Media

Bell Media's recent layoffs were a slap in the face to both journalists and the public they serve. Now, it's time for the federal government to start slapping back at Canada's corporate media conglomerates — hard.

Pierre Poilievre may have a double-digit lead in the polls, but his preposterously petulant behaviour last week showed he's still his own biggest enemy — and why that lead could easily evaporate in the months to come.

The media isn't responsible for the Trudeau Liberals' recent tumble in the polls. But as a recent story about the prime minister's schedule shows, they're often helping dumb down a political discourse that could stand to get a whole lot smarter.

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News leaders and industry experts grapple with the complex challenge of building trust.

As Russia’s war in Ukraine plays out for the world on social media, big tech platforms are facing increased calls to bar Russian state media from using their platforms to spread propaganda and misinformation.

Trumpism has corrupted Canada’s Conservatives and alienated any remaining moderates in their midst, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

While some saw an obviously staged (and crassly executed) stunt, others treated it like a shining example of Doug Ford’s best political trait, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The suggestion that increased racial sensitivity by Canada’s public broadcaster is the effect of elite American liberal posturing is flatly bizarre, writes columnist Sandy Garossino.

Young climate activists want the media to do a better job explaining the causes and consequences of climate change to students, and to listen to them even when they are not skipping school to demand climate action.

The deep impacts of the climate crisis means Canadian media needs to do a better job at illustrating the connections on seemingly disparate issues, and come up with better solutions to mitigate global warming, says journalist Sean Holman.

Coming out of a federal election, those of us in media must be measured and judicious in editorial decisions about how to direct our limited resources to fairly report on matters of concern to all Canadians, writes columnist Sandy Garossino.

In Canadian media outlets, the term "climate change" overtook "global warming" in 2002, a gap that has since widened.

RCMP are wrong to silence media coverage of the Fairy Creek blockades trying to protect B.C.'s old-growth trees from logging, writes freelance writer and climate justice organizer Maia Wikler.

If Canadians want a conversation about energy and climate policy undistorted by Big Oil's outsized influence, newspapers still matter. Are they doing the job?