority of US companies, there are still a couple I send money to, like Kagi and Signal.

[โ€“] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://uruky.com/

The EU alternative to Kagi however I don't use paid searches so I can't comment on them.

[โ€“] imminent_nebula@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

First I'm hearing of it, I'll give it a look. Thanks!