Political leaders need to fight for our newspapers
Everyone will also know, soon enough, what our democracy will be like without fine newspapers like the Calgary Herald, or the Ottawa Citizen, or the Chronicle-Herald, or National Post, or the Vancouver Sun, or La Presse. It will be less of a democracy, and less of a nation, too.
TORONTO—A good newspaper, playwright Arthur Miller once said, is a nation talking to itself.
So what happens when our newspapers start to die? Will the nation die, too?
Full disclosure: I love newspapers. I have been a reporter at two (Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen) and a colu...
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