The day The Financial Post’s June 1989 issue of Moneywise hit the newsstands, the magazine’s editor, Catherine Collins, went out for her daily run. Setting out from Toronto’s downtown YMCA, Collins jogged past the news boxes strung out along her route. Anxiously, she glanced in to see how the magazine was selling. But what she… Continue reading Black and White and Green All Over
Category: Spring 1990
As the Newsworld Turns
Newsworld’s was the most publicized and anticipated Canadian TV launch in memory-an encouraging start for a network that promised all news to all people. But so far CBC’s 24-hour news and information channel with its “uniquely Canadian perspective” has not been a threat to either conventional news programs or the pay-TV channel, Cable News Network,… Continue reading As the Newsworld Turns
The Next Fix
It was a whale of a story. Trapped beneath the Arctic ice were three California grey whales. They were stranded by an early freeze that October 1988 and were breathing through a shrinking hole in the ice. They would surely die. However, an Inuit hunter soon spotted them and informed biologists back in the village.… Continue reading The Next Fix
Lost Horizon
The first anniversary issue of Vista had just hit the newsstand when its publisher, John Dunlop, quit. Dunlop, who launched “Canada’s Alternative Business Magazine” in November 1988, ha~ objected to recent cutbacks proposed by a planning committee. Three Magna executives, who had no publishing experience, arrived to look into the operation. They suggested fewer issues,… Continue reading Lost Horizon
What’s up Doc?
Canadian filmmaker Paul Cowan personifies the financial struggle of Canada’s independent documentary community. When Cowan failed to find $400,000 to make a documentary about Donald Miarshall Jr., but secured $2 million to produce the idea as a movie, he lent credence to what Canadian documentary maker Magnus Isacsson called a “crisis in documentary.” This crisis… Continue reading What’s up Doc?