Hill Times was reported as being heavily subsidized by the federal government.

So it should not be surprising that it works hard on making its benefactors seem better than what reality dictates.

So let’s take three articles have a go at them.

Here is one Op-Ed piece making Donald Trump seem like he’ll destroy planet Earth. It is fear-based messaging.

Donald Trump was a lousy president in his second term, but this article could have been put on hold until have the US Midterms. He is a lame duck president now, and even now, he is suffering a string of defeats. He is making trouble, yes, but there is an excellent chance he won’t serve out his entire term. But right now, it is far too soon to make an assessment, and this opinion piece is pure melodrama. He all but lost Fox News as an ally, his base have walked away as their upper echelons have turned on each other, and nothing is working out the way it was supposed to work out. Billionaires did well under him, but not the middle-class who have the numbers to vote out the GOP, but even now, the billionaires have figured out they are in for a world of hurt after in one day after the middle-class mark their ballots.

This next so-called “article” also jumps the gun.

Guessing with alleged “experts” That Mark Carney will gain a truckload of seats in Alberta during the next election is a knee-slapper. The election is years away and calling snap elections in Canada is never a good idea. Anything can happen. Justin Trudeau cruised to victory and was a Golden Boy with no real opposition from the NDP (which he co-opted) or the Conservatives (who changed leaders more times than they changed their underwear), but Trudeau was reduced to a minority status and kicked to the curb because the Liberals knew they’d lose with him as a leader.

Even Donald Trump, who had his faithful MAGA for a decade has found out that a bad economy means bleeding voters. All it takes is one misstep and the honeymoon is over. Courting the media is no guarantee of keeping people who don’t consume the news under a spell.

This final opinion piece is peculiar, yet typical of Canadian fluff pieces.

There was no “victory” for Canada in Alberta’s referendum. It was a farce and a colossal waste of money. A vocal minority thought they had a majority. They didn’t. They couldn’t. These were a handful of aging rural dwellers who thought everyone else thought like them. Where is the victory when $130 million of taxpayer money was blown on a foregone conclusion to indulge in a handful of people who obviously never leave their little enclaves? That’s like spending a million dollars on tutors for your genius level kid who was already pulling a 99.5% average in school. Was the end result a “victory”, especially if the tutors didn’t teach anything the kid didn’t already know? Seriously?

The piece than goes on about how the US “backed off on some tariffs”, without mentioning they were merely swapped. The Democrats seem poised to take over the House and the Senate, but that’s not part of Canada’s “winning streak”. The US midterms usually see voters voting in the rival party to the president to keep the Commander in Chief in check. That’s just the nature of the beast, and Canada has no claim to it.

I could go on, but it’s not worth the effort. This is not a publication that is helpful or informative. It’s just one that gets six-figures of taxpayer money even though it barely averages 201,000 monthly unique website users and 114,700 paid digital subscribers. It also gets grants; so that’s a lot of money for what is essentially a press release outlet for its patron.