Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon. My name is Peter Kvarnstrom. I live in West Vancouver, B.C. and have since 1965. I am currently the publisher of the North Shore News, the Bowen Island Undercurrent, which is our very smallest newspaper in our group, as well as the Coast Reporter, in Sechelt, Brit

Canadian Heritage committee  My apologies, I did not have my earpiece in, Mr. Samson.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. Our company publishes throughout western Canada. We have 19 papers in Saskatchewan and quite a number in Manitoba as well. The concerns are consistent across all areas. There's no doubt that the economic well-being of a community or even a region does

Canadian Heritage committee  There's no doubt about it, The Western Producer has been a good paper for us. When we bought it, we had over 85,000 subscribers. Today we have under 50,000. Obviously there has been consolidation even in the farming, with fewer farmers and bigger tracts. We used to publish nearly

Canadian Heritage committee  We do connect with them in that cab. Certainly our products are available there. We do carry all of that—crop information, weather information, and sponsored content from our advertisers—and deliver it into their digital media as well. We recognize that it's not about the newspap

Canadian Heritage committee  We do provide virtually all our content online promptly even in our smallest markets through responsive design websites that show up very well on your mobile device or your tablet. The experience is very much like an app but it gives us the flexibility of quicker turnaround, maki