Frankly it seemed like a perfect story. It was a barbed, somewhat nasty tale, and it made all the right people look . Wrong. For Frank, the satirical magazine notorious for scoops on the press, a chance to take i poke at The Financial Post was too good a pass up. When whispers of injustice… Continue reading Aiming to Displease
Series: Spring 1991
Just the Feelings, Ma’am
The day my daughter started kindergarten we received a sheet of paper from her school that we were advised to keep for handy reference. The dread communication-which occasionally slips out from under the plastic french fry magnet on our fridge door-lists all the “PA days” for the year. To our horror, the very first one… Continue reading Just the Feelings, Ma’am
Indecent Exposure?
Two male students boosted Montreal Gazette photographer Allen McInnis to the cafeteria window at the University of Montreal’s l’Ecole polytechnique and held him steady on the narrow sill. Police officers had drawn all the cafeteria’s drapes, but at this window a 15-centimetre gap in the curtains remained. The gap was all McInnis needed to photograph… Continue reading Indecent Exposure?
CB-SEE RADIO
WHEN KING GEORGE VI and Queen Elizabeth toured Canada in 1939, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, then barely three years old, covered the visit with 91 broadcasts. Everything went smoothly until the last day when an announcer was heard describing the royal couple’s departure. “The Queen I think I told you, is wearing powder-blue,” he said.… Continue reading CB-SEE RADIO
How the West was Won
During the 1957 FEDERAL campaign, an irate western farmer asked C.D. Howe, Liberal minister of trade and commerce, how he was expected to survive with the price of oats as low as it was. When an arrogant Howe tapped the farmer on his belly and told him, “You look pretty well fed,” a young reporter… Continue reading How the West was Won