Canstar Community Newspapers

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Canstar Community Newspapers is a newspaper company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It owns and operates seven community newspapers in the Winnipeg area. Five of those newspapers, The Lance, The Metro, The Herald, The Headliner and The Times started as local area papers as early as 1917. Over the course of years, they became part of the Transcontinental Media newspaper company. In 2004, Canstar was sold to FP Canadian Newspapers, owners of the Winnipeg Free Press. Included in the deal were local community newspapers in Brandon and Thunder Bay.

The remaining two newspapers, Uptown Magazine and The Prime Times, were purchased from Rosebud Communications in 2005.

In 2007, the newspapers' website, won a national award, First Place, for Best Website in Class, from the Canadian Community Newspaper Association (CCNA).

In March of 2007, the employees of Canstar Community News had a vote to determine union membership in the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. The results of the vote have not been released.

Each of the local papers has a news reporter assigned to it. Total staff of Canstar is around 40 people. Circulation in 2004 was 169,000 copies weekly.