Laurentian Media Group was a Canadian newspaper and magazine publishing company. Founded in 1973 by Michael Atkins,C.M. Wallace and Ashley Thomson, ''Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital''.

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, 1993. . Laurentian published several titles in the

Greater Sudbury Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada. It is a ...

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area, including the twice-weekly community newspaper ''Northern Life'', the magazines ''Northern Ontario Business'' and ''Sudbury Living'', and the trade publication ''Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal'', as well as several national and international digital publications, including ''SCOREGolf'' and ''IT World Canada''. The company has also previously owned publications in other markets, including the ''Parry Sound North Star'' and the ''Parry Sound Beacon Star'' in

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. In 2014, the company launched a content and business partnership with the

Village Media Village Media is a Canadian media company, which operates a number of hyperlocal online news and community websites throughout Ontario.Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario, the other primary region being Southern Ontario. Most of the core geographic region is located on part of the Superior Geological Pro ...

region."Media outlets partner to expand Northern news network"
'' Northern Ontario Business'', October 2, 2014. In 2020, the two companies merged under the management of Village Media, with several of its key executives and staff taking new positions within the Village Media corporate structure.

Publications

''Northern Life''

''Northern Life'' is a community

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...

in Sudbury. The main office is located at 158 Elgin Street in Sudbury. The paper publishes twice a week, on Tuesday and Thursday. It formerly published three times a week, also putting out a Sunday edition, but in June 2006, the paper announced that it would be returning to twice-a-week publication in July, merging its Friday and Sunday editions into an expanded Friday paper which later became a Thursday paper. ''Northern Life'' celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013. On April 12, 2016, the paper's website ''northernlife.ca'' was relaunched as ''sudbury.com'', although the print edition retained the ''Northern Life'' name. On March 26, 2020, ''Northern Life'' published its final edition after 47 years. The sudbury.com website is still in operation as a publication of the

Village Media Village Media is a Canadian media company, which operates a number of hyperlocal online news and community websites throughout Ontario.trade magazine A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for t ...

based in Sudbury, with monthly readership of 25,000, which covers business news and issues in

Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario, the other primary region being Southern Ontario. Most of the core geographic region is located on part of the Superior Geological Pro ...

, and serves the region's business community."The Political Wilderness: Northern Ontario"
''

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 ...

''.

''Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal''

''Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal'' is a trade magazine covering news and business developments in Northeastern Ontario's

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the econom ...

industry.

''Sudbury Living''

''Sudbury Living'' is a quarterly arts and lifestyle magazine, similar to ''

Toronto Life ''Toronto Life'' is a monthly magazine about entertainment, politics and life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ''Toronto Life'' also publishes a number of annual special interest guides about the city, including ''Real Estate'', ''Stylebook'', ''Eatin ...

''. ''Sudbury Living'' has expanded to include three other publications called ''Sudbury Living Students'', ''Sudbury Living Parents'', and ''Sudbury Living Weddings''. All three additional magazines are published annually.

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