Winnipeg Free Press Newspaper Canada is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Founded in 1872, as the Manitoba Free Press, it is the oldest newspaper in western Canada. It is the newspaper with the largest readership in the province.
Newspapers are distributed to an average of 125,000 readers seven days a week, including over 162,000 on Saturday.
The Free Press is regarded as the newspaper of record for Winnipeg and Manitoba. It also provides coverage of national, international, sports, business, and entertainment news. Various consumer-oriented features such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis. The newspaper’s main competition is the Winnipeg Sun, a print daily newspaper.
The newspaper’s existence began only two years after Manitoba’s joining of Confederation in 1870, and predated Winnipeg’s incorporation in 1873