Angela Boyd was the Columns Editor for the Spring 2005 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Elephant in the Room
Metroland rolls over Toronto with bland community newspapers, but the independents fight on
A little newspaper turned up on my Toronto doorstep at Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue in September 2004. It was only 16 pages long, scarcely bulky enough to contain the colour flyers tucked inside. Big corporate flyers, too, like Canadian Tire, No Frills, and Pharma Plus. The flyers outweighed the newspaper four to one. […]
