Feuding with the Family

A year after it launched, the independent Carleton FreePress closed down in October. As Christal Gardiola discovered, that’s left a paper owned by the powerful Irving family as the only one in town

Bob Rupert saw it coming. In mid-October, the Carleton FreePress editor knew his time with the paper would soon be over when he discovered the company was having trouble paying its printing bills. Sure enough, the next Monday afternoon, owner Dwight Fraser walked into a story meeting and revealed that the New Brunswick weekly would […]