#Canada newspaper

[newsfromstolenland]

Atlantic Canada's largest newspaper chain is now officially owned by Toronto-based Postmedia Network Inc.

On Monday, Postmedia confirmed the closing of its $1-million purchase of SaltWire Network Inc. and the Halifax Herald Ltd. in a short statement on its website. The sale was approved by a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge on Aug. 8.

Andrew MacLeod, Postmedia's president and CEO, said his company is "delighted" to welcome the new media properties, saying the sale "preserves their vital role within the community."

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Let's explore why this is a very bad thing.

Postmedia, the company that just bought a chain of over two dozen Atlantic canada newspapers, is known for many things- none of them good.

This is an incomplete list of harmful things that Postmedia and its executives have done/are known for:

Right-wing politics. "The National Post was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black, who has connections to conservative politics and sat as a Conservative Party member of the United Kingdom's House of Lords. The Post has always been aligned with the right side of the political spectrum. ..."Just in the past couple of years, Postmedia has issued an edict stating that they should move even farther to the right, so they're very reliably conservative," said [Media journalist Marc] Edge. "In fact, [they] endorse Conservative candidates often over the objections of their local editors.""

Union busting. "They employed a mix of cajoling (such as with buyouts and raises), entreaties to preserve the paper’s uniquely collegial newsroom culture, office-wide memos decrying the havoc a union would wreak, and, according to CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon, one-on-one meetings between staff and management."

Monopolization of canadian news media. "Postmedia Network’s purchase of Saltwire Network will extend its grip from coast to coast, as it already dominates Western Canada with eight of the nine largest dailies in the three westernmost provinces. This purchase will give Postmedia the largest dailies in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland to go along with the largest in New Brunswick, which it acquired from the Irving Oil family two years ago."

Cuts to pensions and benefits while giving large bonuses to executives. "...several top Postmedia executives had received enormous retention bonuses at a time of aggressive belt-tightening (after which many left regardless), and second, the March 2017 announcement that benefits and pensions would be curtailed significantly."

Already beginning to lay off staff from the Atlantic canada newspapers they now own. "...the long-term future of workers in departments like circulation, advertising, customer service, finance and production remains uncertain. "Staff believe maintaining local jobs in the community is critical to retaining both subscribers and clients," the union said. Last week, the union representing workers at The Telegram confirmed that four of the paper's 13 newsroom positions will be eliminated."

More reading: source 1, source 2

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[allthecanadianpolitics]

About 30 per cent of newsroom jobs have been cut at a 145-year-old daily newspaper in St. John’s, N.L., following a takeover by Postmedia. Keith Gosse, head of the union representing workers at The Telegram, says staff learned Wednesday that four of the paper’s 13 newsroom positions will be eliminated. As well, Saturday will be the paper’s last daily print edition, as it is moving to a weekly print version beginning next week with daily news online. Gosse says there were more than 40 people working in the newsroom when he first started at The Telegram in 1986.

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[bigfootbeat]

Reports Tell of Canadian Monster Men

Hammond Times, Oct. 25th, 1935

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small things

i like plate eyes now lol Ò_Ó

[tamapalace]

Toronto Tamagotchi Club Featured in Toronto Star’s Print Newspaper!

They’ve made it to print! How awesome is that? The Toronto Tamagotchi Club not only received a great deal of press at their recent meet up and an article on the Toronto Star’s website, but also a full page feature in printed Toronto Star! What a great way to spread the word on such an awesome club!

[fatehbaz]

[D]omesticated attack dogs [...] hunted those who defied the profitable Caribbean sugar regimes and North America’s later Cotton Kingdom, [...] enforced plantation regimens [...], and closed off fugitive landscapes with acute adaptability to the varied [...] terrains of sugar, cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations that they patrolled. [...] [I]n the Age of Revolutions the Cuban bloodhound spread across imperial boundaries to protect white power and suppress black ambitions in Haiti and Jamaica. [...] [Then] dog violence in the Caribbean spurred planters in the American South to import and breed slave dogs [...].

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Spanish landowners often used dogs to execute indigenous labourers simply for disobedience. [...] Bartolomé de las Casas [...] documented attacks against Taino populations, telling of Spaniards who ‘hunted them with their hounds [...]. These dogs shed much human blood’. Many later abolitionists made comparisons with these brutal [Spanish] precedents to criticize canine violence against slaves on these same Caribbean islands. [...] Spanish officials in Santo Domingo were licensing packs of dogs to comb the forests for [...] fugitives [...]. Dogs in Panama, for instance, tracked, attacked, captured and publicly executed maroons. [...] In the 1650s [...] [o]ne [English] observer noted, ‘There is nothing in [Barbados] so useful as … Liam Hounds, to find out these Thieves’. The term ‘liam’ likely came from the French limier, meaning ‘bloodhound’. [...] In 1659 English planters in Jamaica ‘procured some blood-hounds, and hunted these blacks like wild-beasts’ [...]. By the mid eighteenth century, French planters in Martinique were also relying upon dogs to hunt fugitive slaves. [...] In French Saint-Domingue [Haiti] dogs were used against the maroon Macandal [...] and he was burned alive in 1758. [...]

Although slave hounds existed throughout the Caribbean, it was common knowledge that Cuba bred and trained the best attack dogs, and when insurrections began to challenge plantocratic interests across the Americas, two rival empires, Britain and France, begged Spain to sell these notorious Cuban bloodhounds to suppress black ambitions and protect shared white power. [...] [I]n the 1790s and early 1800s [...] [i]n the Age of Revolutions a new canine breed gained widespread popularity in suppressing black populations across the Caribbean and eventually North America. Slave hounds were usually descended from more typical mastiffs or bloodhounds [...].

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Spanish and Cuban slave hunters not only bred the Cuban bloodhound, but were midwives to an era of international anti-black co-ordination as the breed’s reputation spread rapidly among enslavers during the seven decades between the beginning of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 and the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865. [...]

Despite the legends of Spanish cruelty, British officials bought Cuban bloodhounds when unrest erupted in Jamaica in 1795 after learning that Spanish officials in Cuba had recently sent dogs to hunt runaways and the indigenous Miskitos in Central America. [...] The island’s governor, Balcarres, later wrote that ‘Soon after the maroon rebellion broke out’ he had sent representatives ‘to Cuba in order to procure a number of large dogs of the bloodhound breed which are used to hunt down runaway negroes’ [...]. In 1803, during the final independence struggle of the Haitian Revolution, Cuban breeders again sold hundreds of hounds to the French to aid their fight against the black revolutionaries. [...] In 1819 Henri Christophe, a later leader of Haiti, told Tsar Alexander that hounds were a hallmark of French cruelty. [...]

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The most extensively documented deployment of slave hounds [...] occurred in the antebellum American South and built upon Caribbean foundations. [...] The use of dogs increased during that decade [1830s], especially with the Second Seminole War in Florida (1835–42). The first recorded sale of Cuban dogs into the United States came with this conflict, when the US military apparently purchased three such dogs for $151.72 each [...]. [F]ierce bloodhounds reputed to be from Cuba appeared in the Mississippi valley as early as 1841 [...].

The importation of these dogs changed the business of slave catching in the region, as their deployment and reputation grew rapidly throughout the 1840s and, as in Cuba, specialized dog handlers became professionalized. Newspapers advertised slave hunters who claimed to possess the ‘Finest dogs for catching negroes’ [...]. [S]lave hunting intensified [from the 1840s until the Civil War] [...]. Indeed, tactics in the American South closely mirrored those of their Cuban predecessors as local slave catchers became suppliers of biopower indispensable to slavery’s profitability. [...] [P]rice [...] was left largely to the discretion of slave hunters, who, ‘Charging by the day and mile [...] could earn what was for them a sizeable amount - ten to fifty dollars [...]'. William Craft added that the ‘business’ of slave catching was ‘openly carried on, assisted by advertisements’. [...] The Louisiana slave owner [B.B.] portrayed his own pursuits as if he were hunting wild game [...]. The relationship between trackers and slaves became intricately systematized [...]. The short-lived republic of Texas (1836–46) even enacted specific compensation and laws for slave trackers, provisions that persisted after annexation by the United States.

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All text above by: Tyler D. Parry and Charlton W. Yingling. "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas". Past & Present, Volume 246, Issue 1, February 2020, pages 69-108. Published February 2020. At: doi dot org/10.1093/pastj/gtz020. February 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[blackros78]

[lakecountylibrary]

Happy Black History Month! 1940s actor Canada Lee wants you to register to vote.

This PSA is from the September 22, 1944 issue of the Cleveland Gazette (a Black owned weekly publication that ran for 58 years)! Canada Lee was a professional boxer and later a successful actor, though his career was cut short by Hollywood blacklisting due in large part to his dedication to the civil rights movement.

This clipping is from the digital collection Black Life in America, which includes hundreds of Black-owned publications you can leaf through at your leisure using your LCPL card. (Not an LCPL patron? Your library may also have a subscription - ask them!)

Transcription:

For full employment after the war

REGISTER to VOTE

Canada Lee is registered and he wants people to know it. What's more, Canada wants EVERYONE to register. He points out that you can't vote unless you're registered. And, says Canada, "If you don't vote you're throwing away your most precious right of citizenship - the right to a government of the people, by the people and for the people." The popular actor known to playgoers and movie fans alike for his performances in "Native Son" and "Lifeboat" is currently playing in the all-Negro cast of "Anna Lucasta," latest Broadway hit.

Sources:

"Photograph." Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland, Ohio), September 22, 1944: 5. NewsBank: Black Life in America. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AAHX&docref=image/v2%3A12B716FE88B82998%40AAHX-12BAB256347DFD00%402431356-12BA05108AAE8710%404-12D5BACC39EE9100%40Photograph.

"Canada Lee." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 8, Gale, 1994. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1606000160/BIC?u=merr17317&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=a8611c44. Accessed 1 Feb. 2024.

[possiblydog]

Chat my art may be in a newspaper

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

lol oh Toronto, once again being a shining star in international news

[thursdaymurderbub]

The same write-up I posted from Didsbury, Alberta on November 24th, 1932 is published again [below] in the Blairemore Enterprise of Blairemore, Alberta on the 12th of January 1933. The film got to stay in Blairemore for three nights as opposed to the one in Didsbury. I wonder if it was the same literal film cannister making a tour of the province! Obviously the same press release made the rounds.

I think the "Avoid imitations!" is interesting! Also that Joan Blondell gets her full name printed (12 letters not counting the space) and George Brent (11 letters not counting the space) gets the partial cut.

Also the offset type in parts, especially "See the one oustanding..."

Didsbury showed the Canadian Paramount newsreel and Blairemore showed the Pathé News Reel, I wonder if that had to do with the affiliation of the theatres, or what was available to them, or something entirely different.

[mereinkling]

Meandering Words

Sometimes we read for business. Other times we read for pleasure. Few people are so fortunate as to have these two purposes overlap. When the goal is the former – the necessity of reading a particular document, our desire is usually to simply “get it done.�� We want to arrive quickly at the point, so we can move on to some other project. In this context, digressions are definitely something to be…

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Should Read Marx' Works," Border Cities Star. June 7, 1933. Page 3. ----- SO LABORITES SAY ---- Think Star Writer's Study Is Not Complete ---- The works of the late Karl Marx, who wrote the Communist Manifesto and who expounded the theory of surplus values, the class struggle and the materialistic conception of history, were recommended last night as additions to the library of W. L. Clark, Border Cities Star columnist.

The suggestion came from School Trustee R. M. Scott at the regular session of Windsor branch of the Labor Party. The recognized leaders of thought in the local branch seemed eager to furnish Mr. Clark with their definitions on Socialism. Mr. Scott suggested he "read Karl Marx" and obtain the true definition.

But John McLean chose to put forth his own interpretation as follows: "It means nothing more or less than a complete annihilation of the syndi-cates which are taking over the wealth. Many are getting less of it while the few are getting more of it."

Mr. McLean bemoaned the apparent fact that "in this modern super-level of intelligence, we are going back to prehistoric days and find The Star groping in the dark."

"And our great friend, Mr. Clark, I don't know whether he is throwing out the life line or the dead line. Or whether he is so benumbed that he is asking what any school boy can answer: What is Socialism? And I see he takes as his leader, a man who, like himself, doesn't know the A.B.C.'s of Socialism."

Mr. McLean evidently was referring to Jean-Francois Pouliot, M.P.. who set forth 55 questions for J. S. Woodsworth, M. P., leader of the Co-Opera-tive Commonwealth Federation.

None of these questions have been answered, although Ben Levert, Labor nominee in North Essex, recently waved them nonchalantly aside with the observation that Mr. Woodsworth couldn't waste time answering questions which, except for nine of them, any school boy could answer.

[nomadicdandelion]

Yo so in response to Canada passing legislation to protect Canadian news organizations from being cheated by web companies, Meta is cutting off Canadians' access to news on Instagram and Facebook. News organizations won't be able to share information, and neither will users. They're cutting off 38,250,000 people from one of the most common ways people revive news today.

I can't stress how terrifying this is, and how detrimental this will be to not just Big media, but also student journalists and local news.

[nakamopapina]

Is it normal that when you’re wanting research something specific, in the history of a specific Province/Territory, and you can’t find anything, so you resort to looking into Government archives? 

Because I have been doing that for the past several days, just looking for the capital of the District of Alberta, during the 1880s, all I have are official maps from the 1880s, and 1890s, implying that Calgary was the district’s capital, but other than those maps, (and a map implying that Edmonton and Calgary, both were Alberta’s capital in the late 1890s. Approaching the end of that decade) there’s nothing. and I’m legit resorting to looking through Alberta’s Provincial archives, just to find a little bit of information and have found nothing yet.

I have been looking into it since I stumbled onto those maps.

A little rant below...

But there’s some information about Prince Albert’s history as the capital of the district of Saskatchewan, as Prince Albert has that information public, (It’s a lot compared to Alberta’s capital when it was a district, which is nothing so far) so this means one of several things:

1. Calgary WAS the capital of the District of Alberta, and somebody just lost the papers saying that.

2. A different city was the capital, and somebody lost the papers.

3. Someone messed up while making those maps. (because that does happen from time to time) and marked both Calgary and Edmonton as capitals on that one map.

or

 4. There was no District capital for Alberta then, just like it’s implied for the other two Districts, Assiniboia, and Athabasca, and Prince Albert was like given special privileges, or something?

[newspapers-front-pages]

Major Canada Newspapers Front Pages: The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, The Toronto Sun... Largest Canadian newspapers by circulation.