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Are Best Forgotten":
.... and Mussolini made the trains run on
time!Bob Rae was a boob. I remember the Toronto Sun's editorial cartoons
of him with his mittens on a string hanging out his sleeves. We are on
the Evelyn Buck blog so I will take an opportunity to yearn for the return of
the good old days. Bill Davis as Premeir, Bette Stephenson in Education, James
Snow in transportation. Oh, if we only had those people again....
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and Hitler built Volkswagen and the Autobahn and brought Germany out of the Depression. I think that happened.
So what changed.
The Toronto Sun changed the face of journalism.
It was modelled on the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid that one could hold and read while hanging on to the strap above one's head, on the bus, on the way to work every morning.
It was one of a dozen morning newspapers.
One of a couple of dozen dailies
I read it every morning.
Became so depressed about the state of things, I emigrated with my husband and two sons to Canada.
Never looked back.
I do not read the Toronto Sun,.
Number One Son is currently living in Paris. He has noticed how everybody reads all the time wherever they happen to be.It seems little has changed.
I talk to him on Skype.
He sends pictures of where he is on Facebook
Bill Davis was really interesting to watch. He could control a room full of angry people & talk his head off without breaking into sweat. It was only later, when you were driving home from the auditorium, that you realized that he had not really said anything of substance at all.
ReplyDeleteFor some things, like communicating with family. the internet is great. Can you imagine how much the phone companies could have made on the night after Dalton resigned? On the downside, how many kids went to work for Bell right out of school?
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