''Le Journal de Québec'' is a
French-language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
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 founded March 6, 1967, by
Pierre Péladeau, founder of
Quebecor. Like its sister paper, the much more widely-read ''
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. ...
'', it was established by
Pierre Péladeau and is owned by
Quebecor Média.
A lockout of unionized employees (members of the
Canadian Union of Public Employees
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE; french: Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, links=no; french: SCFP, link=, label=none) is a Canadian trade union serving the public sector – although it has in recent years organized workpl ...
) began in April 2007 and continued until July 2008. It was the longest-running lockout in the history of the Québec media until then.
As an answer to the lockout, the workers launched their own free daily newspaper, MédiaMatin Québec.
On November 27, 2012, ''Le Journal de Québec'' launched a special edition for the
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a region in Quebec, Canada. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the first part of "Saguenay" and th ...
region, which includes several pages of local news for the region. The paper had published a special Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean edition from 1973 to 1981.
Fagstein: "Journal de Québec (re-)launches Saguenay regional edition", November 27, 2012.
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See also
* List of Quebec media
* List of newspapers in Canada
References
External links
The Quebec Canoe portal
features many of the paper's articles
''Le Journal de Québec''''Le Journal de Québec'': Édition Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
Newspapers published in Quebec City
French-language newspapers published in Quebec
Quebecor
Publications established in 1967
Daily newspapers published in Quebec
1967 establishments in Quebec
Quebec sovereigntist media
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