The Gazette is a major English-language daily newspaper produced out of Montreal, Quebec.
It was founded in 1785 by Fleury Mesplet and was originally a French language newspaper called Gazette littéraire de Montréal.
For many years, the Montreal Gazette was eclipsed by the city's other English-language daily newspaper, The Montreal Star , which had a considerably higher circulation. However, the Montreal Star was shut down by a long strike action and ceased publication forever in 1979, less than a year after the strike was settled.
Today, the Gazette's audience is primarily the anglophone and allophone communities which account for about half of the population of the Island of Montreal . Numerous francophones also read English; more than half of the population of Montreal is bilingual. Recently, the newspaper has aggressively targeted bilingual francophone (French mother tongue) professionals and adjusted their "culture" coverage accordingly.
It is owned by CanWest Global Communications.
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