L'Aquilon
Canadian newspaper
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L'Aquilon is a Canadian weekly community newspaper, which serves the Franco-Ténois community in the Northwest Territories.[1] The newspaper, which publishes 1,000 copies every Friday, operates from offices in Yellowknife and Hay River.
L'Aquilon was first established in 1986. In 2000, the newspaper was part of a consortium which sued the territorial government over its lack of support for French language institutions.
In 2021, the paper's publisher merged with CIVR-FM, a francophone community radio station branded as Radio Taïga.[2] The merger brought both outlets under the management of a new organization, Médias Ténois.[3] The organization also collaborates with the Yukon-based francophone newspaper L'Aurore boréale and the Nunavut-based francophone media outlets CFRT-FM and Le Nunavoix in Articles de l'Arctique[4], a wire service which distributes the outlets' content about news in the Canadian Arctic to other francophone media outlets in Canada.[5]
