Naming the media who secretly took Trudeau’s $61M pre-election pay-off
I have in my hands the list of journalists who secretly took a $61-million pre-election pay-off from Justin Trudeau.
Trudeau shovelled it out the door to them just before he called the election. And he kept the list a secret. Until now.
The list is 29 pages long. If I’ve counted right, there are 49 names on each page, and it’s 29 pages long.
At the trough: Lots of numbered companies, and this stood out — CAA Saskatchewan got over $59,000 (say what? That’s a membership funded publication.) The French language periodicals seem to have received specially fattened payouts.
The list is at RebelInvestigates.com. Drop any finds in the comments.
h/t WPB
But if Ezra writes a book… banana republik.
I so wish the list was a) not a blurry scan and b) hence, searchable. As it is, you get, as sort orders, either the funding organization name or b) the amount paid, in ascending order.
And … a total on the last page is not $61 million, so without some sort of explanation, it lacks some credibility.
But, if it’s ‘real’, there’s a whole lot of ‘splaining due.
Looks to me like it’s two different lists of two different types of funding, the first one totals $44,992,949 and the second totals $15,423,564 and these two add up to $60,416,513.
The first list is entitled “SMJ” 2020-21 and the second is “ATP top-up” 2020-21.
I tried to locate these within government web pages or basic search and didn’t find much, SMJ could be Social Media Journals or similar and ATP top-up (hmm, top-up of what in 2019-20?) might be All Types Publications.
Or you could have fun inventing your own terminology. I noticed Rabble.ca scored $71,783 (page 13, near bottom, in alphabetical order).
Just about every small town newspaper in Canada scored a grant in the 5k to 25k range. Walrus and Macleans did considerably better (their scoops are near the end of the second listing).
Will be interesting to hear any explanations of what this avalanche of cash was supposed to accomplish.
Bribes?
Not illegal in Trudeauland.
One of the privileges of being in government.
Your above the law as your paying these assholes wages.
Vote for me Dweebs…
SMJ = Special Measures for Journalism – canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/periodical-fund/special-measures-journalism.html
ATP = Aid to Publishers – canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/periodical-fund.html
I did find one listing which I thought totally appropriate: Annex Publishing & Printing’s MANURE MANAGER.
Ace: There are two “totals”: one 2/3 of the way through is around $44-million, the other is about $15- to $17-million, so it does in fact add up correctly.
Chasing a single listing down:
On Page 000002 of the 1st document is listed one “The Local Weekly” owned by “The Aberdeen Group LP”. This was published in Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast, and went under last spring. However, if one goes here:
https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/id/pch,016-2020-2021-Q2-1334479,current
One finds that the amount listed in the Rebel document ($90,375.00) is listed as COVID-19 funding. Also, SMJ is defined as “Special Measures for Journalism”, and the scope of funding purposes is:
“The Special Measures for Journalism component provides a flexibility to allow publishers to direct funds to the areas of greatest need. Recipients can spend the funds on a variety of publishing activities, such as content creation, production, distribution, or business development.”
One can also search for all instances of grants to “The aberdeen group” and find this and other grants that they have received since 2013:
This is the Search window: https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/
If you enter aberdeen publishing, you get:
https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/?sort=score%20desc&page=1&search_text=aberdeen%20publishing
That result totals $561,140.00, and covers several publications and locations in BC under Aberdeen’s wings. What would a search reveal for some of the other entities on this list?
Typical stoopid Junior…can’t even bribe journalists without trust fund silver spoon conspicuous inefficiency. Wasting $68,000 on the Cochrane Eagle newspaper? The Liberal candidate in the riding usually gets less than 20% of the vote. The paper goes straight to the recycle bin anyhow. Business-like Libranos used to demand a decent return on investment in the old days.
Money printer goes BRRRRRRRRR……..
SMJ = Socialism Minus Jagmeet
and ATP = Act The Part
or
SMJ = So Much Junk
and ATP = Amazing Trudeau Patronage
SMJ = Special Measures for Journalism – canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/periodical-fund/special-measures-journalism.html
ATP = Aid to Publishers – canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/periodical-fund.html
SMJ Sophie Mom Juice
ATP All The Payola
A quarter million to the National Observer (253 000$). Oh goody! So much progressive eco-propaganda for us all to enjoy.
I will take this list and do a search to see what ridings the publication is located in.
Something smells like Adscam about this.
So many happily took the srcret bribe. I think this is more shocking than the fact the Liberals did the bribing.
Frank Magazine in Ottawa received $7,000 and change. Pro-Liberal rag.
Pro-Liberal? It must have changed since I last read it around 20 years ago. It was an equal-opportunity mud-slinger back then.
Yes. My dead-tree subscription ran out in the late-1990s and I did not bother to renew. At the time the late Andy Scott was in Cabinet and Frank used to phone me on the latest dirt on the good Liberal. So yeah, Frank would go after Liberals, but ever so gingerly. It saved its greatest vitriol for the Reform party
We are screwed, there are idiots trotting to the polls voting for that bastard.
Anyone who can read and votes Liberal is, at their core, corrupt.
The Free Shit Brigade
Maybe something like this happened or is happening in my beloved US using that supposed $30bn that disappeared from the EED coffers in California.
In related news during a Global interview last night, Herr Justin told the host that she wasn’t asking the right questions. I guess she will be looking for another job.
Canadian Pizza and Canadian Firefighter got funding (same publisher).
What would all those firefighters read while eating pizza and watching football on Sundays?
Looks like aboot 40 things published by Annex Publishing & Printing Inc.
https://www.annexbusinessmedia.com/about/
Don’t know who owns it.
Pizza is code for something else also, well according to Oblowme.
Whut?
You mean secretly bribing journalist hoes to lie to you about his corruption isn’t open and transparent??
Rosie Barton must be wondering where her payola is. Maybe Justin got out front and sent it directly to weightwatchers.
Juthtin put a down payment on a Peter Built, for a personal ride for her!
Ha, your social credit score just dropped to equal mine, must be the name.
My local rags (we have two, one part of a consortium, one small and local) are not on the list. But in our town, it’s more a case of “why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”.
On the other hand, The Epoch Times is on the list…odd
I went through the entire list.
Ethics Magazine was nowhere to be found.
Ethics is so ‘old school and Harper like.’
Being in government, you change the rules to suit the situation that the media brings up.
Ops, paid agenda…
‘Did I say that?’
Damn, too many cameras and microphones around.
Need to regulate that shit.
UN good…Canadians bad racist bastards who genocide native children decades ago…
More reconciliation and reparations, can’t have paid too much ya damn settlers.
There has to be some real payola spreading around to vote Liberal and those who accept it are also corrupt.
Ethics, morals, HONESTY are just not to be found in politics.
How good, informed citizens can vote for Justin Trudeau and his gang is beyond comprehension.
“Ethics, morals, HONESTY are just not to be found in politics.” Not in journalism either, according to the list.
rabble.ca gets $17k
The Epoch Times for $455 k ?
Surprising …
Standouts in the List:
Saskatoon Home magazine
Glacier Farmmedia
Ag Media Inc
Prairie Newspaper Group
Your Saskatoon News
Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association
Looked at a couple of small local sites that received money and didn’t see any pro Trudeau or anti opposition articles in the last month.
So unless these are all liberal buddies getting some cash before Trudeau gets kicked out, I don’t see the fuss.
Reality is that there is almost no private sector in canuckistan today. Almost all businesses supplement their market place income with a grant, subsidy or lucrative government contract to stay alive. Canuckistan is a third world country trying to maintain a first world lifestyle by borrowing from the kids. Used to be the energy sector was the primary source of funding for all this but now it is just debt. What is left of the country is completely screwed.
And if one is being funded by the government, one is also subject to the government’s edicts. Whoever pays the piper calls the tune, which might be one reason why Prinz Dummkopf wants to destroy what’s left of the oil industry.
Pretty much. Add a raging tire fire of a housing market, banking and telecom oligopolies, and you’ve got the modern Canadian economy about covered.
I don’t quite know what this country wants to be any more, but increasingly it only bears superficial resemblance to a free society of free people going about their daily lives as they see fit. Perhaps the fat, lazy, self-indulgent people depicted in the Pixar film WALL-E is more on point.
If the magazine from CAA Saskatchewan is anything like the rag that the AMA in Alberta publishes, I’m not surprised it needed an infusion of cash. I’m an AMA member and its publication goes straight to recycling as it’s hardly worth reading.
Then again, the only real benefit I get from AMA is roadside assistance, which was, perhaps, the main reason I joined more than 40 years ago.
So. Rebel News doing REAL journalism … are still having to SUE to get their place at the debate stage? … are STILL being called “illegitimate” by the State Media outlets (all but Rebel) in Canada?
Yeah … Canada is FULL ON Banana Republic.
The Black Group gets a tremendous gift, at a glance, over a Million bucks overall, for their community rags that are published up and down the island, and through the interior of BC.
And what are their chief articles each week? Climate Change, EnviroMENTALISM, Socialism, etc. Plus, some cut and paste diatribes from David Suzuki each month.
Bird cage liner and it delivers the weekly flyers, that’s all these wretched propaganda sheets are for. But no wonder they print the far left garbage, Trudeau is paying them to do it. By the way, these are “free” papers……….
I’m reading the archives of the old comic strip Bloom County (which was far funnier than Donnesbury):
https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty
and I’m at the set where Oliver Wendell Jones hacks his way into Pravda. He tinkers with the headline so that it became “Gorbachev Sings Tractor: Turnip! Buttocks!”
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if a publication that was bribed by Prinz Dummkopf did something similar?
Rebel News overplayed this one. See, the thing is, if you’re going to trade in salacious, conspiracy-tinged propaganda, it’s best not to share too much. Misinformation only works if your spin can’t be easily independently verified and refuted.
Claiming that Trudeau “secretly” “paid off” journalists in the lead-up to the election is one thing, but you want to spread that kind of sensationalist lie through unverifiable tweets and hyper-ventilating YouTube rants. Actually showing your hand — publishing the list of funding recipients, identifying the Canadian Heritage funding program mechanism used, etc. — just allows people to see for themselves that there’s nothing scandalous here.
For starters, if political parties were going to illegally “pay off” journalists, they wouldn’t use established and previously announced federal funding mechanisms (canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2021/06/backgrounder—continued-support-for-arts-culture-heritage-and-sport-sector-organizations.html) that have their own websites (canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/periodical-fund.html; canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/periodical-fund/special-measures-journalism.html), offer open funding solicitations, and are readily subject to Access to Information requests.
Second, do you suppose Rebel News’s argument is (a) bolstered or (b) undermined, by the fact that $350K went to Alberta Farmer Express, $14K went to Canadian Electrical Wholesaler, $3K went to Hardsurfaces (the official magazine of the Terrazzo, Tile and Marble Association of Canada), $10K went to the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association, $68K went to Beef Business, $455K went to the Epoch Times, $295K went to the Western Producer, $11K went to Plumbing and HVAC, and $39K went to Calibre – The Canadian Firearm Magazine (which recently launched the anti-Trudeau website, gunvote.ca)?
[n.b. – here’s where you counter with increasingly improbable arguments about hiding in plain sight as a kind of advanced political tradecraft]
ADBUSTERS = $27, 497. Credibility = nil.
CANADIAN POULTRY = $110.571. To cackle about what ?
MANURE MANAGER = $3011. Priceless !
POTATOES IN CANADA = $3584. Little Potato’s Fav !
CPR: THE CANADIAN POETRY REVIEW = $43,413.
PATRIDES, N. AMERICAN REVIEW = $ 16,699. No web presence to identify this item.
rabble.ca = $71,783. Climate Change propaganda.
TORONTOKOVA = $50,904. Russian language in Toronto.
AFGHAN POST = $5000. For those left behind / dual citizens ?
THE WORLD OF LUBAVITCH = $5000.
BRIDGE RIVER LILLOOET NEWS = $5000. What would Ma Murray have done ?
SHEEP CANADA MAGAZINE = $5313. When all the other sheep news doesn’t get through ?
WIARTON ECHO = $6218. WILLY !
CRIME WATCH CANADA MAGAZINE = $6437. Keeping an eye J.T. ?
RUE MORGUE = $9067.
THE LOW DOWN TO HULL & BACK NEWS = $11,566.
CREATIVE SCRAPBOOKER MAGAZINE = $15,824.
MODERN CAT = $19,684.
CANADIAN COIN NEWS = $ 29,373.
MODERN DOG = $ 35,911. Obvious bias.
CANADA’S HISTORY MAGAZINE = $53,125. Rewrites ?
EXPLORING CHINA = $69,225. In case we didn’t care enough.
THE WALRUS = $75,695. The Journal of Mutual Admiration.
TORONTO LIFE = $126,559. )
HOCKEY NEWS = $218,306. ) WHY CAN’T THESE FOUR PAY THEIR OWN WAY ?
ZOOMER = $246,993. )
MACLEAN’S = $313,100. ).
I’m of the opinion that this was just a reminder to media that the extra funding keeping them from going under, will dry up, if the turd is ousted. So therefore, it’s in their interest to keep up the support of our wonderful liberal government. For those saying this is NOT open in our face bribery of media, I’m sure some outliers were included to muddy the water some. Is bribing the media what our forced taxation funds should be used for? along with the millions of other wasting of our tax money that the liberals throw around.
“It’s perfectly okay to give money to Canadians,” will be the response no doubt.
Why do these Presstitutes get one penny?
Taxpayers already chose,that is why these freeloaders line up to receive government gifts..
Cause they cannot convince the citizens to buy what they are selling.
So the bureaucratic solution?
Put them on the public payroll.
But Ted is right,nothing unethical,corrupt or sleazy about the government in power handing out free money to the Press while calling an election..
Why that is business as usual in Can Ahh Duh.
Just ask any Liberal.
This is what you call a Trudeau Bribe if you can’t win pay them off…I think Trudeau has bought all his votes…all the companies and their affiliates employee votes. Gottcha!! Communist style!