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I'm done with shopping for the afternoon, and getting laundry underway. That's expected to be a short chore.

In the meantime, I've tried to set up my digital subscription to the Toronto Star, partly because retail delivery to my closest grocery outlet is stalled today, partly due to the need to support democracy in general, and partly due to tax advantages. I would much prefer the hardcopy edition being delivered to my door, but that seems to be a problem for the Star to arrange for Ottawa subscribers in general these days. One wonders how closely they're tracking digital subscription stats by hometown. Might there be a "tripwire" number that - if achieved - they start looking at arranging home hardcopy delivery for qualifying communities?

Problem: I get this message when I make the attempt...

CityID field contained invalid characters. (19)
There was an error creating your order. If this problem persists please contact customer service.


I've e-mailed their circulation desk about that issue and hope to get useful information soon.

I would also much prefer a locally-owned newspaper operating in tune with the Atkinson Principles, as either a subscriber, a prospective employee, or both. (This isn't the first time I've mentioned that topic here.) Seeing as both major anglophone daily papers in Ottawa-Gatineau are currently owned by Postmedia, that's not going to happen unless Postmedia is broken up or the major chartered banks have an attack of social responsibility on a grander scale than I'm used to.

More on this topic another time. Hopefully soon.
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This is one of those questions that's been bugging me for a while and I want to flush out some informed, opinionated answers.

I've been wondering of late: could Ottawa do with a daily newspaper of its own that hewed to the Atkinson Principles as set out by the founder of the Toronto Star, and further developed by his successors in the century or so since its founding?

It occurs to me that the two anglophone dailies based here in Ottawa at present, useful as they often are, do not often cover the whole of certain stories for various reasons. (Sadly, I cannot speak to the francophone side of the market at present due to lack of skill as a reader. It's on my ongoing "to do" list to fix that.)

I think a paper operating on the Atkinson Principles might help remedy that, as much as Internet access already does if not more so.

Any thoughts?

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