Gananoque lost a dedicated, energetic community leader when Ina G. Scott died peacefully on August 27, 2004. She was in her 100th year, having celebrated a birthday on August 12.

In the community, she was best known for her column, “Between the Gates,” which ran for 42 years in the Gananoque (ON) Reporter, the newspaper Ina owned and operated with her husband, Gerald Scott. At 87 years ...

Osprey Media Inc. is expanding in Ontario. In addition to acquiring new papers, Osprey-owned papers have also joined ComBase, the most authoritative market analysis study in Canada.

Most recently, Osprey bought the Haliburton (ON) County Echo and the Minden (ON) Times.

"We think that it’s an exciting opportunity, and we see it as a tremendous fit in operating style between Osprey ...

Craig Simpson and Phil Stevenson never knew they would be in the newspaper business. Simpson has an advertising background, and Stevenson worked in marketing and public relations.

Both were semi-retired and had moved to Creemore, Ontario when they found out that the local paper would be closing. There is a long history of newspapers in Creemore that goes back to 1877, ...

A local connection to the biggest business story being played out in the world’s newspapers this week—that newspaper baron Conrad Black and his executives plundered assets of publicly-held Hollinger International—is a story that up to now has never appeared in Kelowna’s newspapers.

Under normal circumstances, a story of this ...

On the verge of a public stock offering, Google stands to attract $2.7 billion from investors. Not bad for a company that was started in a dormitory by two Stanford University Ph.D. students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Google started by indexing the web, and has stats on over four billion web sites in its database. As soon as its search engine gained near-monopoly ...

Canadian Community Newspapers Association

Board of Directors Meeting

November 5, 2004,

Sutton Place Hotel, Toronto

86th National Convention

President

Terry Jenson

(CCNA Representative)

The Outlook

PO Box 399, 108 Sask. Ave. E.

Outlook, SK S0l 2N0

President

Roger Holmes

Wainwright Star Chronicle

414 - 10 Street

Wainwright, Alberta T9T 1P5

780-842-4465

George Bakoyannis, co-publisher and general manager of the Laval (QC) Chomedey News, is the newest member of the CCNA board of directors. He is the newly elected representative from the Quebec Community Newspapers Association (QCNA).

The QCNA elected Bakoyannis at their June 18, 2004, meeting in response to changes in the CCNA bylaws. Every CCNA member ...

It is common knowledge that the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association (SWNA) has helped develop AdWest to act as the national display advertising arm for the three prairie provinces, but what actually is AdWest?

Let’s start from the top. AdWest has a board of directors that consists of two representatives from each province. SWNA's representatives will be our ...

Hi from the publisher of The Publisher! As we move out of the summer holiday season and into the busy autumn season, I hope you’ve had an opportunity to see the changes in The Publisher.

Peter Josselyn, being the biggest change, has brought many new ideas in layout and design as well as story ideas.

His intentions and ...

As the summer draws to a close, those of us living in our nation’s capital begin to anticipate the changes ahead. Summertime in Ottawa is sluggish at best, as the House of Commons is not in session and most of the bureaucracy takes their holidays. This year was no exception. Considering that the Martin government saw fit to hold an election on June 28, 2004, and will not reconvene parliament until October 4, 2004, ...

Redesigning The Publisher was an especially engaging job, since I have access to some of the best inspirations for new layout and content—the 500 or so newspapers that arrive at the CCNA office each week.

Reading through many of these, it was evident that The Publisher needed to take on the look and characteristics of a community newspaper. In order to ...

September 15, 2004

This community has truly shaped the newspaper you hold in your hands. Not only are we unveiling a new look, but we’ve changed the content of Peterborough This Week as well.

We began our transformation on a pair of cold days in February when we invited several readers in to ask them what they ...

September 14, 2004

Today marks a new beginning for The Coast Guard.

Over the past number of weeks we have been working diligently to bring our readers and advertisers an improved newspaper with a renewed sense of purpose.

What you now hold in your hands is the result of much ...

Growing in popularity in the US, astroturf are letters to the editor that are not actually written by an individual, but generated from political campaign web sites or from PR firms. The name comes from the idea that such letters are 'fake grassroots.' There have been notable astroturf campaigns supposedly from soldiers serving in Iraq, and the US presidential race unleashed a partisan astroturfwar, leaving major dailies ...

People make a community

About a hundred years ago, each community was unique. Anyone able to travel across the country would find that the towns and villages were vastly different, and each town was made up of very different stores.

Today, the same franchises and stores can be seen in almost every community. And ...

The series of stories in the Red Deer (AB) Express (Click here for reprints) and a letter to the editor in the Coronation (AB) Review, brought results.

Results for the woman suffering from a debilitating disease, and for the reporter who won a writing award at the Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association (AWNA) Awards luncheon, Saturday September 18, 2004. ...

Rocky mom donates four caseloads of vital CellCept to Sundre school teacher

A Sundre school teacher, embroiled in a battle with the province over payment of life-saving drugs, has been inundated with calls and offers of support.

Today, a Rocky Mountain House single mom is meeting ...

Choice is up to the newspaper

Crowsnest Pass (AB) Herald

September 14, 2004

Last week the editor of a major newspaper in Russia was fired because he approved the printing of photographs of dead schoolchildren killed by terrorists.

NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE?

BUYER LOOKING AT ONTARIO

A potential buyer is interested in purchasing an Ontario community newspaper. The buyer wishes to re-locate and work in a community of less than 10,000. Any publisher in such an area is advised to e-mail pjosselyn@ccna.ca under the subject: Ontario community paper for ...