Three Edmonton businessmen - John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham - founded The
Journal in 1903 as a rival to
Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Liberal-Party-friendly
Edmonton Bulletin. Within a week, the
Journal took over another newspaper,
The Edmonton Post, and established an editorial policy supporting the
Conservative Party against the
Bulletin's stance for the
Liberal Party. In 1912, the
Journal was sold to the
Southam family. It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by
Hollinger International. The
Journal was subsequently sold to
Canwest in 2000, and finally came under its current ownership,
Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010. In 1905,
The Journal began operating from a building on the corner of 102nd Avenue and 101st Street. Its present location at 101st Street and 100th Avenue was established in 1921, and Alberta's first radio station,
CJCA, began broadcasting from the building a year later. For 19 months, from May 1946 and early 1948, the Edmonton Journal and The Bulletin were published as one newspaper due to a printers' strike. On January 2, 1948, The Journal resumed a separate existence, and it never did settle with the striking members of the International Typographical Union. After the
Bulletin folded in 1951, the
Journal was for a time Edmonton's only daily newspaper. The monopoly ended when the
Edmonton Sun began publishing in 1978. Around 2020, the Journal ceased being a daily newspaper when it stopped publishing Sunday issues. In 1982, government officials under the
Combines Investigation Act entered and searched the paper's offices under the suspicion that Southam Newspapers was violating federal legislation by engaging in unfair trading and anti-competitive business practices. The
Alberta Court of Appeal ruled the search to be inconsistent with the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a decision the
Supreme Court of Canada upheld in
Hunter v Southam Inc. ==Present day==