Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network, and is a subsidiary of Postmedia Network. The phrase Canadian Online Explorer appears in the header; the name is also evidently a

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(or ''canoë'' in French). Canoe's head office is in

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at 333 King Street East. At launch, Canoe was a joint venture between Sun Media (

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Publishing Corp.) and

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(Rogers Multi-Media Inc.) though Rogers sold its shares of Canoe to BCE Inc. within its first year. At the height of its popularity, Canoe had both English and French language version and owned a significant number of websites, including JAM! and the Sun Media newspaper sites.

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