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website was relaunched as a blog, with the initial post indicating that the site would "canvas the country and present you with a unique and intriguing perspective on our national life in politics and power, sex and crime, entertainment and culture, arts and literature, style and design." However,
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in 1987. The magazine lost money for Black for the years he owned it, never recovering even in the late 1990s when many other Canadian magazines saw their fortunes improve. The last standalone monthly issue was March 2000 (Vol 115 No 2, Issue #3819) under editor
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was the magazine's editor from 1968 to 1987. Under his editorial guidance, the magazine enjoyed critical success and expanded its arts and literary coverage and was also an important source of long-form political reportage, much of it by
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went through a number of owners, formats, and frequencies of publication. Its content went through periods where it would focus more on news, and at other times a greater focus on feature columns. In 1949, Its format size was reduced from
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in Toronto prevented publication on Sunday. So, in its first years, the paper was restricted to being a weekly publication, published on Saturdays, hence the name. It had a circulation of 10,000. In 1925 the magazine sold 30,858 copies.
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The title was saved, however, when it was purchased by MultiVision Publishing and re-emerged under editor Matthew Church as a bimonthly (and later 10 times-a-year) newsstand magazine (with some copies inserted in subscription
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On October 20, 2005, the company announced that publication would be "suspended" due to insufficient advertiser support. The editor at the time of suspension was Gary Ross, who had been editor since 2004.
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publication in 1954. Under Cooke, the magazine "lost its character and pre-eminence" as a cultural magazine, with Cooke attempting to change it into a
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became the magazine's publisher after he purchased its owner, Consolidated Press, and it entered a period of decline, and switched from weekly to
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was revived in 1963 by Edinborough who purchased the magazine with $ 100,000 of his own money and some funding from the family of
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editor-in-chief Arnold Edinborough and six other members of the editorial board resigned in protest Bishop's renamed magazine,
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after several posts made that day, the blog appeared to be abandoned and was not updated in the months following launch.
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about public affairs and the arts, and was later expanded into a general interest magazine. The editor,
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in 1887 and was Canada's oldest general interest magazine. The magazine ceased publication in 2005.
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French, William (October 8, 1974). "Saturday Night runs out of miracles, a victim of economics".
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Arnold Edinborough, (1963–1968), also served as owner and publisher (1963–1970)
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After a hiatus of two months it was relaunched as a weekend magazine insert within Black's
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s) beginning in April 2002 as Vol 117, No 1, Issue #3886. Later purchased by
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This article is about the Canadian magazine. For the U.S. magazine, see
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Arthur Lowe (1962–1963), editor-in-chief of the merged
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Edmund E. Sheppard (1887–1906), also owner and publisher
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also featured short stories and poetry and gave poet
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Saturday Night Magazine (U.S.)

Canada
ISSN
0036-4975
magazine
Toronto
Ontario
broadsheet
newspaper
Edmund E. Sheppard
libel
Louis Riel
Lord's Day Act
broadsheet
Jack Kent Cooke
fortnightly
newsmagazine
TIME
Alberta Social Credit League
Robertson Davies
Robert Fulford
Christina McCall
Murray Frum
Imperial Oil
Norman Webster
Globe and Mail
Dennis Lee
Margaret Atwood
Robertson Davies

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