Google agreed to give $100M a year to Canadian media. Then the fight started

MONTREAL — The apartment is located in a triplex in Montreal’s Plateau neighbourhood, complete with the residential streetscape’s signature steep staircase and vine-strewn railings. Over the years, it has served as the Canadian head offices for a social and environmental justice group and an advocacy organization for small-scale farmers, as well as the mailing address for an outfit called Funderground Sound and Vision.

No one answered the door on a recent Tuesday afternoon, roughly a month after the apartment took on arguably its most important role yet: headquarters of the group that one of the world’s biggest tech companies has chosen to throw a $100-million lifeline to Canada’s struggling media publishers.