SCOOP 🧵 Premier Smith's office contacted the University of Calgary President's office six hours before the Calgary Police riot squad arrived on campus on May 9. Beyond that, footage and correspondence remains hidden behind a wall of secrecy. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/albertas-fiefd…

There is so much more to come on this story. Media should smell blood: evidence of correspondence from the Premier's office is at odds with statements made by the Premier on May 10, the day after the UCalgary demonstrators were violently removed. 3/ drugdatadecoded.ca/albertas-fiefd…

People need to see this. Israel has perpetrated over 80% of the cross-border attacks with Lebanon during the past year. Hezbollah has shown remarkable restraint.

The IDF throwing a blindfolded Palestinian off a rooftop. Imagine the media coverage if this was done by a country we are told to hate

One by one, the philanthropic organizations that once funded journalism are “changing direction” and “shifting strategies” away from funding news. This, at a time when the government is encouraging non-profit outlets. ricochet.media/media/canadian…

As a result, there’s a smaller and smaller fundraising pool from which to draw. And that model is proving itself to be completely unsustainable . . . New Canadian Media, another non-profit digital outlet, announced that the math no longer works and they had no choice but to fold.

Despite winning awards, outlets like NCM are being set up to fail. Few care to do anything to address the core problems at the root of this crisis. NCM is just the latest casualty in the slow death of Canada’s emerging digital media sector.

It’s part of the Canadian government’s strategy to throw a (leaky) life raft to the industry. By encouraging outlets to go through the steps to get RJO status, publishers could then go and seek financial support from philanthropic organizations.

But achieving RJO status is a lengthy and expensive process. Outlets must first achieve Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization status, which comes with its own lengthy series of steps.

However, over the past couple of years, major Canadian foundations that have historically supported news and media have decided to “shift away” from journalism. Just as the Canadian government is increasingly telling media outlets to seek their support.

The reality is that journalism will never be profitable. But it must be considered a public service, essential to the survival of our democracy. We really don’t want to see what happens when the bottom falls out.

Jeet Heer It's a bit of a catch-22 because it's the guests with integrity that expose how deep the problem goes ...

Opinion: No public money should build private schools in Alberta edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…

New OpEd from us: “No public money should build private schools” Using a very real crisis to usher in privatization is straight from playbook. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…

Reporting just gets worse and worse on this topic each year. There are a lot more than $250M in unpaid #oilandgas taxes. What does it say about our society that we can't even get the facts straight about being robbed? #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Haiti’s agony must stop. But it in order for that to happen, the US and UN need to stop supporting repressive and corrupt officials, and allow Haitian democracy to emerge.

Funny how that keeps happening. It is almost like we are a colony w/o ability to protect ourselves from being robbed... #able #abpoli #cdnpoli #oilandgas #PolluterPay

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