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From bereavement to redemption
We are under extraordinary pressure from our readers to advocate a pogrom of Japs. - Vancouver Sun Ottawa bureau reporter Bruce Hutchison to Jack Pickersgill, assistant private secretary to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Decemb...
Update on that AI-generated journalist
Straight off the top, Real Story subscribers should always allow for the most remote possibility that there’s less going on with this little scandal than meets the eye. Even so, the intrigue abides. You’ll definitely want to start from Sund...
Bread & Circuses. . . and an AI journalist?
When the news isn’t really news, and when a widely published Canadian analyst might not even exist. Fun times in what was once the free world, and the free press.
Following Monday’s Real Story newsletter (I warned you this week would be re...
I warned you this week would be really weird
Following from Monday’s Real Story newsletter (This week is going to be very, very weird), my column in The National Post today: Trump reaps the spoils of a global dumpster fire. Will be going deep into all this and more from my overflowing...
This week is going to be very, very weird
In the great unraveling of the American-led international order, the most important event among many possible inflection points this week will probably be U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting on Thursday with Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinp...
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