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The Post Millennial
The Post Millennial is an English-language Canadian online website. Founded in 2017, it publishes national and local news and has a large amount of opinion content. It has been owned by Human Events Media Group, the parent company of the American right-wing website Human Events, since 2022. It is described as a far-right website by Southern Poverty Law Center and Media Matters for America.
The Post Millennial was founded in August 2017 by Matthew Azrieli and Ali Taghva with Madison Hofmeester. Azrieli is the grandson of the billionaire Canadian-Israeli real estate developer David Azrieli. Taghva is an Iran-born blockchain developer, who used social media to coordinate a student protest against the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation over the Putting Students First Act while at Richmond Green Secondary School in 2012. Hoofmeester worked as a SEO consultant. The trio also founded the short-lived conservative news website The Nectarine in 2018 with Jeff Bellingall, who was then a political campaigner for Ontario Premier Doug Ford through his advertising group Ontario Proud. According to Taghva, the two websites shared "back-end resources".
The site's Facebook presence expanded rapidly between June 2018 and May 2019, with page interactions growing from 36,000 to 194,000 per month. By January 2019, the website was receiving up to 200,000 monthly visits per Similarweb data. Meanwhile, a new office was sited in Montreal, and the organization planned for another expansion into Toronto in 2020. In May 2019, Jeff Ballingall was hired as the company's Chief Marketing Officer. He was credited by Taghva with leading the successful Conservative Party of Canada leadership election campaign of Erin O'Toole in August 2020. A media study by Canada's National Observer found that 8 per cent of Conservative respondents read The Post Millennial.
In mid-2020, Taghva left his position as editor-in-chief to build a cybersecurity company.
In early 2022, The Post Millennial was ranked 23rd among Canadian media outlets by audience size, with an average of 1,968,000 unique monthly visits between January and March 2021 per Similarweb, but it did not meet Comscore's minimum reporting standard.
The website was initially owned by the Montreal-based The Post Millennial Corporation. It was criticised for the lack of transparency about its ties to Conservative Party politicians.
In mid-2019, in announcing its hiring of Ballingall as executive, The Post Millennial said it was funded by "private investors". According to Taghva, the site was receiving revenue from consulting clients and through paid subscriptions or advertisements; it did not reveal the number of subscribers and displayed no ads. After securing a buyer for The Post Millennial in 2022 and announcing his own departure, Azrieli stated he had self-funded the website.
In May 2022, the Human Events Media Group announced that it had acquired The Post Millennial. The Human Events Media Group also owns Human Events, an American conservative publication founded in 1944 that went online-only in 2013.
The Post Millennial
The Post Millennial is an English-language Canadian online website. Founded in 2017, it publishes national and local news and has a large amount of opinion content. It has been owned by Human Events Media Group, the parent company of the American right-wing website Human Events, since 2022. It is described as a far-right website by Southern Poverty Law Center and Media Matters for America.
The Post Millennial was founded in August 2017 by Matthew Azrieli and Ali Taghva with Madison Hofmeester. Azrieli is the grandson of the billionaire Canadian-Israeli real estate developer David Azrieli. Taghva is an Iran-born blockchain developer, who used social media to coordinate a student protest against the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation over the Putting Students First Act while at Richmond Green Secondary School in 2012. Hoofmeester worked as a SEO consultant. The trio also founded the short-lived conservative news website The Nectarine in 2018 with Jeff Bellingall, who was then a political campaigner for Ontario Premier Doug Ford through his advertising group Ontario Proud. According to Taghva, the two websites shared "back-end resources".
The site's Facebook presence expanded rapidly between June 2018 and May 2019, with page interactions growing from 36,000 to 194,000 per month. By January 2019, the website was receiving up to 200,000 monthly visits per Similarweb data. Meanwhile, a new office was sited in Montreal, and the organization planned for another expansion into Toronto in 2020. In May 2019, Jeff Ballingall was hired as the company's Chief Marketing Officer. He was credited by Taghva with leading the successful Conservative Party of Canada leadership election campaign of Erin O'Toole in August 2020. A media study by Canada's National Observer found that 8 per cent of Conservative respondents read The Post Millennial.
In mid-2020, Taghva left his position as editor-in-chief to build a cybersecurity company.
In early 2022, The Post Millennial was ranked 23rd among Canadian media outlets by audience size, with an average of 1,968,000 unique monthly visits between January and March 2021 per Similarweb, but it did not meet Comscore's minimum reporting standard.
The website was initially owned by the Montreal-based The Post Millennial Corporation. It was criticised for the lack of transparency about its ties to Conservative Party politicians.
In mid-2019, in announcing its hiring of Ballingall as executive, The Post Millennial said it was funded by "private investors". According to Taghva, the site was receiving revenue from consulting clients and through paid subscriptions or advertisements; it did not reveal the number of subscribers and displayed no ads. After securing a buyer for The Post Millennial in 2022 and announcing his own departure, Azrieli stated he had self-funded the website.
In May 2022, the Human Events Media Group announced that it had acquired The Post Millennial. The Human Events Media Group also owns Human Events, an American conservative publication founded in 1944 that went online-only in 2013.