Comments on: Newspapers for sale!

By: More Canwest news – Fagstein

More Canwest news – Fagstein — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:56:42 +0000

[...] Some tidbits of news since Canwest's newspaper arm filed for bankruptcy protection in early January: [...]

By: Congratulations, you’re an unsecured Canwest creditor – Fagstein

Congratulations, you’re an unsecured Canwest creditor – Fagstein — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:03:09 +0000

[...] Canwest LP filed for creditor protection (not to be confused with bankruptcy, which eliminates debt), it secured so-called [...]

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:39:59 +0000

Hi Fagstein,

My invoice was filed October 14th and still wasn't paid by January 8th when the bankruptcy protection was filed. So because it was an outstanding invoice, it's now frozen. I know of at least two other freelancers who are similarly affected and are owed more money than I am. To say the paper's operations are continuing normally when regular contributors aren't being paid is a lie.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:17:23 +0000

Actually freelancers with outstanding invoices as of Jan 8th have had payment frozen. I'm out $900. Please update post.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:25:34 +0000

Pray that Transcontinental will not make a bid on any of the papers that will go for sale

By: Mitch Joel - Twist Image

Mitch Joel - Twist Image — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:15:16 +0000

They're still too expensive for you and I to buy them and run them properly. Let's keep waiting.

By: Jean Naimard

Jean Naimard — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:33:17 +0000

Hopefully, this will be a big nail in the coffin of media consolidation…

By: David Pinto

David Pinto — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:43:17 +0000

Surely I am not the only person to notice that the letters CCAA - short for Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act --can be rearranged to spell a rather rude English scatological term which rather hits the spot!

By: jay

jay — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:54:13 +0000

well when the bankruptcy documents are made public then it gets interesting, all the places ive worked that have gone under had to publish those docs to the employees as we were creditors (vacation pays) there is a lot of juicy info in those papers!