Canadian Heritage committee  That's all I'll say about the periodical fund. I think there's a lot of potential there. I'll add that organizations like ours are caught between a lot of different definitions of media, many of which are antiquated. We have separate streams of funding and different policy tool

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a good question. Again, I'm not an expert. I don't have tons of examples. Even if you just look south to the U.S., there's so much more innovation and there's so much more private capital going into media experiments. You have an organization like ProPublica, for example,

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a 150-million-euro fund that online media innovators can access to grow their businesses. We have nothing like that in Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  We're not policy experts. We put our heads down every day and try to keep it running, so I'll be pretty broad. I think we need to look at different types of government funding and where this can be expanded to help models like ours. The periodical fund does some, but it could b

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess I would urge the committee to look for solutions that are beneficial to public interest journalism, regardless of what kind of business model it operates within. I'd like to see solutions that benefit the function within traditional media of public interest journalism. Th

Canadian Heritage committee  On solutions, there's certainly been quite a lot of discussion about the role of the philanthropic sector in all of this. I do feel strongly that Canada's charitable tax laws are extremely antiquated and need to be revised, particularly with regard to the definition, or the lack

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I think when you have so many assets controlled by a small number of companies, they're going to put their resources and their efforts in their most profitable locations, and that's not going to be smaller centres. If we can pull that back in some way with more diverse and m

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  We did do a small amount. Most of our reporting is text-based, but we do some video.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's a separate organization that we have a relationship with. It produces a longer forum series, a solutions journalism series, and The Tyee is a guaranteed publisher, but not an exclusive publisher. We've collaborated with CBC Radio and NBC. We've collaborated with the W

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it's a limited partnership. We have two investors.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that's right.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would say we're fairly unique, yes. There are not a lot of players in this space yet. There are certainly more examples in the United States and through Europe of the kind of thing we do. Canada is a little bit behind, I would say, in this field.

Canadian Heritage committee  No.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can think of one provincial government ad that was placed in the last few years. I can't point to the government and say that they have purposely not advertised with us, but I have been, for most of the 13 years, the entire business department of The Tyee, with one third of m