Edmonton Journal

The Edmonton Journal serves Canada's fifth-largest community with a six-days-a-week (Monday-Saturday) broadsheet. Edmonton has a population of about 878,00 residents (2014 census), and it's the capital of Alberta Province. The Journal's paid circulation in 2014 was about 63,000, weekdays, and 69,000, Saturdays (newspaperscanada.com). Three local Edmonton businessmen founded the Journal in 1903 as a rival toAlberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Edmonton Bulletin. In 1912, the Journal was sold to the Southam family, and The Journal remained under Southam ownership until 1996.