The country s $50 million Local Journalism Initiative is funding more than 160 reporting positions across the country. But critics say that it s subsidizing old media at the expense of new models.
News has been removed from Facebook and Instagram after the Canadian government told Meta to pay publishers, leaving consumers unable to access vital information during wildfires.
As the number of local news publications continues to dwindle, we can no longer depend on a local beat reporter to sit in on the everyday proceedings of municipal politics
Montréalers awoke on Feb. 16 to the news that a local businessman and lawyer was trying to buy the Montreal Gazette, the city’s only anglophon