The ''Montreal Daily News'' was a short-lived English language Canadian daily

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Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

Quebecor Quebecor Inc. is a Canadian diversified media and telecommunications company serving Quebec based in Montreal. It was spelled Quebecor in both English and French until May 2012, when shareholders voted to add the acute accent, Québecor, in ...

founder

Pierre Péladeau Pierre Péladeau (April 12, 1925 – December 24, 1997) was a Canadian businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor, Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media and telecommunications conglomerate in Quebec, Canada. He was the father of billionaire Pierre ...

and British tabloid publisher

Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, politician and fraudster. After escaping the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, ...

teamed up to launch a competing English-language newspaper against '' The Gazette''. The newspaper was published in a tabloid sized format, instead of

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sized. Its first issue was distributed 15 March 1988. The arrival of the paper resulted in the return of Sunday editions to Montreal's English language newspaper community for the first time since the closure of the ''Sunday Express'' in 1985. In order to compete against the ''Montreal Daily News Sunday edition, the ''

Montreal Gazette ''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspape ...

'' started to publish one as well. But late in 1989, reports of losses and failure to attain circulation goals led to rumours of the paper's impending demise. In November that year, Péladeau indicated that the paper's survival would depend on either a substantial increase in paid circulation, or a buyer. Original publisher George MacLaren had given way to James Duff, who in turn was dismissed in August. Quebecor finally closed the ''Montreal Daily News'', with its last issue published 15 December 1989. The legacy of the ''Montreal Daily News'' was the existence of Sunday editions in Montreal though all of them have cesed.

Notable persons

L. Ian MacDonald L. (Lawrence) Ian MacDonald (born 1947) is a Canadians, Canadian writer, columnist, broadcaster, public speaker, and diplomat.

(born 1947) – columnist

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