Montreal Mirror

{{Short description|Former English weekly newspaper in Montreal}}

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| name = Montreal Mirror

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| image = MontrealMirrorCover.jpg

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| caption = The cover of the final edition (June 21, 2012) of the Montreal Mirror

| type = Alternative Newsweekly

| format = Tabloid

| owners = Quebecor Media

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| publisher = Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée

| editor = Alastair Sutherland

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| foundation = {{start date and age|1985|6|20}}

| political = Centre-left

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| ceased publication = {{end date and age|2012|6|22}}

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| headquarters = 465 McGill Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 300, Montreal, Quebec

| circulation = 70,000

| sister newspapers = ici

| ISSN = 0833-8086

| oclc = 15997017

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/*/montrealmirror.com MontrealMirror.com] (via the Internet Archive)

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Montreal Mirror or just Mirror was a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada which was distributed every Thursday.{{cite web |url=http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/viewCompany?oid=oid:55 |title=Montreal Mirror {{!}} Association of Alternative Newsweeklies |website=Association of Alternative Newsmedia |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607130559/http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/viewCompany?oid=oid:55 |archivedate=7 June 2007}}{{cite book |author1=Arabella Bowen|author2=John Shandy Watson|title=The Rough Guide to Montréal|url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetomont0000wats |url-access=registration|access-date=June 2, 2011|date=March 1, 2004|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-195-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetomont0000wats/page/36 36]–}} It had a circulation of 70,000 and reached a quarter of a million readers per week.

First published on June 20, 1985, the publication became a weekly in September 1989. It was bought by media giant Quebecor in 1997. It was published by Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée.{{cite web |url=http://www.montrealmirror.com/wp/contact/ |title=Contact |work=Montreal Mirror |publisher=Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée |access-date=November 26, 2010}}

On June 22, 2012, Sun Media (the division of Quebecor that the Mirror belonged to) announced that the paper would be ceasing publication effective immediately.{{cite web |url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/montreal-mirror-to-end-publication-tsx-qbr.a-1672679.htm |title=Montreal Mirror to End Publication |date=June 22, 2012 |website=Marketwire |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625064319/http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/montreal-mirror-to-end-publication-tsx-qbr.a-1672679.htm |archivedate=25 June 2012}}