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The Globe and Mail will stop distributing print newspapers in Atlantic Canada as of Nov. 30, citing the high cost of subsidizing paper delivery for a dwindling number of print subscribers as more people consume news online.

The last hard copies of the national newspaper will be delivered in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island on Nov. 30, publisher and CEO Phillip Crawley announced Monday. The move comes four years after the Globe, owned by the Thomson family’s investment firm Woodbridge Company Ltd., stopped delivering papers in Newfoundland.

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In an interview, Crawley said the Globe expects to save about $1 million per year from cancelling the delivery route that served about 5,000 weekday copies and 10,000 weekend papers across the region.

“The numbers were getting too small to make it worthwhile for us to be sending papers over very long distances out of the Transcontinental print plant in Halifax,” Crawley said.