Sun Media Corporation was the owner of several

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and

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newspapers in

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and the 49 percent owner of the now defunct Sun News Network. It was a subsidiary of Quebecor Media. On October 6, 2014, Quebecor Media announced the sale of the remaining English-language print assets of Sun Media to rival

Postmedia Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a Canadian media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, news ...

. The sale included neither the Sun News Network, which subsequently closed when a buyer was not found, nor Quebecor's French-language papers ''

Le Journal de Montréal ''Le Journal de Montréal'' is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper in North America. Es ...

'' and ''

Le Journal de Québec ''Le Journal de Québec'' is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Printed in tabloid format, it has the highest circulation for a Quebec City newspaper, with its closest competitor being ''Le Soleil''. It was found ...

''. The sale was approved by the federal

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on March 25, 2015, and closed on April 13. Canoe Sun Media merged with Postmedia rather than being maintained as a separate division. Quebecor had previously sold its community newspapers in Quebec to TC Transcontinental in June 2014, under a deal first announced in December 2013.

History

Sun Publishing was formed on February 4, 1978 through the amalgamation of Toronto Sun Holdings Ltd and Toronto Sun Publishing Ltd. The two companies had been formed in 1971 with the launch of the ''

Toronto Sun The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices is located at Postmedia Place in ...

'' by former staffers of the defunct ''

Toronto Telegram ''The Toronto Evening Telegram'' was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at the federal and the provincial levels. The paper competed w ...

''. On February 14, 1978, the ''

Edmonton Sun The ''Edmonton Sun'' is a daily newspaper and news website published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is owned by Postmedia following its 2015 acquisition of Sun Media from Quebecor. It began publishing Sunday April 2, 1978 and shares many c ...

'', the second member of what would become the Sun chain, was announced through a partnership of Sun Media and Edmonton Sun Publishing Ltd. The paper was launched on April 2, 1978. In 1981, the outstanding shares of Edmonton Sun Publishing Ltd were acquired by Sun Media. The company purchased the '' Calgary Albertan'' on July 31, 1980 for $1.3 million and relaunched it days later as the ''Calgary Sun'', with the same format and appearance as its sister papers. In 1983, 50% of Sun Media was acquired by Maclean-Hunter for $55 million. That same year, Sun Media, with Maclean-Hunter's backing, acquired the ''

Houston Post The ''Houston Post'' was a newspaper that had its headquarters in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1995, the newspaper shut down, and its assets were purchased by the '' Houston Chronicle''. History Gail Borden Johnson founded the ''Houston ...

'' for $100 million in an attempt to expand into the

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. It was sold for $150 million four years later. In 1987, Maclean-Hunter's ''

Financial Post The ''Financial Post'' was an English Canadian business newspaper, which published from 1907 to 1998. In 1998, the publication was folded into the new ''National Post'',"Black says Post to merge with new paper". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 23, ...

'' weekly was sold to Sun Media for $46 million and was relaunched as a daily tabloid financial newspaper the following year. In 1988, Sun Media acquired the ''Ottawa Sunday Herald'' which it would relaunch as the daily ''

Ottawa Sun The ''Ottawa Sun'' is a daily newspaper in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is published by Sun Media. It began publication in 1983 as the ''Ottawa Sunday Herald'', until it was acquired by (then) Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation in 1988. In Apri ...

''. In 1994, Maclean-Hunter was purchased by

Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media ass ...

. Two years later, on October 4, 1996, the management of the Sun chain under the leadership of

Paul Godfrey Paul Victor Godfrey, CM, OOnt (born January 1939) is a businessman and former Canadian politician. During his career, Godfrey was a North York alderman, Chairman of Metro Toronto, President of the ''Toronto Sun'' and head of the Toronto Blue ...

purchased Rogers' share of the Sun Publishing and renamed the company Sun Media. In 1998, the ''Financial Post'' was sold to Southam Inc. in exchange for the '' Hamilton Spectator'', the '' Kitchener-Waterloo Record'', the ''

Guelph Mercury The ''Guelph Mercury'' was an English language daily newspaper published in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It published a mix of community, national and international news and is owned by the Torstar Corporation. The newspaper, in many incarnation ...

'', and the ''

Cambridge Reporter The ''Cambridge Reporter'' was a local daily newspaper in Southern Ontario serving the community of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1846 as the ''Galt Reporter'' by Peter Jaffray, a Scottish settler who was originally from Stirli ...

''. Also in 1998, Sun Media was purchased by Quebecor and maintained as a wholly owned subsidiary of it. Godfrey had sought out Quebecor as a "white knight" in order to frustrate an attempted hostile takeover by the Sun's longtime rival, the ''

Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and par ...

''. In 1999, Quebcor sold the four recently acquired southern Ontario newspapers to the owners of the ''

'' and became part of its

Metroland Media Group Metroland Media Group (also known as Community Brands) is a Canadian mass media publisher and distributor which primarily operates in Southern Ontario. A division of the publishing conglomerate Torstar Corporation, Metroland publishes more than 7 ...

. Southam, owned by

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, would relaunch the ''Financial Post'' as the ''

National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with ...

''. In 2007, Sun Media acquired and absorbed the

Osprey Media Osprey Media L.P. was a Canadian newspaper regional chain that published 20 daily newspapers, 34 non-daily newspapers, and a number of shopping guides and magazines in the Canadian province of Ontario. Formerly an independent income trust, it was ...

chain of small English language newspapers mostly based in Ontario. In 2014, after years of cuts and restructuring, Quebecor sold its Sun Media division to

which, ironically, had former Sun Media CEO Paul Godfrey as its chief executive. The sale was completed in April 2015 and Sun Media was dissolved with its newspapers being absorbed by the Postmedia chain.

Sun Media publications

''Sun'' newspapers

* ''

Calgary Sun The ''Calgary Sun'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is owned by Postmedia. First published in 1980, the tabloid-format daily replaced the long-running tabloid-size newspaper ''The Albertan'' soon after it was ...

'' * ''

'' * '' Winnipeg Sun''

''Le Journal'' newspapers

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Quebec City Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is t ...

)

''24hrs'' newspapers

* '' 24heures''

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

* '' 24hrs''

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

* '' 24hrs''

Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. ...

Local daily newspapers

Alberta

* '' The Daily Herald-Tribune'' -

Grande Prairie Grande Prairie is a city in northwest Alberta, Canada within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), a ...

* ''

Fort McMurray Today The ''Fort McMurray Today'' is a publication based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. It is considered the paper of record for Fort McMurray and covers a number of topics affecting the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. The daily newspaper was ...

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Fort McMurray Fort McMurray ( ) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significan ...

Manitoba

* '' Portage Daily Graphic'' -

Portage la Prairie Portage la Prairie () is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. As of 2016, the population was 13,304 and the land area of the city was . Portage la Prairie is approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Hi ...

Ontario

* '' Belleville Intelligencer'' - Belleville * ''

Brantford Expositor The ''Brantford Expositor'' is an English language newspaper based in Brantford, Ontario and owned by Postmedia. It provides the readers with coverage of local news, sports and events to the community as well as coverage of provincial, nation ...

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Brantford Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independ ...

* '' Chatham Daily News'' - Chatham * ''

Cornwall Standard Freeholder The ''Cornwall Standard-Freeholder'' is a daily newspaper based in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. It has been in circulation for many years, and continues to be the newspaper with the largest circulation inside the Montreal - Ottawa - Kingston tria ...

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Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a Historic counties of England, historic county and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people ...

* ''

Kingston Whig Standard ''The Kingston Whig-Standard'' is a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is published five days a week, from Tuesday to Saturday. It publishes a mix of community, national and international news and is currently owned by Postmedia. It h ...

'' - Kingston * ''

London Free Press ''The London Free Press'' is a daily newspaper based in London, Ontario, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Southwestern Ontario. History ''The London Free Press'' began as the ''Canadian Free Press'', founded by Willia ...

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London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

* '' Niagara Falls Review'' -

Niagara Falls Niagara Falls () is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the Canada–United States border, border between the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario in Canada and the U.S. state, state ...

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North Bay Nugget The ''North Bay Nugget'' is a newspaper published in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The paper is currently owned by Postmedia. The paper was launched in 1907 as the ''Cobalt Nugget'', during the silver boom at Cobalt, Ontario. It was acquired by bu ...

'' - North Bay * '' Northumberland Today'' -

Cobourg Cobourg ( ) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Southern Ontario east of Toronto and east of Oshawa. It is the largest town in and seat of Northumberland County. Its nearest neighbour is Port Hope, to the west. It ...

* ''

Orillia Packet and Times Orillia is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is in Simcoe County between Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe. Although it is geographically located within Simcoe County, the city is a single-tier municipality. It is part of the Huronia region of Cent ...

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Orillia Orillia is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is in Simcoe County between Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe. Although it is geographically located within Simcoe County, the city is a List of municipalities in Ontario#Single-tier municipalities, single ...

* ''

Owen Sound Sun Times ''The Sun Times'' is a local newspaper which services the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound area in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its headquarters are in Owen Sound. The ''Times'' newspaper was founded in 1853 and ''The Sun'' newspaper was founded in 18 ...

'' - Owen Sound * '' Pembroke Daily Observer'' - Pembroke * '' Peterborough Examiner'' -

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire unti ...

* '' Sarnia Observer'' -

Sarnia Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. It had a 2021 population of 72,047, and is the largest city on Lake Huron. Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes where Lake Huron f ...

* '' Sault Star'' - Sault Ste. Marie * '' Simcoe Reformer'' -

Simcoe Simcoe may refer to: Geography Canada * Simcoe, Ontario, a town in southwestern Ontario, near Lake Erie, Canada * Simcoe County, a county in central Ontario, Canada * Lake Simcoe, a lake in central Ontario, Canada * Simcoe North, a federal and pr ...

* '' St. Catharines Standard'' -

St. Catharines St. Catharines is the largest city in Canada's Niagara Region and the sixth largest urban area in the province of Ontario. As of 2016, it has an area of , 136,803 residents, and a metropolitan population of 406,074. It lies in Southern Ontari ...

* ''

St. Thomas Times-Journal The ''St. Thomas Times-Journal'' is the city newspaper of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, and is owned by Postmedia. The publication focuses on the newsworthy events in St. Thomas and surrounding municipalities, such as the sports teams of Aylmer. ...

'' - St. Thomas * ''

Sudbury Star ''The Sudbury Star'' is a Canadian daily regional newspaper published in Sudbury, Ontario. It is owned by the media company, Postmedia. It is the largest daily paper in Northeastern Ontario by circulation. History The ''Sudbury Star'' began as ...

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Sudbury Sudbury may refer to: Places Australia * Sudbury Reef, Queensland Canada * Greater Sudbury, Ontario (official name; the city continues to be known simply as Sudbury for most purposes) ** Sudbury (electoral district), one of the city's federal el ...

* '' The Barrie Examiner'' -

Barrie Barrie is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada, about north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, the western arm of Lake Simcoe. Although physically in Simcoe County, Barrie is politicall ...

* '' The Beacon Herald'' - Stratford * ''

The Recorder & Times ''The Recorder & Times'' is a daily newspaper published in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. The paper was founded as the weekly ''Brockville Recorder'' by Chauncey Beach on January 16, 1821 and later led by William Buell, Jr. as editor and owner unti ...

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Brockville Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically independent of the county. It is included with Le ...

* '' Timmins Daily Press'' -

Timmins Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 (2021). The city's economy is based on natural resource ext ...

* ''

Welland Tribune The ''Welland Tribune'' is a daily newspaper that services Welland, Ontario and surrounding area. The ''Tribune'' was one of several Postmedia Network newspapers purchased by Torstar in a transaction between the two companies which concluded on N ...

'' - Welland * '' Woodstock Sentinel-Review'' -

Woodstock Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aq ...

Weekly newspapers

Alberta

* '' Airdrie Echo'' - Airdrie * '' Bow Valley Crag & Canyon'' - Banff * '' Camrose Canadian'' - Camrose * ''

Cochrane Times Cochrane may refer to: Places Australia *Cochrane railway station, Sydney, a railway station on the closed Ropes Creek railway line Canada * Cochrane, Alberta * Cochrane Lake, Alberta * Cochrane District, Ontario ** Cochrane, Ontario, a town wit ...

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Cochrane Cochrane may refer to: Places Australia *Cochrane railway station, Sydney, a railway station on the closed Ropes Creek railway line Canada * Cochrane, Alberta * Cochrane Lake, Alberta * Cochrane District, Ontario ** Cochrane, Ontario, a town wit ...

* ''

Cold Lake Sun Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjectivity, subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute t ...

'' - Cold Lake * ''

County Market County Market is a supermarket chain primarily operating in the Midwestern United States. Presently, more than 100 independently owned County Market stores operate in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri. County Market is part of the Unite ...

'' - Leduc * ''

Devon Dispatch Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon i ...

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Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

* '' Drayton Valley Western Review'' - Drayton Valley * '' Edmonton Examiner'' -

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 an ...

* ''

Edson Leader The ''Edson Leader'' was a weekly newspaper serving the Edson, Alberta area. The Leader was owned by Postmedia Network and ceased publication on January 13, 2020. The Edson and area are still served by The Weekly Anchor Newspaper, which has been ...

'' - Edson * ''

Fairview Post Fairview may refer to: Places Canada * Fairview, Alberta (disambiguation) * Fairview, British Columbia * Fairview, Nova Scotia * Fairview, Kenyon Township, North Glengarry, Ontario * Fairview, Vancouver, British Columbia New Zealand * Fairvi ...

'' - Fairview * ''

Fort Saskatchewan Record The ''Fort Saskatchewan Record'' is a once-weekly (Thursdays) free newspaper in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, a city on the northeast side of the Edmonton metropolitan area. It is the oldest paper in the city. History The paper bega ...

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Fort Saskatchewan Fort Saskatchewan is a city along the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta, Canada. It is northeast of Edmonton, the provincial capital. It is part of the Edmonton census metropolitan area and one of 24 municipalities that constitute the Edmont ...

* ''

Hanna Herald Hannah or Hanna may refer to: People, biblical figures, and fictional characters * Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin * Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin * Hanna (Irish surname), a fa ...

'' - Hanna * ''

High River Times High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift ...

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High River High River is a town within the Calgary Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada. It is approximately south of Calgary, at the junction of Alberta Highways 2 and 23. High River had a population of 14,324 in 2021. History The community take ...

* ''

Hinton Parklander The ''Hinton Parklander'' was a weekly newspaper serving the Hinton, Alberta area. On January 8, 2020, Postmedia announced the paper would cease publication on January 13, 2020. See also *List of newspapers in Canada This list of newspapers i ...

'' - Hinton * '' Lacombe Globe'' -

Lacombe Lacombe may refer to: Places * Lacombe, Alberta, Canada * Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada * Lacombe, Louisiana, United States * Lacombe, Aude, France People * Albert Lacombe (1827–1916), oblate missionary to the Cree and Blackfoot * Bernard Lac ...

* ''

Leduc Representative Leduc may refer to: People * Albert Leduc (1902–1990), ice hockey player * Alexandre Leduc (born 1984), Canadian politician * Amand Leduc (1764–1832), French Navy officer * Amanda Leduc, Canadian writer * Jos LeDuc (1944–1999), professiona ...

'' - Leduc * ''

Mayerthorpe Freelancer Mayerthorpe is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton at the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail). The town is surrounded by Lac Ste. Anne County and is in Alberta's Census Division N ...

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Mayerthorpe Mayerthorpe is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton at the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail). The town is surrounded by Lac Ste. Anne County and is in Alberta's Census Division No ...

* '' Meridian Booster'' -

Lloydminster Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administrati ...

* ''

Nanton News Nanton can mean: Places * Nanton, Alberta, a town in the province of Alberta, Canada * Nanton, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the region of Bourgogne, France * Nanton, Northern Ghana, a town and District capital in Ghana People * Philip Nan ...

'' - Nanton * '' Peace Country Sun'' -

* ''

Peace River Record-Gazette Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

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Peace River The Peace River (french: links=no, rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta. The Peace River joins the Athabasca River in th ...

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Pincher Creek Echo The ''Pincher Creek Echo'' is a Canadian weekly newspaper serving the Pincher Creek, Alberta area, including the communities of Cowley, the Piikani Indian Reserve and Waterton Lakes National Park. The newspaper was founded in 1900 by publisher ...

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Pincher Creek Pincher Creek is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located immediately east of the Canadian Rockies, west of Lethbridge and south of Calgary. History For centuries before European settlers reached this area and inhabited it, Indigen ...

* ''

Sherwood Park News Sherwood may refer to: Places Australia *Sherwood, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane * Sherwood, South Australia, a locality *Shire of Sherwood, a former local government area of Queensland * Electoral district of Sherwood, an electoral district fr ...

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Sherwood Park Sherwood Park is a large hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County that is recognized as an urban service area. It is located adjacent to the City of Edmonton's eastern boundary, generally south of Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail), ...

* ''

Spruce Grove Examiner A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' (), a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth. ''Picea'' is the sole genus in the subfa ...

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Spruce Grove Spruce Grove is a city that is west of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. The city is adjacent to the Town of Stony Plain and is surrounded by Parkland County. With a 2021 population of 37,645, Spruce Grove is the ninth-largest city in Alberta. T ...

* ''

Stony Plain Reporter Stony may refer to: Places * Stony Brook (disambiguation) * Stony Creek (disambiguation) * Stony Lake (disambiguation) * Stony River (disambiguation) * Stony Island (disambiguation) * Stony Point (disambiguation) * Stony Mountain (Missouri) * St ...

'' - Stony Plain * ''

Strathmore Standard Strathmore, from the Scottish Gaelic for ''large valley'' (see ''strath''), can refer to: Buildings * Strathmore (Killiney), a mansion in County Dublin, Ireland, and formerly the residence of the Canadian ambassador to Ireland * Strathmore Hom ...

'' - Strathmore * ''

The Beaumont News ''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite ...

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Beaumont Beaumont may refer to: Places Canada * Beaumont, Alberta * Beaumont, Quebec England * Beaumont, Cumbria * Beaumont, Essex ** Beaumont Cut, a canal closed in the 1930s * Beaumont Street, Oxford France (communes) * Beaumont, Ardèche * ...

* ''

Vermilion Standard Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color, color family, and pigment most often made, since antiquity until the 19th century, from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide, which is toxic) and its corresponding color. It is ...

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Vermilion Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color, color family, and pigment most often made, since ancient history, antiquity until the 19th century, from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide, which is toxic) and its correspondi ...

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Vulcan Advocate Vulcan may refer to: Mythology * Vulcan (mythology), the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge in Roman mythology Arts, entertainment and media Film and television * Vulcan (''Star Trek''), name of a fictional race and their home p ...

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Vulcan Vulcan may refer to: Mythology * Vulcan (mythology), the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge in Roman mythology Arts, entertainment and media Film and television * Vulcan (''Star Trek''), name of a fictional race and their home p ...

* '' Wetaskiwin Times'' -

Wetaskiwin Wetaskiwin ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The city is located south of the provincial capital of Edmonton. The city name comes from the Cree word ''wītaskiwinihk'', meaning "the hills where peace was made". Wetaskiwin is ...

* ''

Whitecourt Star The ''Whitecourt Star'' is a weekly newspaper serving the Whitecourt, Alberta area. It is the paper of record for Whitecourt. See also *List of newspapers in Canada This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distri ...

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Whitecourt Whitecourt is a town in central Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by Woodlands County. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton and southeast of Grande Prairie at the junction of Highway 43 and Highway 32. It has an elevation of . Whiteco ...

Manitoba

* '' Altona Red River Valley Echo'' - Altona * ''

Carman Valley Leader In Celtic mythology, Carman or Carmun was a warrior and sorceress from Athens who tried to invade Ireland in the days of the Tuatha Dé Danann, along with her three sons, Dub ("black"), Dother ("evil") and Dian ("violence"). She used her magica ...

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Carman In Celtic mythology, Carman or Carmun was a warrior and sorceress from Athens who tried to invade Ireland in the days of the Tuatha Dé Danann, along with her three sons, Dub ("black"), Dother ("evil") and Dian ("violence"). She used her magica ...

* ''

Interlake Spectator Interlake was a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1979, and has formally existed since the 1981 provincial election. Previously, much of the Interlake region was include ...

'' - Gimli * '' Morden Times'' -

Morden Morden is a district and town in south London, England, within the London Borough of Merton, in the ceremonial county of Greater London. It adjoins Merton Park and Wimbledon to the north, Mitcham to the east, Sutton to the south and Worcester Pa ...

* ''Selkirk Journal'' - Selkirk, Manitoba, Selkirk * ''Stonewall Argus and Teulon Times'' - Stonewall, Manitoba, Stonewall * ''Winkler Times'' - Winkler, Manitoba, Winkler

Ontario

* ''Bancroft This Week'' - Bancroft, Ontario, Bancroft * ''Barry's Bay This Week'' - Barry's Bay * ''Bradford West Gwillimbury Times'' - Bradford, Ontario, Bradford * ''Chatham This Week'' - Chatham * ''Clinton News-Record'' - Clinton, Ontario, Clinton * ''Cochrane Times-Post'' - Cochrane, Ontario, Cochrane * ''Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin'' - Collingwood, Ontario, Collingwood * ''County Weekly News'' - Prince Edward County, Ontario, Prince Edward County * ''Elliot Lake Standard'' - Elliot Lake, Ontario, Elliot Lake * ''Fort Erie Times'' - Fort Erie * ''Frontenac This Week'' - Kingston * ''Gananoque Reporter'' - Gananoque * ''Goderich Signal Star'' - Goderich, Ontario, Goderich * ''Haliburton Echo'' - Haliburton, Ontario, Haliburton * ''Hanover Post'' - Hanover, Ontario, Hanover * ''Ingersoll Times'' - Ingersoll, Ontario, Ingersoll * ''Innisfil Examiner'' - Innisfil, Ontario, Innisfil * ''InPort News'' - Port Colborne, Ontario, Port Colborne * ''Kapuskasing Times'' - Kapuskasing * ''Kenora Daily Miner and News'' - Kenora, Ontario, Kenora * ''Kincardine News'' - Kincardine, Ontario, Kincardine * ''Kingston This Week'' - Kingston * ''Lakeshore Advance'' - Grand Bend, Ontario, Grand Bend * ''Lake of the Woods Enterprise'' - Kenora * ''Leader Spirit, Leader-Spirit'' - Dresden, Ontario, Dresden * ''Lucknow Sentinel'' - Lucknow, Ontario, Lucknow * ''Mid-North Monitor'' - Espanola, Ontario, Espanola * ''Petrolia Topic'' - Petrolia, Ontario, Petrolia

Saskatchewan

* ''Melfort Journal'' - Melfort, Saskatchewan, Melfort * ''Nipawin Journal'' - Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Nipawin

Other publications

Magazines

* ''Biz Magazine'' * ''Business London'' * ''Hamilton Halton Weddings'' * ''Hamilton Magazine'' * ''Kingston Life'' * ''Muskoka Cottage Home Property'' * ''Muskoka Magazine'' * ''Muskoka Trails'' * ''Niagara Magazine'' * ''Ontario Farmer'' * ''Sault Good Life'' * ''Simcoe Life'' * ''Vines Magazine'' * ''What's Up Muskoka''

Former assets

The following publications have been closed by Sun Media:Sun Media cutting 360 jobs, closing 8 publications, 3 free dailies
680News (2013-07-16). Retrieved on 2013-08-17. * ''24 Hours (newspaper), 24 Hours'' in Ottawa, Calgary and

* ''Canmore Leader'', Canmore, Alberta ''(merged to become the Bow Valley Crag & Canyon in 2013)'' * ''Banff Crag & Canyon'', Banff, Alberta ''(merged to become the Bow Valley Crag & Canyon in 2013)'' * ''The Beausejour Review'', Beausejour, Manitoba * ''The Lac du Bonnet Leader'', Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba * ''The Lindsay Post, The Lindsay Daily Post'', Lindsay, Ontario * ''Midland Free Press'', Midland, Ontario * ''L’Action Régionale Montérégie'', Montérégie, Québec * ''Le Magazine Saint-Lambert'', Saint-Lambert, Quebec * ''Le Progrès de Bellechasse'', Bellechasse, Quebec * ''The Meadow Lake Progress'', Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan * ''The Crowsnest Pass Promoter'', Crowsnest Pass, Alberta * CKXT-DT - closed 2011 * Sun News Network

Sold

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'', Houston, Texas (acquired in 1983, sold in 1987) *''The Hamilton Spectator'', Hamilton, Ontario (acquired 1998, sold in 1999) *'' Kitchener-Waterloo Record'', Kitchener, Ontario (acquired 1998, sold in 1999) *''

'', Guelph, Ontario (acquired 1998, sold in 1999) *''

'', Cambridge, Ontario (acquired 1998, sold in 1999) * CP24 - 29.9% interest sold to CHUM Limited in 2004. Now owned by Bell Media.

References

External links

Official Sun Media website
* {{Authority control Newspaper companies of Canada Quebecor Toronto Sun Postmedia Network publications Publishing companies established in 1978 Publishing companies disestablished in 2015 Defunct publishing companies of Canada