Chinese TV shopping channels a big hit with older consumers

The Globe and Mail's front page features a story on Chinese TV shopping. Excerpt:

"China’s online shopping craze has built some of the world’s biggest edifices of digital commerce. But in the urban compounds and rural villages that house the country’s greying population, another retail boom is playing out, this one on television.

"From 2007 to 2015, China’s TV shopping sales grew at an average pace of 24.5 per cent per year, driven by people like Ms. Zhang, 60, who want nothing to do with the complications of buying online. “People at my age don’t dare,” she said. Only 4 per cent of buyers on Taobao, the biggest Chinese online mall, are older than 50."

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Stanley Burke dead at 93

Television journalist and author Stanley Burke died Saturday at Kingston General Hospital. He was 93. Burke anchored CBC's The National News from 1966-1969 before it was re-branded as The National.
Before becoming an anchor, Burke worked as a foreign correspondent in many places including France. He became particularly passionate covering stories about the Biafran civil war in the late 1960s, a battle in Nigeria to fight the secession of Biafra as an independent state.
His outspokenness and criticism over the issue led to his resignation from CBC. He went on to launch a public campaign to bring a peaceful resolution to the fighting which had also provoked widespread death from famine and disease.
"He was so personally involved and wanted Canadians to understand that it's a whole other world out there that we should care about," said Peter Mansbridge, CBC's chief correspondent and host of The National.
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Globe and Mail obit by Fred Langan

Carl Mollins dead at 84

Carl Mollins, a Reuters journalist in London during the late 1960s, died in hospital on Saturday as the result of injuries sustained in a fall on his daily walk along Toronto's lakeshore, the independent website The Baron reports. He was 84. Mollins began his career in Britain and after five years at Reuters, returned to Canada where he worked at Canadian Press and Macleans Magazine

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National Newspaper awards winners

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The sole woman in the Ottawa Press Gallery

Jennifer Ditchburn writes: (Excerpt)

"The weirdness, the novelty, of a woman reporting from the press gallery would persist well into the 1960s, as the institution was a primarily male one for most of its history. In the beginning, it was a proud association of newspapermen, who hung out playing cards, smoking and drinking with the politicians around the precinct, and who were often deeply involved in federal politics themselves – politics that didn’t include any female representatives until Agnes Macphail in 1921."
(Not all are identified in the Globe caption. -- extreme left is Geoff Scott (CHCH), Robert Hull of the Windsor Star (deceased), behind Lester Pearson is Ian MacDonald of the Vancouver Sun and to the left of  Ms Fairbairn is the late Fraser MacDougall of CP who lived till age 92!. )
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