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from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  The Globe and Mail becomes the news

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at how our corporate cousin, The Globe and Mail, is trying to win readers:

Splashy Front Pages Help Once-Staid Newspaper Prosper

Toronto's Globe and Mail is conducting bold page-one "experiments" -- oversize headlines, jumbo art -- to attract readers. But one advertiser, ...   more »

View Article  Attention commuters: Get polled

My downtown-living colleagues here in Ottawa think I’m nuts for putting myself through a home-office-home commute every day where each commute time can take between 25 and 45 minutes to cover the 30 kilometres each way. They might have something but my comparable was the crazy, frustrating commute I had ...   more »

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