Carol Linnitt is a journalist, editor, illustrator and co-founder of The Narwhal. Her reporting on energy and environmental politics has appeared in VICE Canada, The National Observer, Academic Matters and The Tyee.
Press freedom and civil liberties groups warn that loosening media consolidation rules would further erode independent news, local coverage, and democratic accountability.
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.