Cult MTL

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Cult MTL
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Format Tabloid
Owner(s)Lorraine Carpenter [1]
Editor-in-chiefLorraine Carpenter
Founded7 September 2012
Language English
HeadquartersMontreal, Quebec
Website cultmtl.com

Cult MTL is an English language arts, culture and news website and monthly print publication, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its first print edition appeared on 7 September 2012. [2] [3] It was created only a few months after Montreal's last English-language alternative weekly, Montreal Mirror , was unceremoniously closed by its parent company, Quebecor. The founding editors of Cult MTL were also involved with the Mirror. [4] In August 2013 the print version of the magazine was started. [5]

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