Spot on, Elizabeth. I keep telling the editors of local newspapers, however, that I continue to subscribe to delivery of their paper product, despite one daily continually running pieces from the Fraser Institute - never the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, at the other end of the political spectrum - simply because democratic municipal government is impossible in the absence of a clearing house for opinions, the letter to the editor. Hedge funds should not be allowed to own a majority of Canada's dailies, and would not have been allowed to in the days before finance capital took the Catbird's seat..