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Senator Vivienne Poy is calling for the end of the $1.5 million subsidy for Maclean’s Magazine. Her reason is because of this article which she and others accuses of being racist. My personal reading of the article is that it is reporting on racism and is not racist itself. Though I admit the author gets murky at points on if she is presenting her own or someone else’s opinion.
In a land of free press we have to...
Wait, did I just write $1.5 million subsidy for Maclean’s Magazine? What the hell? Maclean’s is getting a $1.5 million subsidy? For god’s sake why?
Does anyone else ever get the feeling that corporate welfare is completely random?
Now I don’t care if the article is racist or not. Maclean’s should not be given this artificial and unfair advantage of competition. The Conservative government should use this article as a smoke screen, if they have to, to end this ridiculous subsidy.
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Agreed. Government subsidising any for profit publications is bad policy.
Pales compared to CBC's gravy train.
Problems: if you do that then you must reduce or remove the subsidy of all media then. Two, this reeks of censorship for partisan purposes. WE have to ask the question: is their truth to McLean's assertion? If yes, then to just punish them for political reasons is not fair especially since a Liberal is demanding it and ignoring the rest of the 'biased' media. (real conservative)
All magazines get subsidies in Canada, pretty much proportional to circulation I believe. So they don't get an "unfair advantage" really. Just eliminate subsidy for all of them.
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