Dose hangs in there, online

Fifteen months ago, Dose, CanWest's improbable "daily magazine", was folded to be reincarnated as an online "youth" component of CanWest Media's offerings. At the time the paper version folded, its companion online site was reported to have about 160,000 unique visitors a month. According to current CanWest media information, the Dose.ca site has increased its audience, sans paper or street presence, by about 78% to 285,000 unique visitors a month and it claims 3 million page views a month (an astounding 10 pages/visit).