Senator Paula Simons on Nostr: Years ago, when the Edmonton Journal was ordered by head office in Toronto to endorse ...
Years ago, when the Edmonton Journal was ordered by head office in Toronto to endorse Jim Prentice over Rachel Notley, I took to Twitter in outrage, to denounce that decision. I didn’t lose my job. But the editor-in-chief who protected me - and who went public with the news that we’d be ordered to write the piece - eventually lost hers. I would in no way compare Jim Prentice, a good and thoughtful man who was just the wrong leader in the wrong time, to Donald Trump. But the parallels…
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