Montreal is the new Boardwalk.
Monopoly finally revealed the winning cities in its new World Edition this week, and the Canadian city earned the global game's most prestigious position, as we predicted in February.
In fact, Canada monopolizes the new Monopoly board. In addition to Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto also earned spots. The other dominant country is China, which placed Beijing and Shanghai, plus Hong Kong, on the board. Only one U.S. city (New York) made the game.
More than 5.6 million votes were cast to select the 22 cities in the new edition, which goes on sale next week in 50 countries.
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When I was a student journalist in high school, I collected newspapers from around the country and around the world. Even now, as a former newspaperman, I still love getting the papers wherever I travel.
It could be my hometown Chicago Tribune or The Philadelphia Inquirer or even La Repubblica in Rome (and I don't even read Italian). There's something fascinating about reading (or just seeing) what's news and how it's presented in different cities.
Now, though, I can get my daily newspaper fix online. The Newseum website offers front pages from newspapers around the world every day. Today, there are 565 front pages from 55 countries, including Málaga Hoy from Spain (above).
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