Canadian Newspapers and Media

It's a controversial time for newspapers in Canada, partly because of concentration of ownership and partly because of convergence between print and television. Despite that, readership is growing or at least stable, proving wrong the doomsday calls that the Internet would kill newspapers. Canada has two national newspapers, the venerable Globe and Mail and the five-year old upstart, The National Post. The Post was created by media mogul and now British lord, Conrad Black, but he sold it and all his other Canadian dailies and weeklies to the Winnipeg-based Asper family, who also own Global Television.

The Globe is owned by the Thompson family and conglomerate BCE, which also owns the Canadian Television Network (CTV). Although there are rumours that BCE might sell their media interests in the near future.

Major cities usually have more than one daily paper to choose from and smaller towns have their own dailies and/or weeklies as well. Alternative, independent weeklies are very popular in the big cities. News coverage is done with a good deal of objectivity, but more and more newspapers are becoming more overt in their ideologies.

Magazines

There are fewer Canadian magazines than there are American ones. Split-run magazines are those which originate in the US but that have some Canadian content, such as the Canadian edition of Time. But, Canadian magazines are of a high quality and there is still quite a variety to choose from, although it's hard for them to make money when competing with American magazines. Canada 's oldest magazine, Saturday Night, is now only published sporadically. However, new magazines do make a go of it from time to time, such as the Walrus, a Canadian version of America's Atlantic Monthly.