Marc Edge

I am dingle by choice

I called Capital One a few days ago because I was unable to activate the new card they sent me, which required that I download their app and take a picture of the QR code on the card . . . they made me jump through a bunch of hoops to activate it, but I just tried to use it and it still doesn't work

In Postmedia Newspapers, HRC Argues Long-Term Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis Will Never Be Achieved Until Hamas Is Defeated Nearly two years have passed since the October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel, when scores of innocent Israelis were maimed, raped, tortured, more than 1,200 brutally murdered, and over 250 kidna...

In Postmedia Newspapers, HRC Argues Long-Term Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis Will Never Be Achieved Until Hamas Is Defeated

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Longtime Wyoming newspaper executives to buy, reopen eight shuttered newspapers - WyoFile Overjoyed newsroom staff in communities across Wyoming are back on the job with pay after corporate closure laid off 30 employees.

Save the Wyoming 8 #newspapers

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she solicited the comment with her post . . . now she has courageously blocked me from responding

The Online News Act has been like MAiD for emerging media in Canada Big Media in Canada, which are ruthlessly squeezing every last loonie out of our once-profitable news media, used their remaining political influence to shake down the digital giants with the Online N...

erm, perhaps you don't realize what a disaster this legislation has been . . . this should help to explain it

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Carney suggests he's considering rescinding Online News Act Mark Carney suggested he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act to ensure local news spreads wider and faster.

NP: Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Tuesday he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act #C18

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not the honor system?

entertainment

New York Post to launch California Post newspaper in LA Los Angeles is home to the second-largest concentration of Post readers, per News Corp.

Rupert Murdoch's New York Post plans to launch a California Post in LA . . . it will look and feel similar to its NY counterpart, delivering journalism, entertainment and celebrity gossip, sports news, local news and opinion with an edgy voice #newspapers

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The Big Tech Lobby Has the DOJ in a Stranglehold A secret lobbying effort by Hewlett Packard Enterprise has pushed Donald Trump’s Justice Department to reverse course on the tech giant’s $14 billion megamerger and led to the ouster of top department...

"After a scorched-earth lobbying campaign, the DoJ walked back its own lawsuit blocking a $14 billion tech megamerger pursued by tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise just weeks before the case was set to go to trial."

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they are timeless

diaper rash

I agree it was their best, but there are a few almost as good . . . I have recently come to find Up underrated . . . E-Bow is their best song in my book

it's very simple . . . China, Brazil and the UAE are all so-called BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia) . . . China will start selling flying taxis to two other BRICS countries in a couple of years

send in the gators

"Their goal is to systematically dismantle the free press and rebuild it as a network of propaganda organs designed to protect and uphold the regime and the oligarchs. . . . not from the overt censorship of opinion, but from the construction of an ecosystem where that opinion is rendered impotent"

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

"The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley"

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

News Corp Authorizes New $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program and Intends to Accelerate Pace of Buyback - News Corp News Corp Authorizes New $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program and Intends to Accelerate Pace of Buyback Total authorization to increase to $1.3 billion including $303 million remaining under the Compan...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is making so much money that it has authorized a new US$1 billion Stock Repurchase Program and it intends to accelerate the pace of its buyback

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How Straight Arrow News turned radical transparency into rapid audience growth Derek Mead reveals how he's more than doubled his audience base by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why

Straight Arrow News has more than doubled its audience by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why

www.journalism.co.uk/news/-why-di...

Hearst buys the The Dallas Morning News, and 140 years of local ownership ends - Poynter Deal builds Texas hub for Hearst, shrinks remaining locally focused public newspaper companies to two.

the Hearst chain has bought the Dallas Morning News for $75 million to add to its dailies in Houston, San Antonio and Austin . . . Hearst bought the Austin American-Statesman for an estimated $70 million in February #newspapers

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Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: The future of news in Canada: A call for rethinking public subsidies

Generative AI assisted in the writing of an article in The Hub today, it notes at the end . . . could that explain this whopper?

"Readers recognize when [media] outlets use their platforms to advance their own self-interests rather than the public interest."

thehub.ca/2025/07/03/r...

Canadian democracy in ‘advanced disrepair,’ claims Coyne A long-standing maxim in the newspaper business holds that the longer you spend as a journalist, the more jaded and cynical you become. As a high-profile columnist for national newspapers since 1985, ...

Andrew Coyne's list of complaints about our system of federal government adds up to less of a mountain than a series of molehills that fails to support his dire warning that "the very notion of Canadians as a self-governing people is dissolving before our eyes"

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Allvin could not possibly have taken another skinny Swedish winger in the first round

DeepDive: It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding How Canada can learn from its proud shipbuilding past to secure its future, diversify its economy, and boost its manufacturing capabilities

The Hub's feature today "It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding" was made possible by Irving Shipbuilding because of course it was #cdnmedia

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Q&A: Press Forward’s Texas chapter is betting big on rural and local news - Poynter Jesus Garcia-Gonzalez explains how the San Antonio Area Foundation is building a model to support underserved newsrooms in South-Central Texas

the Texas chapter of non-profit journalism funder Press Forward will focus its efforts on rural and local news in that state's South-Central area, where news deserts are rampant

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‘A critical year in Canada’s history’: John Stackhouse and RJ Johnston on the ‘G7 gas club,’ the weaponization of energy, and Canada’s efforts to become an energy superpower

it must be like a dream come true for bank executives to place their own commentaries in our subsidized news media . . . I wonder if RBC or Mr. Stackhouse would care to disclose how much this cost them #cdnmedia

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Here's the Halifax Examiner's tax return - Halifax Examiner We hold ourselves to the same standard of public accountability that we expect from other institutions and governments.

the Halifax Examiner, which practices radical transparency by posting its annual financials online, rebounded to a profit of $32k last year from a loss of $21k in 2023, thanks largely to an increase of $19k in donations #cdnmedia

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Former Unifor members laid off from Glacier Media papers launch their own newspaper co-op VANCOUVER—Following the closure of Glacier Media’s digital community newspapers in April and May, which affected the jobs of Unifor Local 2000 members, journalists are now banding together to form a w...

Four local journalists have joined forces with Unifor and the Union Cooperative Initiative to launch a Save Our Local News campaign aimed at creating a reliable news publication in the Vancouver suburbs of New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities #cdnmedia

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wear a hat