The Province vs Canada Press
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Province
Access local news, politics, sports, and entertainment from Vancouver and across Canada. Customize your feed with favorite writers and topics, and stay updated with breaking news and scores. Enjoy seamless browsing of multiple Postmedia publications.
- Local news and politics updates
- Comprehensive sports coverage
- Customizable news feed
- Browse multiple Postmedia brands
- Trending stories from across Canada
- Personalize topics and writers
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The Province is your trusted source for local news, politics, sports and entertainment. Create your custom feed so you don’t miss the latest from your favourite writers. Stay up to date throughout the day with breaking news in Vancouver, B.C. and around the world. Plus get the latest on the Vancouver Canucks, BC Lions, Vancouver Whitecaps and Vancouver Giants with the best sports coverage in Canada including scores, standings, highlights and commentary. Features include: • Stay connected to the best local news, sports, entertainment, commentary and beyond. • Browse the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Edmonton Sun, Calgary Sun, The Province and Canoe brands seamlessly. • You will be prompted to choose your preferred publications when you first open the new app, ensuring a curated news feed that aligns with your interests. • Use the Discover tab to explore trending stories from Postmedia newsrooms across Canada • Personalize your news experience by selecting topics, journalists and columnists you care about, so your feed will be filled with the content and perspectives you enjoy. • As a registered user, you are recognized consistently across web and app platforms for a more cohesive experience. Register to sample the wide variety of breaking news and special features — plus extensive photo and video coverage. Home delivery print subscribers receive unlimited access, included as part of their print subscription and can gain access by simply signing in with their existing account when prompted. If you’re not an existing print subscriber, you can easily subscribe to the app through the App Store for iOS devices. Subscription details • Monthly subscription cost: $5.99 plus applicable taxes • Complete your subscription at the App Store for iOS devices. Payment will be charged to your account upon confirmation of purchase. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Account will be charged $5.99 each month within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://www.postmedia.com/privacy-statement/ Terms of use: https://www.postmedia.com/terms-and-conditions/ We appreciate and value your feedback. Please send any comments, suggestions or questions to: appfeedback@postmedia.com
Canada Press
Access over 500 news feeds from 110 Canadian newspapers and magazines in one place. Stay updated with daily, weekly, and monthly publications, and discover local news near you. Share articles, search by keywords, and receive push notifications for your favorite sources.
- Access 500+ news feeds
- Browse daily, weekly, monthly press
- Locate local newspapers
- Receive push notifications
- Search articles by keywords
- Share news with friends
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Explore more than 500 news feeds from 110 Canadian newspapers and magazines. *** ALL THE NEWS IN A SINGLE APP *** ► Daily press (National & local) ► Weekly press ► Monthly press ► Internet press Among the features : ▷ Locate local newspapers near your location. ▷ Receive by push the latest updates of your favorite newspapers. ▷ Share news with your friends ▷ Search articles by keywords *** FREE APP *** Enjoy this amazing app. *** PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION *** - Remove advertising in the app - Remove limit on the number of posts - Direct access to website reader (when available) END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ PRIVACY POLICY : http://www.babdreams.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Canada Press at 59% against The Province's 5%. Canada Press also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.2) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). The Province's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. The Province sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Canada Press sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Canada Press holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Canada Press has 55 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of The Province's written reviews are positive against 59% of Canada Press's.
The Province ships an update monthly, Canada Press every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Province | Canada Press |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (9 ratings) | 4.6 (55 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.7% of reviews | 59.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 55 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Postmedia Network INC. | Studio BabDreams |
Customer experience
The Province
Canada Press
User reviews
The Province
From 9 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Used to be excellent
- 👍 Used to work fine
- 👍 Used to be great app
- 👍 Used to be good app
- 👍 Good app when it works
Room to improve
- 🐛 Annoying, marginally functioning
- 🐛 Jerky, gets stuck
- 🐛 Ruined ease of access
- 🐛 No longer useful
- 🐛 Poor readability
Canada Press
From 55 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great news coverage
- 👍 Informative content
- 👍 Quality fact-checking
- 👍 Dedication and integrity
- 👍 Valuable resource
Room to improve
- anúncios Intrusive ads
- 💰 Paywall articles
- 🚫 Very little free news
- 😩 Terribly boring
- 🚫 No news, only advertising
Bugs and requests
The Province
Reported bugs
80 issues- Jerky, gets stuck on a screen
- Feedback tab in settings doesn’t work
- Major difficulties loading stories
- Constant ad pop-ups
- Hard to easily read headlines
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- Headline is much smaller than time released
- Photo of the story is too small
- Repeats of the same article
- Double loads
- Gets bogged down with time
- Half the time you can’t share articles
- Pages double loading
- Not being able to go back to main page
- App crashing
- Articles double load or don't load
- Share button doesn't work
- Stops working after one article
- Full of bugs
- Freezing, crashing, double-loading articles
- iOS 15 issues
- Glitchy, slow, constant crashes
- Double loads the first story and then freezes
- Useless app
- Unable to open or read articles
- App won't work
- Articles won't load
- Crashes whenever I click on any story
- Crashes any time one tries to open an article
- Double loading screens
- Only load one story before freezing
- Crash upon trying to open any story
- Continually freezes or now since the newest bug fix just quits
- Crashes, double loading and some articles wouldn’t even load
- Double loading
- More bugs appear while old bugs remains
- Blank page after clicking an article
- Extreme choppiness when scrolling
- Pages never load
- Glitchy as heck
- Double loads, freezes, unable to view articles
- Double loads or doesn’t load at all
- Articles not loading
- App crashes
- Stories don’t load
- Lots of articles won’t open or open to black screen
- Website continues to freeze
- Can’t send a link to anyone
- It’s just blank
- So buggy and freezes constantly
- Has become completely unusable
- Nothing seems to load properly
- Have to close app and reopen if I want to read a new article
- All the pages seem to load, load again and then freeze
- Can’t open news stories as it gets freeze each time
- Half the articles won’t load
- The ones that do almost always lag as you try to scroll and end up freezing and crashing the app
- Doesn’t load etc and locks up
- Let’s you read one or two stories, then it goes blank
- Loads 2 of the same pages, freezes up and then quits
- Support is non existent
- Freezes constantly, won’t load stories
- Bugs that don’t allow the reader to see the article
- Whiz on by then a blank page
- Double loads the page
- Can’t swipe back
- Freezes
- While scrolling it will freeze
- Articles don’t load
- App freezes and drains battery
- Constantly freezes making it completely unusable
- Shows the same content in all sections
- More bugs
- Can’t see any sections other than the news
- App won’t open after I recently updated
- Screen goes black and it closes
- Freezes all the time now
- Even closing and reopening app doesn’t resolve issue
- Lately it has been freezing and won’t do anything
- Has been freezing and won’t do anything
- It’s starting to be like the CNN news app
Requested features
16 requests- Fix the app
- Get devs who know what they’re doing
- Developer should just remove this from the App Store
- Hire someone competent to make this app actually usable
- Give the app some attention
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- Roll back to old version
- Fix it!
- Better IT Department
- Fix your app
- Get it together already
- Fix the app
- Fix or lose it
- Fix the app
- Fix the app
- Update it once in a while
- Please fix !
Canada Press
Reported bugs
2 issues- App will no longer display any articles, blank white screen
- Bug with alerts deleting all other alerts
Requested features
7 requests- Indicate paywall articles with a “$”
- Segregate free sources from paywall sources
- Delete papers that won’t let you into items after quota
- Include some dissident reporting
- Fix bug with alerts deleting other alerts
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- Adjust font size
- Include a few international sources
In-app purchases
The Province
- The Province$5.991 Month
- The Province$6.991 Month
Canada Press
- 1 month$0.991 Month
- 3 months$1.993 Months
- 6 months$3.996 Months
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- 1 year$5.991 Year
Questions
Is The Province free?
Is Canada Press free?
Which has better reviews, The Province or Canada Press?
Do The Province or Canada Press have ads?
Which is updated more often, The Province or Canada Press?
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