Edmonton alt-paper Vue Weekly ends its run

The familiar yellow boxes on Edmonton streets will soon sit empty as arts and politics newspaper VUE Weekly calls it quits at the end of the month.
The free weekly, which just printed its 1,200th issue in October, has been a mainstay in Edmonton since 1995.
The ongoing struggle to secure advertising is being blamed. “We decided that we would cease publication now, rather than face another year of diminishing resources,” VUE’s president Robert Doull in a statement.
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