The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a national English-language Canadian newspaper. It is headquartered in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly circulation of two million copies, it is Canada's second- largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star. The leaf is a division of CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc., the parent company CTVglobemedia is owned by the largest private Canadian television CTV.

History

The prequel to The Globe and Mail was the newspaper was founded in Toronto by Scottish immigrant George Brown 1844 The Globe. Brown supported the Clear Grits, from which later emerged the Liberal Party of Canada. The Globe was the first weekly party organ of Brown's Reform Party, then moved but soon the liberal electorate with one and was transformed in the 1850s into an independent and respected daily newspaper.

1936 the newspaper had a circulation of 78,000 and merged this year with The Mail and Empire (circulation: 118,000 ), which in 1895 was in turn created by the merger of The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire. The former was founded in 1872 by Brown's rival, the conservative politician John Macdonald, who later became the first Prime Minister of Canada was. 1952 The Globe and Mail was sold to the Webster family of Montreal. When the newspaper was back in its home market behind the Toronto Star Toronto, she began with the expansion over the country.

In 1965, the newspaper of FP Publications was acquired from Winnipeg, controlled numerous local newspapers across Canada. 1980 came FP Publications and therefore The Globe and Mail in the possession of controlled by Kenneth Thomson Thomson Group. Since then, the newspaper is printed in six different cities: Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver. The Thomson Group sold the newspaper in 2001 to the Group CTVglobemedia where the Thomsons are involved as minority shareholders.

Cartoons controversy

As early 2008, The Globe and Mail a cartoon with an African Canadian teacher in front of a blackboard with math equations and then thrown slang phrase " S'up dog" showed under the heading Afrocentric Algebra, wrote the South African-born and lecturing in Canada writer Rozena Maart a strongly worded letter to the editor of the newspaper. In it she stated that the origins of mathematics would now lie once in Egypt, which is known to myself belong to Africa, which is actually already kill the hanger of the cartoon. By the cartoon to Operating the Euro -centric clichés, they reveal a downright racism. Due to the generally well regarded, the Maart got it, the publisher had to apologize. A racist intent did not exist and the unwarranted impression was simply arise from the simplistic representation, moreover they have promoted the works of authors afrokanadischer just recently.