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Friday, January 14, 2005
This Friday's shameless super-plug
We're getting better and better all the time. The new issue of the Western Standard (Jan. 31, 2005) is being shipped out now, with the cover story on missile defense by new bright light Andrea Mrozek, and the magazine has a new look. As Ezra Levant remarks in his Publisher's Letter, "More of a good thing":
First, we’ve freshened up our editorial design, keeping the best of the magazine’s unique look from the past year, but adding more colour and making the layout more reader-friendly. It’s our first real tune-up to our look since we launched, and I think it’s great. Of course, the main thing is that our content is just as strong as ever.
Stronger, even.You’ll notice some new writers. For example, Colby Cosh--who has written cover stories for us about the politicization of the Supreme Court, and Preston Manning’s new green conservatism--is now a regular columnist. He’s one of Canada’s best writers, but Western Standard readers will get to see a new side of Colby, as he applies his unique insights to the world of sport.
Here's a little taste of Colby in the latest issue from his column "A new king fo the hill" aboul ski champion Thomas Grandi:
Most of us, I daresay, would rather watch a downhill practice run than a giant slalom race. It doesn’t take a lot of expertise to appreciate the downhill’s gravitational imperative; it more or less comes down to staying in the tuck and not breaking your neck. If you’re like me, you can’t really tell what makes one skier more successful than another on the slalom course. But for the truly learned, the slalom and the giant slalom offer the purest, headiest form of the sport. The technical events play the fine red wine to the downhill’s fizzy proletarian lager.
One of the things that's still there, and what we'd like to highlight for those of you who have never seen the magazine, is the Tim Rotheisler drawing that accompanies each Mark Steyn column. Putting Steyn and Rotheisler on the same page is--in a nod to our new sports writer Colby Cosh--like putting Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri together on the ice (for those of you too young to recall that pairing with the Edmonton Oilers in the '80s, that means "very good").
Here's Tim's latest, Prime Minister Paul Martin doing a little Maple Leaf navel gazing on the beach.
As Mr. Steyn writes in his column, available Monday:
To show how much he cares, Jean Chrétien, after 9/11, went to a mosque; after SARS broke out, he went to a Chinese restaurant. After the tsunami, the prime minister no doubt toyed with going to a luxury resort in Phuket for three weeks, but as it turned out three quarters of the cabinet were already on the beach in their thongs and in no hurry to return.
Professing how much you care is not quite the same as caring--see previous columns in this space on native policy, etc. Conservatives learned long ago that no matter how destructive “progressive” policies are in practice, their rhetorical kindliness trumps all. Even so, the tsunamis set new records in the ever-widening chasm between the real world and the left’s pieties.
Yes, folks, you get Mark Steyn, Colby Cosh, Michael Coren, Karen Selick, David Warren, Ted Byfield, Pierre Lemieux, Ric Dolphin, Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams ALL IN ONE MAGAZINE! Whew! Q: Will Canadian media ever be the same? A: Too late to be asking that.
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Keep up the good work. More material to pass on to my liberal friends the better!
Posted by: mallard | 2005-01-14 8:33:59 PM
I hope you have started selling more ads. My subscription comes due soon and I am counting on the price going down.
Posted by: Pete E | 2005-01-15 12:45:41 AM
Sounds great. Ditto on the price thing, but $75 for 24 issues is still reasonable compared to many magazines. It's a lot more than what one would pay for Time or Maclean's, but you get what you pay for...
Posted by: jonathan | 2005-01-16 9:32:00 AM
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