The Good
It’s hard to talk about the CBC these days without referring to cutbacks in the same breath. But it’s precisely because of the threat posed …
Posts in category Summer 1996
The Massacre That Never Was and the Terrorists Who Always Were
Sometime in August 1993, I found myself rattling in an ancient Cessna over one of the densest parts of the Brazilian Amazon dressed partly in …
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
In a world dominated by CDs, AM sound quality doesn’t cut it anymore. Music is simply better on FM. But even though AM’s share of …
Dissent and Sensibility
The Town Hall theatre at the University of Toronto is a modern haven of academia. The chairs are plush and comfortable, and the room, though …
The Feminine Mistake
The commercial break is over. A camera pans the studio of the current affairs program POV: Women and then pulls in tight on host Sylvia …
The Little Gay Paper that Grew
The green neon words that throb out into the street are the most noticeable part of the Carlsberg Light billboard that hangs on the red …
Character Study
On October 11, 1995, Toronto’s Sing Tao newspaper changed the face of mainstream Canadian journalism forever. At a lavish event held on the Board of …
In the line of fire
On a narrow road in the hills of Bosnia, Daniel Gunther, a Canadian infantry corporal, sat in the turret hatch at a white armoured vehicle. …
Why Did the Journalist Cross the Road?
It is June 1975 and Sally Barnes is climbing the red-carpeted stairs to the press gallery at Queen’s Park, home of the Ontario Legislature, as …
Boosterism: 1 Journalism: 0
FIRST PERIOD On Saturday April 15, 1995, Hockey Night in Canada host Ron Maclean invited Winnipeg Free Press sports columnist Scott Taylor to be his …
