Menzies: Smaller audiences, bigger bailouts—expect even more subsidies for Canada’s dying broadcast platforms

September 10, 2025

It’s a pretty good bet that, one way or another, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will soon be bailing out TVA, Noovo, CTV, Global, and others operating newsrooms. And if billionaire Pierre Karl Péladeau has his way, his company and others like it will benefit from even more Liberal largesse…