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brought to the formerly easy-going Globe newsroom.

As a Globe reporter at the time, covering courts and coming into the newsroom only to file my stories, I didn’t have any issues with Patrick. He had done some good things for me, starting when I was just a 24-year-old rookie reporter on my first big frontpage story, and he was on the national desk. I figured Patrick just wanted his staff to perform at the high level he expected.

(He once called me into his office to inform me solemnly that 1,000 of my words were worth a picture, a comment that left me puzzled and speechless as I nodded and retreated, figuring nothing more was going to be said. And it wasn’t.)

But being absent from the newsroom and from the gossip that percolated there, I likely missed what Michael, who was a very good friend of mine, observed about Patrick’s behaviour.

Michael is friendly and easily likeable. Patrick’s reserve (he didn’t smile easily) did not mark him as friendly or easily likeable. But I liked them both.

After Patrick quit the Globe in a huff and was quickly recruited by the Toronto Star as its new city editor, I moved to the Star in early 1973, and, like Patrick, revelled in beating the Globe

I moved into the Glebe in late 2021, a few blocks away from my daughter. Truly serendipitous for me finding a story in the Glebe Report, of all places, about Patrick’s notations on Michael’s criticisms in Maggie’s book that ended up in a used-book store.

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Siblings are often our closest confidants; their significance cannot be overstated. Throughout our childhood, they are there –usually in the same house – to instruct or be guided, to comfort and annoy. The honesty and vitality of our relationship with our sisters or brothers are unparalleled.

Write a poem about your experience as a sibling, the closeness you have shared or perhaps lack of closeness you experienced. If you are an only child, write a poem about how that feels as you navigate a world where most people have siblings.

As usual, poems should be:

• Original and unpublished in any medium

CONTACT: circulation@glebereport.ca

• (no poems submitted elsewhere, please)

• No more than 30 lines each

• On any aspect of the theme within the bounds of public discourse

• Submitted on or before May 23, 2023

Poets in the National Capital Region of all ages welcome (school-age poets, please indicate your grade and school). Please send your entries (up to five poems that meet the criteria) to editor@glebereport.ca. Remember to send us your contact information and your grade and school if you are in school.

Deadline: Tuesday, May 23, 2023