''The Dominion'' is a monthly

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and web site in

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. ''The Dominion'' is published by the Dominion Newspaper Society, a non-profit organization. Formed by a group of independent journalists in April 2003, ''The Dominion'' publishes a print edition and distributes a pdf version of the newspaper online. Dru Oja Jay is founding editor of the ''Dominion'', and Hillary Lindsay is the paper's managing editor. Previous contributors include Jon Elmer,

Anthony Fenton Anthony Fenton is a Canadian independent print and radio journalist and writer. He has been a regular contributor to '' The Dominion'' and Z Communications, and is currently a doctoral student at York University. Education Fenton earned a BA in p ...

, Yuill Herbert, Erin Steuter, Jen Pierce, Matthew Trafford, Rob Maguire, and Stewart Steinhauer. The staff is based in cities across Canada, with concentrations in Halifax, Montreal and Vancouver. A local edition of the newspaper was published for several months as a street newspaper in Ottawa by the

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, but went on hiatus due to police harassment of homeless vendors of the newspaper and lack of funds. The newspaper bills itself as providing "accurate, critical coverage that is accountable to its readers and the subjects it tackles" and examining "politics, culture and daily life with a view to understanding the exercise of power". In 2006, ''The Dominion'' editorial collective launched The Media Co-op as a national coast-to-coast network of local online

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s. In 2021, some members of the editorial collective launched an online news website called The Breach.

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''The Dominion: Canada's Grassroots Newspaper''

''Special Issue on Foreign Policy''

The Media Co-op
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