Much as the “critical thinkers” in the Twitterverse want to make it, the City of Hamilton’s new proposed media policy is not a...
By John BestMarch 6, 2023Toronto Star Columnist Rosie Dimanno has taken issue with the decision by her newspaper to publish details of Mayor John Tory’s affair with...
By John BestFebruary 13, 2023Today marks the 25th anniversary of the conviction of Paul Bernardo for the murders of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy. I was in...
By adminSeptember 1, 2020The new owners of Torstar, which includes the Hamilton Spectator and Hamilton Community News published a letter in all the daily papers it...
By adminAugust 8, 2020In a Facebook note, Montreal-based commentator Barbara Kay has declared that she has “decided to step away” from her longtime weekly column at...
By adminJuly 25, 2020President Donald Trump said Comcast Corp.’s NBC should fire “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd in a series of tweets that invoked the...
By adminMay 11, 2020Before the novel coronavirus struck the United States, there was already a small-but-measurable groundswell of support for more government support for local news....
By adminMay 9, 2020Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s letter to newspaper editors saying they will ‘no longer engage’ with the UK’s most popular titles has today...
By adminApril 20, 2020Kayleigh McEnany, the new White House press secretary, is paid to believe in the complete and unalterable newsworthiness of the coronavirus press briefings...
By adminApril 17, 2020Kathy Renwald While discussing the death of race car great Stirling Moss over the weekend, I tried to nail down an ancient memory....
By adminApril 13, 2020