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Heckling is good, legacy media may be doomed: what we learned from Travers Debates

Debaters once again brought thoughtful and bitingly humorous arguments to a crowd of wonky Hillites that lapped it up, raising $51,000 by the end of the evening.

NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau and Maclean's Scott Feschuk at the fourth annual Travers Debates, Tuesday, May 17.The Hill Times photo Jake Wright

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

May 23, 2016

Heckling is one of the oldest ways to get a cheap thrill and has done for public discourse what pantyhose have for backseat romance. But without a good heckle the Chamber would be pretty dreary. As well, democracy in Canada is still thriving despite struggles of the legacy, or traditional, news m...

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