By refusing to deliver accurate, comprehensive, and contextually rich reporting on Israel’s assault, Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, has denied Canadians the information they need to act on conscience and to pressure their government to help end the savagery. In effect, the CBC has made Canadians complicit in genocide.

Western support for Israel during its war with Iran and continued assault on Gaza reveals deep double standards in applying international law. Despite rising global protests and civilian casualties, leaders still back Israel while silencing dissent. The situation points to a broader crisis of legitimacy and the erosion of democratic norms across the West.

One of the most remarkable—not to say shameful—features of the last 20 months of carnage in Gaza has been the near-unanimity of support for Israel’s assault from Western governments and political parties of otherwise sharply opposed persuasions, regardless of how criminally Israel has conducted its “war.”

Fresh off what must have been a crushing election loss by their favoured Conservatives, right-wing media are getting desperate in their quest for any evidence that it might have been a result of large-L Liberal mainstream media bias. They are grasping at straws in their search for any facts they can twist to fit their narrative.

The Online News Act has proved to be the biggest media disaster since Canada’s ill-fated experiment with the convergence of newspaper and television ownership at the millennium, which media owners also lobbied for. Whichever party wins today should repeal it in favour of more well-considered remedies to our growing media problems.

If Ezra Levant wants to play politics, he should do so as a politician and see how well his extreme views go over with voters. Allowing him to maintain the pretext that he is practising journalism is a farce that is doing a disservice to our political system, and by extension all Canadians.

The recent revelation that data offered up by a Toronto Metropolitan University research centre had for years systematically inflated the number of newspaper closures in Canada points up the weakness in Canadian media research. It’s a problem that academics have noted for decades and something I have been harping on for more than 20 years.

A non-political civil service, diversity, USAID, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Scholarships, federal funding for scientific and medical research—the Washington Post, the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art, Ivy League universities, “big law”—the great institutions of liberal America are falling to Trump like dominoes, one by one.

How truly deflating it must be for The Hub to have its hopes for a right-wing makeover of our country spiked in a matter of weeks by Trumpism. It was no doubt licking its chops over what regulations to remove first, but its expected victory lap has reverted to it again weakly trying to help the Conservatives as they vainly chase the more prudent Liberals.

A new study confirms that the state of local news coverage is dire, which was already evident from every anecdotal and statistical indicator. “The rate of local news deprivation across Canada is snowballing,” notes the report by the CCPA. “The commercial media model that has been dominant in Canada for more than a century is no longer viable.”