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The Montreal Gazette is a major English-language daily newspaper produced out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
It was founded in 1785 by Fleury Mesplet and was originally a French language newspaper.
For many years, the 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 and ceased publication
forever in 1979, less than a year after the strike was settled.
Today, the Gazette's audience is primarily the anglophone community of
Montreal, which accounts for about 18% of the population of Montreal city. However, numerous francophones and allophones can also read English, to the extent that more than half of the population of
Montreal is bilingual. Recently, the newspaper has aggressively targeted bilingual francophone (French mother tongue)
professionals and added adjusted their "culture" coverage accordingly.
It is owned by Canwest Global.
The other major Montreal daily newspapers are all French-language:
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