Anglophones outside Montreal deplore limited access to English-language newspapers
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English-speaking residents outside greater Montreal say since March, they haven't been able to get publications of most English-language newspapers in stores.
English-speaking residents outside greater Montreal say they feel cut off and abandoned.
Since March of this year, some say they haven’t been able to get publications of most English-language newspapers in stores, and many like Robert Beaulieu, who lives in Sheford in the Eastern Townships, about an hour and a half south-east of Montreal, say they wonder what’s going on.
According to Beaulieu, he hasn’t been able to get the Globe and Mail.
“The only way I can get it is my sister mails it to me from Kingston,” he laughed.
Others say they haven’t seen copies of the Montreal Gazette or the National Post, either.
“We’re really deprived,” said retired lawyer and Sutton resident Peter Turner. “But you know, it seems to be happening everywhere.”
Retailers in the region, home to a large English-speaking population, say they stopped receiving copies of some of the papers in March.
Postmedia, which owns both the Montreal Gazette and the National Post, sent a notice to retailers in February saying that their distributor would no longer be distributing the National Post as of March.