To my great surprise, Justin Trudeau’s government seems to have decided it needs to be in the business of helping news organizations succeed. But this week Postmedia added a Dickensian touch by distributing $2.3 million in bonuses to its senior management, including $900,000 to the company’s eerily lifelike president, Paul Godfrey. So it’s been buying out or laying off staff faster even than most other media companies. It’s the latest uproar in my line of work, this business of the bonuses at Postmedia . And yet the Trudeau government has already gone a surprising distance down the road toward increasing government assistance to news organizations.

Source: thestar November 25, 2016 21:57 UTC