Yesterday's Papers

The early morning read that gives context to your day

LONDON, ONTARIO – In a year when I have been assailed by too many wrenching farewells, I notched up a lesser but still poignant cutting of a different kind of cord this week; this one carried out – after a decade’s worth of oscillating consideration and resistance – by my own volition. You probably won’t need to sit down to safely absorb this bulletin so I’ll just come out and declare it forthwith. After almost fifty years of faithful readership (and forty years of occasionally interrupted writership) I have cancelled my subscription to The London Free Press. I know; shocking, isn’t it? Indeed, most of my friends will be extending no sympathy whatsoever for this latest severing but instead will roll their eyes in mystification and inquire: “What took you so long?”

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