(This Letter was sent to the Times Colonist on November 7 2025) Dear Editor, 140 years ago today (November 7th, 2025) the last spike was driven near Revelstoke BC, completing what is now known as the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway. It took just 4 years for government and private railway tycoons to complete that …
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Press Freedom is not Negotiable – A Rewrite under Protest
(This letter was submitted to the Alberni Valley News on October 16, 2025) Dear Editor, I am a little stunned. This week, a vice president of Carpenter Media, the new American owner of the Alberni Valley News and other former Black Press papers, contacted me about a letter submitted a week earlier but not published. …
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Updated Oct 14 — Small town Canadian newspapers at risk from anti-democratic Carpenter Media ownership group
(The Letter was sent to the Alberni Valley News on October 8 2025) Update: October 14th – Carpenter Media Editor Refuses to Run my Letter. Today I was phoned (I believe… it all happened a little quickly) by Senior Vice President & Group Publisher Canadian Division, Mary Kemmis. She said she is in charge of …