If a website really doesn't want me to read it if I'm not looking at their ads [1], I really prefer the "please turn off your ad-blocker" wall / dialog / whatever. I know instantly what the issue is, and I can close the site and go elsewhere for information.

When instead they throw up a fake "something technical went wrong" message, it's just gaslighting. It's an insult. Yes, I'm looking at you, Postmedia sites.

[1] It's funny, I read the dead-tree editions of various newspapers for decades and never looked at the ads, and they didn't seem to have a problem with it then.

#Postmedia #adblocker #NationalPost #Canada #media #CanadianMedia #gaslighting

It's really annoying that the Citizen stopped including the author's name in the title of opinion pieces, yet you can still tell a Denley piece a mile away (and still not be far enough from it)

#Ottawa #Postmedia

@OttawaCititzen https://flipboard.com/@ottawacititzen/ottawa-news-1u5c7nbiz/-/a-Kp1oiWGIQzSYnsZJWrizzQ%3Aa%3A2439373826-%2F0

Truly love letters to the editor that call out the bias of the propaganda rag publishing the letter!

A+

#AbPoli #Postmedia #Propaganda #MediaBias #EdmontonJournal #Healthcare

Many Albertans are proud members of the idiocracy because yankee postmeida and the other fascist RW media get away with endless lies and manufactured agitation. Sure the cowboy hats have personal culpability for grossly failing critical thought, but we also need a mediasphere that isn't pumping out endless deviant propaganda like Fox.

#CancelPostmedia #Postmedia #CdnPoli #Espionage #LorneGunter

Remember how Postmedia suspended Bryan Passifiune for cheering on the ICE murder of Renee Good?

Apparently they decided that a three week vacation from writing was enough punishment, as he started grinding out drivel again as of Feb 2.

#postmediajournalist #postmedia

Michael Taube in the National Post:

“I’ve worked as a speechwriter for former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and I’ve written speeches for politicians, business leaders and private citizens. It’s a discipline that I understand very well, and a craft that I take quite seriously.

Carney’s speech was fine. It was better than anything his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, could have presented, but that’s a low bar to begin with. It wasn’t a history-making moment, and it’s ridiculous to suggest it should be considered as one of the most important speeches a Canadian Prime Minister has ever given.”

Stephen Harper used the WEF at Davos in 2012 to announce he planned to raise the CPP and OAS retirement age to 67 before he said anything about it in Canada. I guess that’s the type of important speech Michael Taube expects a Canadian Prime Minster to give.

#Postmedia #NeverVoteConservative

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/michael-taube-im-a-speechwriter-carney-did-better-than-trudeau-at-davos-but-thats-a-low-bar

From gmacofglebe: "I’m starting to wonder if Chatham Asset Management has their finger on the pulse of what’s news in Canada."
🤣 #media #postmedia

@miki_lou Not even the shareholders of Postmedia are Canadian - less than 1%... #cdnpoli #media #Postmedia

Interesting that the maga-republican postmedia propaganda rag was acquired a year after Putin became the new blood tsar of russia.

"According to the New York Times, since acquiring Postmedia, Chatham reduced the workforce, closed newspapers across Canada, decreased salaries and benefits, and consolidated editorial operations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmedia_Network

#Postmedia #ElbowsUp #Espionage #CdnPoli

Why Postmedia needs to be run out of Canada:

#Postmedia #Hatemonger #Propaganda

#Canada #Canadians #Postmedia #Cdnmedia #Cdn #Cdnpoli

Canadians! Parliamentary Petition to pass legislation requiring majority Canadian ownership and control of print, digital and other non-audio-visual news media, to protect Canadian sovereignty. Please sign.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6821

🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 ⚠️ 🚨
“Remigration”: How White Nationalists Are Repackaging Ethnic Cleansing

White nationalists in multiple countries, including Canada, are pushing for mass deportations of non-Europeans to be part of the political platforms of their right-wing parties.

#Canada #USA #EU #Diagolon
#Extremism #DomminionSocietyOfCanada
#GRT #Nazi #Remigration
#NationaPost #Postmedia

https://www.antihate.ca/remigration_white_nationalists_repackaging_ethnic_cleansing

@NMBA Reminder that less than half of 1% of Postmedia shareholders are Canadian, while 63% are American corps and a further 13% is one U.S. dude.
#Postmedia #cdnpoli

So for a chunk of today, the #Postmedia sites were failing. Not unreachable, but returning uninformative server errors. Well, I don't know about all of them, but at least the National Post and the two Saskatchewan paper ones were like this.

The National Post is up now, and ... zero mention of it. No "we're back", no "oops, we goofed" or "someone DDOSed us, mitigated now" anywhere on the front page.

It's like those companies that want to sweep *any* security incident under the carpet - but doing so makes them look untrustworthy, the opposite of "protecting their image" that drives them to do it in the first place.

How can you trust a news site that won't cover its own errors or problems?

edit: fix "its" for "it's"

#Canada #news #website #newspaper #oops #down #NationalPost #trust

Wildfire restrictions in Nova Scotia spark manufactured outrage, reveals Ed Scarce. American-owned media, led by Trump ally-controlled Postmedia, amplify dissent over fire bans meant for public safety. A fined protester is miscast as a hero by rightwing outlets, exposing media's powerful role in shaping narratives. Full story: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/manufactured-outrage-over-nova-scotia #EdScarce #NovaScotia #wildfires #media #Postmedia #rightwing #civilrights #manufacturedoutrage

cultmtl is calling for the “defunding” of #PostMedia for its negligence in reporting on an attack on journalists.

And frankly, PostMedia should never have been allowed to exist this long, for a hundred other reasons

So the #USAnian company that owns almost all the daily #newspapers in #Canada is now branching out into ... parcel delivery?

https://postmediaparcelservices.com

So someone thought "We know something about going to peoples' houses, we should be good at logistics"?

Weird. I only found out about this because I got an email from them about a delivery. I guess they got a contract with Amazon, because that's the only one I'm expecting?

Weird.

#PostMedia #courier #delivery #parcel #Amazon

JFC, #postmedia #cdnmedia #cdnpoli

Notice anything about this report from Ground News on the coverage of the David Yager conflict of interest story?

No coverage from Postmedia outlets in Alberta. Nothing whatsoever on their news sites about Yager when I search. This is how I know this story MUST be reported far and wide.

#ableg #cdnpoli #Postmedia #media #orphanwells #PolluterPayFederation

https://ground.news/article/alberta-landowner-files-conflict-of-interest-complaint-against-danielle-smith-appointee

@kevinrns for any readers wanting to understand why local media ownership is being blocked, this piece by independent PEI media:

https://www.peicanada.com/eastern_graphic/yup-we-tried-to-buy-saltwire-pei/article_0dc98c16-69f9-11ef-bce6-6bfbfcab29d8.html

#CDNPoli #Canada #PEI #Postmedia