First of all, I thoroughly enjoy your newsletters. They're very thoughtful and interesting. I read them daily.
I also wanted to weigh in on the article about communist publishers. I'm an (indie) author and question a lot of the money that our government throws toward the arts. Interestingly, I recently wrote a Substack questioning the Canada Council for the Arts, after (yet again) finding their symbol in a Canadian book. Although I didn't do a deep dive, some quick investigating opened my eyes to the millions in government funds being put towards publishing houses, grants, etc, in this country. As I said, it was just quick research, by no means a deep dive into the subject, but it's something that may even interest Blendr. As an indie author, I've had very limited help with expenses (other than small, local grants of $100-200 or so), but I don't feel it's up to taxpayers to pay my writing expenses. Granted, my books are published through a US company, so this concept wasn't on my radar. I assume since it's government-funded, most of the books would have to be ridiculously 'woke' to pass the government-funded sniff test, but again, I didn't have the interest in going into much of a deep dive. I just wanted to put that comment out there. 🤷🏻♀️
Fernwood, of course is only one of the hundreds and hundreds of “activist” NGOs funded with our tax dollars. I’d hazard that a closer inspection finds the vast majority of these NGOs are LPC adjacent in one way or another: staffed by family members or the usual party bagmen and fart catchers. Many of these NGOs are established in the first place to astroturfing the public into thinking there’s a need for some particular pet program. All NGO funding should be cancelled: that makes them de facto GOs.
A budget full of lies
Figures don't lie
But liers figure
First of all, I thoroughly enjoy your newsletters. They're very thoughtful and interesting. I read them daily.
I also wanted to weigh in on the article about communist publishers. I'm an (indie) author and question a lot of the money that our government throws toward the arts. Interestingly, I recently wrote a Substack questioning the Canada Council for the Arts, after (yet again) finding their symbol in a Canadian book. Although I didn't do a deep dive, some quick investigating opened my eyes to the millions in government funds being put towards publishing houses, grants, etc, in this country. As I said, it was just quick research, by no means a deep dive into the subject, but it's something that may even interest Blendr. As an indie author, I've had very limited help with expenses (other than small, local grants of $100-200 or so), but I don't feel it's up to taxpayers to pay my writing expenses. Granted, my books are published through a US company, so this concept wasn't on my radar. I assume since it's government-funded, most of the books would have to be ridiculously 'woke' to pass the government-funded sniff test, but again, I didn't have the interest in going into much of a deep dive. I just wanted to put that comment out there. 🤷🏻♀️
Fernwood, of course is only one of the hundreds and hundreds of “activist” NGOs funded with our tax dollars. I’d hazard that a closer inspection finds the vast majority of these NGOs are LPC adjacent in one way or another: staffed by family members or the usual party bagmen and fart catchers. Many of these NGOs are established in the first place to astroturfing the public into thinking there’s a need for some particular pet program. All NGO funding should be cancelled: that makes them de facto GOs.