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Why 5,000+ Members Support Our Journalism

“For the first time in my life I paid for news as I saw real brave, hard hitting journalism. Amazing work from a small group punching far above their weight!”

• YASER HOQUE

“One of very few media outlets in Canada currently interested in doing the work of real journalism and trying to hold power to account.”

• Ella B.

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The Maple is my first choice for in-depth investigations into matters of public interest for Canadians, filling a gap that corporate media is unwilling or unable to fill.”

• Annette L.

What Makes You Different?

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Plenty of outlets call themselves reader funded, but they still get major sums of money from other sources.

WHY SUPPORT US

100% Reader Funded

THE MAPLE

100%

TYPICAL PROGRESSIVE OUTLET

44%

POSTMEDIA

34%

Independent journalism, with
no strings attached

Unlike big media corporations, no one has leverage to influence or shape our editorial choices. No hedge fund can blacklist certain topics, like the Gaza genocide. No board member can silence a story. And no lobbyist can force their agenda on our journalists.

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A NOTE FROM OUR EDITORS

Reader funding isn’t the easy way. Some months it’s terrifying. But it’s the only way we know to never have to ask anyone’s permission to tell the truth.

Thank you for being the reason we don’t have to.

Alex COSH & Davide Mastracci

Managing Editors