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2 years ago
How to fix Canada’s biggest media problem in one easy step
Ottawa is poised to provide almost $600 million in financial assistance to Canada’s news media. Will it do the right thing and restrict the incentives to Canadian-owned companies?
3 years ago
Supreme Court ruling makes need for Competition Act reform urgent
History’s habit of repeating itself has once again hamstrung Canadian antitrust law when it comes to preventing media monopolies. This time, however, the Supreme Court of Canada has left the door wide open to further increases in our already world-leading…
3 years ago
Year of reckoning looms for Canada’s newspapers
As 2018 dawns, it’s clear that Canada’s news media are in danger of lurching into the abyss unless Ottawa takes action soon.
Enforcing our country’s anti-trust laws to stop the corporate consolidation and cutbacks in local news coverage would help…
5 years ago
“Crash to Paywall” doesn’t offer any new insight into shrinking newsrooms
Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Paperback, 320 pages, $32.95.
By Marc Edge
Looking for insight into the ongoing crisis in newspapering by reading news reports and commentary has been fruitless…
5 years ago
Postmedia’s promises prove practically worthless
By Marc Edge
And so the Great Canadian Newspaper Roll-up has begun.
This was predictable once the Competition Bureau rubber-stamped Postmedia Network’s $316-million takeover of Sun Media last year. As a result, Postmedia now publishes 37.4 per cent of Canadian…
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