Government Operations committee  It's very difficult to measure print. Some advertisers would measure it at their cash out, asking where we found out about their sale. You have to be very careful with the click-through rates as well. Nearly half the traffic on the Internet is robots crawling around and doing t

Government Operations committee  Here in Alberta it's a big issue. Town halls are being held regularly. In our area there have been three in the last 10 days. They're full of angry farmers—

Government Operations committee  I'll be brief. I kind of agree with the intervenor there that it might be a little off topic, but the truth of the matter is that community newspaper publishers are small business people like many other business people, and we are greatly affected by these proposed changes, and

Government Operations committee  Well we don't really have third parties in our case, other than the advertising agency, and in the federal government's case, that's Cossette. We don't see the same thing that was just described in the ethnic newspapers.

Government Operations committee  Unlike the ethnic newspapers, we have virtually none. Although, because we have a by-election, we have three or four papers in Alberta that will get some advertising for that by-election. That's about all we'll likely see in 2017.

Government Operations committee  I'll give you an example. We lost a large auto manufacturer that had been advertising with community newspapers for decades, back in December 2016. The agency told us that they recognized we are by far the most effective and engaged media in the local communities, that people r

Government Operations committee  I can step in there. The short answer is yes. You don't reach anywhere near the number of people the local community newspapers reach. Also, we're multi-platform, as John Hinds pointed out. We're not simply ink on paper. We have all the digital channels that all the other playe

Government Operations committee  Good morning from Edmonton, Alberta. I am Duff Jamison. I am the president and CEO of Great West Newspapers, which publishes 18 community newspapers here in this province. Today, I'm here in my role as the government affairs chairman for the Alberta weeklies. That association