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AOL Canada is getting set to go west this summer with The Huffington Post Canada's regional expansion across the Western territories, and what better way to get started than adding amazing talent to the team.

The upcoming launch of HuffPost B.C. & Alberta sites will mark the second regional expansion for The Huffington Post Canada this year, following the launch of Le Huffington Post Québec in February 2012. Traffic and advertiser demand have been strong for the site in Quebec, with 199% growth in UVs since launch and a social following of more than 26,600.

Joining the Canadian editorial team are Andree Lau, Michelle Butterfield and Patrick Bellerose:

• Andree Lau joins the team as News Editor, HuffPost B.C. after a career at CBC in Vancouver, Calgary and New Brunswick. She worked as an integrated journalist in Vancouver and also was a web editor for cbc.ca in Calgary.
• Michelle Butterfield joins as Associate News Editor, HuffPost Alberta. Butterfield comes from The Calgary Herald, where she was a digital editor and spearheaded their social media strategy.
• Patrick Bellerose joins the team as News Editor, Le Huffington Post Québec, reporting to managing editor, Patrick White. Bellerose's experience includes work as a journalist and online editor at Info Presse Magazine, as well as a regular contributor to Branchez-Vous.com, Les Affaires, Urbania, Marketing Magazine, Must Alimentaire, L'Actualité alimentaire, Jobboom and L'Actualité.

With growth across Canada in full bloom this summer, AOL Canada has also made additions to the sales team:

• Sydney Robertson has joined as Account Executive and has deep knowledge and experience in digital media from previous sales roles with Yahoo!, Glam Media and Rogers Media.
• Jeffrey Wood has joined as Account Manager and comes to AOL from Olive Media.
• Tanya Iliakis is relocating to Vancouver to fill the role of Western Canada Account Executive after two years as an Account Executive in the AOL Toronto office.

AOL Canada, led by GM, Graham Moysey, now has offices in Toronto, Quebec, and soon to open in Calgary and Vancouver, and offers consumers and advertisers a network of premium properties, including AOL.ca, The Huffington Post Canada, Autoblog Canada, Moviefone, Engadget, Everyday Health others, reaching an audience of 10.2M unique visitors per month in Canada.

*Source: comScore, Inc., Total Canada, Home and Work, May 2012. The Huffington Post data from [E] Huffington Post Global.

We're excited to announce that HuffPost Live, our new live streaming network, will be coming to a screen near you on August 13. One of our goals is to create the most social video experience possible, so we're inviting our HuffPost community of readers to now join us live on the air to become an integral part of the dynamic, ongoing conversation that is the heart and soul of HuffPost Live.

HuffPost Live is built on a platform that includes many innovative features that we would like you to learn about before we go live so you'll be as prepared as our hosts and producers. Read a full list of FAQ's about HuffPost Live here.The HuffPost community is growing exponentially and HuffPost Live will take it to the next level.

HuffPost Live aims to be as disruptive and groundbreaking in video as HuffPost has been in the way news is delivered, consumed, and engaged with. But we need your help, so check out "HuffPost Live 3, 2, 1...," sign up, and join the conversation. To learn more about our launch read Arianna Huffington's blog post here.

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- AOL PR (@AOLPR) July 10, 2012

We're proud to announce the launch of our new iPad magazine, Huffington. With nearly 500 editors and reporters who produce between 70 and 80 original reported stories each day, Huffington is our way of putting the best content together in a new, weekly magazine app for a slower, more in-depth Huffington Post experience.

Available in the App Store Newsstand today, Huffington incorporates Huffington Post's unmatched live commenting and other social engagement tools to allow for greater reader participation in richly detailed and probing narratives -- while also showcasing HuffPost's brand of Pulitzer Prize-winning feature writing. Huffington's elegant design takes full advantage of the iPad's signature Retina display, offering our audience a crisp reading experience, vibrant photography, and stunning graphics.

Each week, Huffington will lead off with a primer on the news of the week, enticing Q&As, powerful photo essays, sophisticated data visualizations, top-tier commentary, and notable quotes from the HuffPost community. Long-form journalism anchors the core of the magazine, with carefully-crafted features exploring a broad range of topics including politics, business, entertainment, technology, foreign affairs, the environment, sports, religion, and relationships.

To learn more about Huffington, read the full press release here or check out Arianna Huffington's blog post. Download Huffington now at the App Store. Follow @huffington on Twitter for the latest product news.

The latest international edition of the Huffington Post debuted today in Spain in partnership with the leading Spanish-language newspaper El Pais. El Huffington Post, headquartered in Madrid, follows launches this year of Le Huffington Post France and Le Huffington Post Québec. Other international editions include HuffPost Canada, the first international edition, and The Huffington Post UK, both of which went live last year. Meanwhile, later this year, L'Huffington Post Italia is scheduled to debut later this year.

Montserrat Domínguez, most recently director and host of "A vivir que son dos días," the leading weekend radio show at Cadena SER, is editorial director. Read her blog post today about the new site. During her long journalism career, Montserrat has also worked for Efe News Agency, Canal +, Antena 3, and Tele 5, served as a political contributor to La Vanguardia and is VP of the Spanish section of the European Journalists Association.

Read about the rest of the team in Arianna Huffington's blog post in English or in Spanish. Huffington also shares the launch day lineup of bloggers and talks about the economic climate in Spain, saying that "Spain is at a crucial moment in its history, engulfed in crisis and facing steep challenges." Take a behind the scenes look at the launch by viewing these pictures and a video.