The husband and wife team John and Judi McLeod founded the newspaper to rival The Brampton Times.
[1] Judi McLeod received a Western Ontario Newspaper Award for her political coverage.
Publisher Victor Mlodecki and Judi disputed the transferral; her husband backed her, as the paper's managing editor.
John McLeod had separately raised ire by cancelling a meeting between newspaper staff and Ontario Premier William Davis, MPP for Brampton, and writing an editorial urging Davis not to become involved in municipal elections.
The first issue of was published a year to the day after the dismal, they told the Globe this was coincidental.