Canada: Newspapers matter, now more than ever
Caledonia Courier It is common these days to find news outlets that run features under headlines like: “A look at
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Globe and Mail: Torstar Corp. buying Ottawa-based political news website iPolitics Inc.
The company that owns The Toronto Star newspaper has signed a deal to buy iPolitics Inc., an Ottawa-based digital political news
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Financial Post: Senate urges Liberals to reconsider tax deductions for ads on Google, Facebook
by Emily Jackson A Senate committee wants the government to revisit a tax rule that entices companies to advertise on
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CANADA: Postmedia to close six community newspapers, offers buyouts to all editorial staff
Canada’s largest newspaper publisher announced in an internal memo that it will close unprofitable titles and reduce salary expenses by
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CANADALAND: How Postmedia Defeated A Union Drive At The National Post
Former staff describe the lengths that management went to to keep the newsroom from unionizing
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Cochrane bids farewell to community champion & newspaper founder
On the quiet of a Sunday morning, John ‘Jack’ Tennant spent his final moments basking in the sun, surrounded by
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Canada newspaper La Presse to become a non-profit
The Montreal daily La Presse, after ending its 134 year-old print edition and going digital, said on Tuesday it will
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CBC: ‘People trust us’: Manitoba’s youngest newspaper publisher confident print isn’t dead
Editor’s (Kevin Slimp) note: I met this young man two weeks ago, while attending the press convention in Winnipeg,
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Neepawa, Manitoba: My perspective – A tale of two papers
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson Neepawa Banner & Press The newspaper industry has a problem, but it’s not what most people think.
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WFP: Province delays pulling public notices from newspapers
The provincial government has delayed scrapping the longstanding requirement of posting government notices in newspapers. That’s delayed, not withdrawn.
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