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New Book Project Announcement

The book I’m working on will use the WE Charity case study to show how we got here and how bad things are, but I also want to show how reporters can professionalize, push back and regain public respect at a time when so many of them have so little job security.

March 11, 2024

See Me on YouTube

Here I am talking about my latest biography, Big Men Fear Me. Each nominee for the Ottawa Book Awards was asked for a short talk on their work. Don’t be distracted by the mis-spelling of George McCullagh’s name.

September 21, 2023

The Trouble with Canadian Researched Non-Fiction

A while ago, I picked up a used copy of Jack Granatstein’s 1999 book, Who Killed Canadian History?, a book that was a little money-maker for Jack and a sad tale for those of us who write Canadian history books.

July 18, 2023

What WE Lost: A Review

Tawfiq Rangwala has written a well-researched, solid account of the destruction of the WE movement in Canada. It’s remarkably clearly written.

May 11, 2022

I Made This Pitch to HarperCollins Canada in 2018. Their Sales Department Said No One Would Buy It.

Every major power in the world spends billions of dollars a year to be prepared for war. The Americans spend much more than everyone else combined.

March 2, 2022

Book Pitch, July 26, 2016

Has the death of mainstream media opened the door to every political quack and snake-oil dealer with the gall to dream up the most compelling lies?

December 31, 2020

The Problem with Columnists

Newspaper publishers love opinion writers for the same reason TV news networks use so many journalist panels: they’re cheap. In fact, they cost much less, per word, than reporters.

August 3, 2019

Canadian Border Services Agency’s New List of Banned (and Awful but Not Banned) Publications

This report contains a list of titles reviewed by the Prohibited Importations Unit (PIU), Program Compliance and Outreach Division, at Headquarters in Ottawa, during the period January 1 to March 31, 2019.

June 6, 2019
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Has Facebook Ruined the World? (Book Review)

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe (Penguin, $37 hard cover) is an intriguing book about a good idea that turned out to be bad, something that was useful when it was small but is now a menace because of its size and power.

April 12, 2019

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