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Does Canada’s embattled oil and gas sector have a too-cozy relationship with two of the country’s largest print-media chains? That, in a nutshell, is the working thesis of a two-part research essay by self-described “climate and coast defender” Robert Hackett, from Burnaby, B.C., and writer Hanna Araza, that hit the Rabble front page this week after making its virtual debut in the National Observer’s special report on the state of journalism in Canada. “As identified by the Corporate Mapping Project, Canada’s Fossil-Power Top 50 includes: emitters, the extractive corporatio...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 23, 2021 1:00am Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured speaking to reporters in September 2020, delivered her budget this week. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) Rebel Media, she may not have been prepared for site co-founder Ezra Levant to declare it the “worst budget in Canadian history,” and “a laundry list of socialist dreams that are stowing away in this crisis.” After going through all 724 pages of the “monstrous budget document” — which, he says, he doesn’t think Freeland has even read, and definitely didn’t write, as ...

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the shooting at a Quebec City mosque that left six worshippers dead, Ricochet contributor Sanaa Ali-Mohammedexplores the “systemic, institutional, and societal forms of exclusion (that) remain a daily reality for many Canadian Muslims.” This is partly due to lack of public funding for “anti-Islamophobia work led by the people and civil-society groups who understand the issue and experience it most severely,” she says. According to her research, “in 2019, the Department of Canadian Heritage, through its Community Support, Multiculturalism, and...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jan 29, 2021 12:01am After turning her YouTube spotlight on a barbershop in Innisfail, Alta., as it proudly (albeit temporarily, as it turned out) reopened for business earlier this month despite ongoing provincewide social-distancing restrictions, Rebel News Alberta bureau chief Sheila Gunn Reid spent the weekend chronicling yet another “lockdown rebellion … underway in small-town Alberta,” courtesy of the Whistle Stop Diner in a place called Mirror. “Population 500, Mirror is about 1.5 hours southeast of Edmonton, and it’s home to a d...

How to engage social conservatives Andrew MacDougall: Sloan's ouster highlights two key questions: Who speaks for Canada’s social conservatives and what are they trying to say? O'Toole arrives to a caucus meeting in Ottawa on Dec. 2, 2020 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick) Andrew MacDougall is a director at Trafalgar Strategy, and a former Head of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper God bless Derek Sloan. No sooner had Conservative leader Erin O’Toole found himself caught in yet another row about extremists in the party, when the most extreme member of his Parliamentary party popped up wi...