Harrowsmith

“You’re hired,” James Lawrence said. “Get down here right away.”

t was the late ‘70s, a time in Montreal when fierce competition raged between the city’s then-abundance of daily and weekly papers, each vying to print the biggest scoop or expose and grab the stage.

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