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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 14th, 2016
When I was born, well, quite a while ago, R.B. Bennett was Prime Minister of Canada, Herbert Hoover was President of the US, Ramsay Macdonald was Prime Minister of the UK, Simon Fraser Tolmie was Premier of BC, and Louis Taylor was Mayor of Vancouver, my natal city. From then until March 28, 2016 the […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 28th, 2016
We will work with CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers) to amplify our energy mandate and to be a part of the solution to keep Canada competitive in the global marketplace. The National Post will undertake to leverage by all means editorially, technically and creatively to further this critical conversation. -Douglas Kelly, Publisher, National Post […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 1st, 2016
It’s fascinating to watch the print media in its death throes. In a way, I feel like dancing on Postmedia’s grave but somehow that doesn’t seem appropriate. I devoutly wish it hadn’t happened but, slow and painful though it may have been, it has. Newspapers have been with us, for better or worse, for too long […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 28th, 2015
In the news recently was an item about Paul V. Godfrey, C.M., the President of Postmedia, the largest newspaper chain in the country, owning some 15 papers in major centres plus a slew of community papers across the land. M. Godfrey has been admitted to the Canadian News Hall of Fame. I have one or […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 2nd, 2015
Yesterday in my email inbox, the chickens began to come home to roost for Postmedia – the Canadian newspaper chain. My first letter came from a constant correspondent who gave the Official statistics for BC Hydro losses going back to the old NDP years. Since the Campbell/Clark government, the losses have been staggering and BC Hydro […]
Posted in The Tyee on Feb 2nd, 2015
Tankers safe! Protests rude! National Energy Board fair! Save Albertans’ asses! It is always so comforting to know that the Vancouver Sun cares enough for us to keep us impartially informed of matters environmental. For example, they’ve done it for us twice on the same day. In the Jan. 28 edition, Stephen Ewart provides, we […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 2nd, 2013
In the Postmedia press this past week we learned that Gordon Fisher has become publisher of The Vancouver Sun and The Province. Here is my welcome. Dear Mr. Fisher, My congratulations on your new posting. These two papers need all the help they can get. I’m an octogenarian now – I love that word because […]
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