A Canadian in orbit, a West Coast pipeline and Hockey Night without the NHL at The Globe and Mail
The Toronto paper's channel had a far bigger day than usual, and none of its newest reports was what carried it.
The Globe and MailStory of Why this story? The whole channel is running at 357,063 views a day, 14 times a normal day (25,679).
Col. Joshua Kutryk is on his way to the International Space Station, riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral on his first trip to orbit. The Globe and Mail's short on the launch notes that his six-month stay will make him the fourth Canadian astronaut on a long-duration mission there. The same days brought Prime Minister Mark Carney naming an Alberta-to-coast pipeline, now called Pacific Link, the first project of national interest under the Building Canada Act. There was also a University of Toronto link-shortening tool that OpenAI agents had been using to talk to one another, and "The $350K price tag of medical school abroad".
The channel itself had a much louder day than any of that suggests: about 357,000 views, where it usually sees around 26,000. Each of those new reports sits in the low thousands, so the lift came from somewhere else on the channel. Perhaps the short on the flydubai captain, which as we reported here started fast earlier in the week, is still traveling? The title of the surge is not clear.
The quietest of the new uploads may be the most Canadian. "Hockey Night in Canada without the NHL" has Simon Houpt, who covers sports media for The Globe, explaining how the CBC is rebuilding a Saturday night institution after almost 75 years on the public broadcaster, now that the games themselves sit behind a Sportsnet subscription. His question is what Canadians lose when the national game stops being free to watch.
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- Channel
- The Globe and Mail
- Subscribers
- 263,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 524,446
- Channel views, pace per day
- 357,063 (on a normal day: 25,679)
The numbers
One day on the channel brought in many times its usual views, while the week's new uploads stayed small.
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