Somewhere deep in the bowels of Ottawa tonight, a lonely speechwriter takes a bow.

Mark Carney gave an excellent speech today in Davos. I fully support his point that medium powers have much to gain by working together, and have argued as such for national communications policy.

"The alarming thing is that, on the whole, the American public doesn’t seem to have noticed how far that has gone". Hasn't noticed or doesn't care? www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Another unfounded MAGA idea that I would argue has its roots among those who would identify as progressive. When I started researching 5G ten years ago the first question I would hear from colleagues was always about ill-founded health concerns. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

"Since the Trump administration captured President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and announced plans to run the country, the world has been confronted with the fact that longstanding rules are falling into irrelevance". Really? Only this last week @nytimes.com ? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I know Menzies means this as a critique but "an increasingly well-funded and dominant CBC" sounds pretty good to me the day after the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down in the U.S. There is nothing constructive in this piece. macdonaldlaurier.ca/the-biggest-...

Unbelievable that the U.S. has just let this slide.

Did not expect to see this article in my lifetime. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Between relentlessly attacking "mainstream media" and now "neoliberalism", the MAGA crowd is conquering the world via standard issue undergraduate papers.

The author of this piece is re-upping the same argument he and a small powerful group of detractors have made for years. Carney already gave up the Digital Services Tax - what did that do for Canadian negotiations? www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Clearly the Alberta premier's charm offensive at Mar a Lago was lacking: "control of Venezuela’s oil reserves would allow the U.S. to end its free-trade deal with Canada... “The U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada. Free trade is over” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

Nothing against @radiofreetom.bsky.social but why is he 50% of my feed on this platform tonight?

Twice a year, the Albert's Jamaican spicy cranberry sauce I stuffed into my suitcase before leaving Toronto is worth its weight in gold.

As a proud Gen X'er, there is only one Grinch, the 1966 special with Boris Karloff. I asked my son why he torments me by preferring the newer Benedict Cumberbatch version. He said the new Grinch treats his dog better. Upon reflection, the boy has a point: Chuck Jones did not spare the whip in 1966.

At the end of the strangest year ever: Corus Media, barely scraping by in the Canadian broadcasting industry, unwittingly becomes a vital source for truth and free speech in American journalism and is feted by American progressives. Nope, did not see this one this coming.

According to my feed, all hell is breaking loose at CBS tonight, and then I remind myself, this the Bluesky feed of a COMS scholar, not what the overwhelming majority of the world is talking about. Damn, 2025 has left me jaded.

The Streaming Act must be preserved and I see little to be gained by placing blame in its slow implementation with the CRTC. The Bill was written in such a way that significant details were punted to the regulator. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Work in concert with Europe and Australia to maintain the essential principles of the Online Streaming Act. Scrapping the Digital Services Act got us nothing. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

The Sure Thing was never seen as one of Rob Reiner's masterpieces, yet it resonated with me at the end of high school far more than the hyped and vacuous Breakfast Club.

Clearly the foundational political institutions of Canada and the U.S. need an update. The MAGA crowd and their Alberta offspring are gleefully exploiting the weak spots. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Wow. You're in serious trouble America, which of course means we all are. The institutional scaffolding of democracy was far more precarious than anyone thought.

Would it "sink the Canadian media ecosystem" or cause some much needed readjustments? Perhaps CTV not showing Big Bang Theory six times a day won't spell the end of the Canadian cultural industries. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

what will this mean to Crave's deal to carry HBO shows in Canada? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

What a huge contribution. Play it Steve.

Please reasonable Americans, don't start doing victory laps because you only lost Tennessee by 7 points. A sleeping Trump still has 30% of the vote locked up. You've still got a lot of work to do. Signed, the rest of the world.

My Media Industries class has been giving some stellar presentations largely based upon reports from @mediamorphis.bsky.social and the terrific crew working at the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project. Great resource.

This is excellent investigative journalism. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A quick glance through the news and there are multiple scandals just today which would have brought down a president in previous eras. And I don't think anyone expects any of them to stick in 2025.

Great development for Canadian connectivity. The large incumbents have had ample time and we still have numerous dead zones, it is time to allow and encourage some smaller players to finish connecting Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

RIP Jimmy Cliff. The Harder They Come is my all-time favourite soundtrack.

Dear Mr VP: I'm pretty sure our national public broadcaster dreams of having that sort of influence. Thank you for your concern.

This is a terrific piece of journalism (and not just because I'm in it). www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

This absolutely should not be allowed to blow over, yet I fear it will. You know how "the coward" often precedes the name of Robert Ford in writings about the American west? How about that honorific for the entire Republican Party?

@thestar.com hired @lizrenzetti.bsky.social and @justinling.ca, so I just subscribed. Now up the Alberta content please. There's all kinds of weird stuff happening out here.

"Ottawa still acts as if the country begins in Windsor and ends at Quebec City. The same decisions are made by the same people in the same rooms". It's like the two terms of Stephen Harper (fierce Calgarian, and graduate of my west Toronto high school) never happened. macleans.ca/politics/how...

Second use of the Notwithstanding Clause in the last month in my home province. Why bother having a Charter at all? calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

Superman himself would have said "forget it, I'm out of here".

Absolutely. The rest of Canada misses out on this great niche of Canadian journalism. My home is pulling for the Boss.

Cheers to the Imperial Pub. My old Toronto rapidly ceases to exist. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

"...a time when the public broadcaster is at the centre of a culture war over its relevance and mandate". What war Mr. Yakabuski? Even the Conservatives dropped their anti CBC rhetoric last election campaign because it didn't resonate with Canadians. www.theglobeandmail.com

agreed.

Wow. Refusing to properly fund their own policy initiative that has come back to bite them.

I wonder how much extra Rogers made with the Wold Series extending into November, so people across Canada delayed canceling Sportsnet subscriptions by a month?

already a game that will be discussed in hushed tones for years.

Jays looking absolutely dominant.

Can now confirm that streaming the ball game is approximately one minute behind the OTA baseball broadcast on CityTV. Another reason to maintain the OTA sector.

And now some positive news...https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/results-petition-keep-alberta-in-canada-9.6956689

Nenshi has been in the Alberta legislature exactly one day. He's going to have an impact.

Our UPC government would rather override the Constitution than properly fund public education in the Alberta.

Let's be clear about what happened today. Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights, denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it, and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.