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Reports on efforts to sell newspapers in Toronto, Ontario. Fierce competition between the 'Globe and Mail,' 'The National Post,' 'The Toronto Sun' and 'The Toronto Star'; Beginnings of the competition when Conrad Black could not acquire the 'Globe and Mail' in 1998; Financial problems with all four newspapers, which have slashed prices and increased staff in attempts to compete.

Reports on the plans of the Canadian government regarding the restriction against foreign ownership of country's newspapers. Plans of Hollinger Inc. with its smaller newspapers; Opinion of Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canada, on the plans of the Canadian Government.

Reports on the moving out of columnist Ric Dolphin from the newspaper Calgary Herald due to the paper being censured for his articles on Aboriginal people by the Alberta Press Council. Observations of papers' editor-in-chief Peter Menzies about Dolphin's articles; Person to file complaint against the paper; Natives' opinion about the sentiments expressed in Dolphin's articles.