Bell Canada’s cuts were a shoddy way to treat people

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Bell fails to understand that broadcasting, in providing people with information, has always made a contribution to better citizenship, writes Andrew Caddell. Wikimedia Commons photograph by Jason Paris

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

February 10, 2021

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—My first reporting job was in radio, working a beat and reading the news on a 5,000-watt station in Montreal, part of the long-ago CKO All-News Network. In the fall of 1977, I was making the princely sum of $9,600 a year and racing around Montreal in my father’s car, with an old...

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