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Hello Sweetheart…Get Me Val Sears

Posted on January 24, 2016 by ronbase — 8 Comments

Hello, sweetheart. Yeah, get me rewrite will you? One of the giants has fallen, Val Sears, a newspaper legend out of a time of newspaper legends. Whaddya mean you don’t know who Val Sears is. Val wrote features and covered…

Justin Trudeau’s Dad and Me

Posted on October 22, 2015 by ronbase — 8 Comments

In Donald Brittain’s powerful 1978 television documentary The Champions, about the lifelong battle for Canada’s destiny between Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque, there is a shot of Trudeau being interviewed in the midst of the 1968 Liberal leadership convention. Days away from becoming…

Taking Trudeau’s Picture

Posted on April 4, 2013 by ronbase — 2 Comments

In Donald Brittain’s powerful 1978 television documentary The Champions, about the lifelong battle between Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque for Canada’s destiny, there is a shot of Trudeau being interviewed in the midst of the 1968 Liberal leadership convention. Trudeau, days away…