Category: Spring 1990

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 the same time Canada’s only newsprint recycler announced it would temporarily shut down to reduce inventory. Even with the pressure on newspapers to use recycled newsprint, Quebec & Ontario Paper… Continue reading All the Paper That’s Fit to Reprint

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 Ottawa with the proof-a small pamphlet detailing the highlights of last April’s budget-he never dreamed it would spark a national controversy. Politically, the leak spelled yet another scandal for the… Continue reading No Small Affair

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, 22, of North York, Ontario, and Chantale Daigle, 21, of Chibougamau, Quebec. Unlike other recipients of unwanted publicity in recent years-Susan Nelles, the Reichmanns, or Ben Johnson-neither Dodd nor Daigle… Continue reading EXPOSED!

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? Video? Radio?” The chubby 42-year-old proudly claims that more than 1,000 articles about him have appeared in local papers during his 15 years as a lawyer. In Kopyto’s study, where… Continue reading The Importance of Being Harry

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 late sixties, mostly through the works of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer. They had very different-in some respects, totally opposed-approaches to the writing of journalism, but they made an equivalent… Continue reading Tom, Joan, Norman & I