Vancouver Courier

The Vancouver Courier is a Canadian semiweekly local newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia by CanWest Global Communications. Currently, it is Canada's largest distributed community newspaper, with a weekly distribtuion of 265,000. The circulation estimate includes The Vancouver Courier, The Vancouver Courier Downtown, and the Vancouver Courier Westside, and The Vancouver Courier Eastside on Wednesdays. Delivered to homes the paper is... more

The Vancouver Courier is a Canadian semiweekly local newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia by CanWest Global Communications. Currently, it is Canada's largest distributed community newspaper, with a weekly distribtuion of 265,000. The circulation estimate includes The Vancouver Courier, The Vancouver Courier Downtown, and the Vancouver Courier Westside, and The Vancouver Courier Eastside on Wednesdays. Delivered to homes the paper is distributed from UBC to the Vancouver proper boundary at Boundary Road. The newspaper began as an independent in 1908 as the Eburne News. Within the last ten years its ownership has had three owners: first, the national Southam chain, then Hollinger, and finally CanWest. It expanded from being a neighbourhood newspaper to its current city-wide circulation area after acquiring the Vancouver Echo and the West End Times. The paper has twice been named "Best Community Newspaper in B.C." and was the second runner-up in the Canadian Community... less