Re: [OT] Police actively HELP Hamas supporters disrupt Jewish-friendly Walk with Israel

On 2025-05-29 8:25 PM, danny burstein wrote:

In <101askk$3rn78$6@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
 

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I've always found Brian Lilley to be one of the few good journalists. He
tells it like it is and I think he's pretty fair. If he says something,
you can take it to the bank.

 Amusing sidenote:  I was travelling to Windsor/Detroit, so I
picked up a copy of the Toronto Star looking for the article.

What article? The Lilley opinion piece?

 Lots of good stuff (and damn, newspapers are expensive these days..).

I recently saw a copy of my hometown newspaper in paper format. We'd always had a subscription when I was growing up; my mother kept until she died in 2017. It had always been a full-size paper - a broadsheet I believe - and was relatively thick even on weekdays but *now* it's a pathetic imitation of itself. The pages were very narrow - I've never seen a newspaper cut to that size - and there was so little in it that I told someone else I'd call it more of a newsletter than an actual newspaper. It was so thin that it might not have enough paper to line a bird cage with, assuming I had a bird. I wouldn't give a nickel for it but I think they wanted at least a dollar for it. (Apparently, the Saturday paper is somewhat thicker but I had a weekday edition.) Newspapers really *are* dying, particularly in print editions. Online papers may hang on a while longer until they completely alienate everyone with their lies.

 Didn't find the column.
 Sent e-mails (well, web forms..) to CBC.  They replied
that, well, duh, I had gotten the paper wrong (but, being
Canadian, they didn't laugh at me...) and were kind enough
to kick me direct URLs.
 

I'm not surprised you failed to find Brian Lilley in the Toronto Star, which has a decided leftist slant. Lilley is in the Toronto Sun, a successful tabloid that skews more to the right.
I'm not sure why you asked the CBC where to find Brian Lilley's column though ;-) They aren't a public information service, although they apparently came through in this case.
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Rhino