Canadian local news outlets should only be owned and operated by Canadians or Canadian-owned and operated entities. Also, no one company or individual should be allowed to own more than three local news outlets across Canada. Local news is unique to its locale and reflects that community, as well as the values and beliefs of all the people in those communities. No national or foreign entity or corporation (foreign or domestic) should have the power to influence the way news is reported on a local level. News should be impartial.

Therefore, this petition requests that the Federal Government make it one of their mandates within this current election cycle to break up the foreign and domestically owned monopolies of Canadian news outlets and agencies, such as the one operated by the American-owned Postmedia, which is owned by the American Hedge funds, BlackRock and Vanguard. This includes, but is not limited to, all broadsheet, digital, and televised news outlets.

This petition also requests that the Federal Government enact a law stating that no Canadian news outlet, including but not limited to broadsheet, digital, and televised, may be owned, influenced, or operated by a foreign entity, company, or government. Nor may domestic entities, companies, or corporations that take possession of domestic news outlets be financially beholden to a foreign entity, company, or government.

Further, this petition also requests that no domestically owned, operated, and financed Canadian entity, company, or corporation be allowed to own or operate more than three private news outlets.

 

As an example, the PostMedia Canadian network of news outlets is vast, and encompasses all formats, including broadsheet and tabloid daily newspapers, community newspapers, and numerous digital platforms. Attached is as comprehensive list of their holdings, categorized by province, as I could find. Make sure to check your news sources against the list below.
No one entity should own or have influence over this many Canadian news outlets. News can only be impartial, when it's independent.

'PostMedia' owned news outlets in Canada:

Nationally and Websites:
National Post
Financial Post
Canada (dot) com
Canoe (dot) com
Driving (dot) ca
The GrowthOp
Healthing (dot) ca
Remembering (dot) ca
Working (dot) com

British Columbia:
Prince George Post (Prince George)1
The Province (Vancouver)
The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver)

Alberta:
Airdrie Echo (Airdrie)
Bow Valley Crag & Canyon (Banff)
Calgary Herald (Calgary)
Calgary Sun (Calgary)
Cochrane Times (Cochrane)
Daily Herald Tribune (Grande Prairie)
Devon Dispatch (Devon)
Edmonton Examiner (Edmonton)
Edmonton Journal (Edmonton)
Edmonton Sun (Edmonton)
Fort McMurray Today (Fort McMurray)
La Nouvelle Beaumont News (Beaumont)
Leduc Rep (Leduc)
Peace River Record-Gazette (Peace River)
Pincher Creek Echo (Pincher Creek)
The Cold Lake Sun (Cold Lake)
The Drayton Valley Western Review (Drayton Valley)
The Fairview Post (Fairview)
The Grove Examiner (Spruce Grove)
The Hanna Herald (Hanna)
The High River Times (High River)
The Leduc-Wetaskiwin County Market (Leduc)
The Mayerthorpe Freelancer (Mayerthorpe)
The Nanton News (Nanton)
The Peace Country Sun (Grande Prairie)
The Record (Fort Saskatchewan)
The Sherwood Park News (Sherwood Park)
The Stony Plain Reporter (Stony Plain)
The Vulcan Advocate (Vulcan)
The Wetaskiwin Times (Wetaskiwin)
The Whitecourt Star (Whitecourt)
Vermilion Standard (Vermilion)

Saskatchewan:
Regina Leader-Post (Regina)
Saskatoon StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
The Journal (Melfort/Nipawin)

Manitoba:
Winnipeg Sun (Winnipeg)
The Graphic Leader (Portage la Prairie)
Kenora Miner & News (Kenora)

Ontario:
Belleville Intelligencer (Belleville)
Brantford Expositor (Brantford)
Chatham Daily News (Chatham)
Chatham This Week (Chatham)
Clinton News-Record (Clinton)
Cochrane Times-Post (Cochrane)
Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Cornwall)
The County Weekly News (Picton)
The Courier Press (Wallaceburg)
The Daily Press (Timmins)
Elliot Lake Standard (Elliot Lake)
The Expositor (Brantford)
Goderich Signal-Star (Goderich)
Grey Bruce This Week (Owen Sound)
The Intelligencer (Belleville)
The Kincardine News (Kincardine)
Kingston This Week (Kingston)
Kingston Whig-Standard (Kingston)
Kirkland Lake Northern News (Kirkland Lake)
The Londoner (London)
The Lucknow Sentinel (Lucknow)
The Mid-North Monitor (Espanola)
The Mitchell Advocate (Mitchell)
Napanee Guide (Napanee)
Norfolk & Tillsonburg News (Tillsonburg)
North Bay Nugget (North Bay)
Ontario Farmer (London & Chatham)
Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa)
Ottawa Sun (Ottawa)
The Owen Sound Sun Times (Owen Sound)
The Paris Star (Paris)
Pembroke Observer & News (Pembroke)
The Post (Hanover)
The Recorder & Times (Brockville)
Sarnia Observer (Sarnia)
Sarnia This Week (Sarnia)
Sault Star (Sault Ste. Marie)
Sault This Week (Sault Ste. Marie)
Seaforth Huron Expositor (Seaforth)
Shoreline Beacon (Southampton)
Simcoe Reformer (Simcoe)
St. Thomas Times-Journal (St. Thomas)
Stratford Beacon Herald (Stratford)
Strathroy Age Dispatch (Strathroy)
The Sudbury Star (Sudbury)
The Sun Times (Owen Sound)
The Timmins Times (Timmins)
Today's Farmer (London & Chatham)
The Trentonian (Trenton)
West Elgin Chronicle (West Elgin)
Wiarton Echo (Wiarton)
Windsor Star (Windsor)
Woodstock Sentinel-Review (Woodstock)

Quebec:
Montreal Gazette (Montreal)

New Brunswick:
Bugle-Observer (Woodstock)
Info Weekend (Edmundston)
Kings County Record (Sussex)
L'Étoile Acadian Coast (Acadian Peninsula)
Miramichi Leader (Miramichi)
Telegraph-Journal (Saint John)
The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton)
The Northern Light (Bathurst)
The Tribune (Campbellton)
Times & Transcript (Moncton)

Prince Edward Island:
Journal Pioneer (Summerside)
The Guardian (Charlottetown)

Nova Scotia:
Annapolis Valley Register (Annapolis Valley)
Cape Breton Post (Sydney)
The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
The News (New Glasgow)
The Tri-County Vanguard (Digby, Shelburne & Yarmouth)
Truro News (Truro)
Valley Journal Advertiser (West Hants)

Newfoundland & Labrador:
The Telegram (St. John's)