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Great West Newspapers
Great West Media Limited Partnership is a Canadian publisher of weekly newspapers in the province of Alberta. It is headquartered in St. Albert, Alberta. The company is jointly owned by Glacier Media, a Vancouver-based publisher, and the local family business Jamison Newspapers, which operates Great West's properties. History Great West was founded in 1995 as a partnership between Southam Inc. and the Jamison family, which had owned the ''St. Albert Gazette'' since 1966 (the newspaper itself had been founded in 1961). The Jamisons had run the paper as a family business but prided themselves on professional journalism; the ''Gazette'' staff produced a daily newspaper for the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. The ''Gazette'' had first partnered with Southam in 1988, when the Jamisons began printing suburban editions of ''Neighbours'', a publication of the Southam-owned ''Edmonton Journal'', as well as some colour comics and television inserts for the ''Journal'' and ''Calgary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anchors the north end of what Statistics Canada defines as the " Calgary–Edmonton Corridor". As of 2021, Edmonton had a city population of 1,010,899 and a metropolitan population of 1,418,118, making it the fifth-largest city and sixth-largest metropolitan area (CMA) in Canada. Edmonton is North America's northernmost large city and metropolitan area comprising over one million people each. A resident of Edmonton is known as an ''Edmontonian''. Edmonton's historic growth has been facilitated through the absorption of five adjacent urban municipalities ( Strathcona, North Edmonton, West Edmonton, Beverly and Jasper Place) hus Edmonton is said to be a combination of two cities, two towns and two villages./ref> in addition to a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspaper Companies Of Canada
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, Sport, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Newspapers In Canada
This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers Local weeklies Alberta * Airdrie – ''Airdrie Echo'' * Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star'' * Bassano – ''Bassano Times'' * Beaumont – ''Beaumont News'' * Beaverlodge – ''Beaverlodge Advertiser'' * Bow Island – ''Bow Island Commentator'' * Bow Valley – '' Bow Valley Crag & Canyon'', ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' * Bowden – ''The Voice of Bowden'' * Brooks, Alberta, Brooks – ''Brooks & County Chronicle'', ''Brooks Bulletin'' * Calmar, Alberta, Calmar – ''Calmar Community Voice'' * Camrose, Alberta, Camrose – ''Camrose Booster'' * Canmore, Alberta, Canmore – ''Rocky Mountain Outlook The ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' is a weekly local newspaper based in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. The ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' is delivered across the Bow Valley in Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise, the Municipal District of Bighorn and the Sto ...'' * Cardston, Alberta, Cardsto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver. The first known human inhabitants of the area settled in British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest British settlements in the area was Fort Victoria, established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Deer Advocate
The ''Red Deer Advocate'' is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Published by Black Press, the newspaper was first established in 1901 as the ''Red Deer Echo'', changing its name to ''Alberta Advocate'' in 1903 and ''Red Deer Advocate'' in 1906. Originally it was a weekly newspaper issued on Fridays. The ''Advocate'' now publishes daily, from Tuesday to Saturday as the Monday edition was dropped late in 2016, with the slogan "Central Alberta's Daily Newspaper". The newspaper publishes weekly supplements called ''Central Alberta Life'' (for rural communities), and owns eleven weekly newspapers covering outlying Alberta towns: the ''Bashaw Star'' (Bashaw), ''Castor Advance'' ( Castor), ''Lacombe Express'' (Lacombe), ''Pipestone Flyer'' ( Pipestone), ''Ponoka News'' ( Ponoka), ''Rimbey Review'' (Rimbey), ''Stettler Independent'' ( Stettler) and ''Sylvan Lake News'' ( Sylvan Lake). In addition to printing its own weekly and daily products, the ''Advocate'' presses also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canmore, Alberta
Canmore is a town in Alberta, Canada, located approximately west of Calgary near the southeast boundary of Banff National Park. It is located in the Bow Valley within Alberta's Rocky Mountains. The town shares a border with Kananaskis Country to the west and south and the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8 to the north and east. With a population of 14,798 in 2020, Canmore is the ninth-largest town in Alberta. History Canmore was officially named in 1884 by Canadian Pacific Railway director Donald A. Smith (later 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal). It was named after Malcolm III of Scotland who was also nicknamed Canmore. Canmore is Gaelic for "Big Chief". In 1886, Queen Victoria granted a coal mining charter to the town, and the No. 1 mine was opened in 1887. By the 1890s, a North-West Mounted Police barrack had been instated on Main Street, but it was vacated in 1927. The building was restored in 1989 and it is under the care of the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky Mountain Outlook
The ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' is a weekly local newspaper based in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. The ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' is delivered across the Bow Valley in Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise, the Municipal District of Bighorn and the Stoney Nakoda First Nation. The paper covers news in and around the Bow Valley region, which spans from Lake Louise in the west to the Stoney Nakoda First Nation and Kananaskis Country in the east. The paper does not charge readers and relies on advertising for income. History The ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' was officially launched on September 20, 2001, to serve the Bow Valley region. It was created and financed by longtime residents Larry Marshall, Bob Schott and Carol Picard and competed against the ''Canmore Leader'' and the ''Banff Crag and Canyon''. Schott became the sales manager, Picard – a former editor of the Canmore Leader – was named the editor and Marshall, who was a former managing editor of both the Canmore Leader and Banff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Press
Black Press Group Ltd. is a Canadian publisher of prominent daily newspapers in Hawaii and Alaska and numerous non-daily newspapers in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, and (via Sound Publishing) the U.S. state of Washington. Black Press Media is headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia, and has regional offices in Victoria, Williams Lake, and Kelowna. The company was founded and is majority owned by David Holmes Black, who has no relation to Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black. The company is 20% owned by Torstar, publisher of the ''Toronto Star'', and David Black's former employer. History After working as a junior business analyst for the ''Toronto Star'', Black purchased the ''Williams Lake Tribune'' of Williams Lake, British Columbia, from his father, Alan, in 1975. He bought a family-run newspaper in nearby Ashcroft in 1979, and his holdings expanded "exponentially" in the ensuing years. Though Black Press has focused its acquisitions mainly on building a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollinger Inc
Hollinger Inc. was a Canadian media company based in Toronto which was established by businessman Conrad Black. At one time, the company was the third-largest media empire in the world. The company went bankrupt in 2007. History Hollinger Inc. was used by Conrad Black as a holding company for his media interests after he acquired control of ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 1986. The company took its name from Hollinger Gold Mines, which started in 1909 and later became Hollinger Mines, owner of one of the world's largest gold mines near Timmins, Ontario. It was acquired by E.P. Taylor's conglomerate, Argus Corporation. Black took control of Argus in 1978, and he sold off its assets by 1985. Hollinger Inc. was controlled by Canadian-based Ravelston Corporation, which was used as a personal holding company by Black. Ravelston was placed in receivership in the summer of 2005. Holdings Hollinger Inc. was the parent company of Chicago-based Hollinger International, whose primary holdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Herald
The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler." It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. A year's subscription cost $3. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack. Cayley quickly became partner and editor. Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton Journal
The ''Edmonton Journal'' is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the Postmedia Network. History The ''Journal'' was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old ''Edmonton Bulletin''. Within a week, the ''Journal'' took over another newspaper, ''The Edmonton Post'', and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative Party of Canada (historical), Conservative Party against the ''Bulletins stance for the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party. In 1912, the ''Journal'' was sold to the William Southam, Southam family. It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger International. The ''Journal'' was subsequently sold to Canwest in 2000, and finally came under its current ownership, Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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