R. Scott Pert<p>Canada’s newspapers must be Canadian owned</p><p>> Unfortunately, however [..] in 2010, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government had no trouble permitting the takeover of Canada’s largest newspaper chain — with more than 100 media outlets, including leading dailies like the Vancouver Sun and Ottawa Citizen — by a company called Postmedia, even though Postmedia was owned by several U.S. hedge funds.</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/2025.03.20-111409/https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/american-hedge-funds-should-be-banned-from-owning-canadian-newspapers-democracy-is-at-stake/article_60b728a4-2c33-4f5e-96d0-5761f596fbc2.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/2025.03.20-111409/h</span><span class="invisible">ttps://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/american-hedge-funds-should-be-banned-from-owning-canadian-newspapers-democracy-is-at-stake/article_60b728a4-2c33-4f5e-96d0-5761f596fbc2.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>