The owners of The Blade are looking to sell the Toledo newspaper and said Tuesday that if they're unsuccessful, both the print and digital versions of the paper will stop publishing at the end of the year.

Block Communications similarly cited financial losses when it announced in January that it would cease publishing another newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. But about two weeks before it was to shut down in May, Block announced that the nonprofit Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism would buy the newspaper and keep it open.

Block announced the Blade news in an email to the paper's staff, with president and chief operating officer Jodi Miehls calling it “an extremely difficult decision.”

“The Block Family’s continued investment to keep the Blade open is no longer an option. The financial losses the Blade has endured for years are simply not sustainable,” she wrote, according to the newspaper.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to build faster — “Build, baby, build” — helped propel the Liberals to victory, but his government’s push to fast-track major development projects by cutting environmental oversight is sharply out of step with Canadians’ priorities.

It is a political miscalculation that could come back to haunt the Liberals at the ballot box.

New polling, commissioned by Nature Canada and conducted by EKOS Research Associates, shows strong support among Canadians for protecting nature and endangered species while building the economy.

Canadians soundly reject the notion that they must sacrifice conservation protections for economic development.

Children entering kindergarten are starting school this fall. While the 2.5-hour kindergarten day commonly found in Manitoba schools sounds like a pleasant transition to the school system, in truth it remains one of the biggest missing pieces of the child-care puzzle.

WITH the recent collapse of Canada-U.S. trade talks, the economic, political and social changes are coming at business leaders on a daily basis.

While you cannot control the pace of these changes, you can control the pace of response and timing of actions your organization takes. This is a time for thoughtful analysis and careful action, not chasing the latest trends.

Artificial intelligence, for example, can write articles, create images, draft emails and perform seemingly countless other tasks. But is this new tool solving a current business problem?

Successful companies know they must develop a strategy before launching any tactics. Otherwise, the strategy is based on “hope” — and we all know hope is not a strategy.