Sun Media Corporation was the owner of several tabloid and

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newspapers in

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and the 49% owner of the now defunct Sun News Network. It was a subsidiary of Quebecor Media. On October 6, 2014, Quebecor Media announced the sale of the remaining English-language print assets of Sun Media to rival Postmedia. The sale included neither the Sun News Network, which subsequently closed when a buyer was not found, nor Quebecor's French-language papers ''

Le Journal de Montréal is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Pé ...

'' and ''

Le Journal de Québec ''Le Journal de Québec'' is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Printed in tabloid format, it has the highest circulation for a Quebec City newspaper, with its closest competitor being '' Le Soleil''. It was foun ...

''. The sale was approved by the federal Competition Bureau on March 25, 2015, and closed on April 13. Canoe Sun Media merged with Postmedia rather than being maintained as a separate division. Quebecor had previously sold its community newspapers in Quebec to TC Transcontinental in June 2014, under a deal first announced in December 2013.

History

Sun Publishing was formed on February 4, 1978 through the amalgamation of Toronto Sun Holdings Ltd and Toronto Sun Publishing Ltd. The two companies had been formed in 1971 with the launch of the ''

Toronto Sun The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid format, tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices are located at Pos ...

'' by former staffers of the defunct '' Toronto Telegram''. On February 14, 1978, the '' Edmonton Sun'', the second member of what would become the Sun chain, was announced through a partnership of Sun Media and Edmonton Sun Publishing Ltd. The paper was launched on April 2, 1978. In 1981, the outstanding shares of Edmonton Sun Publishing Ltd were acquired by Sun Media. The company purchased the '' Calgary Albertan'' on July 31, 1980 for $1.3 million and relaunched it days later as the ''Calgary Sun'', with the same format and appearance as its sister papers. In 1979, it purchased the

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's Canadian subsidiary, the former British United Press. It ran the news agency for several years before selling it to

Canadian Press The Canadian Press (CP; , ) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Established in 1917 as a vehicle for Canadian newspapers to exchange news and information, The Canadian Press has been a private, not-for-profit c ...

in 1985. In 1983, 50% of Sun Media was acquired by

Maclean-Hunter Maclean-Hunter (M-H) was a Canadian communications company, which had diversified holdings in radio, television, magazines, newspapers and cable television distribution. History The company began in 1887, when brothers John Bayne Maclean and H ...

for $55 million. That same year, Sun Media, with Maclean-Hunter's backing, acquired the ''

Houston Post The ''Houston Post'' was a newspaper that had its headquarters in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1995, the newspaper shut down, and its assets were purchased by the ''Houston Chronicle''. History Gail Borden Johnson founded the ''Houston P ...

'' for $100 million in an attempt to expand into the

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. It was sold for $150 million four years later. In 1987, Maclean-Hunter's ''

Financial Post The ''Financial Post'' is a financial news website, and business section of the ''National Post'', both publications of the Postmedia Network. It started as an English Canadian business newspaper, which published from 1907 to 1998. In 1998, the ...

'' weekly was sold to Sun Media for $46 million and was relaunched as a daily tabloid financial newspaper the following year. In 1988, Sun Media acquired the ''Ottawa Sunday Herald'' which it would relaunch as the daily ''

Ottawa Sun The ''Ottawa Sun'' is a daily newspaper in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is published by Sun Media. It began publication in 1983 as the ''Ottawa Sunday Herald'', until it was acquired by (then) Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation in 1988. In April 2 ...

''. In 1994, Maclean-Hunter was purchased by

Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media ass ...

. Two years later, on October 4, 1996, the management of the Sun chain under the leadership of Paul Godfrey purchased Rogers' share of the Sun Publishing and renamed the company Sun Media. In 1998, the ''Financial Post'' was sold to Southam Inc. in exchange for the ''

Hamilton Spectator ''The Hamilton Spectator'', founded in 1846, is a newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays in Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. One of the largest Canadian newspapers by circulation, ''The Hamilton Spectator'' is owned by Torstar. ...

'', the '' Kitchener-Waterloo Record'', the ''

Guelph Mercury The ''Guelph Mercury'' was an English language daily newspaper published in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It published a mix of community, national and international news and is owned by the Torstar Corporation. The newspaper, in many incarnations, ...

'', and the '' Cambridge Reporter''. Also in 1998, Sun Media was purchased by Quebecor and maintained as a wholly owned subsidiary of it. Godfrey had sought out Quebecor as a "white knight" in order to frustrate an attempted hostile takeover by the Sun's longtime rival, the ''

Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division. ...

''. In 1999, Quebcor sold the four recently acquired southern Ontario newspapers to the owners of the ''

'' and became part of its Metroland Media Group. Southam, owned by

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, Publishing, newspaper publisher, Investor, financier, and Fraudster, convicted fraudster. Black's father was businessma ...

, would relaunch the ''Financial Post'' as the ''

National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper and the flagship publication of the American-owned Postmedia Network. It is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only.

''. In 2007, Sun Media acquired and absorbed the Osprey Media chain of small English language newspapers mostly based in Ontario. In 2014, after years of cuts and restructuring, Quebecor sold its Sun Media division to Postmedia which, ironically, had former Sun Media CEO Paul Godfrey as its chief executive. The sale was completed in April 2015 and Sun Media was dissolved with its newspapers being absorbed by the Postmedia chain.

Sun Media publications

''Sun'' newspapers

* ''

Calgary Sun The ''Calgary Sun'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is currently owned by Postmedia Network. First published in 1980, the tabloid-format daily newspaper replaced the long-running tabloid-size ''The Albertan'' soon ...

'' * '' Edmonton Sun'' * ''

'' * ''

'' * '' Winnipeg Sun''

''Le Journal'' newspapers

* ''

'' * ''

'' (

Quebec City Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a populati ...

)

''24hrs'' newspapers

* '' 24heures''

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

* '' 24hrs''

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

* '' 24hrs''

Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

Local daily newspapers

Alberta

* '' The Daily Herald-Tribune'' -

Grande Prairie Grande Prairie is a city in Northern Alberta, northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) ...

* '' Fort McMurray Today'' -

Fort McMurray Fort McMurray ( ) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significa ...

Manitoba

* '' Portage Daily Graphic'' -

Portage la Prairie Portage la Prairie () is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. In 2016, the population was 13,304 and the land area was . Portage la Prairie is approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Highway (exactly ...

Ontario

* ''

Belleville Intelligencer ''The Intelligencer'' (locally nicknamed the ''Intell'') is the daily (except on Sundays and certain holidays) newspaper of Belleville, Ontario, Canada. The paper is regarded mainly as a local paper, stressing local issues over issues of more na ...

'' - Belleville * '' Brantford Expositor'' -

Brantford Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully indep ...

* '' Chatham Daily News'' - Chatham * '' Cornwall Standard Freeholder'' -

Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...

* '' Kingston Whig Standard'' - Kingston * '' London Free Press'' -

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

* '' Niagara Falls Review'' -

Niagara Falls Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the Canada–United States border, border between the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York (s ...

* '' North Bay Nugget'' - North Bay * '' Northumberland Today'' - Cobourg * ''Orillia Packet and Times'' -

Orillia Orillia () is a city in Ontario, Canada, about 30 km (18 mi) north-east of Barrie in Simcoe County. It is located at the confluence of Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe. Although it is geographically located within Simcoe County, the city is a Lis ...

* '' Owen Sound Sun Times'' -

Owen Sound Owen Sound (2021 Canadian Census, 2021 Census population 21,612) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The county seat, seat of government of Grey County, it is located at the mouths of the Pottawatomi River, Pottawatomi and Sydenham River ...

* '' Pembroke Daily Observer'' - Pembroke * ''

Peterborough Examiner ''The Peterborough Examiner'' is a newspaper that services Peterborough, Ontario and area. The paper started circulation in 1847, and is currently owned by Torstar and operated by its Metroland division. Between 1942 and 1955, it was edited by C ...

'' -

Peterborough Peterborough ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is north of London, on the River Nene. A ...

* '' Sarnia Observer'' -

Sarnia Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. It had a Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population of 72,047, and is the largest city on Lake Huron. Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes, ...

* '' Sault Star'' - Sault Ste. Marie * '' Simcoe Reformer'' - Simcoe * '' St. Catharines Standard'' -

St. Catharines St. Catharines is the most populous city in Canada's Niagara Region, the eighth largest urban area in the province of Ontario. As of 2021, St. Catharines has an area of and 136,803 residents. It lies in Southern Ontario, south of Toronto ac ...

* '' St. Thomas Times-Journal'' - St. Thomas * ''

Sudbury Star ''The Sudbury Star'' is a Canadian daily regional newspaper published in Sudbury, Ontario. It is owned by the media company, Postmedia. It is the largest daily paper in Northeastern Ontario by circulation. History The ''Sudbury Star'' began ...

'' - Sudbury * '' The Barrie Examiner'' -

Barrie Barrie is a city in Central Ontario, Canada, about north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay. Although it is physically in the county, Barrie is politically independent. The city is part ...

* '' The Beacon Herald'' - Stratford * '' The Recorder & Times'' -

Brockville Brockville is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically Independent city, independent of the county. It is included with Leeds and ...

* '' Timmins Daily Press'' -

Timmins Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 at the 2021 Canadian census and an estimated population of ...

* '' Welland Tribune'' - Welland * '' Woodstock Sentinel-Review'' -

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Weekly newspapers

Alberta

* '' Airdrie Echo'' - Airdrie * '' Bow Valley Crag & Canyon'' - Banff * '' Camrose Canadian'' - Camrose * '' Cochrane Times'' - Cochrane * '' Cold Lake Sun'' - Cold Lake * '' County Market'' - Leduc * '' Devon Dispatch'' -

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* '' Drayton Valley Western Review'' - Drayton Valley * '' Edmonton Examiner'' -

Edmonton Edmonton is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Central Alberta ...

* ''

Edson Leader The ''Edson Leader'' was a weekly newspaper serving the Edson, Alberta, Edson, Alberta area. The Leader was owned by Postmedia Network and ceased publication on January 13, 2020. The Edson and area are still served by The Weekly Anchor Newspaper, ...

'' - Edson * '' Fairview Post'' - Fairview * '' Fort Saskatchewan Record'' -

Fort Saskatchewan Fort Saskatchewan is a city along the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta, Canada. It is northeast of Edmonton, the provincial capital. It is part of the Edmonton Capital Region#Edmonton CMA, Edmonton census metropolitan area and one of 24 muni ...

* '' Hanna Herald'' - Hanna * '' High River Times'' - High River * '' Hinton Parklander'' - Hinton * '' Lacombe Globe'' - Lacombe * '' Leduc Representative'' - Leduc * '' Mayerthorpe Freelancer'' - Mayerthorpe * '' Meridian Booster'' -

Lloydminster Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administra ...

* '' Nanton News'' - Nanton * '' Peace Country Sun'' -

* '' Peace River Record-Gazette'' - Peace River * '' Pincher Creek Echo'' - Pincher Creek * '' Sherwood Park News'' - Sherwood Park * '' Spruce Grove Examiner'' - Spruce Grove * '' Stony Plain Reporter'' - Stony Plain * '' Strathmore Standard'' - Strathmore * '' The Beaumont News'' - Beaumont * '' Vermilion Standard'' -

Vermilion Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a moder ...

* '' Vulcan Advocate'' - Vulcan * '' Wetaskiwin Times'' -

Wetaskiwin Wetaskiwin ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The city is located south of the provincial capital of Edmonton. The city name comes from the Cree word , meaning "the hills where peace was made". Wetaskiwin is home to the Reyn ...

* '' Whitecourt Star'' - Whitecourt

Manitoba

* '' Altona Red River Valley Echo'' - Altona * '' Carman Valley Leader'' - Carman * '' Interlake Spectator'' - Gimli * '' Morden Times'' -

Morden Morden is a district and town in South London, England, now within the London Borough of Merton, in the ceremonial county of Greater London. It adjoins Merton Park and Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon to the north, Mitcham to the east, Sutton, Londo ...

* '' Selkirk Journal'' - Selkirk * '' Stonewall Argus and Teulon Times'' - Stonewall * '' Winkler Times'' - Winkler

Ontario

* '' Bancroft This Week'' - Bancroft * '' Barry's Bay This Week'' - Barry's Bay * '' Bradford West Gwillimbury Times'' -

Bradford Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdo ...

* '' Chatham This Week'' - Chatham * '' Clinton News-Record'' - Clinton * '' Cochrane Times-Post'' - Cochrane * '' Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin'' - Collingwood * '' County Weekly News'' - Prince Edward County * '' Elliot Lake Standard'' -

Elliot Lake Elliot Lake is a city in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is north of Lake Huron, midway between the cities of Greater Sudbury, Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie in the Northern Ontario region. Once dubbed the "uranium ca ...

* '' Fort Erie Times'' - Fort Erie * '' Frontenac This Week'' - Kingston * '' Gananoque Reporter'' - Gananoque * '' Goderich Signal Star'' - Goderich * '' Haliburton Echo'' - Haliburton * '' Hanover Post'' -

Hanover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

* '' Ingersoll Times'' - Ingersoll * '' Innisfil Examiner'' - Innisfil * '' InPort News'' - Port Colborne * '' Kapuskasing Times'' -

Kapuskasing Kapuskasing ( ) is a town on the Kapuskasing River in the Cochrane District of Northern Ontario, Canada, approximately east of Hearst, Ontario, Hearst and northwest of Timmins, Ontario, Timmins. The town was known as MacPherson until 1917. ...

* '' Kenora Daily Miner and News'' -

Kenora Kenora (), previously named Rat Portage (), is a city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about east of Winnipeg by road. It is the seat of Kenora District. The history of the name exten ...

* '' Kincardine News'' - Kincardine * '' Kingston This Week'' - Kingston * '' Lakeshore Advance'' - Grand Bend * '' Lake of the Woods Enterprise'' -

* '' Leader-Spirit'' -

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

* '' Lucknow Sentinel'' -

Lucknow Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the epon ...

* '' Mid-North Monitor'' - Espanola * '' Petrolia Topic'' - Petrolia

Saskatchewan

* '' Melfort Journal'' - Melfort * '' Nipawin Journal'' - Nipawin

Other publications

Magazines

* '' Biz Magazine'' * '' Business London'' * '' Hamilton Halton Weddings'' * '' Hamilton Magazine'' * '' Kingston Life'' * '' Muskoka Cottage Home Property'' * '' Muskoka Magazine'' * '' Muskoka Trails'' * '' Niagara Magazine'' * '' Ontario Farmer'' * '' Sault Good Life'' * '' Simcoe Life'' * '' Vines Magazine'' * '' What's Up Muskoka''

Former assets

The following publications have been closed by Sun Media:Sun Media cutting 360 jobs, closing 8 publications, 3 free dailies
680News (2013-07-16). Retrieved on 2013-08-17. * '' 24 Hours'' in

Ottawa Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor ...

Calgary Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...

and

* '' Canmore Leader'', Canmore, Alberta ''(merged to become the Bow Valley Crag & Canyon in 2013)'' * '' Banff Crag & Canyon'',

Banff, Alberta Banff is a resort town in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, west of Calgary, east of Lake Louise, Alberta, Lake Louise, and above Banff was the first municipality to incorporate within ...

''(merged to become the Bow Valley Crag & Canyon in 2013)'' * '' The Beausejour Review'', Beausejour, Manitoba * '' The Lac du Bonnet Leader'', Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba * '' The Lindsay Daily Post'',

Lindsay, Ontario Lindsay is a community of 22,367 people ( 2021 census) on the Scugog River in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-eastern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately west of Peterborough. It is located in the City of Kawartha Lakes, and is the hub for ...

* '' Midland Free Press'', Midland, Ontario * '' L'Action Régionale Montérégie'',

Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. ...

Québec Quebec is Canada's 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, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border ...

* '' Le Magazine Saint-Lambert'', Saint-Lambert, Quebec * '' Le Progrès de Bellechasse'', Bellechasse, Quebec * '' The Meadow Lake Progress'', Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan * '' The Crowsnest Pass Promoter'', Crowsnest Pass, Alberta * CKXT-DT - closed 2011 * Sun News Network

Sold

*''

'',

Houston, Texas Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of ...

(acquired in 1983, sold in 1987) *'' The Hamilton Spectator'',

Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses ...

(acquired 1998, sold in 1999) *'' Kitchener-Waterloo Record'',

Kitchener, Ontario Kitchener is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, about west of Toronto. It is one of three cities that make up the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and is the regional Administrative centre, seat. Kitchener was known as Berlin until a ...

(acquired 1998, sold in 1999) *''

'',

Guelph, Ontario Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as The Royal City, it is roughly east of Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Ontario Highway 6, ...

(acquired 1998, sold in 1999) *'' Cambridge Reporter'',

Cambridge, Ontario Cambridge is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, located at the confluence of the Grand River (Ontario), Grand and Speed River, Speed rivers, in the central part of the Ontario Peninsula. The city had a population ...

(acquired 1998, sold in 1999) * CP24 - 29.9% interest sold to

CHUM Limited CHUM Limited was a Canadian media company based in Toronto, Ontario in operation from 1945 to 2007. The company was founded in 1945 as York Broadcasters Limited when it launched CHUM (AM), CHUM-AM 1050 but was acquired by salesman Allan Waters in ...

in 2004. Now owned by

Bell Media Bell Media Inc. (Canadian French, French: ) is a Canadian media conglomerate that is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the owner of telecommunications company Bell Canada). Its operations include nati ...

. * United Press Canada - 80% interest purchased in 1979 from

, sold to

in 1985

References

External links

Official Sun Media website
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