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What can we learn from the Eaton Centre shooting?

Daniel Wolgelerenter — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:54:48 +0000

It’s a bit of a mug’s game to try to find meaning in the kind of shooting crime that occurred June 2 in a food court at Toronto’s Eaton Centre, in which one man was killed and two other people – including a 13-year-old boy eating dinner with his family who was hit in the head […]

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Canada needs Conrad Black

Daniel Wolgelerenter — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:05:32 +0000

In honour of Victoria Day, one presumes, Conrad Black, the former industrialist and onetime newspaper baron, he of the British peerage – his lordship, if you will – took part in what reportedly will be his one and only sit-down media interview, chatting with the CBC’s chief news anchor Peter Mansbridge at his palatial Bridle Path home […]

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What will replace newspapers?

Daniel Wolgelerenter — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:45:58 +0000

Ever since I can remember, I’ve read and loved newspapers. I got hooked on the comics pages when I was 5 or 6, migrated to sports, and then graduated to the rest of the paper. My parents subscribed to the Toronto Star and the weekly Canadian Jewish News, both of which I used to (and […]

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White elephant in Winnipeg?

Daniel Wolgelerenter — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:03:51 +0000

Martin Knelman wrote this fawning piece that appeared in the Toronto Star about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, now under construction in Winnipeg. This $300-million-plus facility is being built with money from three levels of government and private fundraising, which is being led by Gail Asper, daughter of the late CanWest Global media mogul Izzy […]

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