Ottawa $55 Billion deficit and we are subsidizing Business

My fellow blogger Mr Prince beat me to it! http://blog.johnprince.ca/2010/06/pork-barreling-politics-alive-and-well.html

I ask the question how does the average Joe on the street get his information on politics, it should be through a totally unbiased media that reports the "news". How can the media be unbiased when it is paid off by the government in power. On the release below you will see that Ted Menzies is providing $420,605 to the local "unbiased" media in his riding.
When you do the math on 308 riddings that's $129,546,340 that's a lot of money.

http://www.tedmenzies.ca/EN/5058/114426

Does anybody know anything about this program? when did it start, who brought it in? why are the feds doing this?