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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.
    • 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.
    • Mirror (english), they cover municipal politics, the protest of the week, fringe culture, etc... and they have the most complete listing of bars and clubs as well as an extensive listing of events.
    • Hour (english), it's Voir's english sister weekly newspaper that cover pretty much the same thing as the Mirror but their schedule of events is not as complete.
    • Voir (french), the first alternative paper in town modeled after New York's Village Voice. They also cover the local culture scene, alternative lifestyles and fringe culture.
    • There are other free weeklies around like Voice, Vice, ICI and others specialty weeklies.

  • 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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