Jeff reveals that his time at CITY-TV abruptly came to an end one day because he’d become increasingly disgusted by what he saw happening to local news. He writes that, one afternoon, the news staff was complaining about the lack of a strong lead story for that night’s newscast. When something came over the newswire indicating that a stabbing victim had died, a cheer went up in the newsroom. Jeff says he marched right into his boss Moses Znaimer’s office and quit on the spot.

That is interesting. I had once seen Jeff’s last newscast on CP24 Rewind, and they had a sendoff for him at the end of CityPulse, with Gord Martineau saying Jeff was leaving “to pursue other interests”.

I always like hearing these insider stories about the CityPulse newsroom, especially in the 80s.