The ''Ottawa XPress'', or rendered as ''(x)press'' on its cover, was an

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newspaper in

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. The paper was launched in April 1993 by Jim Creskey and Ross Dickson, who both also founded ''

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''. Its original editor-in-chief was Derek Raymaker. In March 2001, the paper was sold to ''

Voir ''Voir'' was a francophone alternative weekly newspaper in Montreal, Quebec, published by Communications Voir. ''Voir'' was founded by Pierre Paquet in November 1986. The first issue of the newspaper was published on 27 November 1986. Later on t ...

s president and founder, Pierre Paquet. ''Xpress'' was the fifth paper to join the group, along with Montreal's ''

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'' and the French-language cultural weeklies ''Voir'' Montréal, ''Voir'' Quebec, and ''Voir'' Gatineau, and was therefore part of the largest alternative newsweekly group in Canada. Its size changed from a 13.5-inch to a 15-inch tabloid in 2001. As of January 2010, Cormac Rea was editor-in-chief and Melissa Proulx was managing editor. Proulx, previously ''

'' Gatineau's editor, was initially appointed interim editor in late November 2007. The publication carried the syndicated ''

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'' column until January 2010. The explicit content of this sex advice feature prompted the Loeb supermarket chain to discontinue distribution of the ''Xpress'' in its stores as of late 2005. Dan Savage said this action was another instance of a

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trying to deprive a majority of people reading his column. Communications Voir ended publication of the ''Ottawa XPress'' after its 17 May 2012 edition.

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