Kelly Lynne Ashton
@klashton27.bsky.social
digital media and Canadian content policy wonk, D and I champion, author of ‘Being Seen’, she/her
I’m a long time TIFF member and festival goer. TIFF and Ticketmaster have changed their system ordering system yet again and it’s the worst I’ve ever seen. The checkout is broken and half the films I wanted are off sale - during early bird for members. Half!
August 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I’m a long time TIFF member and festival goer. TIFF and Ticketmaster have changed their system ordering system yet again and it’s the worst I’ve ever seen. The checkout is broken and half the films I wanted are off sale - during early bird for members. Half!
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📣Our FREE I AM CAN CON T-shirts are still available for those who proudly stand for Canadian voices. Drop a comment now to get one while supplies last!
August 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
📣Our FREE I AM CAN CON T-shirts are still available for those who proudly stand for Canadian voices. Drop a comment now to get one while supplies last!
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👩🏾💻Media Diversity Isn’t Optional — It’s Essential
When media reflects everyone, we all benefit.
📣 Diverse voices bring richer stories, stronger communities, and better democracy.
Let’s support #Canadian media that reflects all of Canada.
Learn more: crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht...
When media reflects everyone, we all benefit.
📣 Diverse voices bring richer stories, stronger communities, and better democracy.
Let’s support #Canadian media that reflects all of Canada.
Learn more: crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht...
July 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
👩🏾💻Media Diversity Isn’t Optional — It’s Essential
When media reflects everyone, we all benefit.
📣 Diverse voices bring richer stories, stronger communities, and better democracy.
Let’s support #Canadian media that reflects all of Canada.
Learn more: crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht...
When media reflects everyone, we all benefit.
📣 Diverse voices bring richer stories, stronger communities, and better democracy.
Let’s support #Canadian media that reflects all of Canada.
Learn more: crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht...
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CBC leads among all news sources as the most-relied upon and most-trusted in this new survey. It also leads among most age groups, though Weather Network is slightly higher among Gen Z. Other broadcasters like CTV and Global are also at similar trust and use levels
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www.pollara.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
CBC leads among all news sources as the most-relied upon and most-trusted in this new survey. It also leads among most age groups, though Weather Network is slightly higher among Gen Z. Other broadcasters like CTV and Global are also at similar trust and use levels
www.pollara.com/wp-content/u...
www.pollara.com/wp-content/u...
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📣Know your media legislation
📜 Bill C-18 = Fairness for Canadian News
The Online News Act makes tech giants like Google & Meta pay for the news they profit from.
✅ Supports local news
✅ Levels the playing field
✅ Boosts transparency
📌 www.parl.ca/DocumentView...
#BillC18 #cndpoli
📜 Bill C-18 = Fairness for Canadian News
The Online News Act makes tech giants like Google & Meta pay for the news they profit from.
✅ Supports local news
✅ Levels the playing field
✅ Boosts transparency
📌 www.parl.ca/DocumentView...
#BillC18 #cndpoli
July 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📣Know your media legislation
📜 Bill C-18 = Fairness for Canadian News
The Online News Act makes tech giants like Google & Meta pay for the news they profit from.
✅ Supports local news
✅ Levels the playing field
✅ Boosts transparency
📌 www.parl.ca/DocumentView...
#BillC18 #cndpoli
📜 Bill C-18 = Fairness for Canadian News
The Online News Act makes tech giants like Google & Meta pay for the news they profit from.
✅ Supports local news
✅ Levels the playing field
✅ Boosts transparency
📌 www.parl.ca/DocumentView...
#BillC18 #cndpoli
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From coast to coast to coast, you showed up. You wore the shirts. You signed the petitions. You spread the word. This campaign was powered by YOU. Thank you for standing up to #SaveTheCBC.
This campaign may be coming to an end, but the fight for the CBC continues. Stay with us.
This campaign may be coming to an end, but the fight for the CBC continues. Stay with us.
April 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
From coast to coast to coast, you showed up. You wore the shirts. You signed the petitions. You spread the word. This campaign was powered by YOU. Thank you for standing up to #SaveTheCBC.
This campaign may be coming to an end, but the fight for the CBC continues. Stay with us.
This campaign may be coming to an end, but the fight for the CBC continues. Stay with us.
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And maybe that’s why the response to the efforts of Rebel and its bastard son, True North, to derail the Q&A at the leaders’ debate has been so muted. Why many, even in the media, are being so polite about it all.
April 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
And maybe that’s why the response to the efforts of Rebel and its bastard son, True North, to derail the Q&A at the leaders’ debate has been so muted. Why many, even in the media, are being so polite about it all.
I’ll be speaking at the Toronto Screenwriting Conference monthly series March 24th at 7pm on a panel with Neal McDougall of the WGC on CRTC stuff as it relates to screenwriters. Tickets at: torontoscreenwritingconference.com
Toronto Screenwriting Conference | The Conference for Professional Screenwriters and the People that work with them.
torontoscreenwritingconference.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I’ll be speaking at the Toronto Screenwriting Conference monthly series March 24th at 7pm on a panel with Neal McDougall of the WGC on CRTC stuff as it relates to screenwriters. Tickets at: torontoscreenwritingconference.com
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Our 'Save the CBC' campaign is live!
Visit our microsite to watch our campaign video and learn how you can play a crucial role in preserving the @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social for future generations. Every action counts—discover your role now: 👇
fundthecbc.ca?utm_source=s...
#fundthecbc
Visit our microsite to watch our campaign video and learn how you can play a crucial role in preserving the @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social for future generations. Every action counts—discover your role now: 👇
fundthecbc.ca?utm_source=s...
#fundthecbc
March 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Our 'Save the CBC' campaign is live!
Visit our microsite to watch our campaign video and learn how you can play a crucial role in preserving the @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social for future generations. Every action counts—discover your role now: 👇
fundthecbc.ca?utm_source=s...
#fundthecbc
Visit our microsite to watch our campaign video and learn how you can play a crucial role in preserving the @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social for future generations. Every action counts—discover your role now: 👇
fundthecbc.ca?utm_source=s...
#fundthecbc
I always say ‘elbows up’ when talking strategy, advocacy and the need to protect our own. It is such a part of Canadian culture I honestly had no clue (but should have) that it came from Gordie Howe
When Mike Myers wore his "Canada Is Not For Sale" t-shirt on SNL, he mouthed a secret code: "elbows up."
It's a reference to the great Gordie "Mr. Elbows" Howe who punished those that messed with his team.
You heard him Canada: elbows up.
If anyone asks why, tell them that Mike Myers sent you.
It's a reference to the great Gordie "Mr. Elbows" Howe who punished those that messed with his team.
You heard him Canada: elbows up.
If anyone asks why, tell them that Mike Myers sent you.
March 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I always say ‘elbows up’ when talking strategy, advocacy and the need to protect our own. It is such a part of Canadian culture I honestly had no clue (but should have) that it came from Gordie Howe
Couldn’t say it better. Go vote Ontario. Every vote counts.
February 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Couldn’t say it better. Go vote Ontario. Every vote counts.
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We cannot say that we love our country, while at the same time vowing to destroy an institution that is almost 100 years old like CBC/Radio-Canada. It protects the sovereignty of our culture, languages, and information. This is my plan for a better CBC.👇
shorturl.at/147cG
shorturl.at/147cG
Minister St-Onge’s vision for a better CBC/Radio-Canada: a clear choice for Canada’s future - Canada.ca
In a rapidly changing media landscape, CBC/Radio-Canada needs to be more independent, focus on news and have access to more predictable funding to be well positioned to continue delivering vital servi...
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February 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We cannot say that we love our country, while at the same time vowing to destroy an institution that is almost 100 years old like CBC/Radio-Canada. It protects the sovereignty of our culture, languages, and information. This is my plan for a better CBC.👇
shorturl.at/147cG
shorturl.at/147cG
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working on the first Starter Pack for inkcanada fb community members searching for one another here. Love your adds, inkies. Note! if you use a handle other than your name/trade name let us know. We'll do orgs & co's separately, ahead. go.bsky.app/5CByM43
February 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
working on the first Starter Pack for inkcanada fb community members searching for one another here. Love your adds, inkies. Note! if you use a handle other than your name/trade name let us know. We'll do orgs & co's separately, ahead. go.bsky.app/5CByM43
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Canadaland is giving away ads to Canadian businesses that are facing scary times due to the still-looming tariff threat.
Our listeners are in a mood to buy Canadian. If you’re willing to give them a great deal, we’ll help you out for free.
Email [email protected]
We’ll get through this together
Our listeners are in a mood to buy Canadian. If you’re willing to give them a great deal, we’ll help you out for free.
Email [email protected]
We’ll get through this together
February 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Canadaland is giving away ads to Canadian businesses that are facing scary times due to the still-looming tariff threat.
Our listeners are in a mood to buy Canadian. If you’re willing to give them a great deal, we’ll help you out for free.
Email [email protected]
We’ll get through this together
Our listeners are in a mood to buy Canadian. If you’re willing to give them a great deal, we’ll help you out for free.
Email [email protected]
We’ll get through this together
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CBC's wall-to-wall coverage of this crisis is another great example of why we should value Canada's public broadcaster
February 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
CBC's wall-to-wall coverage of this crisis is another great example of why we should value Canada's public broadcaster
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With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier
Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
www.huffpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier
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This past week was John A. Macdonald's birthday, and the far-right never misses a chance to defend JAM. What's interesting, is that this year Pierre Poilievre joined the chorus of residential school denialists et. al seeking to whitewash JAM's legacy. As a historian, here's a 🧵
January 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This past week was John A. Macdonald's birthday, and the far-right never misses a chance to defend JAM. What's interesting, is that this year Pierre Poilievre joined the chorus of residential school denialists et. al seeking to whitewash JAM's legacy. As a historian, here's a 🧵
My other goal for 2025 is to get back in the habit of posting thoughts, the way that I used to on the other platform. I miss the community we had there. I hope we can get it back.
January 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My other goal for 2025 is to get back in the habit of posting thoughts, the way that I used to on the other platform. I miss the community we had there. I hope we can get it back.
In 2024 I spent all my time working to make the Canadian screen industry more equitable. I will continue this work in 2025 because we’re just not there yet. Some days my goal to change the world seems impossible and it’s hard. Thank goodness for the wins and my community of fellow change makers
a woman holding an umbrella with the words " a new day has dawned " below her
Alt: a woman, Moira from Schitt’s Creek, holding an umbrella with the words " a new day has dawned " below her
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January 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
In 2024 I spent all my time working to make the Canadian screen industry more equitable. I will continue this work in 2025 because we’re just not there yet. Some days my goal to change the world seems impossible and it’s hard. Thank goodness for the wins and my community of fellow change makers
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Breaking this morning - Canadian news publishers are suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI
www.thestar.com/news/canadia...
www.thestar.com/news/canadia...
Canadian news publishers suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI
OTTAWA - A coalition of Canadian news publishers is suing OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system.
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Breaking this morning - Canadian news publishers are suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI
www.thestar.com/news/canadia...
www.thestar.com/news/canadia...
Coalmine Theatre has extended A Case for the Existence of God for four more shows. I saw it last week and Noah Reid and Mazin Elsadig were amazing! Tickets: www.coalminetheatre.com
a man wearing a shirt that says " i 'm with stupid " is excited
Alt: Noah Reid wearing a shirt that says " i 'm with stupid " is excited
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Coalmine Theatre has extended A Case for the Existence of God for four more shows. I saw it last week and Noah Reid and Mazin Elsadig were amazing! Tickets: www.coalminetheatre.com
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Food banks and organizations have deals to make the most out of a dollar and to get more of what people need.
It feels nice to buy and donate a can! But giving the money straight to them is best.
It feels nice to buy and donate a can! But giving the money straight to them is best.
Tis the season for helpful posts about what food shelves need so here's my advice:
If your kid's school is doing a Canned Food Drive or a movie theater is doing a special movie screening with a can of food in lieu of admission: give a can.
Otherwise: JUST GIVE MONEY.
If your kid's school is doing a Canned Food Drive or a movie theater is doing a special movie screening with a can of food in lieu of admission: give a can.
Otherwise: JUST GIVE MONEY.
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Food banks and organizations have deals to make the most out of a dollar and to get more of what people need.
It feels nice to buy and donate a can! But giving the money straight to them is best.
It feels nice to buy and donate a can! But giving the money straight to them is best.
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I've said it before, but on account of I cannot shut up, I will say it again:
If you wonder why profiles are littered with reposts here it is because there's no algorithm. You must share the thing for others to see the thing.
So if you really like it, or want to support it, repost it.
If you wonder why profiles are littered with reposts here it is because there's no algorithm. You must share the thing for others to see the thing.
So if you really like it, or want to support it, repost it.
November 17, 2024 at 1:03 AM
I've said it before, but on account of I cannot shut up, I will say it again:
If you wonder why profiles are littered with reposts here it is because there's no algorithm. You must share the thing for others to see the thing.
So if you really like it, or want to support it, repost it.
If you wonder why profiles are littered with reposts here it is because there's no algorithm. You must share the thing for others to see the thing.
So if you really like it, or want to support it, repost it.