Torstar-Postmedia deal drives home need for government support

Reducing the vehicles for information, expression of opinion, and the means to hold authorities to account is hardly in the public interest.

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly, pictured last month, told reporters Nov. 27 she’s sad to hear about the closures of local newspapers announced this week, but she wouldn’t commit to any new aid. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 29, 2017

OTTAWA—If the rise of Donald Trump proved anything worth knowing, it’s the risk to democracy posed by an uninformed electorate. The story of the 2016 United States election woke everyone up to the extent of the problems with social media in an election, whether it was to do with the widespread ...

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