ECA Review to close after 114 years

Former AWNA and CCNA publisher Joyce Webster has made the painful decision to close the ECA (formerly Coronation) Review, a newspaper she has been with for 45 years and published for the last 40 of them.  The last issue will hit the press on March 27th.

“Sadly newspapers are no longer the preferred media of choice so there is not enough revenue to hire the staff needed to cover the news.  If it wasn’t for the federal government LJI program for the last five years, we would not have been able to cover all the civic councils in communities that did not have newspaper coverage,” Joyce shared with her readers in the March 4th edition.

Among the killing blows for the Review were Canada Post’s decision in 2024 to not permit “advertising flyers” into her total market coverage newspaper, effectively removing $24,000 annually from the Review’s bottom line, and the federal government’s switch to social media advertising 12 years ago.

Joyce gave credit to the many local businesses and smaller municipalities that helped keep her afloat for many years.