Consider adding The Maple, they do some good work.

Could you add The Line? https://www.readtheline.ca/ (political commentary, some original journalism)

A little late to the party but there's also the West End Phoenix and The Local

If magazines count, Spacing is a great one focused on urbanism.

The Torstar group - the Toronto Star - aren't here - are they actually still Canadian?

Can you add theconversation.com/ca

https://theconversation.com/ca/who-we-are

Their Canadian newsroom is in Toronto, and all articles are editorials from Canadian institutions. They're also non profit and a registered charity now.

Is it surprising that the American owned media tend to be highly in favour of corporations?

The most promising counters to dark money:

1. Democracy Watch
2. The Investigative Journalism Foundation
3. Council of Canadians
4. Protecting Canada
5. Canadians for Tax Fairness
6. PressProgress
7. Fair Vote Canada
8. Bluesky Starter Pack: Ontario journalists that cover work & wage issues.

Obligatory, come join us over at [email protected] . We are trying to restore control of government back to the people!

In case anyone is wondering about who owns POSTMEDIA NETWORK

Top Shareholders:
Postmedia Network Canada Corp.

• 63% - Chatham Asset Management LLC (a multinational American company)
• 17% - Allianz Global Investors GmbH (a multinational German company)
• 13% - Leon Cooperman (a billionaire Jewish investor from New York)
• less than 1% is Canadian companies
• rest of the percentage is listed as 'unknown'

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/POSTMEDIA-NETWORK-CANADA--42378696/company-shareholders/

Who owns The Beaverton?? LOL

Fantastic list.

Without the Narwhal, most of us would have no fucking clue what DoFo and Co were up to with the Greenbelt since 2018. Just as a for instance.

Someone posted a story yesterday from a new print paper called The Grind, and it's really decent. Looks on the level so far. idk if it makes your cut for the list, but anyone looking for a free local paper in Toronto you can read irl like it's 2010, they've got some drop locations in the city (Gateway news stands in the TTC, some record and book shops).

https://briarpatchmagazine.com/ out of Regina is another classic. Been around since the 70s and it's unionized afaik.

The Globe and Mail is owned by a private holding company that is, in turn, owned by the Thomson family, which Wikipedia describes as Canadian.

If you're francophone (or just a francophile) I highly recommend La Presse and Le Devoir. The former is a non-profit and considered a "newspaper of record", the latter isn't non-profit but is still an independent publication and is also often considered a newspaper of record.

And of course there's Radio-Canada, the French language publication of the CBC.

The French avoid list for me mostly revolves around Québecor — but this is more of a journalistic integrity issue rather than an American media problem. I find it important from a moral and ethical perspective to avoid media megacorp conglomerates (and this is also yet another reason to avoid Postmedia).

One more thing on franco media, reading the news is a great way of developing vocabulary in your second language. Give it a shot, it's really fulfilling and in this case unlocks some great independent / non-profit options :)

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/

The Canadian Press is Canada’s national news agency.

Just for clarity, the Vancouver Sun is also owned by Post Media Group.

No Reuters?

One of the best wire agency/news networks in the entire world is Canadian, kind of shocking to see it not mentioned here.

Postmedia also now owns Saltwire, which operated most of the major newspapers in Atlantic Canada: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaltWire_Network

This is a great post, thank you!

I hate to post another comment, but another great tool for media reading in general is RSS feed aggregators. Yes they can be janky, but it is the easiest way to explicitly choose what media you receive, rather than relying on algorithms in news apps / social media to dictate all that you read.

NetNewsWire is a great option for Apple devices Feedbro integrates into your web browser And Feeder is the one I use on my Android phone.

Here is a general comparison list on Wikipedia of different feed aggregators.

If you are a bit more technically inclined, I highly recommend hosting your own feed aggregator online (allowing you to sync your saved articles / read articles between devices, and better battery life on mobile devices). The two apps I usually see recommended for this are tt-rss "Tiny Tiny RSS" as well as FreshRSS.

Where does Winnipeg Free Press sit?

You should have never let our oligarchs to operate like that IMHO

I am all about free speech etc but you can't a hostile foreign actor operating at the same level in mission critical industries. They will always exploit it for personal again at the expense of your national security.

Huh, the Gazette is part of Postmedia?

That explains a LOT!

Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post newspapers are owned by Postmedia Network now and should also be in the Media to Avoid list. Great resource! It helped me curate my RSS feeds.