Overall, 47 per cent said it should be illegal for Canadians to serve in the military of any foreign government. Thirty per cent disagreed and 23 per cent said they were unsure.

Pretty close to the universal opinion. Lots of "don't know" as well. I haven't thought through the ins and outs of it but on the surface I tend to agree it should be illegal.

Bot ?

Pointing out things I hadn't known..

( I'd known about the reported-Russian-losses being "fantasy", according to some of the more objective sites, hadn't known about the other stuff ).

I'd certainly require Journalism to have professional standards ( not the shit pseudo-journalism/propaganda that's now normal: you hold to truth, XOR you label yourself propaganda/entertainment, in my view..

same as there's a difference between "police services" and honest community policing, or a difference between gov't for the people, future-generations, economy, and country-as-a-whole, vs oligarchy.. )

Unless you've got Journalism, an actual Justice ( not mere-legalism ) department, etc.. corruption's already won.

Journalism needs to be a required-competency for at hard-minimum 20% of the population graduating high-school.

Just entrusting any country to money's "management" of "journalism" .. that's national suicide.

& accountable-journalism means that propagandists need to be prosecuted, need to be removed from the journalism market.

Having professional-standards looks, to me, like a requirement for journalism as a profession.

( & NYT would fail, as would most outfits, nowadays )

Put fines/costs on the pushers-of-bias gaslighting about being journalism..

that kind of thing..

< shrug >

The alternative is the hopeless bullshit we've now got.

Accountability, Responsibility, & to the limit of those, then the authority.

Another problem is that there needs to be a sufficient amount of the journalism-market done by independents, to keep the organizations honest..

whatever: ideologues'll never tolerate their propaganda to be unseated, so I expect nothing to change in our world..

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