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When will those within the province or within Environment Hamilton compel industry to clean up their filth, asks Chris Carroll

We need journalism to inform and educate us on pathways toward a better future, writes Lyla Miklos.

We are being made monkeys of by the hedge funds and private equity firms which have scooped up most of our largest newspapers and turned these formidable weapons of mass propaganda on us. The vulture capitalists are laughing all the way to the bank while we shower them with bailout money and blame Big Tech for not sitting still to be similarly fleeced.

Google’s search engine is covered by federal privacy law, opening the door for people to demand to have their names be made unsearchable

Bankruptcy is standard operating procedure for the hedge funds and private equity firms that now dominate our beleaguered newspaper industry. They are adept at working the bankruptcy process to advantage as they chew up and spit out icons of what was once a thriving news media. That’s what makes the bankruptcy of Metroland Media highly suspicious.

Canada Post cries out for a comprehensive rethink — and not one predicated on the notion that it must exist forever, at all costs

Other countries do much better by their stiffed employees

The Hamilton Spectator is losing its office space as its owner tries to save money, CBC Hamilton has learned. It means one of Ontario's longest-running newspapers will no longer have a physical newsroom.

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

TORONTO — Canada's shrinking flyer industry and the slew of businesses who rely on it for advertising were dealt another blow last week when one of Ontario's most prominent media conglomerates stopped printing 70 community newspapers and announced th