Le Courrier du Sud is a free French language

French language

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 weekly

Weekly newspaper

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 tabloid newspaper based in Longueuil

Longueuil

Longueuil is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly across from Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census totaled 229,330, making it the third largest city in...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

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. The newspaper is distributed to 143 992 homes in the cities of Longueuil (boroughs of Vieux-Longueuil

Vieux-Longueuil

Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

, Saint-Hubert

Saint-Hubert, Quebec

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 and Greenfield Park

Greenfield Park, Quebec

Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

), Brossard

Brossard

Brossard is a suburban area, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, opposite the island and city of Montreal.Brossard is subdivided into many smaller sections. These sections are characterized by having street names that all begin with the same letter of the alphabet...

 and Saint-Lambert

Saint-Lambert, Quebec

Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht...

. Le Courrier du Sud is owned by Quebecor Media, the same owners as the Montreal daily Le Journal de Montréal

Le Journal de Montréal

Le Journal de Montréal is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is the largest-circulation French-language newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by the Sun Media division of Quebecor Media. It is also Canada's largest tabloid...

. It was established in 1947 by Jean-Paul Auclair in the former city of Montreal South

Montréal-Sud

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as a bilingual newspaper (and was also known at the time as The South Courier).

External links

Le Courrier du Sud (official website)