Publisher lambasts Ottawa plans for newspaper industry
Montreal Gazette publisher Robert McConnell ridicules the Kent inquiry response as the War Measures Act for the press. Critics at a seminar say the government proposal does not go far enough, risking press freedom and endorsing greater ownership concentration.
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Roger Smith
Ottawa
Robert McConnell
The
Montreal Gazette
Kent Commission
Tim Creery
Commission
William Gilsdorf
Montreal
Concordia University
Kent
McConnell
Learned Societies Conference
James Fleming
Only three of Canada's 53 native languages likely to survive
An ethnologist from the National Museum of Man warns that most Indigenous languages in Canada are endangered. He notes about 154,000 people still speak these languages, with Cree and Ojibwa strongest at 85,000 and Inuktitut at 16,000, while several languages remain spoken by fewer than 10 individuals.
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Thomson Newspapers Ltd
Southam Inc
Canada
Toronto Sun Group
Conrad Black
Mcc Connell
Creery
Kent
Thomson
Southam
Royal Commission On the Media
Ottawa
National Museum of Man
Michael Foster
Language and Society
Official Languages Commissioner
Foster
Quebec
Alberta
Arctic
Ottawa housing critics warn of gloom without policy changes
MPs James McGrath and Ian Deans pressed the federal government to cut rates and expand support as May housing starts drop. Builders doubt apartment loans and fear continued slowdown despite $7500 per unit aid, with CMHC reporting May starts at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 116 000.
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Ottawa
James McGrath
New Democrat
Paul Cosgrove
McGrath
Ian Deans
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp
Federal Housing Agency
Japanese car sales rise in first third of year Ottawa
Japanese-made cars held 25.6 percent of Canada’s new car market in the first third of the year, up from 20.9 percent a year earlier, Statistics Canada reported. In April the share was 23.1 percent, the lowest month so far this year, with officials noting delays from new customs checks began in May.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Vancouver
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