About Montreal Greek Times

Montreal Greek Times

Overview

The Montreal Greek Times — in Greek, «Εδώ Μόντρεαλ» ("Montreal Here") — is a bilingual Greek- and English-language monthly newspaper serving the Greek community of Greater Montreal. Published from Laval, Quebec, by its founder Dimitri Papadopoulos, it covers the institutions and everyday life of one of Canada's oldest and largest Hellenic communities: the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal, Greek Orthodox parishes, Greek schools, cultural associations, and the businesses that advertise to Greek-speaking readers.

The paper appears in print with sequentially numbered monthly issues — its March 2026 number was Issue 111, and by June 2026 it had reached Issue 114 — and is registered with ISSN 2368-9013 and legal deposit with Library and Archives Canada and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. It is a member of the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, and its masthead acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada. Alongside the newspaper, the Greek Times name is attached to local Greek radio and television programming promoted in its pages, making the operation a small multimedia presence in Montreal's Greek media landscape rather than a print-only title.

History

The Montreal Greek Times is an independent publication founded and published by Dimitri Papadopoulos, whose name appears on the masthead of current issues as "Publisher/Founder." The publisher was corresponding from an address on Notre-Dame Boulevard in Laval by 2018, when he publicly defended the operation's television channel after its streaming add-on was removed from the Kodi platform, describing the channel as licensed by the CRTC. The paper's offices are now at 2128 boulevard des Laurentides, Suite 421, in Laval.

The newspaper serves a community with deep roots. The first Greek community organization in Canada was established in Montreal in 1906 — an anniversary the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal marked as its 120th in 2026 — and Greek immigration to Canada reached its greatest volume after the Second World War: as the Hellenic Community recounts, almost 110,000 Greeks immigrated to Canada between 1945 and 1971, settling mostly in Montreal and Toronto. The community's prominence was on display in March 2024, when Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Canada and addressed Montreal's expatriate community, which he described as a place where "the heart of Hellenism beats very loudly"; he was named an honorary president of the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal during the visit. Greek-language publishing has been part of Montreal life for generations; researchers documenting the community's history have catalogued Greek-Canadian newspapers dating back to the 1960s, and earlier Montreal Greek papers such as the Greek-Canadian Tribune («ΒΗΜΑ») are now used as archival sources. The Montreal Greek Times is the current standard-bearer of that tradition of community journalism, publishing monthly in Greek and English.

Programming and Content

The paper's reporting is intensely local. Its March 2026 issue led with the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro's proclamation of March as Hellenic Heritage Month, passed at the council sitting of 9 March 2026, at which borough mayor Dimitrios Beis and Greece's consul general in Montreal, Nikolaos Karalekas, addressed the community against the backdrop of the Hellenic Community's 120th anniversary. The same issue reported in detail on a meeting of the board of directors of the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal, including a presentation on the Immigrec research project that is documenting Greek immigration to the city — a project, begun in 2016, that has recorded hundreds of interviews and hundreds of hours of testimony from Greek immigrants who arrived between the 1950s and 1970s. The front-page story also noted that the Parliament of Canada is studying a legislative project to recognize March as Hellenic Heritage Month on a national scale. The March 2026 issue carried a report on the Hellenic Foundation honouring 16 scholars, and its June 2026 issue covered the graduation of 141 students from the Socrates-Démosthène school, the Hellenic Community's school network, which the paper reported traces its origins to 1909 and enrols more than 1,000 children across its campuses. A reporter working under Canada's Local Journalism Initiative — the federal program that funds journalists in underserved communities — is credited in its pages.

Its coverage extends to community gatherings such as the February 2026 luncheon titled "Our Roots, Our Journey," which brought together members of Montreal's earliest Greek families to reflect on the beginnings of organized Hellenic life in the city. Around this core of community reporting, issues carry the familiar apparatus of an ethnic community newspaper: church and association news, cultural features, memorial and obituary notices, and advertising from Greek-owned businesses across Montreal and Laval, from pharmacies in Chomedey to caterers and trades. Content appears in both Greek and English, reflecting a readership that spans immigrant and Canadian-born generations.

The newspaper's pages also promote the Greek Times' broadcast activities: a live local Greek radio hour, "Montreal Greek Radio," on Sundays from 5:20 to 6:20 p.m., and Greek Times television programming on Odyssey TV — advertised as a weeknight 8 p.m. slot — carried on Bell channel 889 and Vidéotron channels 265 and 372. The University of Alberta's Canadian Minority Media Database separately records a Montreal Greek television service delivered by Internet protocol, describing a 24-hour community channel in Greek with more than 90 per cent Canadian programming drawn from the local Greek community.

Audience and Reach

The Montreal Greek Times addresses the Greek community of the Montreal metropolitan area, historically one of the largest concentrations of Greek Canadians in the country, with long-established populations in neighbourhoods such as Parc-Extension and in Laval, where the paper is based. Its bilingual format is aimed both at Greek-speaking immigrants and at younger, Canadian-born readers of Greek origin.

The paper's own masthead stated a circulation of 6,000 copies in its March 2026 issue; the figure printed in the June 2026 issue was 8,000 copies. These are the publisher's stated figures and are not independently audited. No separate readership survey of the paper has been published.

Digital Presence

The newspaper's website is greektimes.ca, and it promotes a mobile newspaper app to its readers. Unusually for a community paper, its masthead also lists an archive of back issues distributed through alternative internet protocols — a Gemini capsule (gemini://gemini.greektimes.ca), a Gopher service and a telnet BBS — through which numbered back issues, including those of 2026, are publicly archived. Its television programming has also been distributed through streaming platforms; in 2018 the publisher pursued the removal of the channel's add-on from the Kodi media platform, writing that the channel's viewers watched both its television service and its newspaper in print and online.

Ownership and Organisation

The Montreal Greek Times is an independent, founder-published newspaper. Dimitri Papadopoulos is named on the masthead as publisher and founder, and the editorial office can be reached at the address below. The paper is a member of the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, the national body representing Canada's ethnic press, and it acknowledges financial support from the Government of Canada, consistent with federal programs that support eligible Canadian periodicals and community reporting, including the Local Journalism Initiative, under which a reporter is credited in its pages.

Contact and Availability

The Montreal Greek Times is published from 2128 boulevard des Laurentides, Suite 421, Laval, Quebec, H7M 2Y6. Its telephone number is +1 (514) 998-0878 and its fax number is +1 (514) 221-2425; the editorial office's published email address is editor@greektimes.ca. Print issues appear monthly, and current and back issues are available through its website, greektimes.ca.