This is the latest in a string of job losses in print journalism across Canada, including the 54 staff laid off from the Vancouver Sun and The Province in March.

Next month, Dave Bidini - the prolific musician, author and general man-about-Toronto - will be trudging door to door delivering his most recent creation: a 20-page broadsheet newspaper called the West End Phoenix. It will be a community rag, served without advertisements once a month with a focus on a few west-end neighbourhoods.