Regina Leader-Post
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The Regina Leader-Post is the daily newspaper of Regina
, Saskatchewan
, Canada
, and now a member of the Postmedia Network
.
The newspaper was first published as The Leader in 1883, by Nicholas Flood Davin
. Published weekly by the mercurial Davin, it almost immediately achieved national prominence during the Northwest Rebellion and the subsequent trial of Louis Riel
when Davin's immediate access to the developing story provided scoops which were picked up by the national press. Davin's greatest coup was his jailhouse interview with Riel, which he obtained by masquerading as a francophone priest and interviewing Riel in French under the nose of uncomprehending anglophone watchhouse guards. The Leader merged with another paper, the Regina Evening Post, and continued to publish daily editions of both before consolidating them under the title The Leader-Post. Other newspapers absorbed in due course by the L-P include the Regina Daily Star and The Province.
In 1995, the Leader-Post released an electronic version of the newspaper so that subscribers could view their newspapers on the internet. Electronic and daily print subscribers also enjoy access to extra content not available to all readers.
Later that year, the paper and its sister, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, were acquired from their owner, the Markham, Ont.-based Armadale group, by Hollinger Inc.
group, a company then headed by then-Canadian media baron Conrad Black
. Within three months, the staffs at each newspaper had been cut by one-quarter, these cuts becoming a cause célèbre in Canadian journalism.
Black's company subsequently divested itself of the Leader-Post together with most other Canadian news media it had owned, in conjunction with Black's renunciation of his Canadian citizenship in order to obtain an English peerage.
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, and now a member of the Postmedia Network
Postmedia Network
Postmedia Network Canada Corp. is a Canadian media company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, news gathering and Internet operations....
.
Nicholas Flood Davin
Nicholas Flood Davin Nicholas Flood Davin was a lawyer, journalist and politician, born at Kilfinane, Ireland. The first MP for Assiniboia West , Davin was known as the voice of the North-West....
. Published weekly by the mercurial Davin, it almost immediately achieved national prominence during the Northwest Rebellion and the subsequent trial of Louis Riel
Trial of Louis Riel
The Trial of Louis Riel is arguably the most famous trial in the history of Canada. In 1885, Louis Riel had been a leader of a resistance movement by the Métis and First Nations people of western Canada against the Canadian government in what is now the modern province of Saskatchewan...
when Davin's immediate access to the developing story provided scoops which were picked up by the national press. Davin's greatest coup was his jailhouse interview with Riel, which he obtained by masquerading as a francophone priest and interviewing Riel in French under the nose of uncomprehending anglophone watchhouse guards. The Leader merged with another paper, the Regina Evening Post, and continued to publish daily editions of both before consolidating them under the title The Leader-Post. Other newspapers absorbed in due course by the L-P include the Regina Daily Star and The Province.
In 1995, the Leader-Post released an electronic version of the newspaper so that subscribers could view their newspapers on the internet. Electronic and daily print subscribers also enjoy access to extra content not available to all readers.
Later that year, the paper and its sister, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, were acquired from their owner, the Markham, Ont.-based Armadale group, by Hollinger Inc.
Hollinger Inc.
Hollinger Inc. was a Canadian media company based in Toronto. It was created by the Canadian businessman Conrad Black as a holding company for his media interests after he acquired control of The Daily Telegraph in 1986. It was the parent company of Chicago-based Hollinger International, whose...
group, a company then headed by then-Canadian media baron Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...
. Within three months, the staffs at each newspaper had been cut by one-quarter, these cuts becoming a cause célèbre in Canadian journalism.
Black's company subsequently divested itself of the Leader-Post together with most other Canadian news media it had owned, in conjunction with Black's renunciation of his Canadian citizenship in order to obtain an English peerage.