“For a while, an elk at the Leighton Colony … was so menacing that the studios had to be closed off. One writer gratefully announced that this was the most original excuse for not writing that she’d ever been provided with-‘A crazed animal is keeping me away from my word processor!’ When the writers finally… Continue reading Book Camp
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Gearing Up
I feel a surge of election-night excitement as I push through the lobby doors of the Sun Media building just east of downtown Toronto. It’s 8:30 p.m. on October 14, 2008, one of the most important nights for online journalism. But when I get to canoe.ca‘s third-floor office, all is quiet, aside from rapid fingers… Continue reading Gearing Up
Jordana Rapuch speaks about her article Paper Dreams
Jordana Rapuch talks to Greg Hudson about her article, Paper Dreams.
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Beware the Irishman Bearing Writs
I am the son of an Irishman, but I won’t visit my father’s homeland until a man who knows many tough men is safely in his grave. Did I get your attention? You know that there’s a story here and I can tell you most of it. Everything, really, except some names, especially the name… Continue reading Beware the Irishman Bearing Writs
On Trial
It’s early November and Richard Stursberg is sitting at CBC’s Toronto headquarters in his nicely appointed seventh-floor office, with its leather armchairs, gleaming wooden table, red Persian rug and big flat-screen TV. Dressed today in an olive blazer, green striped shirt and black pants—a much more conservative choice than the lime-green suit he has worn… Continue reading On Trial