Pressure to merge Edmonton papers irresistable

How long before the Edmonton Sun and the Edmonton Journal are rolled into one newspaper?
One year? Eighteen months? Two years? Not much longer, it’s said here.
On Monday, the Edmonton Journal cheerfully notified its subscribers they could once again have a Sunday paper.
“Great News!” the Journal exclaimed to subscribers. “Brighten your weekends with the Sunday Sun!”
We recently welcomed the Edmonton Sun to our growing news family,” the pitch went on. “For a very limited time, we are offering our loyal Edmonton Journal subscribers the opportunity to enhance their existing 6-day delivery by adding the extensive Sunday Sun.” (Extensive? Typo? Did they mean expensive? Surely not that either…)
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