''The Monitor'' (also briefly known as the ''West End Chronicle'') was an

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based in

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. Formerly a

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serving the West End Montreal communities of

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and

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, it published its final print edition on February 5, 2009. Launched in 1926, the paper was bought by

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in 1996. It had a circulation of 35,000. In order to cut costs, Transcontinental had reduced staff and attempted to share content and design with its other publications, even briefly renaming the ''Monitor'' the ''West End Chronicle'', after its '' West Island Chronicle''.

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