An all-party committee of MLAs looking for ways to save local journalism in Manitoba made the trip to Thompson Friday — nearly a year after the northern city lost its only newspaper.

NDP MLA and committee chair Robert Loiselle, local NDP MLA Eric Redhead and Progressive Conservative MLA Greg Nesbitt (Riding Mountain), consulted with residents in the “hub of the north” about ways the government can support local news outlets that have to compete with online platform giants.

“We’ve managed to hold on,” said Sue O’Brien, station manager for Arctic Radio that has stations in Thompson, Flin Flon and The Pas and online websites, including thompsononline.ca.

“Advertising revenues aren’t quite what they used to be,” said O’Brien, who owns and runs Arctic Radio with her husband, Tom O’Brien. Som

See Full Page