Postmedia shut down the Tilbury Times and a handful of other community newspapers in Ontario and Manitoba in 2020, citing falling ad revenues. He's started up his own independent publications before, and worked in newsrooms big and small — in Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Although he's hyper-involved in town life, he's got no email or social media. © Haydn Watters/CBC Abbas knows restarting the paper will be 'difficult,' but he's optimistic. She wrote an obituary to the Tilbury paper for the Toronto Star last summer.

Source: CBC News January 19, 2022 12:46 UTC