Steve Faguy
@fagstein.bsky.social
Blogger, media analyst, copy editor at the Montreal Gazette. https://blog.fagstein.com
Harry North watched the NDP "French" debate so you didn't have to.
NDP leadership hopefuls confront their French shortcomings in Montreal debate montrealgazette.com/news/ndp-lea...
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Harry North watched the NDP "French" debate so you didn't have to.
Quebec law to require government authorization before groups can do anything religious in a park montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
Quebec plans to ban street prayers as it moves to beef up secularism law
The law will oblige students and staff to keep their faces uncovered while they are within the education system, from daycare to university.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Quebec law to require government authorization before groups can do anything religious in a park montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
Hydro-Québec says a Journal de Montréal story is wrong in saying what they said is wrong www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rele...
Hydro-Québec corrige des informations véhiculées dans le Journal de Montréal concernant l'éolien
/CNW/ - À la suite de la publication d'un article du Journal de Montréal concernant une usine qui produit des pales d'éolienne à Gaspé, Hydro-Québec tient à...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hydro-Québec says a Journal de Montréal story is wrong in saying what they said is wrong www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rele...
If you're a police department giving a presentation to high school students about sexual assault, you want to be sure to go through that presentation and triple-check that an explicit photo didn't slip in there. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
St. Thomas High School students offered support after explicit image displayed in presentation
The presentation by the Montreal police dealt with the issues of sexual assault and consent.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you're a police department giving a presentation to high school students about sexual assault, you want to be sure to go through that presentation and triple-check that an explicit photo didn't slip in there. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
Elections Canada releases results of fact-finding inquiry into what went wrong in Quebec's Nunavik region during the last federal election www.elections.ca/content.aspx...
Fact-Finding Inquiry Into Voting Services in Nunavik Now Available
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November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Elections Canada releases results of fact-finding inquiry into what went wrong in Quebec's Nunavik region during the last federal election www.elections.ca/content.aspx...
Apparently we're now in the era of Steve Paikin/Danielle Smith fake AI photos for scam ads
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Apparently we're now in the era of Steve Paikin/Danielle Smith fake AI photos for scam ads
Blue collar workers in Montreal North use heavy machinery to ransack a homeless encampment, destroying everything lp.ca/a2ywcr — the city says it was a mistake, they were supposed to pick up garbage.
Dossier | Arrondissement de Montréal-Nord | Des cols bleus détruisent sans préavis un campement toléré (2 articles)
Des sans-abri ont perdu le peu qu’ils avaient quand leur campement a été détruit par des cols bleus lundi soir. Leur présence était pourtant tolérée depuis des mois par l’arrondissement de Montréal-No...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Blue collar workers in Montreal North use heavy machinery to ransack a homeless encampment, destroying everything lp.ca/a2ywcr — the city says it was a mistake, they were supposed to pick up garbage.
Reposted by Steve Faguy
The 'extraordinary' ambience of Montreal Victoire home games montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The 'extraordinary' ambience of Montreal Victoire home games montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...
Days after announcing the purchase of BPM Sports from RNC Média, Arsenal Média announces it has reached a deal to acquire CJSQ-FM 92.7 in Quebec City from Gregory Charles www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rele... — It's unclear if Arsenal will keep it as a classical music station
UNE SECONDE STATION DANS LA CAPITALE-NATIONALE POUR ARSENAL MEDIA
/CNW/ - Arsenal Media, le plus important radiodiffuseur au Québec, annonce aujourd'hui avoir conclu une entente avec Groupe musique Greg en vue de faire...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Days after announcing the purchase of BPM Sports from RNC Média, Arsenal Média announces it has reached a deal to acquire CJSQ-FM 92.7 in Quebec City from Gregory Charles www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rele... — It's unclear if Arsenal will keep it as a classical music station
Author Thomas King found out at age 82 that he's not, in fact, part Cherokee and has no Indigenous ancestry. Unlike other people to whom this has happened, he's not trying to deny or hide from it. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Opinion: A most inconvenient Indian
At 82, I feel as though I’ve been ripped in half, a one-legged man in a two-legged story. Not the Indian I had in mind. Not an Indian at all
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November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Author Thomas King found out at age 82 that he's not, in fact, part Cherokee and has no Indigenous ancestry. Unlike other people to whom this has happened, he's not trying to deny or hide from it. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
In what seems to be the first real large-market test of the new #CRTC rules on common ownership, Stingray is buying Calgary's CHUP-FM (C97.7) from Rawlco Radio, which would give it three commercial FM stations in that market.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In what seems to be the first real large-market test of the new #CRTC rules on common ownership, Stingray is buying Calgary's CHUP-FM (C97.7) from Rawlco Radio, which would give it three commercial FM stations in that market.
Crave now allows you to access Bell Media's live TV channels, including CTV, CTV2, Noovo, and all English and French services except CTV News Channel and sports. (You have to pay extra for Starz though.) www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
Bigger. Better. Crave's Expansion Is Here: More Leading Content, One Powerful Service - Bell Media
TORONTO, November 26, 2025 – Bell Media, Canada’s leading media and entertainment company, unveiled today a significant transformation of its flagship streaming service, Crave. Canada’s largest homegr...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Crave now allows you to access Bell Media's live TV channels, including CTV, CTV2, Noovo, and all English and French services except CTV News Channel and sports. (You have to pay extra for Starz though.) www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
Cogeco is appealing to Federal Court to overturn a #CRTC decision that found Quebecor is not in de facto control of Montreal's CJPX-FM 99.5 and therefore does not violate a diversity of voices policy www.ledevoir.com/culture/medi...
Cogeco conteste à nouveau la présence de QUB radio sur les ondes FM
Un mois après une décision du CRTC, la saga radiophonique se déplace en Cour d’appel fédérale.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Cogeco is appealing to Federal Court to overturn a #CRTC decision that found Quebecor is not in de facto control of Montreal's CJPX-FM 99.5 and therefore does not violate a diversity of voices policy www.ledevoir.com/culture/medi...
The #CRTC has approved a reorganization of Gestion Audem Inc., the Audet family holding company that controls Cogeco. Louis Audet, who is also Cogeco's chair, now controls the company, acquiring voting rights from his siblings' trusts.
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The #CRTC has approved a reorganization of Gestion Audem Inc., the Audet family holding company that controls Cogeco. Louis Audet, who is also Cogeco's chair, now controls the company, acquiring voting rights from his siblings' trusts.
Obituary for Colleen Jones, former curler and CBC broadcaster www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
Colleen Jones was something wonderful to happen for anyone who knew her | CBC Sports
Colleen Jones was a tour de force. When you were with her you felt invincible and that anything was possible. She made you a believer.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Obituary for Colleen Jones, former curler and CBC broadcaster www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
The Canadian government is learning, as the Quebec government had with the REM project, that a key to getting transport corridor projects done on time is accelerating expropriation www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
New expropriation powers in budget bill spark concern over high-speed rail megaproject
Planned rail between Quebec City and Toronto has an estimated cost of between $60- and $90-billion
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November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Canadian government is learning, as the Quebec government had with the REM project, that a key to getting transport corridor projects done on time is accelerating expropriation www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
National CTV News workers in Toronto and Ottawa join Unifor union www.unifor.org/news/all-new...
CTV news workers in Toronto and Ottawa join Unifor
Unifor is pleased to welcome 90 workers at Bell Media in Toronto and Ottawa, who work on the national news desk, the news channel, and CTVnews.ca.“We are thrilled to welcome these talented journalists...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
National CTV News workers in Toronto and Ottawa join Unifor union www.unifor.org/news/all-new...
La Presse suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, following similar suits against OpenAI from Postmedia (my employer), Torstar, the Globe and Mail, CP and CBC/Radio-Canada
www.newswire.ca/news-release... www.lapresse.ca/affaires/med...
www.newswire.ca/news-release... www.lapresse.ca/affaires/med...
La Presse sues OpenAI for copyright infringement
/CNW/ - La Presse announced today that it has filed suit against OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT generative AI model, for unauthorized use of content...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
La Presse suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, following similar suits against OpenAI from Postmedia (my employer), Torstar, the Globe and Mail, CP and CBC/Radio-Canada
www.newswire.ca/news-release... www.lapresse.ca/affaires/med...
www.newswire.ca/news-release... www.lapresse.ca/affaires/med...
A Quebec lawyer is suing Google because its search engine AI summaries falsely say she isn't allowed to practice law www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...
Poursuite inédite au Canada | L’IA de Google a-t-elle diffamé une avocate québécoise ?
Les démêlés d’une avocate montréalaise avec le Barreau du Québec depuis 2019 sont si complexes qu’une chatte y perdrait ses petits. Ou une intelligence artificielle (IA) ses algorithmes, comme le démo...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A Quebec lawyer is suing Google because its search engine AI summaries falsely say she isn't allowed to practice law www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...
Reposted by Steve Faguy
Doug Cuthand, the Indigenous affairs columnist for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post, is retiring after 35 years. Impossible to overstate what an important voice he has been in Saskatchewan.
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Cuthand: It's not goodbye, it's 'miostus' (later)
After 34 years of writing for the StarPhoenix and Leader-Post, Indigenous affairs columnist Doug Cuthand is retiring to focus on his health.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Doug Cuthand, the Indigenous affairs columnist for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post, is retiring after 35 years. Impossible to overstate what an important voice he has been in Saskatchewan.
thestarphoenix.com/opinion/colu...
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And there goes the power in the West Island.
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
And there goes the power in the West Island.
As part of the route's 70th anniversary celebration, Via Rail has a "slow TV" playlist of hours of footage of The Canadian train on a trip from Toronto to Vancouver www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
"The Canadian" Slow TV FULL PLAYLIST | « Le Canadien » télé lente PLAYLIST COMPLÈTE | VIA Rail - YouTube
In honour of The Canadian’s 70th anniversary, we’re thrilled to launch a hypnotic six-episode Slow TV series that showcases the beauty of travelling by train...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
As part of the route's 70th anniversary celebration, Via Rail has a "slow TV" playlist of hours of footage of The Canadian train on a trip from Toronto to Vancouver www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
It's been almost three weeks, but we finally know the official results of the Montreal election after recounts: montrealgazette.com/news/local_p...
Of the 10 recounted races, a grand total of zero resulted in a reversal of the result.
Of the 10 recounted races, a grand total of zero resulted in a reversal of the result.
Final recounts in Montreal election confirm official results in St-Léonard
Mayor Dominic Perri, city councillor Mauro Barone and borough councillor Gemma Marchione can now be sworn in.
montrealgazette.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's been almost three weeks, but we finally know the official results of the Montreal election after recounts: montrealgazette.com/news/local_p...
Of the 10 recounted races, a grand total of zero resulted in a reversal of the result.
Of the 10 recounted races, a grand total of zero resulted in a reversal of the result.
The #CRTC has decided, by majority vote, to put off making decisions on requests by CPAC, TV5 and audio channel Canal M to increase their mandatory per-subscriber fees, until it completes a larger review of broadcasting policy www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/...
Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2025-312 | CRTC
References: Part 1 applications posted on 24 July 2024, 6 December 2024, and 6 March 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The #CRTC has decided, by majority vote, to put off making decisions on requests by CPAC, TV5 and audio channel Canal M to increase their mandatory per-subscriber fees, until it completes a larger review of broadcasting policy www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/...
Canadian Soccer Business announces it has acquired non-exclusive Canadian rights to German Bundesliga soccer games, where Alphonso Davies plays, and licensed them to OneSoccer. cansb.ca/article/cana...
Canadian Soccer Business scores with the Bundesliga, giving Canadians a front-row seat to Alphonso Davies on OneSoccer - Canadian Soccer Business (CSB)
Canadian Soccer Business scores with the Bundesliga, giving Canadians a front-row seat to Alphonso Davies on OneSoccer Toronto, ON – November 12, 2025 – Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) has acquired the...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Canadian Soccer Business announces it has acquired non-exclusive Canadian rights to German Bundesliga soccer games, where Alphonso Davies plays, and licensed them to OneSoccer. cansb.ca/article/cana...