Locked: Great Deal on the Globe and Mail

diggidydave wrote: ↑ Realistically, the Globe is the best we have and this deal is warm enough.

My issue with them is having to call in to cancel rather than being able to online....

max011 wrote: ↑ "Best we have" does not mean it's good...

Dealmaker1945 wrote: ↑ If you like quality journalism, take a look at this offer.

The NY Time also has an offer for Canadians at C$4.52 tax included per month which they renewed for me at the promo rate.

At these prices you don't need to try to sneak around paywalls. And with so much fake news around you want to support quality news providers and keep them alive. If you don't we will all be depending on Facebook for our news in the not so distant future!

diggidydave wrote: ↑ Out of curiosity, what alternative would you suggest?

Thrasher wrote: ↑ BTW the deal is not bad but I would rather go with Wall Street Journal for $67.60/year promo instead. However, The Globe and Mail is better for Canadian local news. The local library stopped carrying it in the Pressreader App, so I usually just grab the Saturday Globe and Mail edition which is left in front of my grocery store every Monday...

Thrasher wrote: ↑ OP, how do you get the NY Times renewed at this price? Whenever I ask to cancel, they offer me 25% off and I accept (for 24 weeks). Should I be pushing to get the 50% you are getting? How long does your promo last?

User131439 wrote: ↑ LOL quality journalism.

mobile_mic wrote: ↑ Digital will be the death of local print journalism. When I was growing up we had a daily delivered newspaper (made from paper). It was shared among the family. Some read the front section, some read business, some read sports, and crossword was a family pursuit that elicited laughs, boos, eye rolls, and high fives. I now have a family of my own and my wife questioned why I would bother to get a paper delivered to our home. I was the only interested party, digital is cheaper, and there's less paper each week in our blue box. Good points, but my wife is now occasionally reading parts of the daily paper (she did not grow up in a newspaper household), and she solves the crossword every night after dinner with me and our eldest daughter (6 years old) throwing answers in where we can. Sometimes my 6 year old saddles up next to me and does some reading too (if I deem the subject matter appropriate). "The medium is the message", right? A family gathers around a warm communal fire in the family room. No one gathers around a 8" tablet designed with just one user in mind. I read plenty on my phone, tablet, computer, and my e-reader too. But a newspaper is delivered to my home every day so that a love of reading, discussion, and maybe even crossword solving can be shared by all. If you have a spouse and/or kids, give some old-fashioned hardcopy a chance. If your home is old enough, you can even use yesterdays paper to build a fire in your fireplace! Except in Montreal of course...

Upvoted! I don't get the Globe and Mail, but I do miss reading Rob Carrick, Marcus Gee, and John Ibbitson (G&M was the paper I grew up with). Some solid writers in that neck of the woods!

Mic

smartie wrote: ↑ Where did you find 67 dollar promotion? Is this Canadian dollar