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Catching up on MediaPolicy – media funding in Québec – innovation in news journalism – The Netflix Effect
Québec culture minister Mathieu Lacombe
There’s an election upcoming in Québec this fall and the politics of media and culture can be expected to get a lot of attention.
This past week media titan Pierre-Karl Péladeau delivered his remark...
Catching up on MediaPolicy – CBC’s missing $200M – The Six Billion Dollar news subsidy – The Hub says Yes to news subsidies – the nihilism of activist journalism – are paid news subscriptions enough?
“Six billion dollars”
May 10, 2026
There’s no other way to say it. It was a goofy week for Canadian media policy.
On Tuesday, cabinet minister Marc Miller popped up at the Commons Heritage Committee. MPs wanted to hear from him before vo...
Catching up on MediaPolicy – journalism subsidies for news broadcasters ? – Australia lowers price on Big Tech news levy – Age verification bill tabled in House of Commons
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On Wednesday I posted about the new report written by Senator Andrew Cardozo and myself on the future of subsidies for news journalism.
One of the not so surprising options we propose is to extend the federal QCJO journalism labo...
A sustainable Canadian news media: what is to be done? A new report.
Today, Senator Andrew Cardozo released his new report “Making News Media Sustainable,” co-authored with yours truly, on future policy options for supporting Canadian news journalism. It’s about subsidies.
Our project is to put forward new...
When you’re the last to know.
We, the people, were the last to know.
On Thursday, CBC president Marie-Phillipe Bouchard told Heritage committee MPs the $150 million increase in the public broadcaster’s parliamentary grant for 2025 was “temporary.”
In fact, she said in...
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