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'Canadian University Press' is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by almost 80 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada. Founded in 1938, CUP is the oldest student newswire service in the world and the oldest national student organization in North America. Many successful Canadian journalists got their starts in CUP and its member papers. Its head office is in Toronto. (Prior to 1996, the head office was located in Ottawa. In Ottawa, CUP ran a printing company, called Common Printing Group, which it owned jointly with the National Union of Students, which was located in the same building as CUP for several years.
A national conference, which doubles as an annual general meeting, is held once a year in a different city. Each region holds two conferences a year as well, one in the spring and one in the fall, with the exception of the Western and Prairies & Northern regions who gather together for a single fall conference (PWRCUP/WPNCUP/FUCCUP) every year. Each member paper exercises one vote at conferences. The president and national bureau chief are elected at the national conference, or Nash, while the regional CUPboard members and bureau chiefs are elected at the spring regional conferences.
The current structure for CUP, of a permament newswire offered to Canadian University newspapers including the full-time president, was established at CUP 22 in Quebec City in 1959. Prior to this date the service was looser and more oriented towards an exchange of clippings between the papers. One of the delegates at CUP 22 was future Canadian Prime Minister, Joe Clark, representing the University of Alberta paper, The Gateway.
CUP is divided into five regions: WRCUP (Western, including British Columbia and Yukon), PNCUP (Prairies and Northern, including Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Saskatchewan), ORCUP (Ontario), CUPbeq (Quebec) and ARCUP (Atlantic, including New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island). It also has five special issues caucuses to promote diversity, address the under-representation of marginalized groups and encourage discussion of social issues: Colour Caucus; Disabilities Caucus; Francophone Caucus; Queer, Trans and Allies Caucus; and Women's Caucus.
Member papers contribute articles to the CUP wire, which also runs stories authored by CUP staff. There are news, features, opinions, arts, sports, graphics and supplements wires. After stories are edited by the national bureau chief, they are made available on the wire for publication in CUP member papers.
CUP wholly owns a multi-market ad placement agency, Canadian University Press Media Services Limited, which operates as Campus Plus, offering advertisers one-stop access to student newspapers. It's also the sole member of the John H. McDonald Journalism Foundation, named after CUP's first president.
In 2005, CUP declared the last full week of every January, Sunday to Saturday, would be observed as National Student Press Week to celebrate the achievements, diversity and freedom of the student press.
CUP has also established an alumni database, which alumni can add themselves to by visiting the cup website: www.cup.ca/alumni.php

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CUP member papers

See also

External links

CUP member papers

CUP currently has 76 member papers. In alphabetical order:
• 60th Meridian, the

University College of Cape Breton (Sydney, NS)

• Aquinian, the

St. Thomas University (Fredericton, NB)

• Argosy, the

Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB)

• Argus, the

Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, ON)

• Athenaeum, the

Acadia University (Wolfville, NB)

• Baron, the

UNB Saint John (Saint John, NB)

• Brock Press

Brock University (St. Catherines, ON)

• Brunswickan, the

University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB)

• Cadre, the

University of Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown, PEI)

• Campus, the

Bishop’s University (Lennoxville, PQ)

• Cap Courier, the

Capilano College (North Vancouver, BC)

• Carillon, the

University of Regina (Regina, SK)

• Cascade, the

University College of the Fraser Valley (Abbottsford, BC)

• Concordian, the

Concordia University (Montreal, PQ)

• Cord Weekly, the

Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo, ON)

• Delit, Le

McGill University (Montreal, PQ)

• Dialog Newspaper

George Brown College (Toronto, ON)

• Excalibur

York University (Toronto, ON)

• Eyeopener, the

Ryerson University (Toronto, ON)

• Free Forum

College of New Caledonia (Prince George, BC)

• Fulcrum, the

University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON)

• Gateway, the

University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)

• Gleaner, the

Langara College (Vancouver, BC)

• Golden Ram

Nova Scotia Agricultural College (Truro, NS)

• Gradzette, the

University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB)

• Grapevine, the

Huron University College (London, ON)

• Innis Herald

Innis College, U of T (Toronto, ON)

• Intercamp

Grant MacEwan College (Edmonton, AB)

• Interrobang

Fanshawe College (London, ON)

• L’organe

Concordia University (Montreal, PQ)

• Lambda

Laurentian University (Sudbury, ON)

• Lance, the

University of Windsor (Windsor, ON)

• Link, the

Concordia University (Montreal, PQ)

• Link, the BCIT

B.C. Institute of Technology (Burnaby, BC)

• Macmedia

McLaughlin College (Toronto, ON)

• Manitoban, the

University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB)

• Mars' Hill

Trinity Western University (Langley, BC)

• Martlet, the

University of Victoria (Victoria, BC)

• McGill Daily

McGill University (Montreal, PQ)

• Meliorist

University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, AB)

• Mike

St. Michael’s College (Toronto, ON)

• Muse, the

Memorial University of Newfoundland. (St. John’s, NFLD)

• Navigator, the

Malaspina University College (Nanaimo, BC)

• Nexus, the

Camosun College (Victoria, BC)

• Night Views

Ryerson University (Toronto, ON)

• Nomad, the

Saint Laurence College (Kingston, ON)

• Nugget, the

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (Edmonton, AB)

• Omega

Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC)

• Opus, the

Confederation College (Thunder Bay, ON)

• Other Press, the

Douglas College (New Westminster, BC)

• Over The Edge

University of Northern British Columbia (Prince George, BC)

• Peak, the

Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC)

• Phoenix, the

UBC Okanagan (Kelowna, BC)

• Plant, the

Dawson College (Westmount, PQ)

• Pro Tem

Glendon College, York University (North York, ON)

• Projector, the

Red River Community College (Winnipeg, MB)

• Quill, the

Brandon University (Brandon, MB)

• La Rotonde

University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON)

• Satellite

Mohawk College (Hamilton, ON)

• Sentinel, the

Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, NS)

• Sentinel, the Selkirk

Selkirk College (Castlegar, BC)

• Silhouette, the

McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)

• Strand, the

Victoria College, U of T (Toronto, ON)

• Ubyssey, the

University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)

• Underground, the

Scarborough Campus, U of T (Toronto, ON)

• Uniter, the

University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, MB)

• Voice, the

Athabasca University (Edmonton, AB)

• Voice, the Langara

Langara College (Vancouver, BC)

• Watch, the

University of King’s College (Halifax, NS)

• Xaverian Weekly

St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, NS)

See also

★ Student newspaper

★ News agency

★ List of Canadian student newspapers

★ Agents of social change

★ National Student Press Week

External links

★ Canadian University Press

★ Campus Plus (Canadian University Press Media Services Limited)

★ John H. McDonald Journalism Foundation