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Canadian Heritage committee I have a few ideas. First is to encourage the government, whether it be the federal government or territorial or provincial governments, to advertise locally. I think that's probably the number one thing that we've lost for sure. Bruce wasn't able to be heard, but we experienced
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Casey Lessard
Canadian Heritage committee Bruce, do you want to answer that? You probably have a closer perspective on that.
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Casey Lessard
Canadian Heritage committee Can you hear what we're saying? We can't hear you.
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Casey Lessard
Canadian Heritage committee If I could say one last thing, if you were to stop funding the CBC in Nunavut, I think it would be a negative. In most of the communities.... It's weird to say that, as we sort of view it as a competitor, as well. If you were to eliminate the CBC funding, or move it to an adverti
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Casey Lessard
Canadian Heritage committee Ken has mentioned something interesting; we were discussing this before. How much of that Canadian periodical fund do you see?
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Casey Lessard
Canadian Heritage committee Right; that's because he does free distribution. We are paid distribution, so we get funding to offset the costs of that distribution through the Canadian periodical fund. The trend tends to be towards free models, whereby people are getting the paper for free—Metro, or in the
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Casey Lessard
Canadian Heritage committee Thank you for inviting me and my colleagues to discuss our experience in Nunavut. Bruce and Mikle can answer questions about our experience in N.W.T. Bruce is our managing editor, and Mikle Langenhan is our associate editor for Kivalliq News with two newspapers in Nunavut. They'
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Casey Lessard