24 Hours

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24 hours
24 Hours Volume 1, Issue 11 - March 2005
Type	daily
Format	glossy

Owner	Jim Pattison Group
Publisher	Sun Media
Founded
Language	English and French
Headquarters
ISSN	1711-7976

Website: 24hrs.ca

24 hours is the name of a free daily newspaper published by Sun Media, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media. Five different English editions are published in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, and Edmonton, and two French versions are published in in Montreal and Gatineau, as 24 heures.

On November 14, 2006, 24 hours launched two new editions in the Ottawa Valley area -- an English edition published in Ottawa, and a French edition published in Gatineau.

The Vancouver edition of 24 hours is a joint venture of Sun Media and the Jim Pattison Group.

24 hours is published 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) in a 460 mm × 282 mm compact format that is smaller than a tabloid (about 58% the size of a tabloid.) Because its target readers are commuters heading to work, it is not published on weekends or statutory holidays.

Exact copies of each edition is also available on the official web site in PDF format. In addition, selected articles are also available in browsable HTML form. The paper's name is often spelled "24 Hours" but is actually spelled "24 hours" with a lower-case h.

The paper averages about 32 pages in an issue, slightly less than half being news and relies heavily upon wire services such as Reuters, the Canadian Press and the Associated Press. The rest of the pages cover lifestyle, travel, entertainment, and sports, etc.

24 hours' competition is the free paper Metro. P.J. Harston was the founding editor-in-chief of both 24 hours and Metro.