Le Soleil (Quebec) Le Soleil (Quebec) Le Soleil is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec. It was founded on December 28, 1896 and is published in compact format since April 2006 (it had traditionally been printed in broadsheet). It is distributed mainly in Quebec City; however, it is also for sale at newsstands in Ottawa, Montreal, New Brunswick and some places in Florida, where many Quebecers spend the winter. It is owned by Groupe Capitales Médias. On weekdays "Le Soleil" contains four sections : the front section "(Actualités)", containing local and international news coverage; the Arts & Life, or "B" section
Le Soleil (Quebec) "(Arts & Vie)"; the Business, or "C" section "(Économie)"; and the Sports, or "S" section. "Le Soleil" rose from the ashes of "L'Électeur", the official newspaper of the Liberal Party of Canada, which shut down in December 1896. The first edition was published on December 28, 1896. one day after the disappearance of its predecessor, which shut down because the Catholic clergy had forbidden it to parishioners when the newspaper criticized the Church's electoral interference. It was renamed "Le Soleil" in reference to "Le Soleil", a daily newspaper based in Paris by the same name. In 1957, "Le Soleil" (then