You just noticed that post media was shilling for right wing thought, American interests and wacko Alberta libertarians? I cancelled my subscription to these rags back in 2021. I started a Facebook Group called Edmonton Local News by Edmontonians, to cover the news and opinions that Postmedia had gone silent on. I stopped supporting what I called ”UCP Pravda” by not subscribing to or even reading the once respectable Edmonton Journal.
Not "just noticed" so much as "had enough". I'm all for differences of opinion when it doesn't really matter; but it does now. A whole lot more than anyone seems willing to admit.
Thanks for this post Deirdre. Unfortunately, it’s not just the Herald, the Journal, or the Suns, but seemingly all newspapers in Alberta. I cancelled my decades long Journal subscription a few years after Postmedia purchased it as I couldn’t stand the biased editorializing. This week I took my local paper to task for its Postmedia editorial on current affairs entitled “Our king Trumps your President”. It contained not one word of criticism of Smith’s kowtowing to Trump. Bless him, the editor actually replied, as follows:
“Yes, to be clear, the Editorials are not ones I or others at the Dispatch are writing, but ones I've chosen from a selection Post Media has on a given day. Though, I can and may write my own from time to time.
But, I can definitely do a better job when selecting Editorials to even them out more, and aim to have the opinions expressed show more balance. “ I thanked him and told him I’d be watching. :-)
We need to hold news publishers responsible. I’m convinced one of the reasons Postmedia, and others, are suffering financially is the quality of their publications. They may figure that out, or just go away.
Yes we do need to hold the paper responsible, but the last two weeks, for me — was Braid and Bell specifically. Just begging to make themselves irrelevant.
You are ON FIRE here. No holds barred. is the kind of journalism we need now every day all the time all at once. Is there some kind of award we can give Dierdre guys??? 👏👏👏👏👏
Reading the columns of bootlicking idiots like David Staples and Rick Bell is no different than watching Fox News. The Journal and Herald can finish their swirl down the toilet and we’d be better off. They gave up their legitimacy as a trusted news source long ago.
Instead of paying “journalists” a handout we have to buy these newspapers back. Harper started the sell off and Trudeau was too stupid to stop it! Politics in Alberta is impossible without a free and fair media.
Everything you've said. Postmedia has been untrustworthy forever. All the more reason to start re-funding CBC, which is the only independent, publicly --not privately owned-- source of news and investigative journalism in Canada. More than ever, Canadians need the CBC. There's a reason that conservatives provincially and federally (like Poilievre) take pot-shots at the CBC. And it's not because the CBC's journalism is pro-government (because it often isn't). It's because their journalism is _unbiased_. The first thing authoritarians and fascists try to do is control the courts and control the media. We're seeing that in the US, and it's happening here in Alberta and other parts of Canada. The best way to stop it is with good journalism, a free, independent, publicly owned, press.
PostMedia is just doing what PostMedia always does which is act like a shill for the Republican MAGATS because that’s who they’re owned by. I mean come on it’s owned by Chatham asset management, which is 70% owned by Anthony Melchiorre who the US Securities and Exchange commission charged with improper trading of fixed income securities in 2023. Not to mention the fact that Post media owns almost every news outlet in Alberta so that’s all the news Albertan’s ever get.
Post-Media is simply a propaganda tool for conservatives, from centrist to far right fascist. They control some 90% of print media in Canada, one editorial board for all leading to same stories, same headlines, same propaganda for all. Especially dominant in rural agrarian areas.
How about you address the root cause of the problem? Instead of gaslighting and lying to everyone. Trump made his claims about why he was imposing the tariffs and what he wants to not implement them. This is Trump, so of course it's exaggerated and over the top. Instead of being the adults in the room and showing the world what Canada USED to be good at. Diplomacy. 'Team Canada' has a temper tantrum because they hate Trump and threw the gauntlet down. Instead of sitting down like adults and negotiating. This is not going to end well... For Canada. It won't be a month before Canadians beg Trudeau to crawl with his tail between his legs to beg Trump to end the tariffs. Quote me. A month.
If you think he’s telling the truth, then why isn’t he acknowledging the border security measures? If you think he’s telling the truth, why isn’t he acknowledging that tariffs on $200 billion worth of Canadian goods *Americans* buy isn’t going to hurt Americans? Trudeau will be gone in a month — sorry, six weeks — because he’s being replaced as liberal leader and then we’re going to an election anyway. Read conservative economists (especially this one who worked for Harper https://thehub.ca/2025/01/20/ken-boessenkool-eliminate-the-gst-and-other-ways-to-respond-to-trumps-trade-tariffs/). It’s not because they “hate Trump”, it’s because the guy is starting a trade war. Partisanship doesn’t help people make good decisions.
Diplomacy only works between those who can design a solution in good faith. Trump has no record of dealing in good faith. He's a convicted criminal and fraudster. He doesn't see a win-win opportunity.
Trump is an adjudicated rapist, and a convicted felon. He successfully ran out the clock on the most serious charge of keeping top secret documents. He should never ever be trusted, as the other's posting comments here seem to understand.
Rhyan, the only gaslighting I've read in this thread is yours.
Deirdre, that's some smashmouth journalism. Kudos. Never had any use for that POS newspaper.
Preach!
You just noticed that post media was shilling for right wing thought, American interests and wacko Alberta libertarians? I cancelled my subscription to these rags back in 2021. I started a Facebook Group called Edmonton Local News by Edmontonians, to cover the news and opinions that Postmedia had gone silent on. I stopped supporting what I called ”UCP Pravda” by not subscribing to or even reading the once respectable Edmonton Journal.
Not "just noticed" so much as "had enough". I'm all for differences of opinion when it doesn't really matter; but it does now. A whole lot more than anyone seems willing to admit.
Thanks for this post Deirdre. Unfortunately, it’s not just the Herald, the Journal, or the Suns, but seemingly all newspapers in Alberta. I cancelled my decades long Journal subscription a few years after Postmedia purchased it as I couldn’t stand the biased editorializing. This week I took my local paper to task for its Postmedia editorial on current affairs entitled “Our king Trumps your President”. It contained not one word of criticism of Smith’s kowtowing to Trump. Bless him, the editor actually replied, as follows:
“Yes, to be clear, the Editorials are not ones I or others at the Dispatch are writing, but ones I've chosen from a selection Post Media has on a given day. Though, I can and may write my own from time to time.
But, I can definitely do a better job when selecting Editorials to even them out more, and aim to have the opinions expressed show more balance. “ I thanked him and told him I’d be watching. :-)
We need to hold news publishers responsible. I’m convinced one of the reasons Postmedia, and others, are suffering financially is the quality of their publications. They may figure that out, or just go away.
Yes we do need to hold the paper responsible, but the last two weeks, for me — was Braid and Bell specifically. Just begging to make themselves irrelevant.
You are ON FIRE here. No holds barred. is the kind of journalism we need now every day all the time all at once. Is there some kind of award we can give Dierdre guys??? 👏👏👏👏👏
Reading the columns of bootlicking idiots like David Staples and Rick Bell is no different than watching Fox News. The Journal and Herald can finish their swirl down the toilet and we’d be better off. They gave up their legitimacy as a trusted news source long ago.
Instead of paying “journalists” a handout we have to buy these newspapers back. Harper started the sell off and Trudeau was too stupid to stop it! Politics in Alberta is impossible without a free and fair media.
Everything you've said. Postmedia has been untrustworthy forever. All the more reason to start re-funding CBC, which is the only independent, publicly --not privately owned-- source of news and investigative journalism in Canada. More than ever, Canadians need the CBC. There's a reason that conservatives provincially and federally (like Poilievre) take pot-shots at the CBC. And it's not because the CBC's journalism is pro-government (because it often isn't). It's because their journalism is _unbiased_. The first thing authoritarians and fascists try to do is control the courts and control the media. We're seeing that in the US, and it's happening here in Alberta and other parts of Canada. The best way to stop it is with good journalism, a free, independent, publicly owned, press.
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Postmedia is a right-wing amplifier.
PostMedia is just doing what PostMedia always does which is act like a shill for the Republican MAGATS because that’s who they’re owned by. I mean come on it’s owned by Chatham asset management, which is 70% owned by Anthony Melchiorre who the US Securities and Exchange commission charged with improper trading of fixed income securities in 2023. Not to mention the fact that Post media owns almost every news outlet in Alberta so that’s all the news Albertan’s ever get.
Bullshit skewed, right wing garbage!
Amen, friends!
Post-Media is simply a propaganda tool for conservatives, from centrist to far right fascist. They control some 90% of print media in Canada, one editorial board for all leading to same stories, same headlines, same propaganda for all. Especially dominant in rural agrarian areas.
Traitorous, unprincipled province. Canadian Trumpistan.
American owned
https://open.substack.com/pub/dougaldlamont/p/oh-ffs-two-directors-of-postmedia?r=9gk0j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Postmedia had two directors who ran Trump’s hushmoney campaign for him.
Postmedia is the Canadian equivalent of the National Enquirer. The first ones to ask Ottawa for money. The last ones to support our country.
How about you address the root cause of the problem? Instead of gaslighting and lying to everyone. Trump made his claims about why he was imposing the tariffs and what he wants to not implement them. This is Trump, so of course it's exaggerated and over the top. Instead of being the adults in the room and showing the world what Canada USED to be good at. Diplomacy. 'Team Canada' has a temper tantrum because they hate Trump and threw the gauntlet down. Instead of sitting down like adults and negotiating. This is not going to end well... For Canada. It won't be a month before Canadians beg Trudeau to crawl with his tail between his legs to beg Trump to end the tariffs. Quote me. A month.
If you think he’s telling the truth, then why isn’t he acknowledging the border security measures? If you think he’s telling the truth, why isn’t he acknowledging that tariffs on $200 billion worth of Canadian goods *Americans* buy isn’t going to hurt Americans? Trudeau will be gone in a month — sorry, six weeks — because he’s being replaced as liberal leader and then we’re going to an election anyway. Read conservative economists (especially this one who worked for Harper https://thehub.ca/2025/01/20/ken-boessenkool-eliminate-the-gst-and-other-ways-to-respond-to-trumps-trade-tariffs/). It’s not because they “hate Trump”, it’s because the guy is starting a trade war. Partisanship doesn’t help people make good decisions.
Diplomacy only works between those who can design a solution in good faith. Trump has no record of dealing in good faith. He's a convicted criminal and fraudster. He doesn't see a win-win opportunity.
Trump is an adjudicated rapist, and a convicted felon. He successfully ran out the clock on the most serious charge of keeping top secret documents. He should never ever be trusted, as the other's posting comments here seem to understand.
Rhyan, the only gaslighting I've read in this thread is yours.
Huh. Who is doing the gaslighting here? No really. Look in the mirror.