(Response: Wow! One of the benefits of my blogging hobby…hearing from former news colleagues! Yes, John, radio reporting always amazed me …even though I never did it … you all did several stories a day while we in tv did one …and yet you never were paid what you deserved for all your hard work. And from what I understand, it’s even worse now, in a lot of ways. The only hope for those raising a family is to get experience and then move on to a tv gig, where pay/conditions can at least provide a living wage. h.o)

(Response: Don’t recall/think I’d ever go to Liitle Mountain “in the middle of the night” to meet someone over a story. I was never brave enough for that! But I did always respect people’s requests not to break a story they gave me ..until they were ready to do so. h.o.)

B.C. surely needs you now.

(Response: It’s interesting… Global and I originally had talked about me doing “special” stories once or twice a month after I retired, but they renegged on that. I certainly could not see myself doing “p.r.” … and then a computer-wise friend suggested/set up the Blog. It opened an amazingly interesting door for me! I feel I am giving back to my community: standing up for journalistic standards, integrity and causes I believe are just. And it feels good … even though I hear I’m no longer kindly thought of by many where I worked and helped make such a success for so many years. ho)

(Response: Thanks, Connie. That Turkish embassy story was quite fun ..maybe I’ll tell it on here, for a little light relief, once we get past the election. For my readers, Connie Sampson is the author of Buried in the Silence, the story of the murder of aboriginal trapper Leo LaChance by a Saskatchewan white supremacist. ho )

Brian.