Democracy

Elizabeth May has pledged her party’s support for increasing CBC funding by $300 million a year until its budget equals that of the BBC on a per capita basis.

Vancouver punk legend Joe Keithley on why the climate change emergency makes it crucial that everyone votes to protect the Earth this election, and how he’s trying to engage younger people to take on the system by throwing a pre-election punk festival.

Steacy Easton digs into what happened when Yellow Vests, evangelicals and LGBTQ activists clashed at Hamilton’s Pride Festival, and how social media messaging succeeded where police and city hall failed.

FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting and The Yes Men are behind the satirical video which purports to show a Facebook executive thanking Canada for subsidies and special treatment.

If traditional media organizations are going to thrive in an era in which they don’t have a monopoly on access to the masses, they will have to figure out how to share the power to decide what is news and how it should be covered.

Jesse Hirsh argues the need to broaden how we think of public service media and examines how it is linked to democracy.

Canadian journalism is in a death spiral, with serious consequences for democracy. Today’s budget ignores this reality and demonstrates that the Trudeau government is completely oblivious to the magnitude of this crisis and its consequences.