Community Newspaper Publishers Need Fair Rates and Quality Service from Canada Post

Is Canada Post's flyer monopoly killing your local newspaper? Publishers say yes

Community newspaper publishers across Canada are urging the federal government to intervene after Canada Post offered lower flyer distribution rates to major competitors.

How Canada Post is strangling community newspapers - The Northern View

The shuttering of Winnipeg’s Community Review means 200,000 households will no longer get the benefit of a free community newspaper delivered to their door. It also means that more than 800 people who deliver the paper and their families will be affected. This is an unforced error that never should have happened. How did we get here? The answer is complex. First, there is a high degree of concentration in the flyer printing market in Canada. Mon…

Community Newspaper Publishers Need Fair Rates and Quality Service from Canada Post

TORONTO — Community newspaper publishers are asking the Honourable Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Québec Lieutenant, to direct Canada Post to offer publishers the same rate it offers to the country’s dominant flyer printer. Canada Post recently consolidated its stranglehold on the flyer distribution market by offering lower rates […]