![]() ![]() Zink could proposed some alternative to Trudeaucracy. Pals in Moscow, Peking and Havana understand all his moves and silently abet his leading the nation to a collectivist dictatorship. The evidence consists of old quotes (all out of context) from Cité Libre, snippets from speeches and interviews, and such deep analyses of Trudeau's personality as his once having lied about his age-the latter somehow marking the man as devious and amoral Nowhere does Zink acknowledge there might be anything good about Trudeau, such as his dignity and his uncanny ability to adapt to change. Everything that Pierre Trudeau has ever said or done, from adolescent days in Montreal to the recent trip to Cuba, is conceived of as a plot to turn Canada into a communistic state. This book is pathetic both awful and sad. Zink lived and worked in Ottawa as a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. In 1972 Viva Chairman Pierre in 1977 and What Price Freedom in 1981. Lubor’s legacy included three volumes of published columns: Trudeaucracy Leaving Peter and Bob to reflect on the diminished communist community. Soviet Union, Lubor, in failing health, signed off at the Sun in 1993, Like Peter, Lubor twice ran as a federal Conservative candidate Often writing columns with an anti-communist or anti-Pierre Trudeau When the Tely folded in 1971, he continued as a Toronto Sun columnist, The Telegram’s eye and he was hired as a columnist, based in Ottawa. As editor, hisĮditorials won him a National Newspaper Award in 1961. Sun in Manitoba was his first Canadian newspaper stop. ![]() His wife and young son and a decade later, moved to Canada. Returned home and was a Radio Prague broadcaster until the Communist Of the Czech underground and was a World War 2 hero. He fled toĮngland in 1939 after the Nazis invaded his homeland, became a member Lubor, born in Klapy, Czechoslovakia inġ920 had first hand experience with dictators and communists. The columnists looked for communists under every rock, as Paul Writing team consisted of Peter Worthington, Bob MacDonald and Lubor J. Just over two decades, the Toronto Sun’s impassioned anti-communist The Toronto Sun Family : 1971 - 2013 blog provides this synopsis of Zink's life which helps us understand why Zink was fiercely opposed to communism. Zink whose columns relentlessly painted Trudeau as a crypto-communist. Leading the Trudeau attack was Czechoslovakian-born Lubor J. Among the Sun's favourite targets in the 1970s was then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Many would suggest that the Sun has never been a "non-partisan voice of moderation". Prepared to tackle the arrogant left and the misguided right when Moderation in Canada made itself heard loudly and clearly, in firmĪnswer to the shrill nonsense and ideology that is espoused these daysĪre neither right nor left we dislike fanatics of any hue, and are That may sound wishy-washy, but we won't be. The Sun's journalistic philosophy was outlined in its first editorial :ĭefine ourselves as a politically non-partisan voice of moderation. The sender of this letter to the "Sun" did not know the address but provided a detailed description of its location enabling Canada Post to deliver the cover. ![]()
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