The Bulldog Needs Your Donations, Ottawa – THE BULLDOG

It’s that time of year again.

The Bulldog has offered you free breaking news, analysis and opinion now for 13 years.

Yet only rarely does The Bulldog run its own PBS-like fundraising drive and that is now.

What do you get for your donation? Well look at the list of stories this publication has broken at the end of this post. We think The Bulldog has contributed mightily to this community. The Bulldog has been the leader in covering the light-rail scandal and the Lansdowne question.

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The Bulldog has offered you free breaking news, analysis and opinion now for 13 years.

Only rarely does The Bulldog run its own PBS-like fundraising drive and that is now.

What do you get for your donation? Well look at the list of stories this publication has broken at the end of this post. We think The Bulldog has contributed mightily to this community.

We hope you will find the time to contribute to The Bulldog as this publication has contributed to you.

People have asked where donations to The Bulldog go. Well first, there’s insurance, insurance, insurance and insurance. The Bulldog pays the same rate for its insurance as other Ontario community publications … names you will recognize. That’s how libel plus errors and omission insurance works. It’s not cheap. Not at all.

The Bulldog could have purchased a few very nice cars with the amount of money it has paid in insurance. That’s a lot of kibble.

And of course there is website hosting which continues to become more expensive as this publication grows in readership and requires more resources. Plus there’s equipment and myriad expenses associated with running a business.

So any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Particularly this year because advertising on which this publication depends has been cut by half due to the recession, Google says. And we can concur with that assessment here. The Bulldog uses Google ads but they far from cover our costs.

So The Bulldog has contributed greatly to this community. We hope you will be generous in contributing to keeping The Bulldog publishing. Thank you in advance.

Support The Bulldog And Its Local Ottawa Journalism With A Contribution

Your donation means we can continue to deliver a local news site in a city where voices are disappearing. The donation model successfully funds the Guardian with readers and patrons around the world. If you like The Bulldog, please support it.

Here is a sample of the stories The Bulldog has broken:

The fallacy of light-rail “on-time and on-budget;”

Tewin satellite city put on hold by province;

Election dirty tricks;

Resignation of Councillor Carol Anne Meehan;

Resignation of city planning chief Stephen Willis;

Mark Sutcliffe mayoral candidacy;

Bob Chiarelli mayoral candidacy;

Lansdowne north-side stands rebuild;

New Civic Centre;

Lansdowne 2.0;

Brian Guest-Bob Chiarelli bombshell emails;

LRT tunnel flood;

Diane Deans mayoral candidacy;

Another developer candidate for mayor;

No ridership study done on light rail;

Death of Ottawa journalism great Ian Parker;

Death of veteran Ottawa journalist Susan Sherring;

Trillium Line construction delays.

Ken Gray

Editor