The light turned red 10 seconds ago. Evan Solomon adjusts his longshoreman’s toque and continues across the intersection through oncoming snow flurries and mercifully few cars. Shift‘s editor-in-chief and VP of Behaviour Publishing Inc. has two sweaters beneath his coat as he wends his way to the new Shift offices, still under renovation, darting neatly… Continue reading Shift Happens
Category: The Magazine
The Art of the Matter
A funny thing happened to David Macfarlane at about this time last spring. The first anniversary of the Progressive Conservatives’ rise to power in Ontario was approaching and Toronto Life wanted a profile of Premier Mike Harris. Macfarlane accepted the assignment, and aware of his reputation for writing quirky and unorthodox profiles, he set his… Continue reading The Art of the Matter
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 by those cutbacks-the context for numerous editorial polemics about the legitimacy of public broadcasting-that we have chosen to pay tribute to what many call “The New Yorker of the air,”… Continue reading The Good
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 my pyjamas and a soiled pair of khakis that I had discarded in a dark corner of my hotel room the night before. I barely had enough time to dress… Continue reading The Massacre That Never Was and the Terrorists Who Always Were
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 Canadian listeners fell from 64 percent in 1982 to 48 percent in 1992, AM stations still managed to capture five of the top ten places in eight of the nine… Continue reading The Good, the Bad and the Ugly