[2] Radler organized his Canadian holdings into two companies, grouping the Lethbridge Herald, Medicine Hat News and several Alberta and Saskatchewan weeklies into Alta, a limited partnership, while leaving the Okanagan Valley and Thunder Bay papers in Horizon Operations,[2] which was later renamed Continental Newspapers Canada.
As a private company, Continental is not required to publish an annual report, but is said to be "owned mostly by David Radler".
[4] In 2006, after taking a 50% (later 59%) ownership interest in Alta Newspaper Group, Vancouver-based publisher Glacier Media purchased a 25% share in Continental for $16.2 million.
Glacier is also part-owner of two other newspaper companies connected with Radler, Alta and RISN Operations.
[5] Sam Grippo, Glacier's chairman of the board, was a group publisher at Hollinger during Radler's time as COO.