Founded in 1984, the Coquitlam Now is a bi-weekly community newspaper distributed to 54,525 homes in the Tri-Cities region of British Columbia's Lower Mainland. The Tri-Cities is an informal term used to describe three adjacent suburban cities (and two villages in the north-east sector of the Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C The Lower Mainland is a name commonly applied to the region surrounding Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Now is one of 13 local papers published by the Lower Mainland Publishing Group.
The newspaper was recently purchased by CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.