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Blogger, media analyst, copy editor at the Montreal Gazette. https://blog.fagstein.com

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It's obviously disappointing that one of the most recognizable names in Canadian news is now for sale and the best we can hope for is an "oh right oops" when he spectacularly fails journalism ethics 101.

10.03.2026 13:56 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Peter Mansbridge didn't tell Pierre Poilievre, podcast audience about work for South Korean firm | CBC News Peter Mansbridge says he didn't tell his podcast audience or Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about work he had done for a South Korean firm vying for Ottawa's defence business during a recent pod...

Peter Mansbridge asked Pierre Poilievre on his podcast about Canada's submarine procurement. He didn't disclose that he was paid by a South Korean company to voice an ad trying to sell submarines to the Canadian government. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

10.03.2026 13:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Redirecting...

Mose Persico has a theme song for his Mose at the Movies segment on CFQR 600 AM, and it's ... www.facebook.com/watch/?v=266...

10.03.2026 00:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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TikTok allowed to stay in Canada under new data protection rules: minister - National | Globalnews.ca Industry Minister Melanie Joly said a new national security review into TikTok has resulted in 'enhanced protection' measures and other steps to ensure users' privacy.

TikTok can keep operating in Canada, Canadian government decides (after court overturned its previous decision), with "enhanced protection for Canadians' personal information" globalnews.ca/news/1172298... www.newswire.ca/news-release...

10.03.2026 00:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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La Presse au Danemark | Dernière levée pour la poste danoise Elle trône au musée, sous une cloche de verre, dans son enveloppe bleue affranchie et adressée « Au Danemark » : la toute dernière lettre acheminée par le service postal danois, après 401 ans d’histoi...

La Presse on the end of lettermail delivery from Denmark's national postal service www.lapresse.ca/internationa...

09.03.2026 19:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Plan for paid parking on Sherbrooke St. doesn't add up, N.D.G. councillor says Calling the length of Sherbrooke St. that would be affected "a fairly fragile commercial strip," Projet Montréal's Peter McQueen said he worried about the long-term effects.

Now that it's the opposition, Projet Montréal is suddenly the pro-driver party. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

09.03.2026 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Perturbations de service à la STL : des annulations à prévoir pour les prochaines semaines /CNW/ - La Société de transport de Laval (STL) fait face à une situation exceptionnelle en raison de difficultés rencontrées dans sa chaine d'approvisionnement...

STL doesn't have enough buses available to continue to provide its full schedule of service www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rele...

09.03.2026 18:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Photos: The Bay's iconic sign dismantled in downtown Montreal The logo on the landmark in Phillips Square is coming down.

The Bay's logo came off its iconic downtown Montreal building today montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

09.03.2026 18:04 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

WPBS says it's the only PBS station where a majority of members are Canadian. There's no specific demand to add it to other TV distributors, but they want to be on more cable systems in eastern Ontario and across Canada.

09.03.2026 15:24 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

An application has been filed with the #CRTC to add WPBS-TV Watertown, NY, to the list of TV services eligible for distribution in Canada. The station is already carried on central/eastern Ontario cable systems through specific conditions of licence, but it wants to be able to add others.

09.03.2026 15:24 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Happy International Women's Day. To celebrate, the day will have 4% fewer hours than other days.

08.03.2026 15:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CBC News Explore is a free streaming service. This is about CBC News Network, which is a paid service.

07.03.2026 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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CBC News Network and ICI RDI now available on Prime Video Canada Prime Members can now get 24/7 live, breaking news coverage from CBC and Radio-Canada.

CBC joins Bell, Rogers and Corus in making their content available on Amazon Prime Video channels (for the same cost as subscribing directly) mobilesyrup.com/2026/03/05/c...

07.03.2026 19:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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BCE sheds another 1,700 jobs in 2025 as telecom industry contracts Company reduced its work force for the second year in a row as major players seek to cut costs and pay down debt

The Globe and Mail notes BCE's annual report showing it reduced its workforce by 4 per cent, from 40,390 employees to 38,683, in 2025. (And that's with taking on about 1,700 Ziply employees.) www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

06.03.2026 17:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The #CRTC has approved the transfer of the 49.8% minority stake in RNC Média held by Jean-Yves Gourd (who died in 2024) to his stepson Jean-Bach Royer, who inherited his estate. Gourd was the son of RNC Média co-founder Jean-Joffre Gourd.

06.03.2026 16:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CRTC approves new country music station in Joliette on 107.9 FM | Fagstein

Arsenal Media has asked the #CRTC for an extension for the launch of a country music station at 107.9 FM in Joliette, as work needs to be done on the transmission tower. Arsenal asked for October, but the CRTC has granted a full year to May 2027. Background: blog.fagstein.com/2024/05/27/j...

06.03.2026 16:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fausse jurisprudence, vrai malaise | Un juge a-t-il succombé à la tentation de l’IA ? Lorsqu’il a entraîné des investisseurs de Québec dans la retentissante débâcle du groupe Huot, l’homme d’affaires Robert Giroux a fait preuve d’un manque de transparence que rien ne saurait justifier,...

A Quebec Superior Court judgment contains so many wildly incorrect references that some are speculating the judge used generative AI to create it. lp.ca/sipLK2

06.03.2026 13:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The world is healing — Peel Pub is back.

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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A life in pictures: Remembering Bruno Schlumberger Bruno Schlumberger's six National Newspaper Awards were the most any Canadian photographer received.

Obituary for former Ottawa Citizen photographer Bruno Schlumberger ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

06.03.2026 04:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In Canada, meanwhile, even getting access to mugshots is difficult.

05.03.2026 20:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Changements au sein du conseil d'administration de Québecor inc. et de Québecor Média inc. /CNW/ - La présidente du conseil d'administration de Québecor inc. et de Québecor Média inc., madame Sylvie Lalande, est heureuse d'annoncer la nomination de...

Érik Péladeau, PKP's brother, steps down from Quebecor Inc.'s board of directors www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rele...

05.03.2026 19:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CFTR re news report about a Toronto Blue Jays ticket giveaway · CBSC / CCNR The CBSC is a national voluntary self-regulatory organization created by Canada’s private broadcasters to deal with complaints made by viewers or listeners about programs they have seen or heard broad...

In only its fourth decision since 2023, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council finds CFTR 680 NewsRadio violated RTDNA's Code of Journalistic Ethics when it reported on a Blue Jays ticket giveaway and failed to disclose its parent company (Rogers) also owns the Jays www.cbsc.ca/cbsc-decisio...

05.03.2026 19:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My newsroom includes some great photojournalists, who can spot photo opportunities like this.

(One of them, Pierre Obendrauf, retired last week. It's a talent we're going to miss.)

05.03.2026 14:37 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That focus shift is sweet.

04.03.2026 23:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gaping hole opens in Châteauguay bridge, triggers road closure The Sauvagine Bridge over the Châteauguay River was abruptly closed on Wednesday after part of its deck gave way.

Well that's not supposed to happen. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

04.03.2026 22:09 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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CTV News Appoints Graham Richardson as Ottawa Bureau Chief for CTV NATIONAL NEWS - Bell Media OTTAWA (March 4, 2026) – CTV News announced today the appointment of Graham Richardson as Ottawa Bureau Chief for CTV NATIONAL NEWS. The longtime CTV News Ottawa Anchor returns to the organization to ...

CTV News Appoints former CTV Ottawa anchor Graham Richardson as Ottawa Bureau Chief for CTV National News www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...

04.03.2026 21:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Canada (Commissioner of Competition) v Google Canada Corp. - 2026 Comp Trib 10 - Order and Reasons - CT-2024-010 - Competition Tribunal Competition Tribunal - Home

Canada's Competition Tribunal dismisses Google's constitutional challenge of commission's case over alleged anti-competitive behaviour in online advertising decisions.ct-tc.gc.ca/ct-tc/cdo/en... — Google argued an administrative penalty could reach $91 billion, which it argued was punitive.

04.03.2026 20:15 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Update on the network: Check your REM direction! | REM

REM will start adding short-turn trains going just to Bois-Franc as of Friday, as it prepares to launch Anse-à-l'Orme branch rem.info/en/news/upda...

04.03.2026 19:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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B.C.'s move to end time changes sparks cross-Canada conversation | CBC News British Columbia’s move to permanent daylight time has reignited conversations across the country about scrapping biannual time changes. After B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday that most of the ...

Welcome to Giant Clock File Photo season, everyone www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

04.03.2026 14:09 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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La Presse is surveying its readership about adding AI summaries of articles on its mobile app.

04.03.2026 14:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0