Canada’s Socialist Government – Newspaper Bailout
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October 28, 2016: Trudeau’s promises, promises, promises
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who remains extremely popular after one year in office, is already creeping away from commitments that were either hasty, unimportant, or are now largely forgotten.
October 25, 2016: Justin Trudeau gets rough ride from crowd at young workers’ summit
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced off with a room of angry protesters today who were venting their frustrations over everything from pipelines to the failed federal payroll system. Some of the participants turned their backs on Trudeau in protest during the “armchair discussion” event at the Canadian Labour Congress National Young Workers Summit in Ottawa.
http://www.socialistproject.ca/inthenews/hottopics.php?t=3.18
Liberal-Socialism And The Erosion Of Christian Canada
In the world of politics, as with many situations in life, making promises often leads to unexpected results. Nowhere is this more apparent than when considering the post-election behaviour of Canada’s ruling Liberal government.
The examples are many— a pronouncement of a 10 billion dollar federal deficit, which turned out to be triple that amount. An increase in the Syrian refugee quota from the original 25,000 to 55,000—a quantity the majority of Canadians oppose— are two of the most prominent.
In fairness, broken promises are not exclusive to our Liberal government. What is exclusive to the Liberals, however, is the extent to which they disregard public opinion. Of course, there is a good reason for this. The Canadian public—at least those of us born and raised in Canada— are all but meaningless to our ruling Liberal government.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/liberal-socialism-and-the-erosion-of-christian-canada
Government bailout of newspapers: Why should we care?
Newspapers around the world are losing revenues, both subscription and advertising. As Terence Corcoran of the National Post reports, newspaper revenues in Canada declined 35 per cent ($1 billion) from 2012 to 2014, with a significant further decrease expected also in 2015, once all the numbers are in. Such declines, likely to continue, are due to the exponential growth of news and editorial content available through the Internet. Many newspapers have closed, and others have merged or been absorbed by larger papers. Many journalists have lost their jobs.
This has brought about cries that something must be done to stop the decline, and particularly, to preserve ‘a diversity of perspectives.’ The lamenters, many of them journalists, fear that one large corporation, or a very few large ones, will own most newspapers, and therefore, there will be “corporate control” of news and editorial content. The solution they offer? Corcoran reports that the ‘lamenters’ want government subsidies (i.e., tax payers’ money) to block ‘corporate control’ of newspapers so that their independence can be preserved.
http://profitableandmoral.com/government-bailout-of-newspapers-why-should-we-care/
Should governments bail out newsprint newspapers?
The Canadian government is investigating the state of the country’s struggling news industry following a rash of newspaper closures and editorial job cuts, reports the Canadian Press.
To help in the task of coming up with possible policy options, the government has enlisted help from a think tank, the Public Policy Forum. As its president, Ed Greenspon, noted: “It’s a sensitive area of policy making,”
You bet it is. In any country, the decision about whether government should fund “old” mainstream media outlets in the face of them being supplanted by new digital media raises any number of questions.