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Ex-journalists lament closure of Ming Pao, Canada’s last Chinese-language daily paper
Ming Pao will end print and digital operations in Canada due to financial losses despite receiving over $1.1 million in online news funding in 2025.
- On Monday, Ming Pao Daily News announced its final Vancouver and Toronto editions will publish on Jan. 16 and its newsrooms will close on Jan. 31, a decision by Ming Pao head office in Hong Kong.
- Ming Pao Daily News told the B.C. Ministry of Labour it was closing permanently for financial reasons, saying a 2024 petition to the Canada Periodical Fund produced no support while Canadian Journalism Collective records show it received more than $1.1 million in 2025.
- Sixty staff in B.C. were given termination notices, and Ming Pao Daily News, which launched its two Canadian editions in 1993, had about 130 unionized Toronto staff in 2014.
- Chinese-Speaking readers relied on Ming Pao for housing, jobs, and language help, with older Chinese-speaking immigrants often reading it in dim sum restaurants; Teresa Wat said its loss could increase isolation and weaken accountability.
- The Chinese media sector has struggled alongside English-language media, with Sing Tao ceasing print editions in 2022 and Fairchild Radio shuttering AM 1470 last month after CRTC approval.
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Ex-journalists lament closure of Ming Pao, Canada's last Chinese-language daily paper
VANCOUVER — British Columbia legislator Teresa Wat says she cried upon hearing of the impending closure of Ming Pao Daily News, the only Chinese-language daily newspaper in Canada. Wat, who worked as an assignment editor at Ming Pao’s Richmond, B.C., newsroom in 1996, leading a team of 10 reporters, said the publication has been more […]
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