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“Postmedia also reportedly told its papers to endorse the federal conservatives in 2015,” The Narwhal recalls. That revelation “prompted CBC’s Charles Rusnell to question the ethics of ‘an American hedge fund telling an Alberta newspaper which federal Canadian party to endorse’.”
Those details indicate that “Postmedia has ceased to be a news media organization and has become a political organization,” Holman said. “If the major dailies are unable to do their job to hold power to account and inform the citizenry, that does not speak well for the future of democracy in Alberta.”