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Legacy media is being supported through the Federal government’s Department of Canadian Heritage and through tax breaks worth billions per year. New media outlets need to even the odds.

For an entire generation of Canadians, the future of media is already here. The content of old “legacy” media is dead or dying while the “new” media is thriving, even as the legacy attempts to muzzle and dismiss it.

Of course, the legacy has a bit of help to enable its continued existence.

The legacy is being supported through the Federal government’s Department of Canadian Heritage, a huge government bureaucracy officially tasked with initiatives that promote and support "Canadian identity and values, cultural development, and heritage,” but which also provides legacy media outlets with direct cash loans, grants and tax breaks worth billions of dollars annually.

But all this financial support limits the content the legacy media can provide. They need to retain the support of their major financier and are often encouraged to ignore all but officially sanctioned government talking points.

As noted in the November 30th, 2023 the Hub post, “Half of private Canadian journalism could now be g…