Canadian Newspaper Monopolies (1996)

Canadian Newspaper Monopolies (Canada)

Southam-Hollinger (owned by Conrad Black) owns 60 out of 104 Canadian newspapers, reaching 2.4 million Canadian households every day.
Sixty-six per cent of Canadian newspaper circulation is controlled by three chains: Southam-Hollinger (43%), Thomson (12%) and the Sun chain (11%).
Of the 45 daily newspapers in the province of Ontario, 37 (82%), are owned by two chains: Southam-Hollinger with 29, and the Thomson chain with eight.
Southam-Hollinger owns all 10 dailies in the provinces of Newfoundland (2), Prince Edward Island (3), and Saskatchewan (5).
In New Brunswick, the K.C. Irving family owns all four English-language daily newspapers.
In Quebec, 10 out of 11 dailies are owned by Paul Desmarais, Conrad Black and Pierre Peladeau, leaving just Le Devoir as an independent daily.

Source: Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporate News Media Smother the Facts, by James Winter. Black Rose Books, Montreal, July 1996