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Newspapers
Montreal has three daily french and
one english newspapers. There are also two english and one french
free weekly papers that you can pick up at most downtown (as
well as in other central districts) metro stations, bars and restaurants.
You can also buy canadian, american and french dailies as well as
other international newspapers, these can be found at specialty newspaper
stands (Maison de la Presse Internationale for instance, there a couple
of them on Ste-Catherine street downtown and at other locations).
Here is a description of those papers :
- Daily :
- La Presse (french)
: the most read paper in town, it's a thick newspaper with
lot's of varied news and informations. There's a very complete
schedule of cultural events and entertainment. It's political
positions, therefore the editorial bias, is "soft federalist"
(a strong autonomous Quebec in a united Canada).
- Le Devoir (french)
: it's a very thin intellectual newspaper (if you blink, you'll
miss the sports page). It calls itself a "journal d'opinion"
which means a newspaper of opinions that is read mostly for
the editorials. It's political positions, therefore the editorial
bias, is decidedly pro-sovereignist (or independantist or
separatist). They have a very interesting litterature and
arts section.
- Le Journal de
Montréal
(french) : it's a tabloid, based on the three S (sports, sang - blood
in french - and sex). The front page is invariably either the murder of
the week, a bloody accident, the big Canadiens (hockey)/Expos
(baseball) win or loss. The first part is the "faits divers" (crime,
accidents, fires, etc), then there's an entertainment section and the
other half or the paper is the sports section.. oh yeah, there a page
on international and local politics too somewhere. The paper doesn't
have its own web site anymore, it is now part of the Canoe portal.
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The Gazette
(english), decidedly pro-federalist, this paper is often
biased to the point that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish
editorials from actual news report when it comes to Quebec
politics and culture (I'm exaggerating a little... but not
that much). One could say it's part of the doom and gloom
trio along with CJAD AM radio and CFCF's Pulse TV news show
but again I'm exaggerating a little... but not that much.
But it's the only local english language newspaper and it
has a good cartoons section. the best thing would be to
read both Le Devoir and The Gazette and average things out.
- Weekly (free) : these papers are "cultural" papers that
describe Montreal's culture and entertainement scene.
- Others : there are tabloids that examine the life of the local
star system (like Echo Vedette) which is mostly a promotional
tool for the local actors and performes (nothing like the National
Enquirer or those british tabloids). There are also police tabloids
(like Allo Police and Photo Police), if you want to know everything
on the murder of the week.
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