Posts in category Spring 1990

One weekend in October 1985, John and Tuula McPhee left behind the tacky delights of Niagara Falls and found themselves driving down the Niagara Parkway. …

The Globe and Mail came under fire last December for an article deemed derogatory by some of its readers. The front-page story appeared on November …

It used to be fun. It used to be challenging. It used to be what you wanted to do with your life. But it isn’t …

Late in the afternoon of Friday, March 4, 1988, in a non-descript Toronto courtroom, a 25-year-old Greek immigrant was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced …

The year is 1956. A wide-eyed, baby-faced young journalist, fresh from his first professional stint at Maclean Hunter, decides he’s ready for the Big Time: …

November 20 to 26, 1989, was recycling week in Ontario. The province went about extolling the virtues of garbage reduction, reuse and recycling, but at …

There was no time for Doug Small to contemplate what sort of impact his budget leak story would have. As the broadcast journalist raced across …

For forty days last summer, Canada’s newspapers, radio stations and television networks were flooded with details of the sex lives of two women: Barbara Dodd, …

Toronto lawyer Harry Kopyto offers his media storehouse like a host ushering a guest to the buffet table. “What do you need?” he asks. “Print? …

The only thing I can say with certainty about the New Journalism is that it changed my life. I was introduced to it in the …