Menzies Strategies

Menzies Strategies A boutique consulting company specializing in media and regulatory affairs He is a very skilled communicator and speech writer.

Menzies Strategies is an umbrella Communications and Social Media organization featuring the expertise of - guess what - people named Menzies. The principle associates are:
- Evan Menzies: One of Alberta's most skilled political communications advisors, Evan offers leading edge expertise in use of social media, brand management, speech writing, crisis communications and video communications.
- Gra

eme Menzies: Graeme has thirty years of international experience in communications and marketing, including stints in provincial and federal government, arts, technology, sport, and education. He is an experienced practitioner and advocate in the strategic use of social media to achieve organizational goals, and has expertise in reaching international youth audiences.
- Peter Menzies: Previous sole proprietor of Menzies Strategies, Peter has now returned from his appointment by the federal cabinet to the position of Vice Chair (Telecommunications) for the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. He also served the CRTC as regional Commissioner for Alberta and Northwest Territories. He has a broad expanse of knowledge and contacts within and across the spectrum of the nation's communications industries - from ISPs to aboriginal and ethnic radio. He is also an award-winning journalist and former publisher of the Calgary Herald with prior experience in media training/crisis communications and public relations.

Sensible journalists “afraid to stand up and risk being singled out by their colleagues as, you know, somehow a running ...
02/22/2026

Sensible journalists “afraid to stand up and risk being singled out by their colleagues as, you know, somehow a running dog of fascism”

Publishers who lose control of their newsroom cultures risk being overwhelmed by those intent upon suppressing contrary opinions

“intense confusion followed the dreadful mass murders last week in Tumbler Ridge where the RCMP’s reference to a “gun pe...
02/14/2026

“intense confusion followed the dreadful mass murders last week in Tumbler Ridge where the RCMP’s reference to a “gun person” triggered a full blown journalistic culture war”

Tumbler Ridge tragedy ignites journalistic culture war that reveals basic instincts within the nation’s newsrooms

“The next thing you need to know is that what the CMPA does, as an industry association, is what all industry associatio...
02/08/2026

“The next thing you need to know is that what the CMPA does, as an industry association, is what all industry associations do - it sucks up to people who have the ability to get them money.”

Plus! CTV gets sneaky with its fixes, fake news goes viral and why the CBC's At Issue panel is just terrible TV

“the truth is that the cultural institutions we created to protect us from American cultural imperialism have failed. Ut...
02/06/2026

“the truth is that the cultural institutions we created to protect us from American cultural imperialism have failed. Utterly.”

The cultural institutions we've created to protect us from American imperialism have failed

01/27/2026

Media gobbled up unnecessary provocations of the USA, then turned on the Prime Minister's accurate and sensible praise of a country built on the Plains of Abraham

“It might also be worth letting the public know what the other 192-plus first nations in B.C. think about pipelines but,...
01/18/2026

“It might also be worth letting the public know what the other 192-plus first nations in B.C. think about pipelines but, near as I can tell, no one has asked them.”

Plus! The CRTC reveals its dinosaur instincts, another study points to CBC bias, columnists on the take and the fight to reveal Kamloops secrets

“The most headline grabbing question MLAs at the legislature will need to confront: Alberta separation.”
01/15/2026

“The most headline grabbing question MLAs at the legislature will need to confront: Alberta separation.”

Alberta populism has never been more robust

“it’s not 1995 anymore and the internet never forgets. Your past behaviour as a news organization is accessible to every...
01/11/2026

“it’s not 1995 anymore and the internet never forgets. Your past behaviour as a news organization is accessible to everyone and any inconsistencies in coverage will be used against you”

Plus! Radio-Canada praises Maduro, CBC/CTV minimize Iran protests and good heavens why are our media letting Freeland walk away with her secrets?

“the federal government’s smorgasbord of subsidies for news organizations has “suspended these (news) entities in stasis...
12/28/2025

“the federal government’s smorgasbord of subsidies for news organizations has “suspended these (news) entities in stasis.”

2025 signalled the conclusion of hope for media in a nation that prefers subsidies to innovation and independence

“the greatest danger is the threat of society-wide censorship and the crushing effect on freedom of speech and religion”
12/21/2025

“the greatest danger is the threat of society-wide censorship and the crushing effect on freedom of speech and religion”

Just in time for Christmas, the Liberals make a deal with the Bloc that will suppress religious expressions of belief

“Though Cayley notes that Seven Days in no way invented “crusading journalism” it did introduce to the CBC the notion th...
12/17/2025

“Though Cayley notes that Seven Days in no way invented “crusading journalism” it did introduce to the CBC the notion that journalists and producers were “agents of justice.”

Thirty years developing Ideas has produced a compelling book crying out for the Mother Corp to get it right

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