Montreal Gazette
This English-language newspaper is published in Montreal, Quebec, which makes it available to a metropolitan audience of more than three million potential readers. Originally founded as a French newspaper in 1785 by Fleury Mesplet, its original name was Gazette Litteraire de Montreal. The Gazette played second for many years to the Montreal Star until a strike closed the leading publication permanently in 1979. Today the newspaper is published in English and is widely read by the 50% or so of area citizens whose native language is English or those whose native language is not French. Some French-speaking individuals also read the newspaper, and recently the publication has begun to actively court the French speakers with a shift to covering more topics that will appeal to this population. Owned by CanWest Global Publications, Canada’s largest newspaper publisher, that owns the Post and numerous other daily major and lesser newspapers as well as television and film distribution operation with broadcast outreaches into New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland. Terry Mosher known as Aislin, contributes work as an editorial cartoonist with the Gazette. In 2002 he was made an officer of the Order of