mpjgregoire, 21 days ago to random

The time Pierre Poilievre got a dressing-down from Stephen Harper
https://nationalpost.com/news/the-time-pierre-poilievre-got-a-dressing-down-from-stephen-harper

"“He was so deeply affected by it, and he really went soul-searching for a few weeks to figure life out,” says a friend."

There's a good chance #PierrePoilievre will be PM in two years. We should be grateful a book has been published about his life.

#PaulWells interviewed the author, #AndrewLawton, last week: https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew

#StephenHarper
#CanPol #cdnpoli
#Nationalpost

mpjgregoire, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

Eight things you probably don't know about #PierrePoilievre, from a new biography: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/biography-pierre-poilievres-most-difficult-moments

#PaulWells wrote about this book a few days ago: https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew

#CPC #CanPol #cdnpoli
#NationalPost

fagstein, 5 months ago to random

François Cardinal makes a good point here: the financial crisis facing the media isn't caused by a lack of trust by the public. More people read La Presse now than ever before. It's ad revenue that has fallen off a cliff because of technology change. https://lp.ca/aS2QNO

mpjgregoire, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

"[W]here is the value in CBC? It’s not in English television, but in CBC Radio and Radio-Canada. In an interview with writer-podcaster Paul Wells on Substack, Tait noted that CBC radio is ranked number one in 16 out of 22 markets. As for Radio Canada, it “very often is holding a 25-28 per cent market share. The CBC has a four or five per cent share. Global maybe five per cent, CTV maybe eight per cent, nine per cent.”"

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#CBC
#NationalPost