• by Ray Schultz , January 1, 2024

Le Soleil, a newspaper based in Quebec City, has published its last print edition and is now going entirely digital. 

The closure is part of a trend affecting newspapers in Quebec and everywhere. 

Le Soleil, founded in 1896, has been planning this move since 2019, when it became a cooperative, CBC reports. In 2020, it started publishing in print on Saturdays only. 

"It's only a chapter that is closing and it's the beginning of a new one which is exciting," says Marc Gendron, according to CBC.

"There's a little mixed feelings but I guess it's a good decision we have to make just to survive as media in our world," adds Valérie Gaudreau, the former editor-in-chief for Le Soleil. 

Gaudreau, now a columnist, notes that it was getting tougher financially to publish even once a week, CBC continues. And younger readers weren’t reading the print paper.