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Podcast: Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
Episode: Dave Bidini on the West End Phoenix and reviving local news
Description: It’s hard to think of a person who has written with more passion about Canada, and in as many different mediums, as Dave Bidini. You might know him as the songwriter and frontman of the Rheostatics – that most Canadian of Canadian bands — or for his best-selling books On a Cold Road, The Tropic of Hockey, Keon and Me or Midnight Light, or from his award-winning journalism and documentaries, or for his latest endeavour, the West End Phoenix, a community newspaper he founded in Toronto. The Phoenix is a bold effort to fill the void caused when big ne...