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Media columnist for Canadian Dimension and author of eight books, including The Postmedia Effect (2023) and Tomorrow's News (2024).

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Lament for a Literature

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By Marc Edge
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Lament for a Literature: The Collapse of Canadian Book Publishing by Richard Stursberg Sutherland Press 2026/$19.95/100 PP. The demise of print culture has long been forecast due to the rise of digital media, but Canada perhaps leads the world in hastening its decline. Unlike the strict regulation of radio and television by the CRTC, which requires both Canadian ownership and content, Ottawa has done little to enforce its competition laws or foreign ownership limits in print media.
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Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation

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By Marc Edge
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Photo by Greg Bulla/Unsplash The ongoing shift from the Trudeau Liberals’ attempts to regulate the Internet to the Carney government’s willingness to retreat from them became even more apparent last week, as Ottawa continued backing away from policies designed to tax some of the world’s largest technology companies.
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Radio workers hope to resurrect stations axed by Big Media

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By Marc Edge
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Photo by Erik Drost/Flickr When it finally came time to push back against Big Media’s closures and layoffs in Canada, there’s no surprise that it wasn’t the government belatedly wielding a stiff-arm. Our quisling politicians in Ottawa are scared to death of an uber-concentrated news media that has so much power over their hopes for re-election. Instead of reining them in, they have thrown money at Big Media in the vain hope that it might stem the cuts.
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