Canadian Heritage committee  No, I formed my company in 2011, with the Vancouver Observer. The Observer Media Group has been around since then. At that time I was managing the Vancouver Observer, which is a local publication. In April of 2015 I founded the National Observer as a national publication.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Initially, when I first started, I really believed that the ad dollars were going to migrate from print to digital. I bootstrapped the publication in the early days, thinking that day would come, but that day never came. At that point I was faced with the fact that we were winnin

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I say this with a tremendous amount of respect for The Tyee and for The Walrus and for everyone trying to create a charitable structure that works for them, but I think right now those structures limit the kind of journalism they can do. In my opinion, they change the qualit

Canadian Heritage committee  When people contribute to the National Observer or to the Vancouver Observer, which they've been doing for years through crowdfunding, and sometimes just through the fundraising campaigns we run.... I never know whether to call it a donation or a gift, but it's really a gift, be

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair, honourable members, thank you for inviting me to talk with you today. By way of introduction, you may note from my accent that I was born in the United States. I immigrated to Canada in 2001, and became a Canadian citizen a few years later. You'll see from my submis