ShonTron
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I don't understand how GTA cities don't have daily papers. Welland, NF and St Catharines all have dailies. Sure, I guess you could argue that part of being in the GTA is being tapped into Toronto in many ways including media, but you'd think there'd be enough interest to make a go of it in markets much bigger than those Niagara cities.
Until the early ninties, Oshawa and Brampton had honest-to-goodness daily papers - the Oshawa Times and Brampton Times. I believe both were Southam papers, and most of the news were from the wires. They were something like the Belleville Intellegencer or the or the St. Catharines Standard. Metroland/Star helped put them out of business, this was long before the decline of the newspaper industry in general. Despite getting rid of the competition, the Metroland fishwraps never stepped up their game, and the Star pretended to fill the gap with their GTA ad campaign "we see a Greater Toronto" etc.