Classic "Why Rock the Boat?' available as e-book

"Why Rock the Boat?,” a charming spoof on the 1940s Montreal newspaper world, written by Bill Weintraub has been given new life as an e-book on Bev Editions and can be downloaded on Kobo, Kindle, Apple and Smashwords for under four dollars.

The book, first published in the 1960s, was made into a feature film by the National Film Board

and was the source of much amusement among media folk of the era as well as the general public. The hero is Harry Barnes, who joins the Montreal Daily Witness, “Canada’s most reactionary newspaper,” that closely resembles the Montreal Gazette of the Maurice Duplessis period.

Here is a link. A sample is available.

http://beveditions.com/?page_id=190

Jim Reed dead at 75 from lung cancer

Long-time W5 host and reporter Jim Reed has died of lung cancer, his family said Saturday. Reed, 75, also worked for CBC and TVO. His major stories at W5 included an exclusive interview with Susan Nelles, the nurse wrongly accused of murder at Toronto's Sick Kids hospital, and an interview with Yasser Arafat. He often reported on veterans, journeying to France with one of them for the 40th anniversary of D-Day. He also did a number of entertaining stories, including one on a nudist colony in France. Photo by Peter Rehak