''L'Aquilon'' is a Canadian weekly

community newspaper Community journalism is locally-oriented, professional news coverage that typically focuses on city neighborhoods, individual suburbs or small towns, rather than metropolitan, state, national or world news. If it covers wider topics, community ...

, which serves the

Franco-Ténois Franco-Ténois, originating from the acronym ''TNO'', the French term for the Northwest Territories of Canada (), refers to the widespread community of francophones who reside in the Northwest Territories. History Francophones have a long hist ...

community in the

Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories is a federal Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of Provinces and territorie ...

. The newspaper, which publishes 1,000 copies every Friday, operates from offices in

Yellowknife Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of t ...

and Hay River. ''L'Aquilon'' was first established in 1986. In 2000, the newspaper was part of a consortium which sued the territorial government over its lack of support for French language institutions.

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''L'Aquilon''
Newspapers published in the Northwest Territories French-language newspapers published in Canada Weekly newspapers published in Canada Mass media in Yellowknife Newspapers established in 1986 1986 establishments in the Northwest Territories {{Canada-newspaper-stub