I subscribe to the Toronto Star everyday because of it's coverage of local news and the Globe and Mail 2 days a week. I read the Guardian every once in a while and feel guilty about it since I don't subscribe. Oh yea. I use the old paper to line my kitchen organics container and crunch it up to throw in the green bin every week.
I'm from Ontario originally and miss both of those papers. Thank you for mentioning your newspaper's second life lining your organics container! Newspaper is so useful for lining bins.
I was born in Smiths Falls but live in Long Beach and Berkeley. SF is now the Cannabis Capital of Canada. I love CBC radio as well as KQED. The Good Food show on KCRW is a long time favorite. What was your birth place in Ontario?
We subscribe to our local newspaper though personally it doesn't feel like a very high quality paper. It's full of local drama "if it bleeds it leads" stories (crimes and crime rates, traffic, local corruption) and carries very little international news. Additionally, my husband, who is somewhat of a Luddite, refuses to read it online, so we get a paper copy delivered seven days a week. The plastic bags that they are delivered in are the bane of my existence. All the plastic bag recycling facilities near me are in grocery stores, where many people mistake the plastic bag recycling bins for trash cans and it's common knowledge that it's all treated as trash by the store. I have a digital subscription to the NYT. I don't listen to the radio much, but when I do, it's our local PBS station. We do recycle our newspapers, and every so often someone on my Buy Nothing group asks for newspaper for a project, so I'm always happy to give our papers a more meaningful life.
Yes, local support is key to keep “someone watching” and asking questions instead of reprinting press releases.
Great point about a local reporter covering council meetings - support required for the long lead time to build connections and wade through the PR to see if a project is truly great, or even new.
Investigative reporting takes a long time before an advertising dollar can support the printed page - issues like the Panama Papers, the Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown who took down Jeffrey Epstein thus Ghislaine Maxwell, Glenn Greenwald who broke the NSA (Edward Snowden) story, and many more like Kevin Donovan at the Toronto Star.
For us it’s the Toronto Star, Globe & Mail (in print!), yes the NY Times, and others more consumer oriented.
KPFA 94.1 in the Bay Area is my absolute favorite for local and national news, plus awesome music programming with real DJ’s. KPFA, the first station in the Pacifica radio network, is listener sponsored radio (no funding from interest groups) and does commendable community service work. Check out this link to find a station near you:
Great! Thank you for sharing your station and paper. That's a great point about bin liners! Someone asked me about lining a trashcan just yesterday, I said use newspaper but didn't think to include that here. Thank you for mentioning it!
I subscribe to the Toronto Star everyday because of it's coverage of local news and the Globe and Mail 2 days a week. I read the Guardian every once in a while and feel guilty about it since I don't subscribe. Oh yea. I use the old paper to line my kitchen organics container and crunch it up to throw in the green bin every week.
I'm from Ontario originally and miss both of those papers. Thank you for mentioning your newspaper's second life lining your organics container! Newspaper is so useful for lining bins.
I was born in Smiths Falls but live in Long Beach and Berkeley. SF is now the Cannabis Capital of Canada. I love CBC radio as well as KQED. The Good Food show on KCRW is a long time favorite. What was your birth place in Ontario?
Resubscribed local! Interesting observations here! From a fellow CBC radio Junkie!
Wonderful! And thank you for sharing that. Another NPR station near me carries As It Happens so I still listen to that occasionally :)
We subscribe to our local newspaper though personally it doesn't feel like a very high quality paper. It's full of local drama "if it bleeds it leads" stories (crimes and crime rates, traffic, local corruption) and carries very little international news. Additionally, my husband, who is somewhat of a Luddite, refuses to read it online, so we get a paper copy delivered seven days a week. The plastic bags that they are delivered in are the bane of my existence. All the plastic bag recycling facilities near me are in grocery stores, where many people mistake the plastic bag recycling bins for trash cans and it's common knowledge that it's all treated as trash by the store. I have a digital subscription to the NYT. I don't listen to the radio much, but when I do, it's our local PBS station. We do recycle our newspapers, and every so often someone on my Buy Nothing group asks for newspaper for a project, so I'm always happy to give our papers a more meaningful life.
Yes, local support is key to keep “someone watching” and asking questions instead of reprinting press releases.
Great point about a local reporter covering council meetings - support required for the long lead time to build connections and wade through the PR to see if a project is truly great, or even new.
Investigative reporting takes a long time before an advertising dollar can support the printed page - issues like the Panama Papers, the Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown who took down Jeffrey Epstein thus Ghislaine Maxwell, Glenn Greenwald who broke the NSA (Edward Snowden) story, and many more like Kevin Donovan at the Toronto Star.
For us it’s the Toronto Star, Globe & Mail (in print!), yes the NY Times, and others more consumer oriented.
KPFA 94.1 in the Bay Area is my absolute favorite for local and national news, plus awesome music programming with real DJ’s. KPFA, the first station in the Pacifica radio network, is listener sponsored radio (no funding from interest groups) and does commendable community service work. Check out this link to find a station near you:
https://pacificanetwork.org/
Great! Thank you for sharing your station and paper. That's a great point about bin liners! Someone asked me about lining a trashcan just yesterday, I said use newspaper but didn't think to include that here. Thank you for mentioning it!