By way of example, Canada's two national papers recorded slight gains in weekday readership in 2007, according to Newspaper Audience Databank Inc. The Globe and Mail's weekday readership increased 3.9% last year, to 911,600, while Saturday editions averaged 1.03 million readers, up slightly. And the National Post had a 2% increase on weekdays, to almost 540,000. Meanwhile, free newspapers continued to grow with Metro now reaching 950,000 readers in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
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