Rise of the Internet Crazies

Social media has magnified, concentrated, and refined the fine art of being a complete gibbering loon. Now that politicians have realized its full potential for demagoguery, political discourse is destined to become ever-more unhinged.

Canadian TV Viewing by the Numbers

Okay, so now that we have noticed how much time Canadians spend on TV per day, let’s dig into the data a bit deeper and look at how viewership breaks down by age, genre watched, and what percentage of Canadian TV programming are actually Canadian productions. The data below all comes from the CRTC[1], namely

Communications Concentration in Canada

It is often noted that the communications infrastructure in this country is dominated by a handful of firms. The latest corporate drama at Rogers shows how powerful these corporations have become. Measuring media concentration is notoriously hard, not merely because the amount of data required to obtain and analyze but also because the subject is