In the Winter of 1951, Bob Wilson, chief scout for the Chicago Black Hawks, was sitting in the wooden bleachers of an arena in Belleville, Ontario. He’d come to check out the talent on a Junior B team affiliated with the Black Hawks, but he’d gotten there early, and so he was killing some time… Continue reading A Fierce Honesty
Mission Possible
At 5:15 P.M. on a dark October day, The Globe and Mail‘s newly hired reporter Petti Fong interrupts British Columbia bureau chief Rod Mickleburgh, who is in the middle of a meeting. “Sorry…Regina confirmed,” she says stonily. “Go with it?” “Oh, okay. Go with it. Did they confirm the HIV angle? “No.” “Okay, ’cause that’s… Continue reading Mission Possible
Colour TV
Turn on the television any time from breakfast to bedtime and, yes, you’ll see the faces of anchors Lloyd Robertson, Peter Mansbridge and Kevin Newman illuminating the screen. But something has happened over the past few years. Television news has gone full-colour, with journalists such as Suhana Meharchand, Carla Robinson and Ian Hanomansing in prominent… Continue reading Colour TV
A Matter of Opinion
The October 28, 2005 headline jumps off the Chronicle Herald‘s front page: “ATV Crash Kills Two Girls.” The girls, aged 14 and 15, died just outside Shubenacadie, near Halifax, when the all-terrain vehicle they were riding went down a four-metre embankment and crashed into a mass of trees. The 14-year-old driver, another girl, was injured… Continue reading A Matter of Opinion
What Makes Clive Run?
Sitting in an Internet café in the Czech Republic, Clive Thompson is frantically searching for lawyers in Spain who specialize in Internet law. A week prior, in Britain, Thompson received news that a virus writer had been arrested in Spain. The only information he could find about the arrest was on a website written in… Continue reading What Makes Clive Run?
