The first edition of the Evening Star appeared on the streets of Toronto on November 3, 1892. The four-page edition was published by 21 locked-out printers at the Toronto News, and sold for a penny. Readers, former and current staff and long-time publisher and Torstar board chairman, John Honderich, shared their thoughts on 12 decades of publishing in a special 16-page supplement.

After testing pay walls in four of its major daily markets, Postmedia Network Inc.

The Toronto Star has also announced plans to put its content behind metered pay walls in 2013. Under the plan, most print subscribers to the Toronto Star will receive free full access to thestar.com’s content.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev took over the editor's seat at the Winnipeg Free Press this week. In town to speak at We Day Manitoba, the Nobel Peace Prize winner shared his global perspective with readers in Tuesday's paper via an exclusive column and set editorial priorities for Free Press newsroom staff working on the special edition.

The Cobden Sun, one of the oldest weekly newspapers in the Ottawa Valley has been rebranded as The Pulse. Under publisher/owner Howard Winters and editor Debbie Robinson, the 117-year old paper has extended coverage from its home base of Whitewater in Renfrew County, to include Eaganville, Petawawa, Pembroke, and Laurentian Valley.

In B.C., The Free Press is broadening its circulation area to include the Crowsnest Pass region. The 115-year-old community newspaper based in Fernie now distributes over 7,000 weekly papers in the Elk Valley, South Country and Crowsnest regions. The Free Press was recently recognized as the Best Community Newspaper of the Year (General Excellence) by the British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspaper Association (BCYCNA).

National Post has announced some editorial changes for the print sections of the daily newspaper. As of Tuesday, October 16, the Sports section has been combined with the Arts & Life section and in the in the Toronto edition, Post Toronto and Weekend Post will merge.

In the Financial Post section, there will be a reduction in the amount of daily stock market coverage and financial listings.

In British Columbia, two community newspapers have entered into a partnership agreement to reduce operating costs. Under their new joint operating agreement, The Columbia Valley Pioneer and The Invermere Valley Echo will work together to share overhead costs—such as administration and accounting—while maintaining entirely separate and distinct editorial content.

The National Post will be introducing a new online channel focused on news coverage from the Middle East. Published in the World section of www.nationalpost.com, the Israel and the Middle East channel will feature news, video and photographic coverage provided by American non-profit news agency The Media Line (TML). Select stories will also be published in the print edition of the newspaper.

In a note to Montreal Gazette readers, pu