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The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of 2,018,923 in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the Toronto Star in overall weekly circulation because the Star publishes a Sunday edition while the Globe does not. The Globe and Mail is widely described as Canada's English language newspaper of record. The newspaper is owned by The Woodbridge Company, based in Toronto.

The predecessor to The Globe and Mail was called The Globe; it was founded in 1844 by Scottish immigrant George Brown, who became a Father of Confederation. Brown's liberal politics led him to court the support of the Clear Grits, a precursor to the modern Liberal Party of Canada. The Globe began in Toronto as a weekly party organ for Brown's Reform Party, but seeing the economic gains that he could make in the newspaper business, Brown soon targeted a wide audience of liberal minded freeholders. He selected as the motto for the editorial page a quotation from Junius, "The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures." The quotation is carried on the editorial page to this day.

By the 1850s, The Globe had become an independent and well-regarded daily newspaper. It began distribution by railway to other cities in Ontario shortly after Confederation. At the dawn of the twentieth century, The Globe added photography, a women's section, and the slogan "Canada's National Newspaper", which remains on its front-page banner. It began opening bureaus and offering subscriptions across Canada.

On 23 November 1936, The Globe merged with The Mail and Empire, itself formed through the 1895 merger of two conservative newspapers, The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire. (The Empire had been founded in 1887 by a rival of Brown's, Tory politician and then-Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.) Press reports at the time stated, "the minnow swallowed the whale" because The Globe's circulation (at 78,000) was smaller than The Mail and Empire's (118,000).

The merger was arranged by George McCullagh, who fronted for mining magnate William Henry Wright and became the first publisher of The Globe and Mail. McCullagh committed suicide in 1952, and the newspaper was sold to the Webster family of Montreal. As the paper lost ground to The Toronto Star in the local Toronto market, it began to expand its national circulation.

The newspaper was unionised in 1955, under the banner of the American Newspaper Guild.

From 1937 until 1974, the newspaper was produced at the William H. Wright Building which was located at then 140 King Street West on the northeast corner of King Street and York Street, close to the homes of the Toronto Daily Star at Old Toronto Star Building at 80 King West and the Old Toronto Telegram Building at Bay and Melinda. The building at 130 King Street West was demolished in 1974 to make way for First Canadian Place, and the newspaper moved to 444 Front Street West, which had been the headquarters of the Toronto Telegram newspaper, built in 1963.

In 1965, the paper was bought by Winnipeg-based FP Publications, controlled by Bryan Maheswary, which owned a chain of local Canadian newspapers. FP put a strong emphasis on the Report on Business section that was launched in 1962, thereby building the paper's reputation as the voice of Toronto's business community. FP Publications and The Globe and Mail were sold in 1980 to The Thomson Corporation, a company run by the family of Kenneth Thomson. After the acquisition, there were few changes made in editorial or news policy. However, there was more attention paid to national and international news on the editorial, op-ed, and front pages in contrast to its previous policy of stressing Toronto and Ontario material.

The Globe and Mail has always been a morning newspaper. Since the 1980s, it has been printed in separate editions in six Canadian cities: Halifax, Montreal, Toronto (several editions), Winnipeg (actually printed in Brandon, Manitoba), Calgary and Vancouver.

Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild (SONG) employees took their first-ever strike vote at The Globe in 1982, also marking a new era in relations with the company. Those negotiations ended without a strike, and the Globe unit of SONG still has a strike-free record. SONG members voted in 1994 to sever ties with the American-focused Newspaper Guild. Shortly afterwards, SONG affiliated with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP).

Under the editorship of William Thorsell in the 1980s and 1990s, the paper strongly endorsed the free trade policies of Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The paper also became an outspoken proponent of the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord, with their editorial the day of the 1995 Quebec Referendum mostly quoting a Mulroney speech in favour of the Accord. During this period, the paper continued to favour such socially liberal policies as decriminalizing drugs (including cocaine, whose legalization was advocated most recently in a 1995 editorial) and expanding gay rights.

In 1995, the paper launched its website, globeandmail.com; on 9 June 2000, the site began covering breaking news with its own content and journalists in addition to the content of the print newspaper.

Since the launch of the National Post as another English-language national paper in 1998, some industry analysts had proclaimed a "national newspaper war" between The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Partly as a response to this threat, in 2001, The Globe and Mail was combined with broadcast assets held by Bell Canada to form the joint venture Bell Globemedia.

In 2004, access to some features of globeandmail.com became restricted to paid subscribers only. The subscription service was reduced a few years later to include an electronic edition of the newspaper, access to its archives, and membership to a premium investment site.

On April 23, 2007, the paper introduced significant changes to its print design and also introduced a new unified navigation system to its websites.

At the end of 2010, the Thomson family, through its holding company Woodbridge, re-acquired direct control of The Globe and Mail with an 85-percent stake, through a complicated transaction involving most of the Ontario-based mediasphere. BCE continued to hold 15 percent, and would eventually own all of television broadcaster CTVglobemedia.

On October 1, 2010, The Globe and Mail unveiled redesigns to both its paper and online formats, dubbed "the most significant redesign in The Globe's history" by Editor-in-Chief John Stackhouse. The paper version has a bolder, more visual presentation that features 100% full-colour pages, more graphics and slightly glossy paper stock (with the use of state-of-the-art heat-set printing presses).

Although the paper is sold throughout Canada and has long called itself "Canada's National Newspaper", The Globe and Mail also serves as a Toronto metropolitan paper, publishing several special sections in its Toronto edition that are not included in the national edition. As a result, it is sometimes ridiculed for being too focused on the Greater Toronto Area, part of a wider humorous portrayal of Torontonians being blind to the greater concerns of the nation. Critics sometimes refer to the paper as the "Toronto Globe and Mail" or "Toronto's National Newspaper". In an effort to gain market share in Vancouver, The Globe and Mail began publishing a distinct west-coast edition, edited independently in Vancouver, containing a three-page section of British Columbia news, and during the 2010 Winter Olympics, which were staged in Vancouver, The Globe and Mail published a Sunday edition, marking the first time that the paper had ever published on Sunday.

The Globe and Mail maintains fully-staffed bureaus in Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, and foreign bureaus in Berlin, Brussels, Beijing, London, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Moscow, New York, Rome and Washington.

Report on Business, commonly referred to as simply ROB, is the financial section of the newspaper. It is the most lengthy completion of economic news in Canada, and is considered an integral part of the newspaper. Standard Report on Business sections are typically fifteen to twenty pages, and include the listings of major Canadian, US, and international stocks, bonds, and currencies.

Every Saturday, a special Report on Business Weekend is released, which includes features on corporate lifestyle and personal finance, as well as extended coverage of business news. On the last Friday of every month, the Report on Business Magazine is released, the largest Canadian finance-oriented magazine.

Weekday Lineup
Monday
SECTION A:
Column One
Morning Smile
Amazing Facts
National News:
The Power Game column
National Report – briefs
Toronto News - Metro Edition only
Editorials
The Foreign Desk
Letters to the Editor
Commentary page:
The Provinces – column
Between Polls – cartoon
International News
World Report – briefs
The Globe Abroad
From the Archives
Your Daily Horoscope
Lives Lived page
Facts & Arguments page:
Essay
Wax & Wane
Social Studies
Fifth column

REPORT ON BUSINESS:
Smart Numbers
The Week Ahead
News Bulletins
Worldview
Business West
Alex cartoon
Investment News
Canadian Business
International Business
Wall Street Journal pages
Meeting Dates
Meetings This Week
Interest Rates
Convertible Debentures
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Canadian Bonds
Foreign Exchange
Statistical trends
Weather page

MANAGING:
Benchmarks: Workplace Health
Employment Law column
Marketing column
Dilbert cartoon
ROB Careers advertising

SPORTS:
Weekend Wrapup
Statistics
World Report
Cycling, Horse Racing, Boxing, Badminton, Auto Racing, etc.
LPGA column

ARTS & LEISURE:
Arts Argument
Cheap Seats
Television
Magazines – column
Various reviews

MARKETPLACE:
Classified Advertising
Comics
Bridge
Crossword
Cars & Toys page

Tuesday
SECTION A:
Column One
Morning Smile
Amazing Facts
National News
National Report – briefs
Toronto News – Metro Edition only:
Editorials
Letters to the Editor
Commentary page:
Between Polls cartoon
International News
World Report – briefs
The Globe Abroad
From the Archives
Your Daily Horoscope
Lives Lived page
Facts & Arguments page:
Essay
Wax & Wane
Social Studies
Fifth column

REPORT ON BUSINESS:
Alex cartoon
Business West
Another Perspective
News Bulletins
Canadian Business
International Business
The Wall Street Journal page
The Property Report
Investment News – briefs
Money & Markets:
Personal Finance – column
Market Report
Stocks Tables
Yesterday’s Markets
Market Movers
All the Markets
Weather page

MANAGING:
Benchmarks: Alliances
On the Job column
Business Reading
Managing Books – a review
Dilbert cartoon
Management briefs
ROB Careers advertising

SPORTS:
Various columns
Sports in Brief
Statistics page

ARTS & LEISURE:
Television
The Globe and Mail Personals
Various reviews
Comics
Health

MARKETPLACE:
Classified Advertising
Bridge
Crossword

Wednesday
SECTION A:
Column One
Morning Smile
National News
The Power Game column
National Report – briefs
Toronto News – Metro Edition only
Editorials
The Foreign Desk
Letters to the Editor
Commentary page:
International Affairs column
Letters to the Editor
The Provinces
Between Polls cartoon
International News
World Report – briefs
The Globe Abroad
From the Archives
Your Daily Horoscope
Lives Lived page
Facts and Arguments page:
Essay
Wax & Wane
Social Studies
Fifth Column

REPORT ON BUSINESS:
The Markets – summary
Alex cartoon
News Bulletins
Worldview
Canadian Business
International Business
The Wall Street Journal page
Money & Markets:
Streetwise column
On The Grid
Stocks tables
Market Movers
Yesterday’s Markets
Market summaries
Weather page

MANAGING:
Benchmarks: Marketing
Dilbert cartoon
ROB Careers advertising

SPORTS:
Various columns
Truth & Rumours – a different take on world of sports
Statistics

MARKETPLACE:
Classified advertising

ARTS & LEISURE:
Lunch with… column
Television
Food & Drink
Bridge
Crossword
Comics
Travel

Thursday:
SECTION A
Column One
Morning Smile
National News
National Report – briefs
Toronto News – Metro Edition only
Editorials
Letter to the Editor
Commentary page:
The Provinces
Quebecois Voices
Between Polls cartoon
International News
World Report – briefs
The Globe Abroad
From the Archives
Your Daily Horoscope
Lives Lived page
Science & Nature
Facts & Arguments page:
Essay
Wax & Wane
Social Studies
Fifth Column

REPORT ON BUSINESS:
The Markets – summary
Alex cartoon
News Bulletins
Business West
Worldview
Canadian Business
International Business
Wall Street Journal page
Money & Markets:
Personal Finance column
Market Report
Yesterday’s Markets
Streetwise
Stocks tables
Market Movers
Market summaries
Weather page

MANAGING:
Benchmarks
Dilbert cartoon
ROB Careers advertising

SPORTS:
Various columns
Truth & Rumours – a different take on world of sports
Statistics
Sports in Brief

ARTS & LEISURE:
Media column
Various reviews
Arts Ink
Private Lives
Fashion & Design

MARKETPLACE:
Classified advertising
Bridge
Crossword
Comics

Friday
SECTION A:
Column One
Morning Smile
National News
The Power Game column
National Report – briefs
Toronto News – Metro Edition only
Editorials
Letters to the Editor
Commentary page:
Western Voices
The Provinces
Between Polls cartoon
International News
World Report – briefs
The Globe Abroad
From the Archives
Your Daily Horoscope
Lives Lived page
Facts & Argument page:
Essay
Wax & Wane
Social Studies
Fifth Column

REPORT ON BUSINESS:
The Markets – summary
Alex cartoon
News Bulletins
Worldview
Canadian Business
International Business
Dilbert
Wall Street Journal page
Money & Markets:
Market Watch column
Market report
Yesterday’s Markets
Streetwise
Stocks tables
Market Movers
Market Summaries
Weather page

MANAGING:
Consumer Marketing – column
Buzz – "business gossip"
Dilbert cartoon
ROB Careers advertising

SPORTS:
Truth & Rumours – a different take on world of sports
Statistics
Sports in Brief

ARTS & FILM:
The Moviegoer – column
Film reviews
Out on Video
Television – column
Entertainment – column – Metro Edition only
Arts Ink
Living page:
The goods column

MARKETPLACE:
Classified advertising
Home Base – about residential real estate
Bridge
Crossword
Comics

Saturday
SECTION A:
News for weekend reading.

National Report
National Notebook
Who's hot, Who's not on Parliament Hill
Toronto News in the Metro Edition only
International News
World Report
The Globe Abroad

REPORT ON BUSINESS:
Business behind the headlines and inside the deals. A comprehensive wrap-up of the week in the markets -- including TSE trading and trends in a graphic format investors can easily scan and use.

Net Worth
Money & Markets
Personal Finance

ARTS & LEISURE:
More for your entertainment, cultural and leisure pursuits.

News & Reviews:
Arts Ink
Television & Film, Culture, Theatre, Visual Arts, Pop, Classical Music, Architecture
National Personals
Current directions in home technology -- on the Home Page
The List (Metro Edition only):
Theatre & Dance
Music
Art & Design
Events
Revel With A Cause
Talks
Home and Garden
Literary
Film

FOCUS:
Our weekly package of insight and intelligence you won't read elsewhere.

The West
Inside Quebec
Drawing Conclusions (editorial cartoons from other newspapers)
World View
Editor-in-chief's observation and opinion
Semi-detached
Gardening, Wine, Cooking, On the menu
Person, Place, Thing
The Globe Challenge

BOOKS:
Canada's best and brightest reviewers assess the hottest new fiction and non-fiction.

Specialty books for specialty tastes
Canada's only authoritative National Bestseller List

SPORTS:
Our regular cast of all-star reporters, and more.

Seen & Heard: The world of television and radio sports

TRAVEL:
Helping you make the most of your travel time and budget -- with more travel writers' and photographers' first-hand accounts of destinations near and far.

MARKETPLACE:
Your listing for employment, autos, merchandise, real estate, recreation, rentals, and more.

Cryptic Crossword
The Saturday Crossword
Your Weekend Horoscopes
A collection of comics
Chess
Bridge
Birds
The Globe and Mail Personals

BROADCAST WEEK (Toronto area only):
Your weekly, insightful TV guide.

Shop Talk
Critical List
On the Lookout
A Loving Look
Broadcast Week Crossword