Abbotsford Mission Times newspaper shut down

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Posted December 2, 2013 1:25 pm.

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ABBOTSFORD (NEWS1130) – The Abbotsford-Mission Times has been shut down and everyone who worked there is without a job.

This comes just as the paper was sold to Black Press, which also owns its competition, the Abbotsford News.

It has created quite the buzz on Twitter, many expressing their sadness over a paper they grew up reading.

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