I really like the CBC, and it's the news source I use most often.

But, even if the CBC isn't your preferred source of Canadian news, you should still support their continued funding. They're the only major news source that doesn't rely on advertising or subscriptions. That means their coverage doesn't have to be sensational, it doesn't have to avoid offending advertisers. Some people might worry that it does have to worry about offending the government, but it's been almost 80 years and they keep reporting the facts on the ground. That's not like the Bezos-owned Washington Post who are having to completely recalibrate how they report things to suit his preferences.

Even if you don't like the CBC, they keep every other media outfit in line by just being a facts-based alternative that people can switch over to. And sure, they have some institutional bias, they're conservative in the old sense of changing slowly and respecting norms and traditions. But, personally I blame a lot of the chaos in the US on there not being a CBC-equivalent.

The US doesn't have any calm, boring, state-funded national media outlet that everybody grudgingly agrees is more or less honest. Sure, they have NPR and PBS but those are not on the same scale per capita as CBC. And, while they're publicly funded, they're not proper news gathering and reporting organizations like CBC news.

It's not enough to have news sources that are not biased towards left or right. Just look at CNN. It's generally not seen as a GOP or Democratic news org. But, it's still extremely sensationalist. Rather than covering important political news, they'll show car chases or fires or whatever prevents people from changing the channel.

We lose CBC and we get the Fox-Newsification of Canada, misinformation and disinformation spreading so nobody knows what's true anymore. That kills the country.

I think we need to go even further and avoid American culture and practices. Tbh that is their biggest export, via the entertainment industry; a recipe for a way of life that guarantees their enrichment and your impoverishment.

Here are my Canadian media recommendations:

• CBC
• The Breach
• The Investigative Journalism Foundation
• The Narwhal
• Rachel Gilmore
• The Tyee

Keep in mind that CTV and CP24 are owned by Bell Media. The CEO Mirko Bibic is a long-time conservative donor who laid off hundreds of employees shortly affer receiving hundreds of millions in handouts from the federal government. That's to say, CTV/CP24 can have some wildly varying opinions and, like all journalism, must be read critically.

Just a reminder to my Maritimes peeps.

The Chronically Horrible is also US owned. As if you needed more reason to avoid it.

American here, if you stop listening to them then you loose track of how bat shit insane the lies they're spewing are. They'll drive a wedge between you and their audience and you won't even know why. It will be because they'll prime their audience against you at every turn. Corporate media and alternative media are always working their way into the minds of your family and friends. Trust me. You can't ignore them. That's how I lost family.

The trollbots that used to howl to defund the CBC and fuck Trudeau have recently had their prompts changed, and now they are promoting Canada, because a Canada that is fighting back against the USA with the support of the world is exactly what Russia would want to happen.

Nah, bro. Never block or ignore enemy media. Because if you do, you don't know what the enemy is thinking. Keep your enemies close.

There's a really good post listing Canadian outlets:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/33693127

Wow. I didn't know this. But I do get most of my news from the CBC.

I’d add The Globe and Mail to this, not just CBC. CBC being free is a huge plus, but I feel like the Globe has more robust editing and reporting whereas I find some CBC articles to be poorly written, fairly misleading or sometimes downright trash.

I didn’t realize national post was as well. Not that I read it a lot but that’s good to know.

Also ride or die for the cbc all day everyday

I've... Never interacted with any of these except maybe the Toronto sun.

Actually most of the news I've watched has been CBC.

Also, even though these are from the USA, they are vital in checking factuality and bias in any media globally:

mediabiasfactcheck.com and groundnews.com

They will radicalized your small population of idiotic racists with this media and grow them like a cancer.