Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, but I lost you there for a bit. What was the question?

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I think you would see that most community newspapers have a reach far outside their own community, though the majority of it is within that community. Speaking for myself, I've seen how national incidents in the last couple of years, within our coverage area—such as the dea

Canadian Heritage committee  In respect of your first question, with the publication that's been published since 1893, it's the Whitewood & Grenfell Herald Sun newspaper. It was published as the Whitewood Herald for about 115 years. Approximately five years ago, I purchased the Grenfell and Broadview n

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry. Manitoba and Alberta have similar concerns, but I'm not actually speaking on behalf of Manitoba or Alberta. However, we do communicate with them, and they do have concerns that are similar to ours.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, that is correct. We are in favour of it, with a few amendments, such as some of the concerns that Jeanette also mentioned with the confidential deals and the fairness and things like that, to make sure that small publications are benefiting from it as well.

Canadian Heritage committee  In Saskatchewan, the outcome would be fairly detrimental to a lot of the smaller publications. The newspaper industry has changed. Most of the work is now being done by the publishers, who are multi-tasking. In my own operation, I run five newspapers, but each newspaper has anyw

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for giving us the opportunity to appear before the committee today. Here's a bit of background. I'm a fourth-generation newspaper publisher and the publisher of five community newspapers in southeast and south central Saskatchewan, the oldest of which has been publishi