Battle Of The Dailies
Within the last few weeks or so Calgary has become home to three new daily papers: Metro, Rush Hour, and 24 Hours. 24 Hours and Rush Hour came out within days of each other and are part of CanWest and Sunmedia respectively. Frankly, they feel like supplements rather than standalone papers. Shame on CanWest for giving us Rush Hour rather than resurrecting the vastly superior Dose.
Metro’s arrival signals to the rest of the country that we are now world class as it bills itself as the "largest daily newspaper in the world with 70 editions in 21 countries". Good for us, I guess. Of the three, I like it the best - though now because my commute is only a ten minute walk as opposed to an hour-long bus ride, I only read it fleetingly. If I was a betting man I’d say that it will be the survivor of the three were the rest to go tits up
Iain Ilich of the Edmonton Journal has a better take on the arrival of 24 Hours and Rush Hour than me.