About www.LifeNews.ca
LifeNews.ca is Ontario’s fastest growing online announcements and life milestones Web site, housing content across various categories, including obituaries, memorials, anniversaries, births, weddings and much more. The goal of LifeNews is to make it easy for users to post, distribute and cherish their special and most memorable moments, with friends and family from around the world. LifeNews.ca also supports multi-media and guest book options for all online announcements.
LifeNews.ca is a Metroland Media Group property and supports all of Metroland’s daily and community newspapers and is their announcement and life milestone Web site solution.
On www.LifeNews.ca you can:
- Search various life milestones categories
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- Obituaries
- Anniversaries
- Births
- Weddings
- Engagements
- Graduations
- Thank you notices
- Announcements
- Find content from across Ontario
- View featured archive content
- Share announcements on Facebook
- Sign guest books on announcements
- Send and share announcements using various syndication services
About Metroland Media Group
We are a Dynamic Media Company delivering vital business and community information to millions of readers across Ontario each week. With 97 newspapers, countless advertising venues, numerous distribution networks, and the Internet and web publishing, no target is unreachable. Over the years, Metroland has received hundreds of local, provincial, national and international awards. In 2008, former Metroland President Murray Skinner was presented with the prestigious Dean S. Lesher Award from the Suburban Newspapers of America.
Metroland, Ontario's largest and most successful community newspaper publisher provides local news and advertising media/info in Canada's heartland. We currently publish 97 community newspapers with a total of 143 editions that are concentrated in southern Ontario and centered around Toronto.
As of February 2009, the combined distribution of the community newspapers published by Metroland was approximately 4.75 million copies per week.
Metroland also publishes a number of specialty products which focus on a particular market segment. Forever Young, City Parent, The Shopping News, ten regional editions of The Business Times, eye and Real Estate News are all published by Metroland. The company produces and manages many consumer shows including the Toronto Golf & Travel Show, the National Bridal Shows, the Fifty Plus Lifestyles & Travel Show and The Family Show.
Metroland prints most of its own newspapers on company-owned presses housed in seven different printing locations. Metroland is also a large commercial printer for other publications.
Metroland is one of the most sophisticated distributors of flyers and circulars in Canada. Flyers are distributed to households in advertiser-defined areas, primarily using Metroland's newspapers. Flyers are also delivered in bags and hung on apartment doors in communities with a high concentration of apartment buildings.
Metroland's flyer distribution volumes continue to grow to over 2.2 billion pieces. Distribution volumes have grown every year for 20 consecutive years.
Metroland is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation.
Torstar Corporation is a broadly based media company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TS.B). Its businesses include the Star Media Group led by the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper, and digital properties including thestar.com, toronto.com, Workopolis and Olive Canada Network; Metroland Media Group, publishers of community and daily newspapers in Ontario; and Harlequin Enterprises, a leading global publisher of women’s fiction.