This was one of the disastrously predictable effects of allowing Postmedia to vacuum up newspapers from British Columbia to Quebec.

This sinking quasi-monopoly now operates the large majority of English-language Canadian daily newspapers from Montreal to Vancouver, and did so for the sole benefit of its American debt-holders, its self-aggrandizing CEO Paul Godfrey, and a small number of hard-right partisans, anti-(fill in the blank) bigots, and climate change deniers.

Excellence in journalism and service to Canadian readership? Meh. No money in that, thought Mr. Godfrey. That's for losers. And yet Postmedia never turned a profit under his leadership.