Ponder Paying Press $45,000

Cabinet should consider directly paying individual reporters up to $45,000 a year in the name of diversity, says a Department of Canadian Heritage report. Direct cash payments would be in addition to rebates of $29,750 per employee at cabinet-approved newsrooms: “A paradigm shift is needed in the way traditional news media share the stories of Indigenous, racialized and religious minority communities.”

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