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Vice Media preparing to file for bankruptcy - NYT

 Story by Reuters

(Reuters) -Vice Media Group, the company behind popular media websites such as Vice and Motherboard, is preparing to file for bankruptcy, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of its operations.

The media firm has received interest from five companies and might consider a sale to avoid bankruptcy, the NYT report said, adding that in the event of a bankruptcy, which could happen in the coming weeks, Vice's debtholder Fortress Investment Group could end up controlling the company. 

 

"Vice Media Group has been engaged in a comprehensive evaluation of strategic alternatives and planning. The company, its board and stakeholders continue to be focused on finding the best path for the company," the company spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement.

Its potential bankruptcy comes as several other media and technology firms have had to downsize in recent months due to a challenging economy and a weak advertising market.

Earlier this month, BuzzFeed Inc said it would shutter its news division, which gained renown for its irreverent and probing coverage, but ultimately succumbed to the challenges of its digital-first business model.

Last week, Vice Media said it will cancel popular TV program "Vice News Tonight" as part of a broader restructuring that will result in job cuts across the digital media firm's global news business, capping years of financial difficulties and top-executive departures.

Vice Media was among a group of fast-rising digital media ventures that once commanded rich valuations, as they courted millennial audiences. It rose to prominence alongside its provocative co-founder, Shane Smith, who built his media empire from a single Canadian magazine.

(Reporting by Baranjot Kaur in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Mrinmay Dey; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/vice-media-preparing-to-file-for-bankruptcy-nyt/ar-AA1aBT88#image=1 

Liberals' online streaming Bill C-11 passes Parliament

 * Now the Liberal/nDP Government has complete control over the internet. *

 

Liberals' online streaming Bill C-11 passes Parliament

 

 

 

After years of political pushback and considerable parliamentary scrutiny, the federal Liberal government's Online Streaming Act known as Bill C-11 passed the Senate and has become law.

Thursday evening, Bill C-11 cleared its final legislative hurdle in the Senate, seeing senators agree to bill sponsor Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez's take-some-and-leave-some approach to amendments made by the upper chamber.

This clears the path for the contentious bill, focused on substantively reforming the Broadcasting Act for the first time since 1991 to take into consideration online content, to come into effect.

After years of political pushback and considerable parliamentary scrutiny, the federal Liberal government's Online Streaming Act known as Bill C-11 passed the Senate and has become law.

Thursday evening, Bill C-11 cleared its final legislative hurdle in the Senate, seeing senators agree to bill sponsor Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez's take-some-and-leave-some approach to amendments made by the upper chamber.

This clears the path for the contentious bill, focused on substantively reforming the Broadcasting Act for the first time since 1991 to take into consideration online content, to come into effect.

Senators voting 52 to 16 on a motion informing the House of Commons that the Senate agreed with the version of Bill C-11 the majority of MPs passed last month, made passing the bill possible. The House was then informed of the Senate's decision, and royal assent was granted by 6:55 p.m. ET.

 

Bill C-11 is aimed at ensuring increasingly popular and profitable social media platforms and streaming services such as Netflix, Crave, Spotify, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and YouTube are subjected to Canadian content requirements and regulations comparable to traditional broadcasters. The policy change comes with a requirement for these platforms to spend millions investing in Canadian content and creators.

While the NDP and Bloc Quebecois, as well as many in the "CanCon" music, film, and television industries, have backed Bill C-11, alarms have been sounded by critics that the Liberal proposal could have knock-on effects for content creators and what everyday users see online, due to provisions that would require platforms to promote Canadian content.

In their efforts to lobby against this bill, some of the tech companies have gone to great lengths, such as YouTube, which ran an online campaign warning users who earn money from making videos about how the legislation could impact their livelihoods. The Conservatives, arguing that the legislation will have the impact of censoring what Canadians see online, led the charge against Bill C-11 inside Parliament.

As a result of this divide, this piece of legislation has been under the parliamentary microscope in both the House and Senate for more than a year, following a failed attempt prior to the last election.

Between the more than 100 amendments contemplated by the House of Commons, and the longest study ever conducted by a Senate committee, the minister responsible for Bill C-11 has repeatedly emphasized the important contributions of parliamentarians to the final wording of the legislation, while asserting that the time had come to "move on."

"Today, we are standing up for our stories, our artists, our producers and our creators. We're standing up so that Canadians have even more opportunities to see themselves in what they watch and listen to," said Rodriguez, reacting to the bill's passage in a statement.

•  Read more about how Bill C-11 got to this stage, and the concerns raised

"With this legislation, we are ensuring that Canada's incredible talent has a bigger and brighter stage online. They tell our stories, they make our voices heard, they contribute to our economy, and they make our culture what it is: strong, diverse and unique," the minister said. 

Over the last two weeks, the Senate has been mired in a largely procedural battle over whether to assert itself and insist on the substantive amendments made by the upper chamber that were rejected by the majority of MPs.

Attempts to have the Senate stand its ground on certain amendments were unsuccessful, seeing the majority of senators vote against related motions on Wednesday evening. Though, the passed motion was amended to note the Liberals gave a "public assurance" that Bill C-11 "will not apply to user-generated digital content."

A key sticking point raised in the numerous hours of debate recently held was the Senate's attempt to instill further protections for individual content creators in Bill C-11.

The government asserted that the existing safeguards in the bill were sufficient and rejected this amendment on the basis that it would impact the government's ability to "publicly consult on, and issue, a policy direction to the CRTC to appropriately scope the regulation of social media services."

While the Conservatives have pledged to repeal Bill C-11 should they form government, for now, seeing the Online Streaming Act become law is a long-awaited political victory for the Liberals.

Complicating the back and forth between those who think Bill C-11's critics were doing the bidding of big tech, and those who fear the legislation's free speech implications, is that a lot is being left to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as the regulatory body to determine how the new rules will be enforced.

Now that Bill C-11 has passed, that regulatory work can begin.

The next step will be for the CRTC to get to work on drafting the policy framework for how the broadcasting and communications regulator will implement the new powers Bill C-11 grants, informed by a federal policy directive as well as public consultations.

The draft federal policy direction will be published in the Canada Gazette, for the public, artists, digital creators, and businesses to read and provide feedback on. The draft will then be updated and re-published, taking into consideration what the government hears. The CRTC will also give notice about its consultation plans, regarding how it intends to enforce Bill C-11. This will include multiple public proceedings.

It is expected that the consultations will be where stakeholders with outstanding concerns about the bill turn next. Marking Bill C-11's passage, internet advocacy organization OpenMedia accused the Senate of backing down and letting a version of the bill become law that is "largely unchanged" from the initial version tabled in Parliament in February 2022.

"Make no mistake: the fight isn’t over yet. While legal protection of our content was the best option, Heritage Minister Rodriguez can still issue a clear policy direction to the CRTC that tells them our user content should not be regulated in practice, and our choices must be respected. That's where the fight will go next," said OpenMedia campaigns director Matt Hatfield.

In an email to CTV News, TikTok spokesperson Danielle Morgan said that they plan to keep fighting for the interests of Canadian digital-first creators to be able to "create content for global audiences without being subject to gatekeepers or encumbered by regulatory red tape."

Remarking on the passage of Bill C-11, pro-Canadian broadcasting organization FRIENDS called it "one of the most epic Canadian stories ever told."

"While we wholeheartedly applaud the House and the Senate for the leading roles they have played in this suspense-filled drama, there is still work to be done before the credits roll on Bill C-11," said FRIENDS executive director Marla Boltman in a statement, indicating plans to push the CRTC to make sure the standards are equal for Canadian broadcasters and streaming giants' Canadian content requirements, or decades of "carefully crafted cultural policy" meant to protect Canadian talent could be undermined.

Also flagging concerns about the legislation as drafted leading to a two-tier system, the Canadian Media Producers Association said that it still welcomes the bill and expressed gratitude for Rodriguez' "heroic efforts" in securing its passage.

"We are on the precipice of a pivotal moment in Canadian broadcasting history. It took 30 years before the Broadcasting Act was updated. Since we don’t know when this opportunity will present itself again, it’s important that we get it right,” said the CMPA’s president and CEO Reynolds Mastin in a statement.

It remains to be seen what the timeline will be for Bill C-11's policy changes to come into effect. 

Copyright: CTV News/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

 

https://www.iheartradio.ca/am-1150/news/liberals-online-streaming-bill-c-11-passes-parliament-1.19586846 

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Southwestern Ontario township votes against flying Pride flags on municipal property

Author of the article:

The Canadian Press

Jessica Smith

Published Apr 27, 2023  •  2 minute read

 

  

 

 

NORWICH, Ont. — A township in southwestern Ontario has voted to prohibit Pride flags on municipal property, prompting expressions of dismay from some residents.

The council for the Township of Norwich passed a motion Tuesday night to fly only the flags of the federal, provincial and municipal governments on its property.

The motion, which passed 3-2, specified that Pride flags would be among those that would be banned. And only banners for decoration or those that promote downtown businesses can be flown on municipal street light poles, it said.

Coun. Jim Scholten, who introduced the motion, said he wanted to change the township’s flag policy to “maintain the unity” of the community.

“By flying these flags alone on township property, we can coexist in peace and harmony no matter who we are or what we believe,” he said.

Having a broader flag policy would lead to endless requests for various flags to be flown, he said.

 

“Each one would be subject to judgment or scrutiny based on its merits,” he said. “This in turn would inevitably lead to more disunity and alienation of people.”

Resident Cody Neville, who is gay, said he feels the motion that was passed sends the message that members of the LGBTQ community don’t matter.

“It feels like we went back several decades,” he said. “To say that I’m heartbroken and devastated is an understatement for the queer community, and the queer youth specifically.”

The council also voted against a motion that would proclaim June as a Pride month in the municipality beginning this summer.

The township saw several cases of vandalism last year involving Pride flags and banners in support of the LGBTQ community.

“I’m just so sad for the youth that have to witness that in today’s day and age,” Neville said of those cases, calling the township a “divided” community.

“I’m proud to be from Norwich but it’s getting harder and harder to say that and tell people where I’m from, because they see the news and they hear what goes on and they just can’t fathom how I could be happy to be from a place that wants to repress who I am.”

Tara King, who also lives in Norwich, said she was “embarrassed” by the outcome of the vote on flags.

“I was disappointed to be part of this community,” she said. “This is not representative of me.”

The high school teacher said she worries for the well-being of her two children, who attend school in the area, as well as for the students she teaches.

“I wonder about the emotional impact that this is going to have on our community,” she said. “It’s certainly not going to unify our community. It’s going to further divide our community”

 

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/southwestern-ontario-township-votes-against-flying-pride-flags-on-municipal-property 

 Ex-Tucker Carlson Producer Suing Him For ‘Sexism’ Has Never Even Met Him

 

Ludicrous.

Published 2 mins ago

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27 April, 2023 Paul Joseph Watson

 

 

 

 

 Abby Grossberg, the former Tucker Carlson producer who is suing the ex-Fox News host for ‘sexism’, has never even met him, her own lawyer admits.

Grossberg has been busy on a media tour accusing Carlson of “breaking” her and making her life a “living hell” by creating a “sexist” and “anti-semitic” workplace.

However, she has never even personally met Carlson while working on his show, according to a report by the Spectator.

“Like many on the [Tucker Carlson Tonight] staff, Abby never met Tucker Carlson in person because he taped the show from his personal studios in Maine and Florida, and he did not visit Fox’s NY HQ during her time there,” Kimberly A. Catala, one of the attorneys representing Grossberg, said.

Grossberg, who was head of bookings for the show between July 2022 and March 2023, claims that while working out of Fox’s Manhattan office she was subjected to bullying and mean comments about being Jewish.

One such “bullying” incident included Grossberg being called a “scrooge” for going around the office turning off Christmas decorations.

Wow. Poor baby.

“Tucker and his executive producer Justin Wells, who was also fired, really were responsible for breaking me and making my life a living hell,” Grossberg told MSNBC this week.

 Really?

How can someone you’ve never even met have such a negative impact? Sounds like utter nonsense.

Grossberg’s lawsuit against Carlson was one of the reasons cited by media reports that motivated Rupert Murdoch to drop the network’s top rated news host.

As we document in the video below, her claims about what was said to her in the office are likely to form part of a ‘dirt dossier’ Fox News has on Carlson that it is preparing to hand to legacy media outlets if Carlson attacks the network.

 

https://summit.news/2023/04/27/ex-tucker-carlson-producer-suing-him-for-sexism-has-never-even-met-him/ 

The Canadian Nationalist Front is not an NS organization we are Ethno-Nationalists

     The Canadian Nationalist Front is not an NS organization we are Ethno-Nationalists with perhaps have some NS supporters but Stop living in the past.  Have to live in the now and the future, we are not Larpers living in a fantasy world to bring back the 3rd Reich, the past is the past and we live in Canada in 2023.  The golden age will be revamped and Euro-Canadian Ethno-Nationalism with focus on Canadian ethnic culture, history and traditional values, this not Germany of the 1940s. Get that out of your heads. There will not be NS flags waving in Canada only the Red Ensign, Celtic Cross or Quebec flags. 

 

 

 

 

ERNST CHRISTOF FRIEDRICH ZÜNDEL (German: [ˈtsʏndl̩]; 24 April 1939 – 5 August 2017) RIP

 ERNST CHRISTOF FRIEDRICH ZÜNDEL

(German: [ˈtsʏndl̩]; 24 April 1939 – 5 August 2017)
RIP

 

Ernst Zundel, a German-born publisher, author and civil rights activist, is a towering figure in the worldwide Holocaust revisionist movement.

 Ernst Zundel was born on April 24, 1939, in a small town in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany . He emigrated to Canada at the age of 19, where he soon married and became the father of two sons. His career as a graphic artist was successful, with his work appearing, for example, on the front cover of Canada 's national news magazine, Maclean's.

 

Setting aside his thriving career, he dedicated himself to the great task, as he saw it, of redeeming the sullied reputation of his fellow Germans. Through his Samisdat publishing house he distributed worldwide a prodigious quantity of books, booklets, leaflets,

 

 newsletters, and audio and video cassettes. Simon Wiesenthal, the well-known "Nazi hunter," called Zundel the world's number one distributor of allegedly dangerous literature and cassettes.

 

Zundel is probably best known for his central role in the "Holocaust Trials" of 1985 and 1988. He was brought to court in Toronto on a charge of "publishing false news," and specifically for publishing a reprint edition of a booklet entitled Did Six Million Really Die?.

Zundel's two lengthy trials - the 1985 trial lasted two months, and the 1988 trial lasted four months - have been the closest thing anywhere to full scale debates on the Holocaust issue. For the first time ever, "Holocaust survivors" and Holocaust historians were closely and critically questioned under oath about their claims and views.

 http://zundelsite.org/archive/zundel_persecuted/who_is_zundel.html

http://zundelsite.org/ 

Fox News ousts Tucker Carlson, its most popular host

*Welcome to La Resistance Tucker Carlson!*

 

Fox News ousts Tucker Carlson, its most popular host 

 

 

By The Associated Press |

PUBLISHED: April 24, 2023 at 4:15 p.m. | UPDATED: April 24, 2023 at 4:15 p.m.

By DAVID BAUDER (AP Media Writer)

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News on Monday ousted prime-time host Tucker Carlson, whose stew of grievances and political theories about Russia and the Jan. 6 insurrection had grown to define the network in recent years and make him an influential force in GOP politics.

Fox said that the network and Carlson had “agreed to part ways,” but offered no explanation for the stunning move, saying that the last broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” aired last Friday. Carlson ended the show by saying, “We’ll be back on Monday.”

The break comes amid a cascade of bad legal news for Fox and Carlson. A week ago, Fox agreed to pay more than $787 million to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over the network’s airing of false claims following the 2020 presidential election — shortly before Carlson was expected to be called to testify.

CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday aired a report about a man caught up in a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory who said Carlson was “obsessed” with him, and whose lawyer has put Fox on notice of potential litigation. Carlson was also recently named in a lawsuit by a former Fox producer who said the show had a cruel and misogynistic workplace, and that she had been pressured to give misleading testimony in the Dominion case.

Meanwhile, CNN axed its own embattled anchor, Don Lemon, part of a one-day bloodletting in cable television news on Monday. Lemon had been a bad fit with his fellow morning hosts and was forced to apologize to GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley for his comment that she was past her prime.

Carlson, however, had a greater influence, higher viewer count and more shocking exit. He worked at both CNN and MSNBC earlier in his career, then ditched his bow-tie look and quickly became Fox’s most popular personality after replacing Bill O’Reilly in the network’s prime-time lineup in 2017.

His populist tone about elites who are out to get average Americans rang true with Fox’s predominantly conservative audience, even leading to talk about Carlson becoming a political candidate himself one day.

He did not immediately return a message seeking comment on Monday.

Shares of Fox Corp. slid 4% within seconds of the announcement of Carlson’s departure, then recovered to be down 2.9% at the end of trading.

“Tucker Carlson had become even bigger than Fox News,” said Brian Stelter, who is writing an upcoming book about Fox, “Network of Lies.” “His sudden ouster will have profound consequences for Fox News, for TV news and the Republican Party.”

When Carlson’s exit was announced during a live showing of the ABC daytime talk show “The View” on Monday, the studio audience applauded. Host Ana Navarro then led the crowd in a singalong to a line from the song, “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.”

Earlier this year, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Carlson exclusive access to security tapes from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, which the show used to conclude: “The footage does not show an insurrection or riot in progress.” His interpretation was denounced by many, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The “60 Minutes” report Sunday was about Raymond Epps, a former Marine and Trump supporter from Arizona who was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. He was later falsely accused of being a government agent conducting a “false flag” operation to start trouble that would be blamed on Trump supporters. Epps and his wife had to sell their business and home because of threats tied to these conspiracy theories.

On CBS, Epps said Carlson was “obsessed” with him and “going to any means possible to destroy my life.”

Carlson was expected to be called as a witness if Dominion’s case had gone to trial, but the two parties settled last Tuesday on the same day that opening statements were anticipated.

Dominion had contended that some Fox programs had falsely aired allegations that the company had rigged the election against former President Donald Trump, even though several Fox executives and personalities didn’t believe them. Carlson’s show was not among the chief offenders; he’d be an unlikely candidate to take the fall for that lawsuit.

In several messages, though, Carlson spoke candidly about his distaste for Trump at the time and his fear that the network was losing viewers among the former president’s fans.

He was also quoted using profane language to describe Sidney Powell, the Trump supporter and conservative attorney who was given airtime on other Fox shows to spread lies about Dominion, and called her a “psychopath.”

Carlson was recently named in a lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, a Fox News producer fired after claiming that Fox lawyers had pressured her to give misleading testimony in the Dominion lawsuit. Grossberg had gone to work for Carlson after leaving Maria Bartiromo’s Fox show.

The lawsuit says that Grossberg learned “she had merely traded in one overtly misogynistic work environment for an even crueler one — this time, one where unprofessionalism reigned supreme, and the staff’s distaste and disdain for women infiltrated almost every workday decision.”

On her first day of work at Carlson’s program, Grossberg said in her lawsuit, she was met with large, blown-up images of Rep. Nancy Pelosi in a bathing suit with a plunging neckline.

Fox has called the lawsuit “baseless.”

On his show, Carlson has also been outspoken in questioning the United States support of Ukraine, following its invasion by Russian forces.

“It might be worth asking yourself since it is getting pretty serious: What is this really about?” Carlson said on his show. “Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? Has he shipped every middle-class job in my town to Russia?”

“Fox News Tonight” will air in Carlson’s 8 p.m. Eastern prime-time slot, hosted by a rotating array of network personalities, for the time being.

“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the press release from the network said.

 

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/04/24/fox-news-ousts-tucker-carlson-its-most-popular-host/