MAY 2024: CANADIAN INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM SNAPSHOT

Each month we provide a visualisation of the CIE that highlights key findings. This ecosystem snapshot provides a 2-dimensional projection of the relationships between key actors in the CIE, with influential political and media entities identified. We observe clustering of Liberal (high) and Conservative (moderate) party families, with the major difference being only weak links between federal and provincial Conservative-family politicians. We see that the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader, Pierre Poillivre, and the cluster around him are closer to the centre of the conversation. Moreover, the Conservatives received significantly more engagement than the liberals (shown as larger versus smaller circles on the projection). Alberta’s Premier, Danielle Smith, receives a large amount of engagement, far exceeding, for example, that of the third and fourth federal party leaders who are both on the periphery of the overall conversation. We observe CTV, CBC and Global close to the centre of the conversation as well. Across media outlets, top stories and themes are fairly consistent which situates them in a relatively non-partisan cluster.