Canadian Heritage committee  I was listening to French and couldn't understand it. I caught the last part in English. We've survived because we sold advertising 33 years ago. The other nine newspapers, when the program was cut, the native communications program, didn't run as a business model. They ran as a

Canadian Heritage committee  Over the 39 years that I've been involved, we went from advertising to seeing the government put their advertising elsewhere. We used to publish 25,000, and the cost to mail it.... We finally switched to digital. As you may have noticed, everybody is getting their news that way n

Canadian Heritage committee  That's no problem.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay.

Canadian Heritage committee  —are in the community in good times and bad. As far as media concentration, the proliferation of indigenous news media occurred in the 1980s and the 1990s but over recent years there has been a decline. As production costs soared and technology changed, it became a financial hur

Canadian Heritage committee  Oki. Good morning. I threatened to do this thing in Blackfoot, but I'll go with English instead. The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society was established 34 years ago, in 1983. In the early days, our multimedia consisted of a radio show and a single newspaper, Windspeaker, which wa