Power, Prime Ministers and the Press
The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill

I somehow missed this excellent book when it was published in 2018. I noticed a reference to it in John Ibbitson’s recent book on Dief and Pearson, and it was mentioned in several of the tributes to the late Brian Mulroney. I’m glad I caught up with it as it is a wonderful chronicle of one of Canada......more

This is an entertaining history of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa, focusing on the men(mostly) and women ( in the last generation or so) who reported on activities in the nation’s capital. From the early days in the 19th century, when journalists were often scribes for newspapers owned or......more

News junkies, and people who care about how the Canadian media operates, will devour this wide ranging look at the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the men and women who gave us the news. Lewis goes all the way back to the earliest days of Canada (when political parties bought or created newspapers t......more

A very readable account of the working of the Ottawa press and thus of the political history of Canada. It is timely in the light of the contemporary attacks on the integrity of reporters and their employers to review the history of journalistic practice over the decades. Mr. Lewis writes in part fr......more

A must-read for any fan--or student--of Canadian journalism.......more