Weekly roundup August 24-30

Articles/Columns

A mountain to climb: MEC was struggling before COVID-19. Now the pandemic threatens its survival Financial Post

Another farce on Bill Blair’s watch Maclean’s

End of an era: A last link to publishing’s storied past closes its Toronto doors Toronto Star

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Screenshot from Twitter. 2020-08-29T21:33:41.000Z. Les Perreaux (@perreaux). The defacing of the Macdonald statue is a tradition that goes back at least the 17 years I’ve been working in Quebec and I’m sure decades before.   Everybody just calm down..

Screenshot from Twitter. 2020-08-29T23:22:54.000Z. @tomhawthorn.bsky.social 🇺🇦🇨🇦 (@tomhawthorn). @perreaux @padams29 Regularly vandalized since the mid-1960s and decapitated in 1992. Head (and statue) not replaced for years.. Reply 2020-08-29T23:45:31.000Z. @tomhawthorn.bsky.social 🇺🇦🇨🇦 (@tomhawthorn). @perreaux @padams29 On the day the statue was erected in 1895, The Gazette noted: "He blundered in many things and in many things came short of reaching the standard of the ideal public man.".