Paul Bagnell retired Friday after 24 years as an anchor and reporter with BNN Bloomberg and was given a classy on-air sendoff.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/shows/the-open/2025/07/18/paul-bagnell-retires-after-remarkable-career-on-bnn-bloomberg/

The one fact that everyone can agree on is that Richard Southern is employed as a reporter by 680 News, and has been for a long time, and Stefanie is not. The free market has spoken on that. But maybe Stefanie is just not a fan of the free market either.
Haven't seen any concrete examples of what Stefanie seems to think is so biased about his reporting, or how it is any different from other Queen's Park reporting. But it's all WhoGAS: Doug Ford has easily cruised to three majority governments, irregardless of his reporting. 
There is also a reporter for the London Free Press newspaper who is married to a newly elected Conservative MP. But that doesn't mean that all of that newspaper's coverage will be automatically slanted to that party either.
It seems like an unnatural obsession over Richard Southern. Let's hear your thoughts about other reporters.
 

Glen Warren wrote:

I thought The Star sold and burnt all of the furniture when they vacated 1 Yonge?  

They are at The Well now, the new Wellington Market complex on the northwest corner of Spadina and Front (also the former site of The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Telegram).
 

paterson1 wrote:

Their real issue is the 1 billion in debt that they are going to have a real problem paying back.  Day to day their balance sheet isn't bad. 

The $1 billion in debt is a real problem. Someone help me with the math if I am missing something, but the balance sheet appears to be bad too. Corus made some painful cuts over the past two years and they were just enough to keep pace with the rapidly declining revenue. But their Outlook projects television ad revenue to drop by 20 per cent in the June to August quarter, continuing the trajectory. With not much left to cut, something has to give on the TV side. At least the Radio division seems to have improved its profitability through their cuts. Their Outlook hints of additional cost reductions so that spending in the June-August quarter will be reduced by 10 to 15 per cent compared to a year ago:

"In the fourth quarter, we expect geopolitical and economic uncertainty and the ongoing over-supply of premium digital video inventory from foreign competitors will contribute to continued lower demand for linear advertising. As such, the year-over-year percentage decline in Television advertising revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 is expected to be in the 20 per cent range. Amortization of TV program rights is expected to be relatively flat in the quarter compared to the prior year. The Company will continue with its implementation of additional cost reduction initiatives and expects general and administrative expenses to decline in the range of 10 to 15 per cent for the fourth quarter versus the prior year, excluding any potential benefit from the Independent Local News Fund."
 

I could be wrong but I don't think Corus has any live, local hosts left at its Fresh Radio 100.5 in Peterborough as of a couple months ago. This is the FM derivative of Peterborough's oldest radio station, CHEX, which went to air in 1942 and was later renamed CKRU for its Kruze oldies format. Also had been the home of legendary longtime newscaster John Badham.

I usually watch the Late Show with Stephen Colbert at 11:35 p.m. on WIVB-TV Buffalo Channel 4 (airing half an hour earlier than Global TV), on cable, but for whatever reason tonight they were showing the sitcoms that normally air on Buffalo's/Nexstar Media's CW 23 at that hour instead. Not sure if there was a switching error somewhere or if this is a permanent move?

Fun fact: Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel also designed the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty. The iconic New York City statue is basically a mini-Eiffel Tower with the sculpture wrapping around it, and it pre-dates the Eiffel Tower.  

They have enough to buy an argument though.

There is still one television election coverage issue playing out: CTV was early in projecting the Liberal win to be minority government only and Global also made a minority Liberal government projection. But the CBC as of this hour is continuing to maintain that it is too close to call whether it will be a minority or majority Liberal government. The CBC's argument is that there are still 11 ridings that either have final vote counts that are too close and could go to official recount, or have special ballot polls that have yet to be counted, or still have enough uncounted polls to make a difference. It's fluid and the CBC thinks that if the Liberals, now at 168 seats, can still flip four of those seat counts they get to majority status with 172 seats (but the CBC is ignoring that there are a few ridings with slim Liberal leads over Conservatives where the Conservatives hypothetically could still win on final poll counts).

Radiowiz wrote:

DX wrote:

TomTV wrote:

Wouldn't those retired people be very aware of the fact that it was the Conservatives that raised the retirement age to 67?  Not exactly an audience receptive to voting for the party that wanted them to work two years longer (while PP himself has already earned a million dollar pension from taxpayers by age 30-something).
 

Canada does not have a mandatory "retirement age" for most workers. You can legally work past 65, work past 67 etc., unless you are in a rare job that involves enough physicality that the employer can legally get an exemption to require an earlier age cutoff for that type of work.
More than a decade ago, the Harper government proposed raising the earliest starting age for Old Age Security monthly payments to 67 from 65 to make the plan sustainable, similar to what many other countries were doing, on the basis that people are living longer than they used to, and because OAS is funded from general revenues, and not through worker contributions like the Canada Pension Plan and workplace pensions. The plan was dropped due to opposition.
But where are we at a decade later, now that most baby boomers have started collecting, or are soon to collect, OAS? We still have the age 65 OAS start age but the federal deficit has mushroomed to $61 billion; in other words the government has been borrowing and printing money just to keep the OAS start age at 65 instead of 67 as more baby boomers reached age 65.
Just last month the C.D. Howe Institute issued a report recommending that the earliest start date for pension benefits be delayed to 67, and not because of the cost with people living longer lives but instead to address expected labour shortages as Canada's population ages. 
https://cdhowe.org/publication/2024-labour-market-review-challenges-trends-and-policy-solutions-for-canada/
And kids if you don't know or remember who C.D. Howe was, you should google it because you might be surprised by what h

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