• Dearche@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Seriously, why are news outlets even allowed to push political ads during an election? This should count against the party’s donations, not be considered “volunteering”.

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    3 days ago

    Being proud and serious are very overrated traits, especially when it comes to a country and its government.

    Let’s see some goofy and aloof odd balls, the kind of people capable of tripping over their own feet yet do a proper job at managing a country.

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      Borris Johnson, Javier Milei, Donald Trump… 😬

      Oddballs don’t really have the best track records recently.

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        24 hours ago

        Not in that sense. Oddballs that talk trash on the status quo. Yanis Varoufakus comes to mind.

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      1 day ago

      With the whole buy Canadian thing is this not a US publication masquerading as a Canadian one?

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      2 days ago

      I’m also a subscriber - and that was my initial reaction as well - but perhaps if they can get more Canadians (to whom that ad appeals) reading the Globe instead of Postmedia, we end up in a better place?

      I still think it’s a bad look if they just ran partisan ads supporting a specific party - I wonder how many stories they ran as promotional / paid content? Hopefully a blend of stories?

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        2 days ago

        I’m with you on that. I think compared to some other major Canadian publications, G&M is definitely the paper to read.