So, I just went to cancel my digital #TorontoStar subscription due to life circumstances changing -- nothing against the Star itself -- and found that like many other digital subscriptions, too has the whole impossible to cancel online design. It doesn't even link to a manual way to do it. Tsk tsk tsk. #torstar #dobettermedia

@gemelliz Here's what looks like the same article (a #TorStar affialiate publication) but the #paywall seems to be down in the #WaterlooRecord version
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ontario-justices-of-the-peace-gear-up-to-take-ford-government-to-court-over-wage/article_fa8cbb02-d26b-11ee-9275-8ff74f70da76.html?source=newsletter&utm_source=ts_nl&utm_medium=email&utm_email=6A2F885639963E0F2B8C118F8F58D481&utm_campaign=frst_209531
#onpoli

A whole article on the #traffic congestion issues faced by #Toronto, and the only solutions suggested are technology based.

Well unless some of that technology includes #Tardus technology so we can physically fit a lot more #cars into a smaller space, it is not going to help.

The only thing that would help is a congestion charge for cars entering the downtown, with the proceeds used to improve #transit, is not even mentioned.

What a crappy newspaper.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/its-like-a-rash-you-cannot-get-rid-of-what-toronto-is-doing-about-jammed/article_fc3d2634-92c0-11ee-90e0-4b5fc62d5350.html

#onpoli #cdnpoli #ontario #torontoStar #torstar

Huge Online News Act Backer, Toronto Star, Condemns Government Google Deal

The Toronto Star, a very public backer of the Online News Act, is saying they cannot support the deal struck between Google and the government.

When I published the article on the government folding, I got a number of comments saying that I was completely out in left field. For supporters of the Canadian government, the...

https://www.freezenet.ca/huge-online-news-act-backer-toronto-star-condemns-government-google-deal/

#Copyright #BillC18 #Canada #Google #OnlineNewsAct #TorontoStar #Torstar

And in other #cdnmedia news:

#Postmedia and #Torstar are about to merge, which would essentially signal the end of truly local #newspapers in #Canada (and a likely horrible end to the #AtkinsonPrinciples)

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/postmedia-toronto-star

https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/06/27/toronto-star-owner-in-talks-to-merge-with-postmedia.html

Great - so Conservative news media will own every piece of corporate news media in Canada. I hope to hell that the Competition Bureau steps in and denies this merger.

We need stronger independent news sources - not more consolidation in news media.

#Canada
#TorStar
#PostMedia

Probably in vain, I pitched to #TVO, #torstar, even Roger's Community TV, and yes, also the impenetrable #CBC, but it can't hurt to email them on Fediverse why and how. 25 years ago I dragged CBC into the future kicking and screaming when I lured them into using GPL, but I expect they've forgotten.

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Canada's Public Broadcaster http://cbc.ca

For anyone even vaguely following #cdnmedia — but especially for those with an interest in #newspapers, #journalism (and/or #Toronto’s new #FamilyCompact) — this piece about the collapse of the new ownership of #Torstar & its namesake property, #TorontoStar, is a can’t miss https://torontolife.com/city/star-wars-inside-the-vicious-battle-for-control-of-the-countrys-largest-newspaper/