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Community Newspaper Associations
 
Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association
www.awna.com
The Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association is part of a Canada-wide network through the CCNA along with other provincial association. The mission of the AWNA is to encourage, assist and ensure our members publish high quality community newspapers. The Association achieves this by providing education, marketing and fellowship.
 
Atlantic Community Newspaper Association
www.acna.com
The Atlantic Community Newspapers Association was founded in 1972 and is part of a Canada-wide network through the Canadian Community Newspapers Association along with six other provincial associations representing over 700 newspapers. There are over 50 member newspapers covering the four Atlantic Provinces with a combined audited circulation of over 300,000 and ACNA gives you the opportunity to reach all of them, with just one phone call!
 
British Columbia & Yukon Community Newspapers Association
www.bccommunitynews.com
The BCYCNA is a non-profit membership organization representing community newspapers throughout British Columbia and the Yukon.  It has existed as an organization since 1922, and today boasts a membership of 99 newspapers, with a combined readership of 2.3 million. The smallest newspaper circulates a little more than 1000 copies each week, and the largest, more than 100,000.
 
Canadian Community Newspapers Association
www.communitynews.ca
The Canadian Community Newspapers Association is the national voice of the community press in Canada. A federation of seven regional newspaper associations, CCNA was founded in 1919 as the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association (CWNA). The creation of the CWNA was an expansion of the role weekly newspapers had in forming the Canadian Press Association, which received its charter in 1859. Organization of separate associations to govern the affairs of the daily, weekly, and magazine publishing industries was seen as a more efficient means to serve each segment of the print industry.
 
Hebdos Quebec
www.hebdos.com
Hebdos Quebec represents over 140 French-language weekly newspapers.
 
Manitoba Community Newspapers Association
www.mcna.com
Manitoba Community Newpapers Association can help you build successful advertising campaigns by providing one-stop, cost effective access to community newspapers throughout Manitoba.
 
Ontario Community Newspapers Association
www.ocna.org
Founded in 1950, with offices in Burlington and Toronto, the Ontario Community Newspapers Association is a non-profit industry association comprising about 265 member newspapers located throughout the province. The association also offers services to help the public do business with community newspapers, while benefiting our members at the same time.
 
Quebec Community Newspaper Association
www.qcna.org
The Quebec Community Newspapers Association is an English-language organization dedicated to the professional and economic development of English community newspapers and other community media serving minority communities in Quebec.
 
Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association
www.swna.com
The Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association is a group of community newspapers working for the mutual benefit of its members.
 
Other Industry Links
 
Advertising Standards Canada
www.adstandards.com
Created by the advertising industry in 1957, Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) was founded on the belief that advertising self-regulation best serves the interests of the industry and the public. This principle has continued to guide ASC?s work and activities for close to 50 years.
 
ComBase
www.combase.ca
ComBase is North America?s largest media study, measuring newspapers of all types in more than 400 Canadian Markets. It offers unparalleled opportunities to analyze cities, towns and villages that have been a mystery to media and advertising planners for years.
 
Interactive Market Systems
www.imscan.com
Interactive Market Systems (IMS) Canada is an official supplier for ComBase data access. IMS serves more than 1,200 advertising agencies, advertisers, publishers, broadcasters and researchers. Eighty-five percent of the top fifty agencies and seventy-five percent of the top fifty publishers choose IMS for integrated data and software solutions. In Canada IMS is a licensed supplier of data from ComBase, PMB, NADbank, BBM, Goldfarb and others.
 
Telmar-Harris Systems
www.ca.telmar.com
Telmar is a leading supplier of information services and software solutions serving the needs of advertising media planners, buyers and sellers worldwide. Telmar is also an official supplier for ComBase data access.