The Long Goodbye to Canadian Alt-Weeklies

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by: Chantal Braganza | j-source.ca

In the late morning on Wednesday, Feb. 18, FFWD Weekly editor and publisher Drew Anderson received a conference call request from senior management at Great West Newspapers, the alt-weekly’s owner. “I’d just hired someone on Monday with their approval,” said Anderson, “so I thought, ‘They can’t be closing the paper.’ But there were definitely a bit of heart palpitations.”  - See more at: http://j-source.ca/article/long-goodbye-canadian-alt-weeklies#sthash.G9HGniZf.dpuf
In the late morning on Wednesday, Feb. 18, FFWD Weekly editor and publisher Drew Anderson received a conference call request from senior management at Great West Newspapers, the alt-weekly’s owner. “I’d just hired someone on Monday with their approval,” said Anderson, “so I thought, ‘They can’t be closing the paper.’ But there were definitely a bit of heart palpitations.”  - See more at: http://j-source.ca/article/long-goodbye-canadian-alt-weeklies#sthash.G9HGniZf.dpuf
In the late morning on Wednesday, Feb. 18, FFWD Weekly editor and publisher Drew Anderson received a conference call request from senior management at Great West Newspapers, the alt-weekly’s owner. “I’d just hired someone on Monday with their approval,” said Anderson, “so I thought, ‘They can’t be closing the paper.’ But there were definitely a bit of heart palpitations.”

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