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. The ''Daily Bulletin'', published Mondays through Fridays, bills itself as "Canada's smallest daily newspaper". It is owned by

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, the largest publisher of

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s in

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History

Don Kendall, a former executive at Black Press, purchased the ''Daily Bulletin'' and ''Cranbrook Daily Townsman'' in July 2010, as part of a larger deal that saw

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sell several of its British Columbia papers to Black. At the time, Kendall said Black "wasn't as interested in some titles – Cranbrook, Kimberley,

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, and

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– but Glacier was only selling the papers as a block." Black did purchase the ''

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'' and ''

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'' in 2010, and ended up closing them days later. It already owned competing weeklies in both Nelson and Prince Rupert. Although it also owns a competing weekly in Cranbrook, the ''Kootenay Advertiser'', Black purchased the ''Daily Townsman'' and ''Daily Bulletin'' from Kendall a year later, promising that both the weekly and the dailies "will continue to run under their current business plan and we anticipate few changes".

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''Kimberley Daily Bulletin''
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