Out with the old, in with the 21st century
Change is good, isn’t it? Well, brace yourselves. If you haven’t heard already, I’ve been hired to run this paper next year. I would be lying if I said I thought it was going to be easy. It’s going to be one heck of a challenge – though one I’m ready to take. I want [...]
It was like letting out all the anger I never thought I had. We smashed tables with our feet, bent their legs with our hands and ripped off their hardware with our teeth. (Okay, that last part is a bit extreme, but it wouldn’t have surprised me.) “Everything has to go,” we were told of [...]
Continue reading …I wanted to ignore Kony2012 when I first heard about it. The slogan was all over my Facebook newsfeed; apparently #stopkony was trending on Twitter. Perhaps my inner hipster told me I didn’t want to be another person talking about the same thing as everyone else. But the journalist in me couldn’t hold back. I [...]
Continue reading …I first heard about it from an AQ writer. “I just wanted to give you the heads up,” he wrote. I get these types of letters a lot, story pitches The Aquinian often can’t pursue in the end. And then there was this one. “Jay Scott killed his gf and himself last week sometime.” [...]
Continue reading …I was probably 10 when I witnessed my first sex scene. I was home alone and had turned on HBO – Sex and the City was on repeat that day. I was never allowed to watch the show, but I didn’t understand why. Okay, so the title has “sex” in it – big deal. What’s [...]
Continue reading …“So, how can we piss people off this week, editors?” “Another Harrington story?” “No, that’s too easy a target. Besides, our reporters don’t like going in there. They’ve complained about slipping on all the blood in the halls.” I look across the story meeting table at an editor who’s sweating like a pig in a [...]
Continue reading …When I was a resident in Harrington Hall, every Friday night I’d pour myself a rum and coke, a bowl of chips and wail away on my electric guitar. Believe it or not, my wing rep deemed me “most likely to form a garage band in her dorm room,” cranking the lead riffs to songs [...]
Continue reading …My closet at my home in Nova Scotia is still full of my old Barbies, Polly Pockets and Beanie Babies. About six years ago, I crammed myself into that closet, closed the door and tried to close out the world. My dad had just told me he was moving in with his girlfriend. There was something [...]
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One of the brilliant features of this job is the learning opportunities it creates. Because it creates situations I’ve never faced , I don’t always have the answers – but the exercise isn’t about getting it right the first time, every time, anyway. It’s about learning from imperfection. This is how I’ve always thought of [...]
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Prompted by four days passing without mention of Andrew Bartlett’s death on the New Brunswick Beacon and no interest shown in pursuing it during the regular story meeting, Don Dickson and Jan Wong presented the fourth year seminar class with a reality check last Wednesday: while one opportunity to tell the community’s most important story [...]
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I didn’t believe my cousin Kylie when she told me she’s afraid of flying, but she insisted. Even after I pointed out that the only problem with travelling from Halifax to Los Angeles for her 2009 family vacation stemmed from a sickness that started the night before, she shrugged, barely looking up from her book [...]
Continue reading …Matt McCann – The Aquinian So, Sunday marked the end of the federal government’s first string of public copyright consultations since 2001, during which Canadians were invited to voice their concerns about how copyright laws effect their lives, how long rights should last, and how best to foster innovation and competition in an increasingly digital [...]
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