Doon Valley Journal

Though he’ll be back on the air from time to time to help cover major events, today marks the last day on the job for CBC News senior correspondent Brian Stewart. After he anchors The National tonight in place of Peter Mansbridge, he’ll saunter off into semi-retirement.
Stewart is a journalist’s journalist and has had a [...]

Here’s a television ad currently being aired in parts of the United States, as private interests, including physicians and health insurers, wage their war against President Barack Obama’s push to reform health care. It features Shona Holmes of Waterdown, Ont.
Holmes, 45, has become the latest poster child for Americans hoping to stave off Canadian-style “socialized [...]

You can take the boy out of the country but you can’t . . . well, you know the rest. I suppose there’s still enough Essex County in me to get a chuckle out of this short segment (below) from the Late Show with David Letterman, in which Letterman and his musical sidekick, Paul Shaffer, [...]

When it comes to newspaper correction notices, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. A respected Atlantic Canada broadsheet apologizes to the country’s Prime Minister for an error in a story concerning the PM’s attendance at the funeral of a former governor-general. Furthermore, the apology is necessitated not by errors of fact; rather, it concerns [...]

Steven Spielberg I’m not. But here’s the first attempt of a career print journalist to shoot and edit digital video — you pros must promise to stifle your chuckles. I know, I know  . . . some shots are too long (my wife loves animals), others too short. But hey, if I can do it, [...]