Canadian Dimension | Here’s how bad things have gotten in Canada’s troubled newspaper industry: one bankrupt chain is now being taken over by a chain that is effectively bankrupt. Believe it or not, there is a high-finance method to this madness, but as CD media columnist Marc Edge explains, it takes a vulture capitalist mindset to wrap your brain around it.

Canadian Dimension | Journalism purists argue that any government funding would taint news media, but the crisis has grown to such an extent that subsidies are now considered by most to be by far the lesser of two evils. Some countries have found ways of subsidizing news media that leave little question about their independence from government.

Canadian Dimension | The Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism is little more than a symbolic gesture of protest, but considering its source it no doubt sets the subsidies up for cancellation should the Conservatives form the next government as expected. That would precipitate a worse crisis, leaving cities from coast to coast without a major source of news.

Canadian Dimension | The broadcaster’s repeated caving to a highly biased pro-Israel advocacy group undermines its claims to journalistic integrity

The Breach | Several employees at CBC say the anti-Palestinian bias documented in The Breach reflect their own experiences

Canadian Dimension | Big Media in Canada, which are ruthlessly squeezing every last loonie out of our once-profitable news media, used their remaining political influence to shake down the digital giants with the Online News Act in hopes of cashing in big on the runaway success of the platforms. In the process, they have put Canada’s emerging online media and niche publications in the emergency ward.

There is something ironic about the National Post lecturing anyone about media bias, as it did recently with a front-page story titled “A more damaging media bias.” As Marc Edge shows, the opposite is true: the extreme level of ownership concentration in Canada has since resulted in a correspondingly extreme conservative media bias.

Months after the arrests of two journalists, the firm’s security doesn’t seem to understand injunction terms and press freedoms.

Three members of the news media are among the dozens arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory. Two journalists remain in custody.