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Student Press in Canada

See also: List of student newspapers in Canada

Many student newspapers in Canada are independent from their universities and student unions. Such autonomous papers are funded by student fees won by referendums, as well as advertising, and are run by their staffs, with no faculty input.

About 70 of Canada's student newspapers belong to a co-operative and newswire service called the, which holds conferences, has correspondents across the country, is run democratically by its member papers, and fosters a sense of community among Canadian student journalists.

Well-known Canadian student newspapers include The Cord Weekly (Wilfrid Laurier University), ""The Prince Arthur Herald"" (National), Imprint (University of Waterloo), The Martlet, The Ubyssey and The Peak in British Columbia; The Gateway in Alberta; The Sheaf in Saskatchewan; The Manitoban in Manitoba; The Charlatan, The Fulcrum, The Varsity(University of Toronto), The Eyeopener (Ryerson University), Arthur (Trent University), The Gazette (the University of Western Ontario) and the Excalibur (York University) in Ontario; The Link, The Concordian (Concordia University, Montreal), The McGill Daily, The Campus (Bishop's University) and McGill Tribune in Quebec; in New Brunswick; The Dalhousie Gazette in Nova Scotia, The Muse in Newfoundland and Labrador, and The Queen's Journal (Queen's University).

The oldest, continually published student newspapers in Canada are The Varsity (1880), The Queen's Journal (1873), and The Dalhousie Gazette (1868).

The oldest student publication in Canada is The Brunswickan which was founded in 1867 as a monthly but then switched to a weekly newspaper. Other student newspapers in the Canadian University Press try to discredit this. However all copies of The Brunswickan can be found in the University of New Brunswick Harriet Irving Library microform collection.

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