The Calgary Herald is a Canadian daily newspaper anglophone published in Calgary, in Alberta. Its larger candidate is the Calgary Sun .

Published for the first time the August 31st 1883 per Andrew Armor and Thomas Braden under the name of The Calgary Herald, Mining and Rancid Advocate and General Advertiser , it begins as a weekly magazine from only four pages created on a press with hand. The operation was small, a tent placed at the junction of the rivers Bow and Elbow acting as offices. In 1885 the Herald becomes a daily newspaper but it is only with the autumn 1983 that it starts to be published 7 days per week. Until August 1985 it was a newspaper of afternoon, but it is today delivered the morning. In November 2000, the Herald is acquired by Southam Newspapers (today division CanWest News Services of CanWest Global Communications.)

The Herald also publishes Neighbors , a weekly Community newspaper which is distributed with the Herald in certain parts of Calgary. In spring of 2005, the Herald joing with several others affiliated of Total CanWest for launching Amount , a free daily newspaper targeting the young people from 18 to 35 years users of public transport.

The November 8th 1999, the lately syndicated employees of the Herald , including the journalists, start a strike. The strike lasts until July 2000; during this period several journalists of long time of the Herald have is left the newspaper or were returned following the strike, which ended in what is regarded as a defeat for the trade union. It has was necessary several years so that the Herald reconstitutes its assistantship after the strike. Former employees of the Herald who left during or in result of the strike work today for other publications.

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• '' The Calgary Herald ''