Another week, another brain-meltingly stupid column in The National Post. We had every intention of sticking to our format this episode, but recent events forced us to switch things up.
For those of you blissfully unaware: Postmedia closed the doors to another 15 of its community newspapers. As this is an organization that a) owns a ton of newspapers in small towns across the country and b) has no idea how to make money with newspapers we are concerned for the well-being of local journalism in Canada.
Remember when they took several millions in bailout money to avoid this situation precisely?
We do get to a column in this episode as well, a real stinker by John Ivison that had the distinction of bringing in a whole lot of clicks to the National Post for all the wrong reasons. It's a piece about how the luxurious benefits afforded to the unemployed during this pandemic puts our country at risk by creating "welfare slackers".
It's REALLY bad.
Also, if a welfare slacker is someone collecting benefits and not making any sort of honest effort to better their situation, what does that make Postmedia?
This episode was recorded on April 28, 2020.
More here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/postmedia-manitoba-papers-closing-1.5547793
Ethan Cox - John Ivison: The worst person on the internet
https://ricochet.media/en/3072/postmedias-john-ivison-the-worst-person-on-the-internet
The column in question:
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/john-ivison-trudeaus-lavish-handouts-risk-turning-workers-into-welfare-slackers
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