The Hamilton Spectator

Hands down the worst daily newspaper of any major city in Canada and I would never waste my money on a subscription.
Often featuring totally unrelated to Hamilton articles that barely qualify as headline news (Think: Man Punched in Belleville or Man Bitten By Dog in Sudbury) it is easy to see that much of what is offered in the Spec is just weak, generic filler that is being used to fill pages to give the illusion that its a real daily newspaper.
Owned by Metroland Media which is not even a legitimate news organization but rather an advertising company (according to their website). They are also responsible for choking our blue boxes, landfills and public space with the litter of millions of pounds weekly of unwanted bundles of flyers masquerading as «free community news papers» that are rudely tossed onto lawns and doorsteps across the province without permission.
If you were to go around town and toss bundles of paper onto peoples properties without permission you would be fined and possibly arrested for illegal dumping and trespassing yet Metroland thinks its Ok to do this on a daily basis.
Go look in your blue box. I bet you have a pile of unwanted Metroland produced and distributed junk filling it up right now.
And just try and cancel delivery of one of the free community flyer and junk bundles they toss out. You will have an easier time getting a seat at the Queens dinner table I can assure you.
I know as I tried for over three months to stop delivery of a «free» Metroland publication at a property I owned in another city and it finally took me going to one of their offices and pouring a green garbage bag full of all of the junk they delivered to the home after I requested they stop right on the receptionists counter.
That got their attention. So did the promise of a lawyers letter if they delivered even one more scrap of paper to my door.
I weighed the unwanted deliveries. About 4.5 pounds of unwanted junk a week tossed onto my doorstep. Now consider that Metroland distributes over 4 million free newspapers on a daily run and you will quickly see that Metroland is one of the worst carbon offenders in the entire province.
I urge everyone to email your local city council, MPP and MP and TELL them to put a stop to the shameful practice of Metroland tossing out millions of pounds of unwanted junk and advertising masquerading as newspapers onto peoples doorsteps.