While considerable information about Canada’s media companies exist online in regulatory, corporate, and academic publications, this information is rarely the subject of intense public attention. CBC/Radio-Canada, as a public broadcaster, publishes an annual report detailing its spending and corporate priorities, but critics charge the corporation is often too secretive and lacks proper oversight (Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, 2020). Canada’s broadcast regulator, the CRTC, publishes detailed and regular information about the country’s media system, including an annual Communications Monitoring Report. Moreover, numerous parliamentary reports over the last decade have provided a comprehensive picture of Canada’s news media. The 2017 Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage provides an in-depth analysis, for instance, of the disruption and changes in the news industry sparked by digital technology. Given the growing concentration, decline of local news, and general disruption in Canada’s media system over the last decade, there has been increasing public debate about the future of news and access to information.
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