The impact of big tech’s war on news is already being felt. Here’s how to stay connected to the Star | The Star https://www.thestar.com/news/2023/07/13/the-impact-of-big-techs-war-on-news-is-already-being-felt-heres-how-to-stay-connected-to-the-star.html
>Whatever actions tech companies take during the dispute with journalism, readers should continue to have access to the trusted content that helps them navigate their world.

#TheStar #TorontoStar #BillC18 #OnlineNewsAct #Facebook #Meta #Google

#Postmedia, #TorontoStar owner #Nordstar end their merger discussions - MooseJawToday.com

>TORONTO — Canadian media companies #Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and #Nordstar Capital LP, the company that owns the #TorontoStar, have ended discussions about a potential merger, saying they were unable to come to an agreement.
https://www.moosejawtoday.com/national-business/postmedia-toronto-star-owner-nordstar-end-their-merger-discussions-7256502 #Canada #Media

This is excellent news!

Talks to combine two of the biggest newspaper publishers in #Canada have fallen apart.

#Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and #NordstarCapital LP — the majority owner of the #TorontoStar and dozens of other smaller newspapers — announced last month that they had entered into non-binding discussions about possibly merging together.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/postmedia-nordstar-1.6902175

Toronto Star, Others Undermine Own Boycott By Joining Threads and Cheering On Mark Zuckerberg

The massive boycott of Meta isn't going well. Supporters are joining Threads and rooting for Mark Zuckerberg.

Last week, Heritage Minister, Pablo Rodriguez, announced that it w

https://www.freezenet.ca/toronto-star-others-undermine-own-boycott-by-joining-threads-and-cheering-on-mark-zuckerberg/

#Business #Copyright #BillC18 #Canada #Google #Meta #OnlineNewsAct #Threads #TorontoStar

Toronto Star Announces Suspension of Meta Advertising – Less Than 1 Second of Meta Revenue

The Toronto Star has announced that it will suspend advertising for Meta. By the time you read the headline, Meta made that money back multiple times over.

Earlier this week, the government announced

https://www.freezenet.ca/toronto-star-announces-suspension-of-meta-advertising-less-than-1-second-of-meta-revenue/

#Business #advertisement #BillC18 #Canada #OnlineNewsAct #TorontoStar

by @alexcosh in #TheMaple:

"Postmedia Network announced Tuesday that it is in talks for a merger with Nordstar, the company that owns the Toronto Star. The move would consolidate an even larger share of Canadian news media under the control of a single corporate entity, prompting concern among journalists."

https://www.readthemaple.com/a-disaster-postmedia-and-toronto-star-owners-discuss-merger/

#MediaConsolidation #CorporateMedia #corporate #media #merger #Postmedia #TorontoStar #journalism #journalists

The #TorontoStar / #PostMedia thing today has Canada's #competition #watchdog in the #news again.

I think it goes at the #problem ass-backwards. The competition watchdog is at the wrong place in the workflow to accomplish much. By the time a #deal is announced, it's essentially too late for a #regulator to have a meaningful impact on things.

(Very) occasionally it'll block a #merger or #acquisition, but that's reactive at best.

We need a pro-active approach.

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Yeah, that figures. If we are going to have newspapers owned by capitalists - and that's not necessarily the worst idea given that SLAPP suits are a thing and lawyers are expensive - better a Bailão supporter than a Maxime Bernier supporter. Paul Rivett can feck off, and apparently has, back into his money or vast carelessness or whatever. #TorontoStar #topoli

That's not just a hypothetical risk: in #Canada, Big Tech entered into negotiations with the *#TorontoStar* - the country's widest-circulating paper - ahead of a proposed #NewsBargainingCode that was working its way through Parliament. Once that settlement was reached, the *Star* abruptly killed "Defanging Tech" its *excellent* critical series on the tech giants it had just climbed into bed with:

https://www.thestar.com/news/big-tech.html

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Did you talk to the #TorontoStar about opening their own account on the Fediverse?

@bobjonkman

As #JesseBrown and @Paulatics - veteran reporter turned senator - discuss on #Canadaland, the #TorontoStar's sharp critical series on the tech giants died a swift, unexplained death after the *Star* began receiving license fees for tech users' links:

https://www.canadaland.com/paula-simons-bill-c-18/

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PM Justin Trudeau says Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are more interested in undermining Canadian democracy than protecting it https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2023/03/17/justin-trudeau-blasts-pierre-poilievre-over-election-meddling-response-says-he-should-know-better.html via #torontostar #Cdnpoli #Onpoli #DavidJohnson #Elections

When the ‘Why?’ is missing, journalism fails us https://rabble.ca/politics/when-the-why-is-missing-journalism-fails-us/ #Ontario #Toronto #iPolitics #TorontoStar #journalism #ethics #transparency #DougFord #Greenbelt

#TorontoStar: "Doug Ford ‘abandoned’ Ottawa’s residents, Emergencies Act report finds

A delay by Ontario Premier #DougFord to engage in discussions about how to end so-called “#FreedomConvoy” protests paralyzing the national capital last year amounted to a message that city residents had been abandoned by their provincial government during a time of crisis, a federal report concluded Friday."

#EmergenciesAct #cdnpoli #onpoli #Ottawa

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2023/02/17/doug-ford-abandoned-ottawas-residents-emergencies-act-report-finds.html

#TorontoStar: "Alberta’s #oilpatch is making record billions. So why should we pay for their carbon capture plant?

So far, 2023 is shaping up as another year of booming profits for the #Alberta oilpatch and another year of industry sloth in making a start on its promised reductions of greenhouse gas emissions (#GHG)."

#OILigarchy #abpoli #ableg

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/02/04/albertas-oilpatch-is-making-record-billions-so-why-should-we-pay-for-their-carbon-capture-plant.html

For anyone even vaguely following #cdnmedia — but especially for those with an interest in #newspapers, #journalism (and/or #Toronto’s new #FamilyCompact) — this piece about the collapse of the new ownership of #Torstar & its namesake property, #TorontoStar, is a can’t miss https://torontolife.com/city/star-wars-inside-the-vicious-battle-for-control-of-the-countrys-largest-newspaper/

#TorontoStar: "#Alberta’s oilpatch is making record billions. So why should we pay for their #CarbonCapture plant?

The standoff over corporate welfare is grating, since the #oilsands industry has reaped record profits in each of the past two years. And it is heading into another year of outsized profits in 2023."

#cdnpoli #abpoli #EnergyTransition

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/02/04/albertas-oilpatch-is-making-record-billions-so-why-should-we-pay-for-their-carbon-capture-plant.html

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/12/20/toronto-shifts-its-electric-vehicle-charging-nework-into-high-gear-but-will-it-be-enough.html This story appeared about a month ago, but I have to say it seems pretty lame. More clickbait than news. If the Toronto Parking Authority plans to increase the number of EV chargers, that's news. But here we get a focus on a single owner - one out of some 2.8-million people in the city - who's upset because he bought an EV with apparenty no thought to where he was going to charge it. Sorry, guy, but what a non-story. #TorontoStar #Newspaper #Journalism

> #Hallett’s chemical process has won converts even among environmentalists. “The technique Hallett developed is stunningly and elegantly simple,” #DavidSuzuki wrote in his column in The #TorontoStar on Jan. 30, 1993. “It seems too good to be true.” In November 1996, Eco Logic was given the go-ahead by the #Ontario Ministry of Environment & Energy to set up a Destructor in downtown Toronto, where a defunct #GeneralElectric factory has left behind some stored PCBs.
#Canada #Toronto #DougHallet

I really appreciated this lovely article in today's Toronto Star on so many levels. It's about a painting of "a flock of flame-coloured sheep" that connected these two families across generations. The reflections on supporting independent artists are 💖 too.

"He returned a painting belonging to his late grandmother to the artist’s family and forged an unlikely friendship": https://www.thestar.com/life/together/2023/01/15/he-returned-a-painting-belonging-to-his-late-grandmother-to-the-artists-family-and-forged-an-unlikely-friendship.html

#TorontoStar #LoisDierlam #friendship #ArtStories