Series: Spring 2006

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

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

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

Laurie Perks, York Regional Police media spokesperson, raises her voice above the drone of circling helicopters so the reporters can hear her. The scene outside Alicia Ross’s family home on August 18, 2005, is chaotic. Police have blocked the street to traffic; photographers and TV crews cluster around the mobile command centre outside the distinguished,… Continue reading The Girl Next Door

The poster is everywhere in the offices of the Western Standard-in the foyer, in the coffee room, beside individual cubicles and on the walls by the office of Ezra Levant, the magazine’s publisher and co-founder. Professionally done and beautifully rendered, it could be mistaken for actual advertising for The Sopranossecond season DVD box set. Up… Continue reading Riding with the Right