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Re: New York Times Issues Humiliating Correction ......// Dan Bilefsky is a Canada correspondent for The New York Times, based in Montreal. He returned to Canada in 2017, after 28 years abroad, reporting from, among other places, Paris, Brussels, New York, Istanbul, London and Prague. - A native of Montreal, Mr. Bilefsky studied history and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and received a master’s degree in European politics and society, at Oxford. He started his journalism career at The Financial Times, before joining The Wall Street Journal in Brussels, where he covered politics, terrorism, and the European beer industry. He joined The International Herald Tribune (now The International New York Times) in Brussels in 2005. Mr. Bilefsky is a passionate food enthusiast and an amateur musician. https://www.nytimes.com/by/dan-bilefsky -
He says: ''Nearly a century after my great-grandfather arrived at the Old Port of Montreal, as a refugee — and about 28 years after I graduated high school and left Montreal, to study abroad, and become a foreign correspondent, throughout Europe — I have returned home, to be a Canada correspondent for The New York Times. So much has changed, since I last lived here, and I have so many questions, about Quebec today — its identity and aspirations. I’m taking a road trip across the province, to learn more about my birthplace and home. I hope readers will help guide me. What is your suggestion ? This could be an interesting local character to meet, a restaurant to try, or a site or neighborhood to visit. - I want to learn more. So I plan to drive across the province, beginning on March 12, and to visit Montreal, Maniwaki, Hérouxville, Quebec City, and Saguenay — five places, that tell very different stories about Quebec....I need readers in Quebec and Canada to help flesh out my itinerary, and make suggestions about what I should do. Who are the local characters, I should meet? This could be everyone from the resident historian, to cultural figures, community leaders, or the resident clown. (The more interesting, dynamic and fun, the better.)
What places, both known and off-the-beaten-track, should I visit? Which neighborhoods, should I go to? What questions should I ask?....I will write about my journey — and share more details about where I’m going — on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as well as here, in The Times’s Reader Center. I will also be writing about my trip, in editions of the Canada Today newsletter, on March 17 and 24, so sign up now! I will even be writing a bonus edition of the newsletter, on March 21. Please send me your suggestions. I can’t wait to hear from you — and to hit the road! '' https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/reader-center/quebec-road-trip.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fdan-bilefsky&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection -
Bill Brownstein, Montreal Gazette : With the addition of Bilefsky, the Times now has three correspondents, in Canada — the others are in Ottawa and Toronto — . Thanks to the “Trump bump,” the Times and many of the U.S. media outlets, the U.S. president has maligned, are prospering.
“The New York Times is committed to its foreign coverage, and has been expanding, quite extensively,” says Bilefsky, over a soft drink, at a downtown café. “Canada is the most important market for us, outside the U.S.” And, according to Bilefsky, our image has been much enhanced of late: “Canada, ever the self-deprecating, bashful starlet, .......is finally having its global close-up moment … and Americans want to read about Canada.” Evidently, everything from our health-care system, to our immigration policies, to our “panda-hugging” prime minister, has made Canada cool, in the eyes of many Americans. And Montreal, if no longer the financial centre of the land, is still viewed, as the country’s most “uber-cool” metropolis, by many of our neighbours to the south. ... The great-grandson of a Latvian immigrant fruit pedlar, and the son of a still-practising nephrologis , Bilefsky had considered a career in medicine....and that proved, not a good option ...... He says: '' It came like .....a cosmic opportunity to come back here, all these years later. And maybe, hopefully, my phone won’t be ringing in the middle of the night, with news about someone ramming over people. “All the same, no journalist wants tranquility. We dine on cataclysmic events and conflict. So I’m hoping I can discover Canada’s darker underbelly,” .... with a smile. That odyssey could take him, all over the country. Bilefsky’s working canvas, also covers the rest of this province and the Maritimes, ......but make no mistake, Montreal is the icing on the cake, for him. “You can spend your whole life running away from where you come, but there’s a nice circularity, to returning. As Leonard Cohen put it, he would come back to the city, to renew his neurotic affiliations, but he would also say he felt at home in Montreal, in a way he didn’t feel anywhere else. I can relate to that.” bbrownstein@postmedia.com Twitter.com/billbrownstein http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/brownstein-quebec-welcomes-home-new-york-times-correspondent-with-a-big-bonjour-hi - /// NYT has 3 correpondents in Canada - ///
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