Montreal to say good-bye to free weekly paper ‘Hour’

MONTREAL – Montreal alternative weekly Hour Community is being shut down, its editor confirmed Wednesday night. Its last issue comes out Thursday.

The 18-year-old publication, originally called Hour, was renamed in April 2011 after a staff purge that left the paper much thinner than its competitor, the Mirror, with only a handful of articles a week.

“We gave it our all,” editor Kevin Laforest posted on Twitter late Wednesday. “I guess there’s just no room for two anglo weeklies in Montreal.”

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Laforest said he was told of the shutdown late Wednesday afternoon.

Also being cut by owner Communications Voir is the Saguenay/Alma edition of French alt-weekly Voir. The French paper also has editions in Montreal, Quebec City, Gatineau, the Mauricie and the Eastern Townships.

Communications Voir could not be immediately reached for comment.