United We Falter
Three years ago, while it was still owned by Thomson Newspapers, the Niagara Falls Review’s newsroom was organized by the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild. Mark …
Posts in category Spring 1997
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My best friend in the whole wide world just bought Space Invaders for his brand new Atari 2600. The game is so cool. He saved …
Equality, Fraternity, Opportunity
On the evening of January 20, 1994, Angela Lawrence sat in disbelief as she watched a TVOntario program featuring a panel discussion on diversity in …
Publish or Perish?
By the end of his first day as This Magazine‘s new business manager, Trevor Hutchinson knew that the historic left-wing magazine was in serious financial …
Raggedy Sandy
To understand Alexander “Sandy” Ross, the man who engineered the rebirth of Canadian Business magazine and almost single-handedly created the consumer market for business writing …
Glam, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am
Atop a warehouse, high over Santa Monica Boulevard and just under the shadow of the Hollywood sign, a ghetto blaster blares the chorus of Elvis …
Condition: Confused
When The Globe and Mail‘s medical reporter Wallace Immen was covering the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in New Orleans last November, a …
Back of the Pack, Baby!
Alison Gordon is telling me a story. She is telling me of the time between 1979 and 1983 when she covered the Blue Jays for …
The Final Frame
To see life, to see the world, to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to …
The Dark Side of Saint Peter
On the afternoon of Saturday, November 2, as the CBC celebrated 60 years of public broadcasting, I was exposed for the first time to the …
