Subhead:Canadian Heritage will subsidize sputtering newsrooms $12 million for the 2025–26 fiscal year.# Mark Carney’s government is keeping the taxpayer-funded lifeline flowing to legacy media outlets — this time under the guise of “protecting Canadian voices.” A fast cash pipeline to the press is the only one being built in Canada. The Department of Canadian Heritage announced it is extending the so-called Special Measures for Journalism program, a pandemic-era fund originally created as “temporary emergency relief.” It will now pour another $12 million into subsidizing sputtering newsrooms for the 2025–26 fiscal year.
'Temporary' COVID Journalism Bailout Extended Again
