An article on the Nieman Foundation's website looks at the success that Montreal's La Presse has had in moving a daily newspaper from paper to an ambitious tablet focused publishing model. As far as I know they represent one of very few successful newspaper transitions from dead tree publishing, and several other papers are planning to adopt their platform.
And, for those keeping score, "heavy users of digital newspaper news skew heavily to Apple products, and, here, La Presse+ is no different. More than 80 percent of the product's "opens" and of the time spent using it, come from the iPad."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @06:45AM
Born and raised in Montreal, I'd never heard of poutine until I moved to Toronto in the '80s. The funny thing is, most people seem to think this is an old and very popular food going back a long time in Quebec. It had a very small following for a long time and exploded in popularity in the '80s. I've never had the stuff; personally I think it sounds disgusting. When I was in high school, OTOH, the dish of choice was fries with gravy - no cheese. Never ate that either. When very young, I lived down the street from the original Chalet BBQ - those fries with nothing (ok, salt... maybe a hint of vinegar) was a childhood treat - plus the chance of seeing Jean BĂ©liveau, Dickie Moore, Stan Makita or one of the other hockey players that visited the restaurant on occasion.