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Marc Edge

The Star

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Con media grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage

Right-wing media are getting desperate for any evidence to prove the Tories’ election loss was the result of Liberal media bias

04.06.2025 6

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How the Online News Act came back to haunt the federal election

Meta’s ban on posting links to real news has allowed hyper-partisan misinformation and disinformation to flourish

07.05.2025 10

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Rebel News again proves that it’s not doing journalism

If Levant wants to play politics, he should do so as a politician and see how well his extreme views go over with voters

26.04.2025 3

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Media research in Canada leaves much to be desired

The lack of reliable data has enabled media owners to easily bamboozle Ottawa

12.04.2025 4

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The Hub is getting increasingly desperate to boost the flagging Cons

Hopes for a right-wing makeover of our country have been spiked in just a matter of weeks by Trumpism

05.04.2025 3

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New report shows ‘news deprivation’ rampant across Canada

A bigger problem is “truth deprivation” from mountains of self-serving media propaganda

01.04.2025 5

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Think tank pushes more bad ideas to help ‘fix’ Canada’s news media

It’s no surprise that the Public Policy Forum would have lots of ideas for keeping control of the news in the hands of the rich

21.02.2025 6

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Here’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our media

Ottawa should enforce the law limiting foreign ownership of newspapers

06.02.2025 10

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Meta’s move to stop fact checking will make truth more elusive

The end of fact checking on Meta’s US platforms is just another step in the digital giant’s efforts to obliterate reality

24.01.2025 6

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The media world waits breathlessly for Google’s promised $100 million

The Online News Act under which Google promised to subsidize news media here could be in jeopardy after the next election

04.01.2025 4

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‘Goliath versus Goliath’ media battle being fought between Big Telecom and Big Tech

A new form of media convergence is intensifying the rivalry between Canada’s dominant telecoms and global digital giants

25.12.2024 7

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The Hub trades increasingly in sponsored content

Outlets that sell editorial space to corporations or even paid propagandists blur the ethical boundaries of journalism

08.12.2024 5

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Canada’s news media must be refashioned for the future

Our news media have been taken over by financiers more concerned with making a profit than with doing good journalism

02.12.2024 4

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Tech Titans Should Pay to Save Canada’s Newsrooms

T he evolution of journalism in the twentieth century was away from hard news aimed at citizens and toward what media critic Ben Bagdikian called “...

29.11.2024 5

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Trudeau’s one-word answer shows his devotion to legacy

After almost a decade in power, Trudeau the Younger is certainly following the same path as his father

01.11.2024 3

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Postmedia’s cuts to newspapers in Atlantic Canada begin to hurt

Even worse is the chain replacing local content with political and oil propaganda

25.10.2024 10

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Reports of beheaded Israeli babies were bound to be propaganda

Sensationalized stories during wartime should always be doubted, if not disregarded

15.10.2024 2

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News pollution is more dangerous than news poverty in this small BC town

Since Meta blocked links to news on Facebook, there is now little opportunity to counter disinformation on its popular platforms

08.10.2024 10

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BC Conservatives adopt election strategy of attacking the media

Edge: BC politics have always been a special brand of Looney Tunes, but recent events have taken the crazy to a new level

26.09.2024 5

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Why the Russian disinfo scandal could hurt Cons at the polls

It could also diminish what little credibility remains for alt-right media in Canada

16.09.2024 2

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Could I go to prison for writing this column? Under Bill C-63, I just might

The Online Harms Act is the third in a trilogy of fishy laws the Trudeau government has devised to regulate the Internet

10.09.2024 2

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Conservatives find that proposing media reform is a dangerous minefield

The Opposition could reveal themselves as dangerous amateurs with too many missteps

04.09.2024 4

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Uproar over CBC bonuses ignores industry realities, international comparisons

The issue has been unfairly politicized by federal Conservatives salivating at the prospect of axing the public broadcaster

26.08.2024 10

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What doesn’t qualify as journalism in Canada seems a bit arbitrary

Some media companies have been denied status by Ottawa as a so-called Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization

15.08.2024 6

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Saltwire takeover would give Postmedia a coast-to-coast monopoly

Postmedia’s strategy is now to collect government handouts, which could put it back in the black

10.08.2024 1

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