Canadian Heritage committee  My media house never applied for that fund. I've heard about it. It's about $25,000 or so that we can get from the government to run our media house, which is just maybe a drop in the bucket. It doesn't change much, and there's maybe a lot of paperwork, but I never tried for that

Canadian Heritage committee  For us, it becomes more passionate. We're doing it passionately rather than just looking to make a lot of money out of it. This is the way I look at my media house now. I cannot make a lot of money if we're running just this ethnic media, but it's my passion to connect my communi

Canadian Heritage committee  I meant to say that IPTV boxes, with those TV channels that are coming up every other day, are not taking my readership away, but they are taking my advertisers away. That's the difference.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, they do.

Canadian Heritage committee  They are running their programming or TV channels from a local city, from Brampton, from Toronto.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, they do.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, they are declining, and there's other print competition that I have. The majority of their advertisements are from so-called fortune tellers. We call them “babas” or pundits, who run their ads to tell people their fortune. Almost 60 or 70 advertisements—almost one full sect

Canadian Heritage committee  We still don't know. The police have never—

Canadian Heritage committee  At that time, there were a couple of issues going on in the community. There are always conflicts. There is a conflict between the the Indian and Sikh communities from a long time ago. There were a couple of issues about that going on at the time. There was some pressure to cover

Canadian Heritage committee  I do have two sales reps who deal with them, but still I fail to get the corporate sector. Here's what has happened in the past. When we we start getting the corporate or national ads in our paper, another paper, an English paper, would pop up in the community, and their marketin

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. There's a significant drop in advertisements on the government side. If we go back to the previous Liberal government and then the minority Conservative government, at that time many advertisements were coming to our paper, but recently there's been a big drop in those adver

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I will.

Canadian Heritage committee  If you look at the printed edition of my newspapers, you will see Canadian headlines every single day. My first priority is to give a headline to the Canadian national news, the second is the provincial news, and the third is the local municipal news. Every day I instruct my staf

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said in my presentation, no. As I said, to be one step ahead of other people, to get the attention of the community, and to have more listeners and viewers, they do bring a lot of controversial things onto their radio programs. There is lack of professionalism. They start th

Canadian Heritage committee  It's close to $100,000 a month.