The newspaper ship is sinking

Glacier Media sells its Saskatchewan news websites to Harvard, puts its Saskatchewan buildings up for sale, but still printing newspapers

The news websites for the newspapers from Estevan, Weyburn, Yorkton, Canora, Battlefords, Preeceville, Outlook, Assiniboia, Carlyle, Humboldt, Moose Jaw, Unity, Wilkie and Kamsack have been sold to a radio broadcasting company. The newspapers’ offices are all up for sale, as is the building housing the last remaining printing plant for them. The newspapers are still printing, for now, but how long is anyone’s guess. Otherwise, why would the last Glacier printing plant left in Saskatchewan have its building for sale?

 

46 Replies to “The newspaper ship is sinking”

  1. For one thing,the internet technology has doomed hard-copy newspapers. For another, newspapers are politically correct. The Canadian Press is now solidly left wing, and newspapers invariably reprint copy from CP. Who wants to pay good money to support this stuff?

    1. …and the Left is largely illiterate and not remotely curious so there is no market.

    2. Exactly. They brought this on themselves by making themselves irrelevant to the local communities they were in and sucking up to Lieberal Party.

    3. But,but who is going to watch the Libranos and inform Canadians of their shenanigans?

      Just kidding.

  2. These bastards have been taking taxpayers money given to them by Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada, to Parrot the line of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada. They can all go to hell, and if they were lying in the gutter I would step over them and Walk On By

  3. I miss my local weekly newspaper. It’s just not the same starting a brush fire with Canadian Tire flyers.

  4. I used to write a ‘How To’ article for the Estevan Mercury back in the 80s. It’s sad to see the decline in local news papers. They used to have more community engagement and less lecturing. The national ones have sold their souls decades ago.

    1. TorStar doesn’t own any printing presses. They outsource printing to Transcontinental Printing. They sold their last printing facility in 2016.

  5. We could make a flying saucer factory too…
    Back in the day, Nazi scientists were silenced forever with how far they had gotten in this idea.
    We certainly have the technology to actually accomplish this as our drone technology advanced.
    Generate the frame add bearings to rotate for lifting.
    Extremely smart design as it’s deflecting debris from destroying the craft.

    1. It can be achieved without flipping the craft with offset rotation.
      The inner rotations are faster than the outer one to achieve the same lifting speed.
      The blades tucking back in after…

      I had designed a new design inverted turbine that was engineered as being possible to build.
      Just had no idea of it’s strength as it’s totally unique.
      But it used all energy at the same time instead of the crap currently in use.

      1. Maybe just go with powerful high speed counter-rotating electromagnets and use the resulting anti-grav effect for lift?

        RNrn

          1. Thank you!
            That is pretty much about the same design with counter rotation of turbine’s.
            Design could be easily modified to open and close to adjusting the torque being exerted on downward pressure.
            It is also how inversion technology turbine looks very similar to a tornado that spits the energy into individual streams of wind, water, steam or whatever you want to harness all the energy at the same time for maximum torque energy.

        1. Still not close to the same design as I’m generating circles within circles…
          So, a 1 inch circle in rotation and the next inner one would need to increase the mass to 1 and an eighth inches to pick up the same mass of torque strength to generate the same energy exertion and not fall over.
          Adding a gear with sprockets takes away from having to be all one piece.

          Inversion technology.

          Totally not what we’re currently using or used to.
          Efficiency is totally hated in a world that wants you keep buying crap that you need many of and doesn’t work worth a crap.

          1. The powers that be and The Shadowy Men From A Shadowy Planet want to keep us where we are or rewind us to a medieval state. I weep for what is ahead.

            RNrn

          2. Well, I must say you guys have got warped priorities. I think the Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet only want us to dance and have fun, but perhaps they’ve gotten nastier since I knew them. Can’t speak for the powers that be, although I’m considering forming a band called the Powers That BFlat.

    1. Neepawa Banner in Manitoba is still going strong as far as I know. They even have op eds and published letters from people who disagreed with the government plandemic activites and main stream consensus science. They do not have a web presence.

    2. Kindersley, Moosomin and Martensville/Warman have independent papers that are doing well. But when the presses are all gone, I don’t know what they’re going to do.

  6. Oh I hope our local paper doesn’t disappear…I have a wood stove that needs to be lit periodically.

  7. When all the news is bad…who the heck wants to read about the latest totalitarian regulations every day?

  8. Great. A bunch of barely literate, totally innumerate lefties, who only emote and are incapable of thinking unemployed, to quickly be hired as civil servants since their skillset is perfect. I guess we were paying them indirectly anyway, so not much change.

  9. Can’t they just chisel them out in hieroglyphs on stone tablets? I mean, that’s the way we’ve always done it, isn’t it? And those came with government subsidies too didn’t they? Why change now?

  10. Well, if they are anything like the local community BC free bird cage liner, it will never be missed. All columns are Leftwing screed, Climey Changey Fear columns, Unicorn thinkers, rainbow defenders, and demands for more government in our lives.
    They can’t go bankrupt fast enough.

      1. Let’s also bring back subsidies for EV Ford Edsels.

        We also need subsidized mortgages for everyone, irrespective of their status in Canada!

        Free Trudeau-funded credit cards for groceries, too.

        Decommission national parks and build high rises for our diverse immigrants in bear country, who make our country perfect with clever ideas on how to fix the 2000-year old conflicts in the middle east and China!

    1. My columns certainly are not left-wing screed. And Preeceville/Canora/Kamsack carried my columns for the better part of 28 years. They also ran in Yorkton, Estevan and the Battlefords.

      1. Talking about BC specifically.
        A Gwyn Morgan column occasionally ends up in the Victoria News or Goldstream Gazette, and despite the facts he presents, ends up resolutely scorned by the Greentard and religious environmentalists in the Capital region. Unfortunately, Gwyn is wasting his time trying to convince those of the Green Faith.

  11. Glad I read this. I’ve recently been going through my old Wall Street Journal’s that I never got to read while I was working, recycling (hah! – I’m sure they’re really going to the county incinerator) them as I go. I should really keep a stack on hand for starting fires and such. Thank you SDA.

  12. lived in Thorold Ontario late 70s.
    found a printing shop the press looked like something from the turn of the century.
    a small independent shop churning out gawd cant remember. the local gossip advertiser whatever.
    l remember thinking how long they will hold out against the digital medium that l was in.

    passages.

  13. Lloydminster had two papers, or should i say flyer wrappers.
    Now there’s one flyer wrapper.
    Good way to catch up on retail sales, obits, junior sports, online auction announcements, marriage anniversaries, births, grads, 4H, bull sales. All the info not required over the internet,
    Double bonus, recycle as fire sarter, birdcage liner, wall insulation, package stuffing, et al.

  14. Faster, please. They can’t go broke quick enough to suit me. If they did -anything- useful, like cover who is stealing what at the local council meetings, then I might feel different. But as it is?

    “LET them die!” James T. Kirk, Star Trek 4.

  15. The problem though is that with the disappearance of physical “news”papers the government can control every bit of information people might see….that is, the “Baghdad Bob” version of “news”. There will come a time when somebody realizes that printed information will be required once again to get around the official narrative. Sort of like the White Rose in WWII Germany.

  16. This sword has more edges than we are allowed to, and quite possibly able to, counter.

    But counter we must.

    A boot is hard to remove from your face.

    Ask the Coutts 4.

  17. Sad really. Foist by their own petard. A real functioning democracy is dependent on a fair and functioning free press. The two are intertwined. What does that say about what is about to happen to Canada and the west?

  18. Apparently there is not much of a market for globalist propaganda, either you already know it and don’t need to review it, or you don’t believe it and don’t want to read it.

    (comment applies to daily papers, the smaller town weeklies are less culpable in this regard but are finding it more economical to go all-internet in their format, and will probably survive on line if not in print)

  19. I don’t know what this all means, but if it eventually means that Glacier Farm Media (Western Producer et al.) goes under, I will be thrilled. I used to work in Agricultural Extension but quit in 2017 because I was disgusted with how the majority of the ag industry and associated media sold their souls for a pot of porridge by going along with the fraudulent climate change narrative, knowing that we need more atmospheric CO2 rather than less because drives photosynthesis and increases crop yield.

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