The Top 5 Most Viewed Passage Articles In 2020
These are the top five of 132 articles we published between our launch date and November 30 of 2020, by unique page views.
Davide Mastracci
Davide Mastracci is the opinion editor at The Maple. He was previously the managing editor at Passage.
142 posts
Debunking Postmedia’s Latest Poor-Bashing, Bullshit CERB Story
Postmedia published a factually incorrect story and headline, and has yet to issue a correction, retraction or apology.
TV Journalists Should Be Banned From Wearing Poppies On-Air
Poppies are political symbols, but journalists are permitted or forced to wear them on-air despite supposedly needing to appear unbiased.
Media Attacked The Wet’suwet’en But Ignore White Fisher Violence
The disparity in coverage is evidence of how the media demonizes Indigenous people while letting those that attack them off the hook.
Terry Glavin Was Wrong About Bolivia. Will He Apologize?
What’s most egregious about Glavin’s Bolivia writing isn’t that he’s wrong, as usual, but that he seems to care little about the consequences
A Guide to Bullshit, Power-Serving Journalism Phrases
These phrases function as PR for police, victim-blame sexual assault survivors, support Canadian foreign policy, and minimize racism.
Chrystia Freeland Must Account For Her Nazi Collaborator Grandfather
It’s not only fair to criticize Freeland for how she’s handled her grandfather’s past, but of the utmost necessity.
Columnists Demonized China’s COVID-19 Response. They Were Wrong.
Canadian columnists have done us all a misservice by attempting to direct our anger outward instead of at the ruling class.
The ‘Memorial to the Victims of Communism’ Should Be Bulldozed
Turn the construction site into a massive Arby’s, a parking lot, a collection of hornets’ nests — anything would be better.