To level playing field for local news, start by standing up to Google, Facebook

Canada can a learn a lot from Australia. Under the Australia model, the web giants are subject to fines in the hundreds of millions of dollars for a single infraction.

The newspaper you’re reading right now—like newspapers in every corner of the democratic world—is being squeezed by monopolistic tactics, writes Jamie Irving, vice-president of Brunswick News Publishing.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY JAMIE IRVING

October 29, 2020

Consider two simple, if sobering, facts. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has a market value that is larger than the GDP of 175 of the world’s 195 countries. With 2.7 billion users, Facebook equals the two...

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