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105-512: Provincial Provincial The National Post is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper and the flagship publication of Postmedia Network . It is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only. The newspaper is distributed in the provinces of Ontario , Quebec , Alberta and British Columbia . Weekend editions of the newspaper are also distributed in Manitoba and Saskatchewan . The newspaper
210-501: A "killer wheat" episode and episodes set in Northern Quebec and Halifax. Series initially intended for the U.S. and international market are sometimes called "industrial" productions and largely disappeared with the collapse of the international action hour market. From the late-1990s to the mid-2000s, Global aired somewhat more identifiably Canadian entertainment programming, including the long-running finance drama Traders ,
315-492: A "transformation plan geared toward managing costs". Later that day, Postmedia said it had also sold the Calgary Herald building for $ 17.23 million to U-Haul Co. after trying to sell it for nearly a decade. In July 2023, Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and Nordstar Capital LP announced that merger discussion between the two newspaper publishers will not continue. On May 27, 2024, Postmedia announced that it would sell
420-665: A $ 1.1 billion transaction to acquire the chain from Canwest on July 13, 2010, forming the Postmedia Network . The company's shares were listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2011. On October 28, 2011, the Post announced its first ever yearly profit. In 2016, Chatham Asset Management acquired a 66 per cent stake in the Postmedia Network, resulting in the reduction in their staff, including
525-580: A 1935 picture of two Jews bearing Nazi -ordered yellow badges . Later on the same day, experts began coming forward to deny the accuracy of the Post story. The story proved to be false, but not before it had been picked up by a variety of other news media and generated comment from world leaders. Comments on the story by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper caused Iran to summon Canada's ambassador to Tehran, Gordon E. Venner , for an explanation. On May 24, 2006,
630-784: A common design element in many Canwest logos, was subsequently removed from other properties owned or sponsored by the company over time. On April 10, 2008, the network announced that its Toronto and Vancouver stations would start broadcasting their over-the-air signals in those markets in high definition . CIII and CHAN officially started transmitting in HD on April 18, 2008. The network has also launched digital signals at its stations in Calgary ( CICT-DT ) and Edmonton ( CITV-DT ) as of July 2009. Following Canwest seeking creditor protection in late 2009, Shaw Communications acquired Canwest's broadcasting assets on October 27, 2010, and folded them into
735-611: A court evaluation contesting Postmedia's claims of solicitor-client privilege, for records seized by the bureau during raids at the company's offices. In March 2018, the Competition Bureau issued a court filing accusing Postmedia and Torstar of structuring the deal they made together with no-compete clauses in an effort to reduce competition in the newspaper industry in violation of the Competition Act . According to Marc Edge, author of The Postmedia Effect ,
840-609: A digital presence for the three publications. As well, the High River Times in High River, Alberta will go from being published twice a week to once a week. During the COVID-19 pandemic , Postmedia laid off approximately 80 employees and permanently closed 15 community publications while navigating the financial strain of COVID-19. While the company utilized government subsidies, they claim they were unable to offset
945-580: A financial crisis within just three months. Due to the CRTC decision, it was forced to launch at midseason. Many companies had already allocated their advertising budgets for the season and had little money left to buy time on the newly minted network, and even some of the advertisers who had booked time on the network backed out in light of the 1973 oil crisis . In addition, the short-lived American adoption of year-round daylight saving time in January 1974, and
1050-459: A formal call for "third" stations in several major cities. Global Communications put forward a revised application under which the network would launch with transmitters only in Ontario , as an interim step toward the eventual buildout of the entire network originally envisioned by Soble. Because Niagara Television and CHCH were no longer involved in the proposal, the 1970 application also requested
1155-586: A licence to launch a new station in Toronto as the chain's flagship. The network licence was approved by the CRTC on July 21, 1972. The group was granted a six-transmitter network in Southern Ontario , stretching from Windsor to Ottawa . They had also sought a seventh transmitter in Maxville that could reach Montreal , but were turned down because of a CRTC moratorium on new English stations in
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#17327657278801260-691: A main schedule, apart from news. Even before the WIC purchase, the Global stations had widely varying program lineups, and the WIC purchase only exacerbated the differences. For example, CHAN held the British Columbia rights to many shows that aired on CTV until 2001, except for The Oprah Winfrey Show . Factors influencing the stations' programming include time zone differences, local programming, and ratings for non-Global shows. Global has built its business on profitable entertainment programming produced in
1365-400: A net loss of $ 99.4 million, or 35 cents per diluted share, in the fourth-quarter ended Aug 31, compared with a $ 54.1 million net loss, or 19 cents per diluted share, in the same period a year earlier. This resulted in 90 newsroom staff losing their jobs. On November 27, 2017, Postmedia and Torstar announced a transaction in which Postmedia will sell seven dailies, eight community papers, and
1470-614: A network. Accordingly, on August 18, 1997, Canwest scrubbed all local branding from its stations and rebranded them as the "Global Television Network", the brand previously used solely by the Ontario outlet. On the same day, CKMI disaffiliated from CBC, set up rebroadcasters in Montreal and Sherbrooke , and became the Quebec outlet of the newly minted network. It also built a new studio in Montreal and moved most of its operations there, though
1575-449: A new division, Shaw Media , of which Global is the flagship. Canwest's newspaper assets had been sold off earlier in the year as Postmedia Network . On April 1, 2016, as part of a corporate re-organization (marketed as being an acquisition), Shaw Media was subsumed by Shaw's sister company Corus Entertainment . In television listings such as TV Guide , where space limitations usually require television networks to be referred to by
1680-399: A nightly variety series called Everything Goes , as well as a few imported American series including Chopper One , Dirty Sally and Doc Elliot . In March, the station drew a formal complaint from MP James McGrath against its airing of the 1969 Western film Heaven with a Gun , as the film featured scenes of violence which McGrath considered inappropriate. The station ran into
1785-538: A noon newscast, supper hour newscasts of between 30 and 90 minutes and a half-hour to hour-long late evening newscast. Global-owned stations in certain major markets also carry locally based public affairs programs under the Focus brand. In addition, Corus also operates several Global-branded news/talk radio stations across Canada under the Global News Radio moniker. Global does not have what can be called
1890-593: A number of new executives, all formerly of various U.S. media firms, leading to a major overhaul of Global announced in December 2005. The most obvious change was a new logo, replacing the "crescent" with a new " greater than " logo, with the Global wordmark in a new font, that was introduced on February 5, 2006 (coinciding with Global's broadcast of Super Bowl XL ). New logos and graphics were designed for news and network promotions, and several newscasts received new timeslots and formats. The crescent, which had been used as
1995-402: A parcel delivery business and "proprietary distribution software". In 2023, Postmedia announced it would be moving a dozen of its Alberta community papers to digital-only platforms, aiming for more outsourcing deals and laying off employees. The announcement was made January 18, 2023, during an internal memo to staff that was obtained by The Canadian Press , describing the measures as a part of
2100-548: A regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new television sets) on the following channels: The above noted transmitters were converted to digital by August 31, 2011, as part of Canada's over-the-air transition deadline in mandatory markets from analog to digital. As part of its purchase by Shaw Communications in 2011, Shaw committed to converting all of the network's over-the-air analog transmitters to digital by 2016. The Global network has long been much more decentralized than either CBC or CTV. For most programs, there
2205-557: A secondary system known as CH (rebranded as E! in 2007 in a partnership with the American channel of the same name ), although financial pressures forced Canwest to sell or fold the E! stations in 2009. Full network service is still not available over-the-air in Newfoundland and Labrador . However, CJON, having disaffiliated from CTV in 2002, now clears the vast majority of Global programming in that province, most recently adding
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#17327657278802310-487: A syndication deal. A considerable number of programs featured on Global's schedule were cancelled in the spring of 1974. By that fall, it was obvious that Global's original model was unsustainable, and it was forced to pick up a large amount of American programming to fill in the gaps. With American imports filling as much of the schedule as Canadian content rules would allow (60% Canadian overall, 50% Canadian in prime time), Global had effectively become "another CTV ." With
2415-804: A third national network. He started by launching CFRE-DT in Regina and CFSK-DT in Saskatoon , and winning a legal battle for CKVU-DT in Vancouver during the second half of the 1980s. He also acquired the fledgling CIHF-DT in Halifax in the early 1990s. Canwest's stations now reached seven of Canada's ten provinces. The Canwest stations purchased many of their programs collectively, and consequently had similar – although not identical – broadcast schedules. They did not share common branding, however – although stations were sometimes indicated as being part of
2520-671: A third of the National Post's editorial staff. The Trovimova case: In 2024, the National Post published two articles in which it advocated for the Russian propaganda film “Russians at War”. The first article by columnist Chris Selley introduced the claim that this film showed the human face of the Russians and was therefore banned. This statement was later used by right-wing media "Die Weltwoche" and other to which Trofimova gave interviews to defend her film after it had been banned from
2625-501: A three-letter abbreviation, the abbreviations "GLO", "GLB" or "GTV" are commonly used, depending on the publication. None of these abbreviations has any standing as an official name for the network, however – the network's own shortform name for itself is always "Global". Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Global Television Network, which is based in Vancouver. National programs broadcast by
2730-576: A trend to which The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star , Canada's other two papers with inter-regional distribution, have all resorted. Print editions were removed from all Atlantic Canadian newsstands except in Halifax as of 2007. Focussing further on its online publishing, in 2008, the paper suspended weekday editions and home delivery in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The reorientation towards digital continued into its next decade. Politically,
2835-591: A union drive at the paper earlier that year, taking charge of all political reporting and analysis in Postmedia newspapers to ensure the newspapers became more "reliably conservative." In June 2019, Kevin Libin, comments editor and editorials editor of the National Post and Financial Post and a founding editor of Western Standard , was assigned “executive editor of Postmedia politics". The role focuses on
2940-406: Is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network . It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after CTV , and has fifteen owned-and-operated stations throughout the country. Global is owned by Corus Entertainment — the media holdings of JR Shaw and other members of his family. Global has its origins in a regional television station of
3045-412: Is currently owned by American media conglomerate Chatham Asset Management . The ownership group was assembled by National Post CEO Paul Godfrey in 2010 to bid for the chain of newspapers being sold by the financially troubled Asper family's Canwest (the company's broadcasting assets were sold separately to Shaw Communications ). Godfrey secured financial backing from a U.S. private equity firm ,
3150-671: Is identified as a source on all of its subsidiary newspapers. The news agency provides news, sports, entertainment, photography, financial and feature information and data to Postmedia Network's Canadian newspapers, online properties and a number of third party clients in Canada and the United States. In October 2018, it was reported that CEO Andrew MacLeod had declared the company "insufficiently conservative ". That resulted in Kevin Libin, who had played an active role in defeating
3255-539: Is no "network" feed per se , and in effect every commercial break is a station break. National advertising is certainly available, but such ads are seamlessly integrated into local ad blocks. In fact, it is not uncommon to see different lengths of commercial breaks from one station to the next even during identical programming. This occurs even though all Global stations have had their master control operations centralized in Calgary since fall 2006. From 2010 to 2016, with
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3360-1225: The Camrose Canadian in Camrose, Alberta , Strathmore Standard in Strathmore, Alberta , Kapuskasing Northern Times in Kapuskasing, Ontario , Ingersoll Times in Ingersoll, Ontario , Norwich Gazette in Norwich, Ontario and Petrolia Topic in Petrolia, Ontario . It will also cease printing the Portage Daily Graphic in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba , the Northern News in Kirkland Lake, Ontario , and Pembroke Daily Observer in Pembroke, Ontario while maintaining
3465-572: The Vancouver Sun and The Province , have had common ownership for over 30 years, as evidence that the deal would not be anticompetitive. The purchase did not include Sun Media's now-defunct Sun News Network . The acquisition was approved by the Competition Bureau on March 25, 2015, and closed on April 13. In 2016, the company sought to restructure its compensation plans and reduce spending by as much as 20%, after reporting
3570-582: The Winnipeg Sun , the Portage la Prairie Graphic Leader , Kenora Miner and News , and company's Winnipeg printing operations to politician and former Sun publisher Kevin Klein . In July 2024, the company entered into an agreement to acquire SaltWire Network . Postmedia News is the news branch of Postmedia Network, providing similar content to all of its subsidiary news outlets and websites. It
3675-784: The 1987 and 1988 Stanley Cup playoffs , Global aired NHL games syndicated by Carling O'Keefe . Global was the longtime broadcaster of National Football League football games in Canada, an association that ended in 2007 when CTV outbid Global for the NFL broadcast package. The network was a long-time broadcaster of PGA Tour events. Beyond event coverage, many Global stations were well known for local late-night sports highlights shows, such as Sportsline in Ontario, Sports Page in Vancouver (later moved to former sister station CHEK-TV ), 2&7 Sports at 11 in Calgary and Sports Night in Edmonton. Most of these programs were later unified under
3780-650: The Global Sports brand. However, due to declining audiences, by fall 2005 all but the Ontario program had been cancelled, although stations continued to cover sports in their local newscasts. Global Ontario's sports program was finally cancelled in January 2007; at that point, the station closed its sports department entirely, and for a time outsourced sports coverage to Sportsnet and The Score / Sportsnet 360 . Some Global O&Os outside of Ontario (such as CHAN Vancouver and CITV Edmonton) continue to feature locally produced sports segments on their local newscasts. On
3885-596: The Jewish News Syndicate which it describes as "a mouthpiece for the Israeli military". In a 2021 academic study on the presentation of the subject of climate change in 17 mainstream media outlets in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the National Post came out as the worst in terms of its misrepresentation of the scientific consensus on the impact of anthropogenic climate change. The National Post
3990-524: The Jim Pattison Group , and was soon bailed out by IWC Communications, owned by broadcaster Allan Slaight , and Global Ventures Western Ltd., a syndicate which included Winnipeg movie theater owner Paul Morton and Izzy Asper , a Manitoba politician turned broadcaster. Asper's company, CanWest Capital, owned CKND-TV in Winnipeg, which was already carrying some of Global's programs under
4095-522: The National Post added value to other papers in the Canwest chain. In 2010, an ownership group was assembled by National Post CEO Paul Godfrey in 2010 to bid for the chain of newspapers being sold by the financially troubled Canwest (the company's broadcasting assets were sold separately to Shaw Communications ). Godfrey secured financial backing from U.S. private-equity firm Golden Tree Asset Management as well as other investors. The group completed
4200-562: The National Post around the Financial Post , a financial newspaper in Toronto which Hollinger Inc. purchased from Sun Media in 1997. Originally slated for an October 5, 1998 launch date, the debut of the paper was delayed until October 27 because of financial complications that stemmed from Black's acquisition of the Financial Post , which was retained as the name of the new newspaper's business section. Outside Toronto,
4305-481: The National Post was perceived to be middle-of-the-pack for bias among national news outlets (perceived biased by 48 per cent of Canadians overall). A 2010 Ipsos survey commissioned by CBC found that 38% of respondents believed the Post leaned to the right or far right. The advocacy group Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East has accused the Post of pro-Israel bias for publishing articles from
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4410-444: The Post and other Canwest papers made frequent appearances on Global's news programs, passengers on the now-defunct serial drama Train 48 habitually read the Post , and Global programs were promoted in Canwest newspapers. However, this practice has now been largely abandoned, particularly after Canwest's breakup in 2010. In late 2004, with CTV beginning to dominate the ratings, Canwest reorganized its Canadian operations and hired
4515-450: The Post editorial board included Ezra Levant , Neil Seeman , Jonathan Kay , Conservative Member of Parliament John Williamson and the author/historian Alexander Rose. The Post 's magazine-style graphic and layout design has won awards. The original design of the Post was created by Lucie Lacava, a design consultant based in Montreal. The Post now bears the motto "World's Best-Designed Newspaper" on its front page. The Post
4620-634: The Post endorsed the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2004 election when Fraser was editor. The Conservatives narrowly lost that election to the Liberals. After the election, the Post surprised many of its conservative readers by shifting its support to the victorious Liberal government of prime minister Paul Martin , and was highly critical of the Conservatives and their leader, Stephen Harper . The paper switched camps again in
4725-651: The Post has retained a conservative editorial stance, although the Asper family has long been a strong supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada . Izzy Asper was once leader of the Liberal Party in his home province of Manitoba . The Aspers had controversially fired the publisher of the Ottawa Citizen , Russell Mills, for calling for the resignation of Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien . However,
4830-559: The Post was built on the printing and distribution infrastructure of Hollinger's national newspaper chain, formerly called Southam Newspapers , that included the newspapers Ottawa Citizen , Montreal Gazette , Edmonton Journal , Calgary Herald , and Vancouver Sun . The Post became Black's national flagship title, and Ken Whyte was appointed editor. Beyond his political vision, Black attempted to compete directly with Kenneth Thomson 's media empire led in Canada by The Globe and Mail , which Black and many others perceived as
4935-630: The Sportsnet -produced Fox Soccer News . In 2015, Global broadcast coverage of the Canada West conference's university football championship, including coverage of one semi-final game, and the Hardy Cup game the following week. The telecasts were produced through Shaw TV 's Canada West Football on Shaw package. Global streams live and on-demand programming via its website and apps for mobile devices and digital media players . In 2020,
5040-626: The Toronto Blizzard soccer team and produced and aired coverage of the team's games in-house. The team was not a success on the field, in attendance or ratings, and Global sold the franchise in 1981 but continued to broadcast seven games a year until 1983. Aside from its brief experiment with soccer, the Global network has never had an in-house sports production division as do CBC, CTV/TSN, & Citytv/Sportsnet. Network sports broadcasts are either simulcast with American networks or outsourced to independent producers such as Molstar . During
5145-431: The reality series Big Brother . Global, like all Canadian broadcast outlets, benefits from Canada's simultaneous substitution (or "simsub") regulations, which allow content owners to control programming rights for a particular show in Canada. When an American broadcast network is broadcasting the same show at the same time that Global is (such as the programs mentioned above), Canadian cable subscribers may only watch
5250-624: The "CanWest Global System" as a secondary brand, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s they each retained their own branding and continued to function as an ownership group of independent stations rather than as a fully unified network. In 1997, Canwest bought controlling interest in the CBC affiliate in Quebec City , CKMI-TV , from TVA , which retained a 49% interest until 2002. With the acquisition of CKMI, Canwest now had enough coverage of Canada that it seemed logical to rebrand its station group as
5355-593: The 1980s. As a result, Global continued its long-standing secondary affiliations in those cities on independent stations CICT-TV and CITV-TV , respectively. Similarly, Global lacked a full-time station in St. John's , where Global programming was carried by longtime CTV affiliate CJON-TV . In 2000, Canwest acquired the conventional television assets of Western International Communications (WIC). WIC's stations in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge had been airing some Global programs since 1988, and those stations formally joined
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#17327657278805460-511: The British-Canadian animated comedy Bob and Margaret , the police procedural drama Blue Murder , the nightly improvised drama Train 48 , the sitcom The Jane Show and the reality show My Fabulous Gay Wedding . In 2003, Global signed comedian Mike Bullard , host of the nightly Open Mike with Mike Bullard on CTV and The Comedy Network , to a multi-year contract for a new nightly talk show on Global, but that series
5565-597: The Global Television broadcast, even when trying to view the American stations. This law gives them double exposure for their content and a larger share of advertising revenue, effectively blocking American border cities from access to the Canadian market. This was done to help give money to the networks to fund Canadian content development. Global is not the only Canadian broadcaster to use simsubs; nonetheless, some complaints, specific to Global, have arisen due to
5670-450: The Global apps were relaunched to include streaming for subscribers of most of Corus Entertainment's specialty channels, mirroring a similar move announced by CTV. In October 2004, Global launched a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of its Toronto station CIII-TV called Global HD and started airing select American programs in HD; some Canadian series such as Falcon Beach eventually began to be included among its HD programs. At
5775-498: The Institute for Canadian Values (ICV) which was hosted by Canada Christian College . The advertisement argued against the teaching of LGBTQ -related sex education topics in the Ontario school curriculum, and was criticized for alleged discrimination against transsexual , transgender , intersex , and two-spirited people. Following the controversy, the National Post apologized for the advertisement on September 30 and withdrew
5880-549: The Manhattan-based hedge fund GoldenTree Asset Management —which owns 35 per cent—as well as IJNR Investment Trust, Nyppex and other investors. The group completed a $ 1.1 billion transaction to acquire the chain from Canwest on July 13, 2010. On October 6, 2014, Postmedia's CEO Godfrey announced a deal to acquire the English-language operations of Sun Media . The purchase received regulatory approval from
5985-521: The Montreal market. The transmitters would all be fed from a central studio in Toronto. The group promised a high level of Canadian content and agreed not to accept local advertising. The station's initial plan was to broadcast only during prime time hours from 5 p.m. to midnight, while leasing daytime hours to the Ontario Educational Communications Authority to broadcast educational programming. However,
6090-487: The Ontario government's refusal to follow suit, had unexpectedly forced Everything Goes , promoted as the network's flagship show, into airing directly opposite The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and thus attracting disastrous ratings. As a result of the crisis, the station quickly lost access to its line of credit. Unable to meet daily expenses, Global initially approached potential bidders including Channel Seventynine , Denison Mines , Standard Broadcasting and
6195-423: The Ontario station has always been based in Toronto, its main transmitter was licensed to Paris, Ontario; halfway between Kitchener-Waterloo and Hamilton, transmitting on Channel 6, until 2009. Repeating transmitters were originally located near Windsor, Ontario on Channel 22; Sarnia , Channel 29, Uxbridge, Ontario on Channel 22 to serve the metro Toronto area; Bancroft, on Channel 2; and Hull, Quebec to cover
6300-533: The Ontario station's branding in 1997. The network has its origins in NTV, a new network first proposed in 1966 by Hamilton media proprietor Ken Soble , the co-founder and owner of independent station CHCH-TV through his Niagara Television company. Financially backed by Power Corporation of Canada , Soble submitted a brief to the Board of Broadcast Governors in 1966 proposing a national satellite -fed network. Under
6405-401: The Ottawa area, on Channel 6. Global's original prime time schedule included Patrick Watson 's documentary series Witness to Yesterday , Pierre Berton 's political debate show The Great Debate , a Canadian edition of Bernard Braden 's British consumer affairs newsmagazine The Braden Beat , William Shatner 's film talk show Flick Flack , Sunday night Toronto Toros hockey games and
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#17327657278806510-421: The Postmedia Network effectively concentrates more than 90 percent of all Canadian dailies and weeklies in one company, a fact lamented by J-Source, a Canadian media watchdog, in a 2015 online article. Margo Goodhand , a former Edmonton Journal editor-in-chief , wrote in a 2016 Walrus article that Postmedia executives were behind the outsourcing of Postmedia content to a site within an office in Canada for
6615-496: The Postmedia executives to reject the total $ 2,275,000 as the newspaper chain continued to cut staff. Postmedia owns newspapers that serve smaller communities across Canada, including: In addition, Postmedia Network owns all websites associated with all properties listed on this page either wholly or in partnership. Other media groups in Canada include: Global Television Network The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global , or occasionally Global TV )
6720-422: The Toronto and Vancouver 24 Hours to Torstar, in exchange for 22 community papers and the Ottawa and Winnipeg versions of Metro . Except for the Exeter Times-Advocate , St. Catharines Standard , Niagara Falls Review , Peterborough Examiner , and Welland Tribune , all acquired papers will be closed. On June 26, 2018, Canadian Press reported that, by the end of August, Postmedia will be closing
6825-469: The United States and has long been criticized for not investing enough in Canadian content . Canadian programming carried on the network, such as a revival of 1960s American science fiction series The Outer Limits , or the Chicago-set drama Zoe Busiek: Wild Card , has often avoided Canadian themes, presumably to focus on sales to United States and international cable or syndication markets – although Psi Factor did include Canadian themes, including
6930-416: The Zurich film festival. In the second article by Chris Knight, “Russian-Canadian filmmaker battles attempts to suppress controversial film as Ukraine launches probe”, the idea was taken further, now claiming a Ukrainian campaign that was demonstrably a wider international protest. The article contained strong anti-Ukrainian bias and claimed an almost purely Ukrainian protest against the film, whereas in reality
7035-414: The ad from circulation. Postmedia Network Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network , Postmedia News or Postmedia ) is a foreign-owned Canadian-based media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest , with primary operations in English-language newspaper publishing, news gathering and Internet operations. It is best known for being
7140-449: The company’s community presence in the province. For Ontario, the closures included the Kingsville Reporter, Lakeshore News (Windsor-Essex area), LaSalle Post, Napanee Guide, Paris Star, Tecumseh Shoreline Week, and Tilbury Times. On February 17, 2022, Postmedia announced a definitive agreement to acquire Brunswick News Inc. (BNI). As well as several New Brunswick daily and weekly newspapers and "digital properties", BNI's assets included
7245-425: The coverage of federal politics in the National Post. In addition, it focuses on the coverage of federal and provincial politics in all of the dailies owned by Postmedia. In November 2019, Postmedia announced that 66% of its shares were now owned by Chatham Asset Management , an American media conglomerate which owns American Media, Inc. and is known for its close ties to the Republican party. The creation of
7350-425: The decline in revenue. Postmedia closed 15 community newspapers in Manitoba and Ontario’s Windsor-Essex area as the publications were no longer financially sustainable. The publications included Manitoba’s Altona Red River Valley Echo, Carman Valley Leader, Gimli Intertake Spectator, Morden Times, Selkirk Journal, Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times, Winkler Times, and The Prairie Farmer, leaving Portage La Prairie as
7455-409: The division include Global's flagship national newscast Global National and newsmagazine shows such as 16x9 . The network also offers various amounts of local news programming on its eleven O&Os. Local news programming on most of Global's O&Os mirror the newscast schedules of many U.S. television stations; most Global-owned stations carry a morning newscast of three or four hours in length,
7560-537: The edition distributed to the rest of Canada, and is printed at the Toronto Star Press Centre in Vaughan . On September 27, 2007, the Post unveiled a major redesign of its appearance. Guided by Gayle Grin, the Post's managing editor of design and graphics, the redesign features a standardization in the size of typeface and the number of typefaces used, cleaner font for charts and graphs, and
7665-429: The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Doug Kelly , published an apology for the story on page 2, admitting that it was false and the National Post had not exercised enough caution or checked enough sources. From 1998 to 2014, the now defunct Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) had been actively monitoring media coverage for anti-Muslim or anti-Islam sentiment and had issued reports highlighting its findings. It had opposed
7770-403: The ensuing years were largely credited with keeping the network viable while its viewership grew. The company enhanced its senior talent pool in 1979 with the arrival of sales guru Dave Mintz, formerly of KVOS-TV , as the network's president, a post he held until his retirement in 1993, taking Global from the lowest-rated station in Toronto to the ratings leader along the way. Over several years,
7875-852: The entire Southam newspaper chain, and the remaining 50 percent in 2001. CanWest Global also owned the Global Television Network . Izzy Asper died in October 2003, and his sons Leonard and David Asper assumed control of CanWest, the latter serving as chairman of the Post . Editor-in-chief Matthew Fraser departed in 2005 after the arrival of a new publisher, Les Pyette – the paper's seventh publisher in seven years. Fraser's deputy editor, Doug Kelly succeeded him as editor. Pyette departed seven months after his arrival, replaced by Gordon Fisher . The Post limited print distribution in Atlantic Canada in 2006, part of
7980-485: The exception of the nightly newscasts, few other Canadian-produced programs remained on the station, and the ones that did exist were largely criticized as cheaply-produced filler. John Spalding, the station's original program director, quit in 1975 after being unable to convince the station's owners to invest more money into higher-quality production. To replace him the company recruited programmer Bill Stewart away from CKCO-TV, Kitchener. Stewart's savvy program purchases in
8085-520: The federal Competition Bureau on March 25, 2015, even though the company manages competitive papers in several Canadian cities; while the Sun Media chain owns numerous other papers, four of its five Sun -branded tabloids operate in markets where Postmedia already publishes a broadsheet competitor. Board chair Rod Phillips has cited the Vancouver market, in which the two main daily newspapers,
8190-683: The film was widely criticized by the international press and others. The National Post ' s main office is at 365 Bloor Street East in Toronto, Ontario . It was formerly located at 1450 Don Mills Road in the Don Mills neighbourhood of Toronto, which was vacated in 2012. The newspaper is published at Postmedia's Islington Printing Plant in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood, along with the Toronto Sun , London Free Press and various Postmedia and Metroland-owned weekly newspapers. The newspaper
8295-412: The following related practices: Global cross-promotes heavily with other Corus Entertainment properties in the markets where both services operate in parallel. On June 6, 2007, the Canadian actors' union ACTRA picketed Global's fall upfronts presentation to protest the lack of Canadian content on current television network schedules. In 1979, Global – then a regional network in Ontario – purchased
8400-436: The free distribution rights the plan offered to the public television services. However, after federal communications minister Paul Hellyer announced plans to move forward with the publicly owned Anik series of broadcast satellites through Telesat Canada instead of leaving the rollout of satellite technology in the hands of private corporations, Power Corporation backed out of the application and left NTV in limbo. Bruner
8505-461: The licence nominally remained in Quebec City until 2009. Canwest's purchase of CKMI extended Global's footprint to eight of Canada's 10 largest markets (though Ottawa and Montreal were only served by rebroadcasters). Even so, Global was still not a fully national network, as it did not have stations in Calgary and Edmonton . The CRTC turned down bids by Canwest for stations in those cities in
8610-404: The move of the nameplate banner from the top to the left side of Page 1 as well as each section's front page. In 2009, the paper announced that as a temporary cost-cutting measure, it would not print a Monday edition from July to September 2009. On October 29, 2009, Canwest Global announced that due to a lack of funding, the National Post might close down as of October 30, 2009, subject to moving
8715-660: The network on September 4, 2000. The following fall, WIC's long-dominant Vancouver station CHAN-TV was brought into the fold after its existing affiliation agreement with CTV expired, setting off a massive realignment of television affiliations in southwestern British Columbia. Indeed, one main reason why Canwest bought WIC's television assets was because of CHAN's massive translator network, which covered 97% of British Columbia. Global's previous Vancouver station, CKVU-TV , as well as WIC-owned Montreal CTV affiliate CFCF-TV , were sold off. WIC's remaining stations were maintained as twinstick stations and were eventually integrated into
8820-463: The network received $ 9.9 million in government financial assistance in 2022. In the same year, Postmedia's operating income was only $ 13 million. In 2016, Paul Godfrey took a $ 900,000 bonus during a time when Postmedia laid off staff company-wide. CFO Doug Lamb received $ 450,000, COO Andrew MecLeod $ 425,000, legal and general counsel Jeffrey Harr $ 300,000, and National Post president Gordon Fisher $ 200,000. Unions representing Canadian journalists wanted
8925-521: The network's national newscast in mid-2009. Any remaining programs there may be accessed on cable or satellite through Global stations from other markets (most commonly Edmonton's CITV), or through the network's website. Following Canwest's purchase of Southam Newspapers (later Canwest Publishing) and the National Post from Conrad Black in 2001, their media interests were merged under a policy of cross-promotion and synergy . Journalists from
9030-600: The offer never came to fruition, with the OECA opting instead to expand what would eventually become TVOntario by launching its own transmitters. The new Global Television Network, with the callsign CKGN-TV (now CIII-DT), launched on January 6, 1974 from studios located at a former factory in the Don Mills neighbourhood in North York (now in Toronto) at 6 p.m. local time. Global remains based there today. Although
9135-431: The original 96 transmitters would be supplemented by 43 more transmitters to distribute a separate French language service, along with provisions for the free distribution of CBC Television , Radio-Canada and a new noncommercial educational television service on the network's satellite. Transponder space would also be leased to CTV and Télé-Métropole , but as competing commercial services they would not have been granted
9240-546: The other hand, the sports segments aired during local newscasts on CIHF-DT in Saint John and CKMI-DT in Montreal are produced from CHAN's Vancouver studio, presented by that station's sports anchors. Until the discontinuation of Fox Sports World Canada , CKND-DT in Winnipeg also produced the Fox Soccer Report , which was seen on the network and Fox Soccer in the United States. It was replaced in 2012 by
9345-467: The owner of the National Post and the Financial Post . The company is headquartered at Postmedia Place on Bloor Street in Toronto. The company's strategy has seen its publications invest greater resources in digital news gathering and distribution, including expanded websites and digital news apps for smartphones and tablets. This began with a revamp and redesign of the Ottawa Citizen , which debuted in 2014. Two-thirds, or 66%, of Postmedia
9450-474: The paper to a new holding company. Late on October 29, 2009, Ontario Superior Court Justice Sarah Pepall ruled in Canwest's favour and allowed the paper to move into a holding company. Investment bankers hired by Canwest received no offers when they tried to sell the National Post earlier that year. Without a buyer closing the paper was studied, but the costs were greater than gains from liquidating assets. The lawyer for Canwest, in arguing to Justice Pepall, said
9555-524: The plan after failing in a bid to acquire CTV. The original proposal was widely criticized on various grounds, including claims that it exceeded the board's concentration of media ownership limits and that it was overly ambitious and financially unsustainable. As well, it failed to include any plan for local news content on any of its individual stations beyond possibly the metropolitan Toronto , Montreal , and Vancouver markets. By 1968, NTV put forward its first official licence application, under which
9660-429: The plan, Soble's company would launch Canada's first broadcast satellite, and would use it to relay the programming of CHCH to 96 new transmitters across Canada. Soble died in December of that year; his widow Frances took over as president of Niagara Television, while former CTV executive Michael Hind-Smith and Niagara Television vice-president Al Bruner handled the network application. Soble had originally formulated
9765-667: The platform of the Liberal establishment . When the Post launched, its editorial stance was conservative . It advocated a "unite-the-right" movement to create a viable alternative to the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien , and supported the Canadian Alliance . The Post 's op-ed page has included dissenting columns by ideological liberals such as Linda McQuaig , as well as conservatives including Mark Steyn and Diane Francis , and David Frum . Original members of
9870-652: The prime late evening newscast shifted between 10 and 11 p.m., and between 30 and 60 minutes. CKGN changed its callsign to CIII-TV in 1984, deferring to its widespread CATV distribution on Cable 3. Asper bought controlling interest in 1985, making him the first western-based owner of a major Canadian broadcaster. In 1989, Asper and Morton tried to buy each other out, a struggle which was resolved in favour of Asper and Canwest. The network continued to be limited to its six-transmitter chain in Ontario for its first decade. However, soon after Asper bought controlling interest in Global, he seemed eager to grow his chain of stations into
9975-475: The runup to the 2006 election (in which the Conservatives won a minority government). Like its competitor The Globe and Mail , the Post publishes a separate edition in Toronto , Ontario, Canada's largest city and the fourth largest English-language media centre in North America after New York City , Los Angeles and Chicago . The Toronto edition includes additional local content not published in
10080-580: The sake of producing “ Regina Leader-Post sports pages, Arts fronts for the Montreal Gazette , editorial pages for the Vancouver Sun ”. In a 2020 article by The New York Times, it was reported journalists had attested that since Chatham Asset Management took over, Postmedia had centralized operations and cut staff so that its 106 newspapers were essentially clones of one another. On November 27, 2018, The Competition Bureau applied for
10185-491: The same name, serving Southern Ontario , which launched in 1974. The Ontario station was soon purchased by the now-defunct CanWest Global Communications , and that company gradually expanded its national reach in the subsequent decades through both acquisitions and new station launches, building up a quasi-network of independent stations, known as the CanWest Global System , until the stations were unified under
10290-413: The time, the service was only available via digital cable . On April 18, 2008, Global officially launched a digital transmitter in Toronto, making the HD simulcast of CIII-TV available over-the-air. The network also launched an HD simulcast feed of its Vancouver station ( CHAN-TV ) on the same day. Global HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free over-the-air using
10395-425: The use of phrases such as "Islamic guerrillas," "Islamic insurgency" and "Muslim militants" saying that terms like "militant" or "terrorist" should be used without a religious association "since no religion teaches or endorses terrorism, militancy or extremism." The Congress had singled out the National Post , saying the paper "consistently is No. 1" as an anti-Islam media outlet. A 2017 survey of Canadians found that
10500-419: Was cancelled after 60 episodes amid poor ratings. Global purchased the rights to produce a Canadian version of the popular entertainment magazine Entertainment Tonight ; ET Canada launched on September 12, 2005. It also secured Canadian production rights to the American reality series The Apprentice , but a Canadian version of the program never came to fruition. They also produce a Canadian version of
10605-466: Was fired from Niagara Television in 1969, purportedly because his efforts to rescue the network application were leading him to neglect his other duties with the company's existing media operations. He then put together another investment team to form Global Communications, which carried the network application forward thereafter. By 1970, the Canadian Radio and Television Commission had put out
10710-412: Was found to represent scientific consensus only 70.83% of the time—noting the significant contribution of anthropogenic climate change—while 9.17% of the time it presented anthropogenic climate change and natural climatic variance as equally relevant, and 20% of the time presented anthropogenic climate change as a negligible phenomena. On September 24, 2011, the newspaper ran an advertisement paid for by
10815-570: Was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black in an attempt to compete with The Globe and Mail . In 2001, CanWest completed its acquisition of the National Post . In 2006, the newspaper ceased distribution in Atlantic Canada and the Canadian territories . Postmedia assumed ownership of the newspaper in 2010, after the CEO of the National Post ' s, Paul Godfrey , assembled an ownership group to acquire CanWest's chain of newspapers. Conrad Black built
10920-653: Was previously printed at the Toronto Star Press Centre in Vaughan, Ontario , until the Toronto Star closed the site. The following is a list of past and present columnists for the National Post . On May 19, 2006, the newspaper ran two pieces alleging that the Iranian parliament had passed a law requiring religious minorities to wear special identifying badges. One piece was a front-page news item titled "Iran Eyes Badges For Jews" accompanied by
11025-416: Was unable to maintain momentum in the market without continuing to operate with annual budgetary deficits. At the same time, Conrad Black was becoming preoccupied by his debt-heavy media empire, Hollinger International . Black divested his Canadian media holdings, and sold the Post to CanWest Global Communications Corp , controlled by Israel "Izzy" Asper , in two stages – 50 percent in 2000, along with
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