Torstar gets into the gambling business. Americans get caught up on the WE scandal. And documents suggest Canada’s two major newspaper chains discussed shutting down each others’ papers before they swapped them.
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Tiffany Lam
Producer
Kevin Sexton
Producer
Andréa Schmidt
Managing Editor, Podcasts
Hosted by Jesse Brown and Emilie Nicolas and Justin Ling
The Tyee’s tech and privacy reporter Bryan Carney co-hosts.
Further reading:
Read Bryan’s full story here on the correspondence between Torstar and Postmedia here.
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In a new ruling out of the US, Google is found to have an illegal monopoly on search. Michael Geist joins to compare the American antitrust approach to Big Tech to Canadian taxation efforts.
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