Canadian Heritage committee  Let me start if I may. Your point is one that journalists, editors, and academics study and worry about very much. The challenge for us is that everybody can be a journalist today. Everyone is a publisher and the standards are very different across any digital platform or print p

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the first thing to say is that the merger of the Sun and Citizen newsrooms was not envisioned at the time we entered the agreement to purchase Sun Media, but became a reality of the business as we saw the decline of advertising dollars. When we merged those two newsrooms

Canadian Heritage committee  It's never good when the editorial head count is reduced in any newsroom. It was a reality that we faced in terms of the economics of the business. Our strategy was to get to a head count that was going to provide the maximum amount of local coverage in both tabloid and broadshee

Canadian Heritage committee  The business model requires that there be a balance between the advertising ratio and the news ratio. It's as simple as that. I think you would see that over the years, most of our newspapers would see their news to whole ratio dramatically higher than it used to be as the ad lin