24 Hours (newspaper)
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| 24 Hours / 24 Heures | |
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 24 Heures Montreal, Volume 1, Issue 11 - March 2005 |
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| Type | Free daily newspaper |
| Format | Compact |
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| Owner | Sun Media Corporation |
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| Language | English and French |
| Headquarters | 333 King Street East Toronto, Ontario M5A 3X5  Canada |
| ISSN | 1711-7976 |
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| Website: 24hrs.ca 24heures.ca | |
24 Hours is a chain of free daily newspapers published in Canada by Sun Media, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media. Five different English editions are published in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, and Edmonton, and a French edition is published in Montreal as 24 heures.
On November 14, 2006, 24 Hours launched two new editions in the Ottawa Valley area -- an English edition published in Ottawa, and a French edition published in Gatineau. The Gatineau version stopped publishing on May 9, 2008.
The Vancouver edition of 24 Hours was a joint venture of Sun Media and the Jim Pattison Group; Pattison sold his share of the Vancouver edition in 2007.
24 Hours is published 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) in a 460 mm × 282 mm compact format that is smaller than a tabloid (about 58% the size of a tabloid.) Because its target readers are commuters heading to work, it is not published on weekends or statutory holidays.
Exact copies of each edition is also available on the official web site in PDF format. In addition, selected articles are also available in browsable HTML form. The paper's name is often spelled "24 Hours" but is spelled "24 hours" with a lower-case h on the front page.
The paper averages about 32 pages in an issue, slightly less than half being news and relies heavily upon wire services such as Reuters, the Canadian Press and the Associated Press. The rest of the pages cover lifestyle, travel, entertainment, and sports, etc.
24 Hours' competition is the free paper Metro. P.J. Harston was the founding editor-in-chief of both 24 Hours and Metro.
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