[NEWS] Six links on journalism in Canada: Québec, Halifax, PEI, Guelph ...

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• La Presse carries the concern of a Québec journalist that the decline of daily papers could have a catastrophic impact on the province's culture.


• The Québec government would like financially-stressed newspaper group to form a coop. CTV News reports.


• That the Toronto Star shut down its free Metro affiliates across Canada made the news in Halifax. CBC reports.


• The closure of the Transcontinental Media printing plant in Borden-Carleton means that PEI no longer has a local printer for its media. CBC reports.


• Sabrina Wilkinson writes at The Conversation about the increasingly tenuous nature of journalism in Canada, not least as an employer.


• This Alex Migdal piece looks at how Guelph, Ontario, has fared since the closure of the Guelph Mercury daily.