You know the type - Joe Clark Tories. People promising change, but who turn out to be part of the system that needs changing. The Globe had the opportunity to do exactly what the Post is now doing, but waited until a competitor arrived on the doorstep. To the Globe's credit, they are now responding to the competition. Which teaches Canadians two lessons.
Competition breeds quality.
Eloquent complacency does not a newspaper make. There s a guy who writes for the Vancouver Sun named John MacLauchlan Gray. Gray writes an articulate column called the Left Coast . Of course we fundamentally disagree with his left wing agenda, but we respect his right to espouse it. Interestingly, Southam is the same company writing Gray s cheques at the Sun.