On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I think we have a problem here with this deal.

I'm annoyed that I missed or forgot to notice the implications of it for the better part of a year. Because Thomson Reuters owns the Globe and Mail as well, I think I'm going to have to stop buying that newspaper, regardless of what I think of the people working there. Am I wrong to believe that a realistic prospect?

Today, I cancelled my subscription to that venerable newspaper.

To be honest, it's as much me as them. Neither of us are what we were when I started my subscription years ago. I can't even remember when I started, but it seems like at least a decade.

Time was, they had columnists like Naomi Klein and Spider Robinson back then. And they weren't owned by the phone company back then, either. So a certain amount of freedom from promoting corporate thought as gospel was there to be had. Hence Klein and Robinson.

No more.

Finances aside, the last straw was their Op-Ed stance on the new changes to the Unemployment Insurance rules planned via C-38. They're not as strident as columnists like Quebecor/Sun Media's Brian Lilley or the Citizen's Michael Taube. But they're marching in the same general direction. Problematic, that is.

So. We're done for the time being. I'm not ruling out resurrecting my subscription anymore than I am the idea of resuming full regular business with DC Comics. If I draw that line in the sand, and they cross it in any of several ways to my liking, that could be a different sort of problem.

We'll see. Finances permitting.