Four years later, when the Barrie Examiner became a daily paper, Aikins was among the first to subscribe. All the changes, he said, should be documented and followed by a local paper. Such an option is not even available to residents of other communities now left entirely without local media as a result of the closures. Around that time, the Thorold paper opted to run a front-page photo of her one-year-old son dressed as a pizza delivery boy for Halloween. “For a local business like us, advertising with them has always been an affordable option,” she said of the local paper.

Source: National Post November 28, 2017 17:03 UTC