🍁 Canadian Independent Media

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Amy Eileen Hamm in the New Westminster Times

Reduxx Magazine Sued For Defamation In Japan For Calling A Male A Man

Silvia Stifini at That Eurovision Site

Federal budget includes funds for the CBC to join Eurovision

Eurovision, a song contest amongst member nations, enjoys cult status across Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. 

Despite the name, both Israel and Australia take part.

Broken Pencil

Broken Pencil publisher shuts zine review mag after 30 years, ‘torn down by a woke anti-Israel mob’

Hal Niedzviecki writes that he has been subjected to ‘online harassment over my personal beliefs, a petition demanding that I resign from the publication I founded, that the magazine formally support the Boycott Divest And Sanction Israel movement and devote an entire issue to the conflict in Gaza, and the withdrawal of authors and sponsors from our Canzine festivals in Ottawa and Toronto’. 

Jonathan Rotsztain in The Grind: ‘The cherished Toronto-based zine mag is no more, after the staff and wider community butted heads with the publisher over his staunch support for Israel and its war on Gaza’.

Christopher Dummitt in the National Post: ‘Hal Niedzviecki spent 30 years building a magazine and trade show, only to have it torn down by a woke anti-Israel mob’.

Philip Moscovitch in the Halifax Examiner: ‘I think there’s a lesson here, and it’s not that identity politics and cultural purity tests are destroying culture’.

RadioWest forum

AM revival: The new owner of CKOC 1150 AM Hamilton and CKWW 580 AM Windsor has new websites.

Neeti P. Ray has relauched the former Bell stations with CKWW contuing its ldies format, and CKWW changing to oldies from Bloomberg Business News.

Christian Paas-Lang at CBC

Longtime talkshow host Charles Adler has been named to the Senate for Manitoba

Adler had long been considered a Conservative but in recent years had become more small ‘C’.