The Unfriendly Giant

Once upon a time at a string of Ontario weeklies, the people were poor but happy. Then Southam bought them out. Now they're just poor

The two-storey brick warehouse in Stoney Creek, Ontario, that is home to Brabant Newspapers Ltd. is anything but impressive. Inside, the drab walls and exposed pipes are dingy with age and neglect, and when it rains, buckets catch the water leaking through the roof. Fifty miles away in the heart of Yorkville, the posh high-rise […]