The Winnipeg Tribune was a metropolitan daily newspaper serving Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada from January 28, 1890, to August 27, 1980. The paper was founded by R.L. Richardson and D.L. McIntyre who acquired the press and premises of the old Winnipeg Sun newspaper. It was often viewed as a liberal newspaper focused on local news and events. The paper was owned by Southam Inc at the time of its demise. It was frequently referred to as The Trib .
27-642: The Winnipeg Tribune began publishing on January 28, 1890, as a city newspaper, after the old Winnipeg Sun closed down. The initial edition contained four pages of local, national and international news. It was then in competition with two other newspapers: the Manitoba Free Press and the Winnipeg Telegram . In 1914, the Tribune moved its editorial offices from the Exchange area to
54-421: A strike action . The strike ended 16 days later, when the union ratified the final offer on Tuesday, October 28. The contract was ratified by 67% of newspaper carriers, 75% of the pressmen, and 91% of the inside workers, including journalists. The recent five-year contract was negotiated, ratified, and signed in 2013, with no threat of a strike. Workers and managers negotiated directly with great success, without
81-487: A 45-storey 'SkyCity' condominium project at the old site. However, in 2018 or 2019, the project was cancelled for financial issues relating to the investment and development company. The University of Manitoba Library digitized all the paper's pages between 1890 and 1980 and has made it freely available online. A documentary, 'The Trib: The Story of an Underdog Newspaper', was released in 2012. Winnipeg Free Press The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP ; founded as
108-660: A decline in circulation , dropping its total by 17% to 106,473 copies daily from 2009 to 2015. As of 2023, the Winnipeg Free Press media kit claims that 1.15 million users visit the newspaper's network of sites each month, and that in Winnipeg, 439,000 adults read the publication in print or digital format each week. Ottawa Journal The Ottawa Journal was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada , from 1885 to 1980. It
135-487: A locally-written tabloid, Trib Magazine , which started on November 24, 1979. In the late 1970s, the Tribune started publishing the weekend color comics in booklet form as "collectible comics." It was one of the first newspapers (and one of the very few in Canada) to use that short-lived format. The first issue, Vol.1 No.1, was published September 24, 1977. The final issue, Vol.4 No. 34, was published August 23, 1978, when
162-403: A new Centrex telephone system was installed for advertisers and subscribers to use when they called. This allowed direct dialing without requiring the person to contact the switchboard operator first. By the mid-1970s, daily circulation began to slip to 70,000 and was falling. The Southam chain decided on a total redesign of the paper. The new design made its debut on September 6, 1975. Although
189-476: Is now available exclusively online. According to figures via Canadian Newspaper Association , the Free Press ' average weekday circulation for 2013 was 108,583, while on Saturdays it was 144,278. Because of the relatively small population of Manitoba, that meant that over 10% of the population could be receiving the paper and its advertisements. Like most Canadian daily newspapers , the Free Press has seen
216-619: The Manitoba Free Press ) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis. The WFP was founded in 1872, only two years after Manitoba became part of Canada, in 1870. The WFP's founding predated Winnipeg's own incorporation, in 1873. The Winnipeg Free Press has since become
243-638: The Free Press was passed on to Clifford Sifton . The organization subsequently moved to a building on McDermot Avenue, where it would remain until 1900. 1900 : The paper moved to a new address on McDermot Avenue at Albert Street. 1901: John Wesley Dafoe served as president, editor-in-chief , and editorial writer for the WFP until 1944. 1905: The newspaper moved to a four-storey building at Portage and Garry. 1913: The newspaper moved to 300 Carlton Street and would remain there for 78 years. 1920: The Free Press took its newsprint supplier before
270-662: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for violating the War Measures Act during World War I . The newspaper won the case, known as Fort Frances Pulp and Paper v Manitoba Free Press , as the court determined that whether the state of national emergency continued after the war was a political matter for Parliament . December 2, 1931: The paper was renamed the Winnipeg Free Press . 1991: The Free Press moved to its current location in
297-648: The Ottawa Journal had been purchased by Thomson Newspapers and was closed. That left Southam's Ottawa Citizen as the only major newspaper in Ottawa and the Thompsons' Winnipeg Free Press the only major newspaper in Winnipeg. The Royal Commission on Newspapers , popularly known as the Kent Commission, was created in 1980 in response to allegations of collusion following the same-day closings of
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#1732801662630324-809: The Central Business District area of downtown on Smith Street. It remained there until it closed in August 1980. During the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919, the newspaper sided with the Citizens' Committee of 1000 and declared, "Winnipeg is now under the Soviet system of government." It was bought by Southam Newspapers in 1920. In 1922, the Winnipeg Tribune launched a radio station, CJNC-AM, that broadcast on
351-684: The Inkster Industrial Park, a CA$ 150 million plant at 1355 Mountain Avenue. December 2001: The Free Press and its sister paper, Brandon Sun , were bought from Thomson Newspapers by FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership. In 2008, at noon on Thanksgiving Day (Monday, October 13), about 1,000 members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union , representing editorial, advertising, circulation, and press staff, as well as newspaper carriers , launched
378-682: The Thomson-owned Ottawa Journal and the Southam-owned Winnipeg Tribune . The last issue, with the headline "It's Been 90 Great Years", remains a collector's item to this day. A number of employees from the Tribune later helped form the Winnipeg Sun . The University of Manitoba archives and special collections holds a collection of over 500,000 photographs, 250,000 newspaper clippings arranged into morgue files, and microfilm copies of
405-601: The classified ads free in the form of a Want-Ad Free-for-All promotion. That was because of fierce competition with the Winnipeg Free Press . In March 1979, it bought some space atop the Casa Loma building ( Portage Avenue & Sherbrook Street) to hold Winnipeg's largest billboard. It read, "[logo] With the Trib, it's Winnipeg. First." The billboard was designed by the advertising firm Martel-Stewart Ltd., and
432-597: The first Indigenous woman to enlist in the Canadian Women's Army Corps . The photo was soon picked up by British newspapers overseas. On Friday, September 5, 1969, the Tribune replaced its small user-folded TV listings printed on yellow paper with a glossy-covered 32-page booklet, TV Times , which was also featured in the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Gazette . On Sunday, June 21, 1970,
459-439: The frequency 410 kHz and closed down a year later, on March 9, 1923. Said the station manager at the closing: We have some important news for you. Some of you may not consider it good news. The Tribune will give its last radio concert next Friday night. It will then dismantle its radio equipment and retire permanently from the broadcasting field. In 1942, the newspaper published a famous army publicity photo of Mary Greyeyes ,
486-494: The need of a lawyer that previous contracts had required. As of November 1, 2009, the WFP ceased publishing a regular Sunday edition. In its place, a Sunday-only tabloid called On 7 was launched, but it has since been discontinued. On March 27, 2011, the impending arrival of Metro in the Winnipeg market caused the Sunday newspaper to be retooled as a broadsheet format, Winnipeg Free Press SundayXtra . The Sunday edition
513-554: The newspaper. In 1994, the Lion's Club announced its intention to build an 18-storey apartment tower on the old Winnipeg Tribune site. To be called Tribune Towers, it would be for seniors 55 and older and contain 132 suites. There would have been skywalk connections to the Millennium Library . The project was never completed. In April 2013, an Ontario-based real estate investment firm, Fortress Real Development , announced
540-522: The offset press could print a 112-page newspaper, the September 6 edition was 124 pages, including the 48-page Trib Classifieds . That forced the press operators to print the Trib Lifestyle section separately. Within a few months, circulation gained 30,000 paid readers, which made the upgrade a success. A few days before the design change, on September 1, all private sale listings were made in
567-619: The oldest newspaper in Western Canada that is still active. November 30, 1872: The Manitoba Free Press was launched by William Fisher Luxton and John A. Kenny. Luxton bought a press in New York City and, along with Kenny, rented a shack at 555 Main Street , near the present corner of Main Street and James Avenue. 1874: The paper moved to a new building on Main Street, across from St. Mary Avenue. 1882: Control of
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#1732801662630594-826: The only French-language daily newspaper in Ottawa). The closure aroused considerable controversy since a day later, Southam closed the Winnipeg Tribune , the primary rival to Thomson's Winnipeg Free Press . Concern over both incidents prompted the Government of Canada to conduct the Royal Commission on Newspapers , commonly known as the Kent Commission. To many, it seemed that possibly-illegal collusion to reduce competition had occurred. Charges were brought against both Southam and Thomson in April 1981 under
621-486: The pressroom knew that something was coming because management had stopped the presses that morning. The presses had only stopped on a rare occasion, and when they stopped, it was only for major events. Shockwaves moved through the community also, and many Winnipeggers were angry about losing a competing public voice. Worse yet, the closure happened at the same time as the closing of the Ottawa Journal . In 1980,
648-410: The strips returned to the main edition. The trademark name is now owned by the paper's old rival, the Winnipeg Free Press . On August 27, 1980, without warning, the Tribune was abruptly closed, and 375 people were out of work. Gene Telpner joked that he had just gotten new drapes and furniture. Val Werier , who was with the Trib for 35 years, said that it was a shocking moment. However, people in
675-512: Was bought by F.P. Publications . By then, the Journal , whose readers tended to come from rural areas, was trailing the Ottawa Citizen , its main competitor. The paper encountered labour problems in the 1970s and never really recovered. In 1980, it was bought by Thomson Newspapers and was closed on 27 August 1980. That left Southam Newspapers 's Ottawa Citizen as the only major English-language newspaper in Ottawa ( Le Droit remaining
702-559: Was founded in 1885 by A. Woodburn as the Ottawa Evening Journal . Its first editor was John Wesley Dafoe who came from the Winnipeg Free Press . In 1886, it was bought by Philip Dansken Ross . The paper began publishing a morning edition in 1917. In 1919, the paper's publishers bought the Ottawa Free Press , whose former owner, E. Norman Smith , then became editor with Grattan O'Leary . In 1959, it
729-416: Was larger than any that had been billboard seen in Winnipeg; it was also the largest in Western Canada . It measured 23 feet tall by 60 feet wide and had 4,200 light bulbs. The billboard space had been used by Export A cigarettes as early as 1959. When Southam's weekend magazine The Canadian merged with FP Newspapers' Weekend , the Tribune decided to differentiate itself from the Free Press by creating
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