CANADA'S CORPORATE OWNED MEDIA BETRAYS US CANADIANS EVERY DAY

CANADA'S CORPORATE OWNED MEDIA BETRAYS US CANADIANS EVERY DAY.. 

The Corporate Journalists work for Corporate Canada; they don't work for us.  And it is very dangerous to trust them.

(June 26, 2025)     One of my favorite corporate media stories is the GMO foods story.  GMO foods were put into Canada's food supply without ever even telling us as far as I know.  I was certainly around at the time, in the mid 1990s.  And I was involved in a lot of environmental issues at the time.  But I never even heard of GMO foods until years later ... when stories began to circulate about 'some weird stuff they'd put into our food'.  So the media, and our governments, worked together to ensure that we never even heard of GMO foods until it was 'too late'.  And that's how the media treat us on all the important issues; while telling us every day 'how much they care about us and how they work for us.   

In Canada, one of the corporate owned media's most important jobs is to support and promote the official corporate stories, whatever they may be.  And to never talk about the stories or the ideas that Corporate Canada does not want talked about.  So for example when I was in the enviro movement here in BC and people were trying to stop the corporation from clearcut logging everything, the media always told us of 'the fight between Jobs and The Environment'.  The fight was always between jobs and the environment.  But the idea that it was really jobs and the environment together, fighting against corporate profits, that idea was never mentioned even once I don't think.  The corporate media is not our friend; and all the corporate journalists aren't our friends.  They are really our great enemies. All the corporate journalists on radio and TV and in the papers who pretend every day that they work for us; that is just one more lie.  Same with facebook and their 'community standards' which mean that now FaceBook will define what 'community standards' are.  The corporate journalists don't work for us, they work for the corporation that they work for - be that CTV or Shaw or Rogers or The Globe and Mail or CBC or any of the corporate owned radio stations ; or FaceBook or Google or etc.. 

I'm listening right now to Corporate Journalist Vassy Kapelos.  I don't want to pick on her because they are all pretty much the same, but I happen to be listening to her show right now.  Her two hour show is on a lot of Bell Media radio stations, and she is on CTV a lot as well.  She is a very successful corporate journalist.     

And Ms. Kapelos is big with Bell Media because, first of all she's good at what she does .. but they also know that she can be completely trusted to do exactly what the bankers who run Bell Media want.  She knows what is allowed and what is not allowed, what can be said and what can't be said; and she has proven over the years that she will do exactly what is expected of her.  That's how the corporate owned media operate.  So when she was talking about Dental Care a year or so ago, she was 'so concerned' about how we were going to pay for it, but when she was talking about spending more for NATO, suddenly where the money was coming from wasn't really a problem.  And the idea of taxing the banks and oil companies a bit more is also something she is much too smart to ever mention.  

And one big problem is that most Canadians trust people like Ms. Kapelos.  I certainly used to trust them all.  We trust that they are giving us honest information and both sides of the story and 'the truth'.  And we trust them because that is what they always tell us they are doing.  Because the number one lie of all the corporate journalists is that 'We Work For You'.    All the corporate journalists always pretend that they work for us, when really nothing could be further from the truth.  They work, in fact, for Big Business, and one of their biggest jobs is to lie to us and betray us daily.  And they are all happy to do that, because if they don't they will lose their jobs tomorrow and none of them want that.   And that's not their fault, that's OUR fault because we have let the corporations take over our governments and our media.  Big Business controls and owns what we think of as a great free press.  How crazy is that?  

I certainly trusted the Canadian media for most of my life.  But I know now how very dangerous it is when we trust journalists who work for Corporate Canada to tell us the truth about what is going on.  It is very difficult to have a successful democracy when one small group controls what is supposed to be The Free Press; because a democracy does require a free press so that people can know what is going on.  Here in Canada we lost our free press long ago, and in my opinion our democracy is now almost gone as well; there is very little democracy left in Canada.

And that is why corporate profits are at record highs in so many industries, while we Canadians and our governments are deeply in debt and half of us will get cancer because the corporations are allowed to poison us as much as they want so they can 'maximize their profits'.   And we have to watch the homeless roam our streets because the corporate housing industry created a shortage of homes in Canada so they could push up rents and prices and mortgage payments ... and that is exactly what they did to us.    But fortunes have been made from the housing disaster, so it goes on and on and the media always pretend they 'care' about the housing nightmares that people are living through, but really they don't care at all.  If they really cared, they'd tell us the truth about what's been done to us, and they'd tell us the solutions, because there are I believe reasonable solutions out there.  And meanwhile we have to wait 12 to 15 hours in pain to get into an ER while billions of dollars in corporate profits are sucked out of our health care system every month - but that too will never get a mention in the corporate owned media.    

The corporations and the super rich are wrecking our country and stealing a lot of people's money plus they are making people sick and destroying the entire planet so they can maximize their profits ..... but there is not one corporate journalist who will ever say any of that because if they did, they would be fired by tomorrow.  And that is a big problem for Canada and Canadians.  And we have got to do something about it.  But we are a million miles away from even beginning that important fight.  Or so it seems.  

So right now, in June of 2025, all the media seem to be applauding Mr. Carney's Billions of Extra Dollars to be spent on The Military.  First they create the enemies for us to fear; Russia and China and etc; and then they tell us we are going to have to spend an EXTRA $90 Billion a year to fight them.  Nato wants us to go from 2% to 5% of GDP on the military, and each 1% is about $30 Billion.   And of course lots of people believe the story that we have to spend more on war, because the media are experts at misinformation.  I certainly believed it all for most of my life, but I can tell you today that it is very dangerous to believe anything the media tell us without first checking it out as thoroughly as you can.  And it's important, because they lie to us about things that are hugely impacting our lives and our health and the communities we live in.  People have always fought for democracy and a free press because these things are important to our lives; but today we are in the position of believing we have a great democracy and a wonderful free press when really we may have neither.  Which gives the corporations a lot of power over us; if they are running things but we believe we live in a democracy.   So they poison our food with chemicals and pesticides and tell us it is safe.  They create a housing disaster and make lots of money from it while they all pretend they just 'can't' figure out a way to build enough houses for the people who live here.  'Yeah, we could always do it before... but now we just can't figure it out.  Sorry about that.'   And the disaster goes on and on and gets worse and worse, but lots of money is being made so they don't care.  

But back to the idea of corporate journalism and how it works:     A few minutes ago Ms. Kapelos was talking about how BC Ferries is having some new ferries built in 'Evil China'.  And how do we know that China is evil and out to get us?  Because the media tells us that almost every day for years now.  And how do the media know China and Russia are doing all these terrible things to our democracy?  Because the media have been told that by CSIS and the RCMP.  And of course the media believe and trust CSIS and the RCMP 100%.  No matter how often CSIS and the RCMP lie to us, the media still believe them when they are telling the official stories that Corporate Canada wants told.  As far as I know there has been no evidence presented to a court of law, no court decisions about whether any of this Russian or Chinese 'interference' in our democracy ever took place.  And here in Victoria, some years ago, the RCMP 'faked' a terror attack in order to blame Muslim people for that attack; and the media reported the RCMP lies as if they were true, because they wanted people to fear and hate Muslims ... and now they've just moved on to Russia and China.  And we have got to 'grow up' and start figuring out what is really going on in Canada because it looks to me like they are deliberately wrecking our country and stealing everything that isn't nailed down.  

To me it seems clear that Corporate Canada always wants 'an outside enemy'; a foreign enemy - or a good war - that our rulers can focus our attention on - and spend lots of our money on.  And then our leaders can save us from these horrible foreign enemies.   But there is never time to look at who our real enemies maybe are... for example maybe our real enemy is the .01% corporate elite who run Canada for themselves and who seem to be destroying our society as fast as they can.  But there is no time ever to look at THAT story in the media that the corporations own.  For example, I think our governments keep putting violent and out of control criminals back on the streets even after a dozen arrests because our governments WANT the fear and violence and craziness it causes.  If they didn't want it, they would keep these people in jail and get treatment for all of them if they can still be helped.  

But the governments and the media never suggest that this is possible; so we Canadians don't seem to get it.  I mean, they are doing it right in front of us; they create the homeless and mentally ill on the streets problem; then they let people just randomly attack others and they put them back on the street to do it again.  And they allow serial thieves and criminals to steal everything from stores and small business people, and the politicians make sure the police can't do anything about it ...and we don't get it because the politicians and media keep telling us how much they 'care' and how hard they are trying.  No, the whole crime and violence thing IS government policy.  It is the plan. They are wrecking our country and taking everyone's money at the same time.  Look at the amount of debt In Canada these days; and it has to all be paid back somehow; which is very good for the investor and banker class.  They will be getting lots of money from Canadians for a long long time, and they don't even have to work for it.  Just create a housing shortage and push up rents and push up prices and push up mortgage payments, and it's money forever for those in the know??  I mean, one can make a very good case I think that this is exactly what they have done to us.  And what I'm saying is ... it's not by accident.  And I'll ask you to at least consider that point of view and think if it may be possible.  Because if it is, then we really have to start fighting to get some democracy back into Canada so that our corporate rulers can no longer do these kinds of things to us.  

Have we ever seen any real proof that Russia and China are interfering in our democracy?   If there is proof, and they are 'out to get us', then I am all for fighting back as best and as hard as we can.  And that's the official story; Russia and China are out to get us and we are just fighting back.  But I don't believe the media and the politicians anymore, because I know they lie to me all the time and I know they don't work on my behalf and I think the media and the politicians don't work for the Canadian people but they work instead for Corporate Canada and the .01% elite.  (Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I think.)  So, before I believe the Russia and China are our enemy story, I would like to see some proof.   There are lots of experts out there - on the internet that we are told to never trust; told that by the people who we really SHOULD never trust.  And yes there is a lot of craziness on the internet but there is also good access to good information that is much less controlled than what we are allowed to see in the corporate media. 

So when you look, you will see lots of experts telling us that for example the official Russia Ukraine War Story we are told is not true.  It's propaganda.  It's the story the corporations that own the media want us to think.  That Russia is the enemy, but we... WE ... are just concerned about justice and honor and fairness and happiness for everyone.  But a lot of experts are saying the exact opposite thing.  That the west pushed the war with Ukraine.  That Mr. Zelensky is not the great hero we are always told he is.  That there was never any reason for this war except that the lunatics who run the United States wanted it.  Ukraine has been wrecked; Russia has paid a huge price.  There are homeless people everywhere on our streets while we funnel billions to fight a war that maybe the corporations started more for their own power and profit than anything else. 

We are told over and over that Russia and China are interfering with our great democracy, but when I look at the state of our democracy in Canada, I don't see much democracy at all.  So what are they interfering with?  As far as I can see, Corporate Canada and the .01% run Canada.  And they are wrecking the environment and poisoning us all.  They've created crazy communities where people have to drive to work at often crazy and soul-destroying jobs.  And everything is run from the top; we the people have no power at all.  Why, for example, do cashiers and people who work in restaurants or hotesl or  other jobs have to stand, hour after hour.  Why can't they have a chair of some kind to sit down in.  The government could have legislated that in a hundred years ago.  But they want to show people how powerless they are.  So those at the bottom of the economic ladder have to slowly damage their health for no reason whatsoever, and it never gets talked about as if it is of no importance.  But it is important because it shows the kind of society we have.  And what we could have.  We need more small business and less 'big business', but small businesses across Canada have been under attack for years.  First Covid.  Then theft and crime across our downtowns where a lot of small businesses are.  Plus more and more people don't have any money so they can't spend money at the small businesses.   I mean, all of that is happening and I don't think it's happening by accident; not when the banks and oil companies are making record profits and the stock markets are, believe it or not, at record highs.  Yes, in the midst of all the chaos the stock markets are at record highs.  It makes no sense because the people who run things know that the fires and floods and the growing sickness in North America are bringing an end to the consumer society as we know it. 

In fact it seems to me that the biggest threat to our democracy is Corporate Canada.  But since Corporate Canada owns all the big media in Canada and controls all our top politicians, the idea that Corporate Canada is our real enemy can never be mentioned. 

But getting back to corporate journalist Vassy Kapelos; I think Ms. Kapelos is very good at her job and she has a lot of talent.  I just wish her job was to tell Canadians the real truth; but instead her job is to tell us ONLY The Corporate Truth.  The Corporate Media will only tell us the truth that that the corporations want us to know.  And that is a very dangerous situation for us.  For example, I believe that Canadian beef cannot be exported to the European Union these days because the EU has higher standards for food safety than we do and they say that Canadian beef is not what they want to be serving their people.   And we Canadians aren't even told this story ... because it's not good for our Agri-Business Corporations if we know about these kinds of things.  So they just don't tell us that the EU says Canadian beef isn't really that safe to eat.  But they tell us every day about measles ... because they care so much about our health.  The media are 'so' concerned about measles because in my opinion there is a good corporate vaccine for measles and they want to sell those vaccines.  Of course there are very major side effects associated with vaccines, but the media just don't ever tell us us about those because the corporate owners don't want us knowing about those side effects it seems.  And back to the beef, I think some Canadian raised beef is sold into the EU, but it has to be raised in Canada to EU standards; not to our standards.  And that's how our rulers treat us on every issue in my opinion.  And if we don't figure it out soon, they are really going to destroy us. 

We could and should have a very good future here in Canada; but if we want that better future we will have to get rid of the corporate elite that has stolen our democracy and our country from us.  And the time to start fighting that fight is right now.  Because it's already far too late.  And to be clear, the fight is for "More Democracy" ... meaning that we Canadians have more of a voice in our governance, and Corporate Canada and 'their politicians' have less of a voice. 

One thing I would recommend that people can do right now is to join your favorite political party and begin to work for More Democracy in your party.  I think you will find that all our big political parties are controlled by small groups 'at the top' and the last thing these groups want is for the members to have more control.  But if we want democracy, then we have got to control our own political parties.  So we have got to give party members, those who join a political party, they have got to have control over what the party is doing. And it used to be much more like that; but now the gangs at the top have concentrated all the power into their own hands and they have taken over and made the party members irrelevant.  I was just in the BC NDP for two years, and that party is completely and totally undemocratic.  All the power is at the top, the party members have no power, not even to vote for the leadership as I was quite shocked to find out..   The BC NDP is a democratic nightmare.  And those are the people who govern our province, because here In BC the NDP is the government.  And the party is run by an undemocratic gang of nobodies who have completely betrayed us all and who work for big business or so it seems.  It is absolutely crazy. 

So the fight really is for more democracy.

Crazy times for sure, but also very important times.  And 'we' are the ones that are here.  So what are we going to do??