Absurdity

Personally I see gun crime mostly coming from American guns a sign that our gun laws do work, and I wouldn't want to change them.

It is also a sign we need to crack down on this smuggling, and that's where the focus should be so American weapons stop making their way across the border and killing Canadians, would be nice if the Americans worked harder on this threat.

Trump and america attacks democracies around the world while siding up to fascists and dictators.

Insane how fast the American propaganda machine works and people are parroting talking points against Canada from fox "news" or what the white house says, not even disinformation at this point but outright lies and half of their population eats it up and spits it back out. All of a sudden they are all thinking Canada is a problem.

Insane the wording they are using in official communications. Elementary school mindset, I guess what happens when you build yourself on "owning" the opposition and vilify education, dignity, and stately decorum.

I do like how we can talk politics respectfully to each other. I agree the CBC needs work in terms of management, especially bonuses, but they are also mandated to provide a lot of content, radio, print, television, and create Canadian content. I enjoy how few advertisements there are when I listen to it, and how they are not beholden to advertisers wishes in terms of their content. Their Olympic coverage was renowned, they do a lot of great in depth talk shows, and spotlight Canadian artists who may otherwise not be heard as we are bombarded with Canadian media.

I feel the CBC is very factual in their reporting, probably my most trusted source of information. There may be some bias in what they choose to report on, but what they do report in is accurately done. I don't feel they are guided by the current administration at all though, they are run as a crown corporation without government interference in terms of their content. There is no political government official telling them what to publish or guiding them besides decency laws. Where you look to the states and Trump politicized the Kennedy Centre for example, which was traditionally non-partisan.

I do feel the government also did try to make Canadian news organizations more profitable by having those who regularly use their content pay for it, and most did agree to the terms to create a Canadian content fund, but Facebook for example refused to give any money to Canada news and just banned us seeing news on this platform.

Otherwise it is becoming very hard for news to remain profitable on it's own in the internet era where everything is expected to be free, regardless of the work that went behind it. How many people in Winnipeg read the Sun over the FreePress because of the paywall online. Quality journalism online costs money, that people aren't as willing to pay for when there is free alternatives backed by billionaires.