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THE QUOTABLE CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD: SNAPSHOTS FROM HER DECADES-LONG CAREER IN JOURNALISM Since her start as a young reporter at The Globe and Mail in the 1970s, the newspaper columnist – who died of cancer Wednesday at the age of 68 – told stories of bravado and bravery, from the hockey rink to the courtroom to the battlefield. Here’s a sample Published February 12, 2020 Updated 9 hours ago39 Comments
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This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Open this photo in gallery Scenes from Christie Blatchford's career. Left: With an armed guard in Kabul in Afghanistan (2006), at a safety drill in Istanbul (2009), with The Globe and Mail's John Ibbitson (2008). Middle: In October, 1975, when she was a newly minted Globe sports columnist. At right: Receiving the Governor General's Literary Award (non-fiction) for her book about Afghanistan (2008); interviewing Canadiens left-winger Steve Shutt (1975); wading through New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina(2005).
The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, Office of the Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada Read Simon Houpt's obituary of Christie Blatchford (1951-2020)ON SPORTS
Open this photo in gallery 1975: Newly minted Globe sports columnist Christie Blatchford gets some advice from her predecessor, Dick Beddoes. Erik Christensen/The Globe and Mail The granddaughter of a Vancouver Sun sportswriter, Ms. Blatchford gravitated quickly toward the sports beat when she joined The Globe and Mail as a reporter in 1972, when she was still a journalism student at Ryerson University. Within three years, she had inherited a long-running sports column from Dick Beddoes, promising that she’d be “more of a jock” than he was. Her first column,
on Oct. 27, 1975, focused on Bobby Hull’s refusal to play in a World Hockey Association game, an act of protest against violence in thesport:
> You gotta hate a little to be one of the great competitors. For > years, non-hockey people have failed to understand the hate, just as > they find little beauty in the sound of a body hitting the boards, > just as they see no magic in a man on the ice, all alone, playing > with the puck. It is unreasonable to suggest that Hull, a > magnificent competitor, does not understand. It is not unreasonable > to suggest that after 18 years as a pro, at 36, he may be tiring of> it.
> There is madness in sport. ... That’s our game, guys. A tough > combination of bravado and bravery, some phony machismo and some > real meanness. It’s the only game in the world we play as well as > anyone else. But if we aren’t careful, the people who make the > decisions are going to take the guts and hardness out of hockey and > they will do it because they think it is what we want.ON TERRY FOX
Open this photo in gallery 1980: Terry Fox leaves City Hall in St. John's as part of his Marathon of Hope run across Canada. Dick Green/St. John's Telegram/The Canadian Press Ms. Blatchford quit The Globe in 1977 in what she said in her 2016 memoir was a “snit” over how the sports department handled her copy. At the Toronto Star, she discovered a passion for crime reporting (more on that later) but also covered one of the defining sports stories of that era: Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope. In 2005, as she prepared to run in a charity marathon, she wroteabout
how his story continued to inspire her and Canadians: > And so, from this mewling vale of tears, I remind myself of Terry> Fox.
> He lost a leg to bone cancer. He ran, in his inimitable hippity-hop > manner, more than halfway across our country. ... The last week or > so of his Marathon of Hope, he was running with fear in his heart > – he was feeling unsettling pain in his chest, which, on some > level, he knew was bad news. > It was about that time, in a little Northern Ontario town called > Terrace Bay, that I met Terry. Only about a week later, when it > became unbearable, even for him, did he 'fess up and call it quits. > I was working then for The Toronto Star and, at the news that > Terry's cancer had come back, this time to his lungs, flew back up > north to see him. The change was shocking: Where such a short time > before he was so gorgeous and fit I thought he'd surely live > forever, now he looked small. As he formally announced the end of > his run, a lazy Northern Ontario fly made its way across his lovely > face, and Terry was too weary to swipe at it. > Unusually, for our country, the memory of this wonderful young man > has been kept fresh, and almost a quarter-century after his death, > he remains as inspirational as he was all those years ago. ON CRIME AND JUSTICE Open this photo in gallery 2005: Norman Kidman and Elva Bottineau sit before a judge at their murder trial. They were convicted of second-degree murder in the starvation death of their grandson, Jeffrey Baldwin. Marianne Boucher / City-TV Covering courts, crime and politics brought Ms. Blatchford to the Toronto Sun in 1982, the newly launched National Post in 1998 and back to The Globe in 2003. One of the cases she kept coming back to was that of Jeffrey Baldwin, a five-year-old who slowly starved to death in 2002 while in the neglectful care of his grandparents. She pieced together a definitive account of the events leading up to his death and how children’s aid officials failed to act. In 2006, when the grandparents had been convicted of second-degree murder, she reflected on how Jeffrey’s story had changed her: > I have been writing about Jeffrey Baldwin off and on for more than > three years, since shortly after his miserable death in his prison > of a room in an east-end Toronto house on Nov. 30, 2002. In that > 42-month period, I knocked on the front door of the house, this in > those early days before his grandparents were ever arrested, and was > chased away by his obese, glowering and remarkably entitled > grandmother, who later called police to complain about me; broke the > story of how the Catholic Children's Aid Society had agreed to give > custody of Jeffrey and his siblings to the grotesque grandparents > without even checking its own files that detailed the pair's > earlier, separate convictions for child abuse; covered much of the > grandparents' criminal trial (they were found guilty of > second-degree murder and will be formally sentenced on May 30); > attended a tender memorial, organized by strangers, for the dead > boy; and read and wrote about a searing report written by an > external consultant, who described in crisp prose the ways the CCAS > had failed Jeffrey. > For the longest time, I had a picture of the little boy on a wall of > my home office and, later, a T-shirt with a blown-up version of the > same photo. I took them down a couple of weeks ago. Jeffrey’s > grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman, are likely to pass > the rest of their lives in prison - second-degree murder carries an > automatic “life” sentence with only the parole ineligibility > period still to be decided by the judge – but, as an outcome, this > is so profoundly unsatisfactory as to evoke despair.ON AFGHANISTAN
Open this photo in gallery 2006: Ms. Blatchford, second from right, with other Canadian journalists in Afghanistan. With her are Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star, right; freelancer Rich Fitouzzi; and Corporal Robin Mugrridge ofCombat Camera.
Louie Palu/The Globe and Mail When Ms. Blatchford returned to The Globe, the Afghanistan mission was still in its early stages but would take an increasingly heavy toll on Canadian soldiers and the Afghan people. In 2006, she spent almost six months embedded with Canadian forces there. Her dispatches about soldiers’ daily lives were the eventual basis of her 2008 book, _Fifteen Days: Friendship, Life and Death From Inside the New CanadianArmy_,
which she would later say was her best work. Here’s an excerpt froma 2006 Q&A
she gave with Globe readers from Kandahar, in which she spoke candidly about the realities of life in Afghanistan: > I'm not really all that experienced a war correspondent, Jim, except > for being in Tel Aviv in the first Gulf War, which was scary as hell > (we didn't know which kind of Scuds would fall, regular or poisoned, > so you always had a choice of two shelters to go to . . . talk about > a rock and a hard place). For the rest of it, I was in Qatar, where > the Canucks were based, and that was interesting but pretty damn > safe. Aside from that, and the first summer of the war in the former > Yugoslavia, that's pretty much it . . . lots of folks who really > know this stuff. > I didn’t realize, before I got here, how much I would like the > country, or how stricken I’d be by the poverty and miserable lot > that is the ordinary Afghan’s life . . . I haven’t spend much > time in developing world countries . . . very tough seeing all these > beautiful kids, begging on the streets . . . they’re so damn > smart, and resilient, but what lousy luck, you know.ON OBIE
Open this photo in gallery Christie Blatchford's bull terrier, Obie.handout
In public, Ms. Blatchford prided herself as an alpha-dog persona, but at home, it was Obie the English bull terrier who was really in charge. Obie kept her company for more than 13 years, including her final stint at the National Post, until he died last fall. Here is Ms. Blatchford’s Globe column from when she first adopted Obie in 2006, in which she said it gave her a new appreciation for parenthood: > He is so handsome (brow furrowed in concentration, white eyelashes > visible against his cheek, usually one or another of his ears turned > inside out) and strikes such charming poses (rolling over onto his > back to expose a pink, fat belly, or, when on his tummy, sticking > his legs straight out behind him, like a tadpole) that I can't bring > myself to move him and can barely take my eyes from him. > And that's why I got nothing done this week. I am being held hostage > by a 20-pound bull terrier with black-and-pink lips and a chesty > wiggle, and all I can think is, Stephen Harper is out of his mind if > he thinks that paying parents a pittance to stay home with their > youngsters is the only way. What parents need is choice, choice and> more choice.
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