Martin Stringer calls it a career
Plus, former Conservative Party deputy leader Lisa Raitt appointed to CBC’s appointment advisory committee, and the Parliamentary Press Gallery bans a member from certain shared spaces for 90 days.
Bill Rodgers remembered: ‘It was 1978 and to six-year-old me, he was a star.’
It was show and tell day. As my friends clutched their favourite Barbie dolls and Tonka trucks, I held a business card in my hand, adorned with the colourful Channel 9 logo. Dad had just been hired as a reporter at CFTO-CTV in Toronto, transitioning from radio to what would become a 21-year career in television […]
Sharp Wits & Busy Pens takes a ‘sober-minded look’ at history of press gallery on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA—When Bloomberg Hill reporter Josh Wingrove volunteered to co-edit a coffee table book on the 150-year history of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, he had no idea what he’d signed up for. And he knows hard work. Probably best known when he was at The Globe and Mail as the only print reporter who video-recorded, with his cellphone, the […]
