parting is such sweet sorrow

A fascinating article in The Atlantic Monthly explains patiently why weekly print newsmagazines are certain to vanish from this earth, unless they are The Economist. This has caused a series of tense emergency meetings at Maclean’s. Just kidding. Actually I don’t know whether anyone else on staff has read it. I could give you my reasons why I think we’re going to be basically OK, and indeed rather better than that, but if you don’t believe it you won’t believe it, and anyway I can’t control the comment boards, so over to you.

UPDATE: And I will now feel very, very silly for not checking to see if one of my colleagues had beaten me to the punch.

I don’t think anyone saw this one coming – earlier today, the Conservatives announced that Human Resources and Development Minister Monte Solberg won’t be running in the next election:

Conservative Party announces three Cabinet Ministers will not seek re-election