Le Soleil (Quebec)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Compact |
| Owner(s) | Power Corporation of Canada |
| Founded | 1896 |
| Headquarters | 410, boulevard Charest Est 3rd Floor Quebec City, Quebec G1K 8G3 |
| Circulation | 74,681 daily, 101,237 Saturday, 80,019 Sunday in 2011 |
| Website | www.cyberpresse.ca/soleil |
Le Soleil is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec. It was founded on December 28, 1896 and is published in compact format since April 2006 (it had traditionally been printed in broadsheet). It is distributed mainly in Quebec City; however, it is also for sale at newsstands in Ottawa, Montreal, New Brunswick and some places in Florida, where many Quebecers spend the winter. Its main competitor is the tabloid Le Journal de Québec, which enjoys higher circulation. It is owned by Power Corporation of Canada.
On weekdays Le Soleil contains four sections : the front section (Actualités), containing local and international news coverage; the Arts & Life, or "B" section (Arts & Vie); the Business, or "C" section (Économie); and the Sports, or "S" section. The Saturday edition contains many more special sections.
Le Soleil rose from the ashes of L'Électeur, the official newspaper of the Liberal Party of Canada, which shut down in December 1896. The first edition was published on December 28, 1896. one day after the disappearance of its predecessor, which shut down because the Catholic clergy had forbidden it to parishioners when the newspaper criticized the Church's electoral interference. It was renamed Le Soleil in reference to Le Soleil a daily newspaper based in Paris by the same name.
In 1957, Le Soleil (then owned by Oscar Gilbert) cut ties to the Liberal Party of Canada in order to concentrate on news coverage. Daily circulation rose past 100,000 in the 1960s, and over 150,000 in the 1970s.
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