Closure of HuffPost Canada another hit to already battered Canadian media landscape

J-Source has mapped a year of the bleak impacts on Canadian media. The closure of HuffPost Canada is just one more mark on the landscape.

HuffPost Canada's Althia Raj, left, La Presse Canadienne's Catherine Levesque, and HuffPost Canada's Zi-Ann Lum, right, pictured June 6, 2019, at The Hill Times' annual spring party on the Hill. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

March 22, 2021

The closure of HuffPost Canada and HuffPost Québec earlier this month is just another gut-punch to an already battered news industry in this country following the economic wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic. And Zi-Ann Lum, one of the reporters at HuffPost Canada, told

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