2025 Transparency Report

This transparency report includes details about The Maple’s revenue, costs and output in 2025. All past transparency reports are available online.

As a 100 per cent reader-funded organization, we believe it’s important to share this information with you. The Maple’s continued existence is only possible thanks to the generosity of our members, who provide 100 per cent of our funding. Thank you for supporting us.

If you haven’t become a Maple member yet, we hope you’ll consider supporting us by becoming a member and/or making a one-time donation after reading this report so that we can continue to grow, and better fulfill our mission of producing the highest-quality left news, opinion, and analysis in Canada.

Thank you.

Davide Mastracci and Alex Cosh,

Editors of The Maple.

Revenue

The Maple is a non-profit funded exclusively by readers like you, which means all revenue is re-invested to grow the publication.

The Maple’s revenue throughout the year has come from readers signing up as members, and, to a much lesser degree, donations. Readers are able to donate as much as they want, and/or sign up at a monthly ($7, $15, $25) or annual ($70, $150, $250) level. A variety of other membership rates have also been available at various points throughout the existence of The Maple’s predecessors, and some current members maintain these rates.

The amount of revenue each month has varied throughout the year, with new members joining and some cancelling. As of Dec. 31, 2025, the last day included in this report, we had 5,301 active paying readers at a variety of membership levels, and received $65,317 in donations since Jan. 1, 2025.

End-of-year Fundraising Campaign

Our 2025 end-of-year annual fundraising campaign was launched on December 1 and ended on December 31. We had a goal of bringing on at least 600 new members and $75,000 in revenue. The campaign ended up resulting in 386 new members and $81,353 in new revenue.

How We Spent Your Money In 2025

We’ve spent a different amount of money each month, and in a variety of ways, throughout the year, including on newsletters, articles, and other projects. Here’s the overall breakdown of what we paid for in 2025.

A pie chart showing the following: Salaries and freelancers - 80% Professional - 12% Software - 6% Online ads - 2%

Audience Numbers

Between January 1 and December 31, we published 65 articles and three new major projects (Find IDF Soldiers, GTA to IDF, and Subsidizing The Occupation). We also published 49 Class Struggle newsletter editions, and sent other newsletters (Digest News and Friday Roundup) for an average of at least three emails per week.

Our main website and dedicated websites for our major projects cumulatively received more than 1,500,000 page views in 2025.

Here are the top-five articles by page views in 2025:

Articles We’re Especially Proud Of

One of the reasons we launched The Maple was to provide an outlet for the sort of views and reporting you won’t find in corporate media. Here are some articles and newsletter issues we’re especially proud of, ordered by date published:

Diversity

The Maple has three staffers: two white cis men and one racialized cis man.

We can provide you with a rough and broad estimate of the demographics of our freelance writers in 2025. We didn’t ask our writers to provide this info, but we were able to put an estimate together. In order to protect the privacy of our low number of writers, and considering we haven’t actually surveyed any of them, we will keep the demographic stats very general.

In 2025, 50 per cent of our writers were white compared to 69 per cent of all Canadians, according to the most recent StatCan census. About 50 per cent of our writers were cis men.

Corrections

We edit and fact check every article and newsletter before publication. Regardless, we made some errors in 2025.

When we realize we’ve made an error, often because readers like you bring them to our attention, we update the relevant article to correct it as quickly as possible. Then we include a correction notice at the bottom of the article explaining what we did, for full transparency. Here’s a list of corrections for all errors of which we’ve been made aware.

Correction: “An earlier version of this article incorrectly suggested that NAFTA was debated during the 1980s. In fact, it was an earlier trade agreement, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, that was debated at that time. The story has been corrected.”

Correction: “A previous version of this article misspelled the acronym of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. The appropriate acronym is CUSMA, not ‘CUMSA.’ The story has been corrected.”

Correction: “This newsletter has been updated to accurately note that a Unifor press release called the tariff pause an ‘extortion tactic,’ not an ‘exhortation tactic.’ The Maple regrets this error.”

Correction: “This newsletter has been updated to note that LiUNA had endorsed a Conservative Party policy, but had not, in fact, endorsed the party as a whole. The Maple regrets this error.”

Correction: “This newsletter has been updated to note that MGEU increased picket pay alone, not picket pay and dues. The Maple regrets this error.”

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