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Sarmishta Subramanian: The risk this fall is not in the rise of a xenophobe or a left-wing populist. It’s in what’s happening to our media.

The depth of Canada’s media problem is only truly visible by looking at the country’s most popular news access point: Facebook

The decision by Postmedia to pay executives millions in retention bonuses even as it empties out its newsrooms has sparked outrage, but was it illegal?

A former Globe & Mail editor argues that newspapers have forgotten what they want from readers

It’s still not clear what buying even more struggling newspapers will do for Postmedia’s long-term financial viability

Martin Patriquin on why the sale of the Sun Media papers meshes with Pierre Karl Péladeau’s political ambitions

Colby Cosh on the futility of the Mother Corp.

Postmedia Network Inc. will shut down its wire service, reports the Globe and Mail. Since 2007, when its wire service was set up to compete with the Canadian Press, Postmedia produced stories from its Ottawa newsroom for the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Vancouver Sun, the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal and a range of other Postmedia websites and newspapers.

COSH: Questioning the latest “Cold War weapons expert” on the Wi-Fi in schools issue

That’s the title of Tom Watson’s feature in the new issue of Canadian Business. It looks at how the big players in the Canadian media biz — The Globe, Star, Postmedia, and Sun Media — are all working different strategies as they try to figure out how to make money in a business environment that has changed almost unrecognizeably since the National Post was launched.