''The Reminder'' (formerly ''The Flin Flon Daily Reminder'' and ''The Daily Reminder'') is a weekly newspaper published every Wednesday in
Flin Flon,
Canada
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, a city located on the border of
Manitoba
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and
Saskatchewan
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.
''CBC News
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'', November 10, 2000 ("The list of independent dailies in Canada keeps dwindling. Others remaining ... and the felicitously-named Flin Flon Reminder in Manitoba") It is the only locally published newspaper in the area (which includes adjacent Creighton, Saskatchewan, Denare Beach, Saskatchewan and Cranberry Portage, Manitoba).
History
''The Reminder'' was founded as ''The Flin Flon Daily Reminder'' on October 16, 1946 by Tom Dobson, an employee of Flin Flon's largest employer, Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. The first few issues of the Daily Reminder were stapled together at the top corner and handed out to workers coming off shift at the main gate. Originally publishing six days a week, ''The Reminder'' competed directly with the community's original newspaper, ''The Flin Flon Daily Miner'', which ended its run in 1966 after a fire struck its headquarters.
Dobson sold ''The Reminder'' in 1989. By then the publication schedule had been cut back to five days a week, Monday to Friday. In 2005, ''The Reminder'' became a tri-weekly newspaper with editions every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It also adopted a larger page format. Within several months, the publication introduced an editorial page that included regular commentary on local affairs. The paper's reduction to a tri-weekly trimmed the number of daily newspapers in the Canadian Prairie provinces from 18 to 17.[ Canadian Newspaper Association]
Circulation Data Report 2009
Retrieved August 25, 2010
The Reminder was later reduced to two editions per week, publishing on Wednesdays and Fridays. The Friday print edition was eliminated in early 2017. The newspaper now publishes an edition every Wednesday, with a website that is updated daily.
See also
*List of newspapers in Canada
This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers
Local weeklies Alberta
* Bashaw – ''Bashaw Star''
* Bassano – ''Bassano Times''
* Beaumont – ''Beaumont News''
* Beaverlodg ...
References
External links
The Reminder site
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Weekly newspapers published in Manitoba
Glacier Media
Flin Flon
Newspapers established in 1946
1946 establishments in Manitoba