SHORT CUTS #125 - #Mansbridge150

Published: June 29, 2017, 10:13 a.m.

The Toronto Star put the final nail in the coffin\xa0of Star Touch, its $20-30-million app for a device that most people don't have or use. And after\xa0praising themselves for its bold innovation, quietly laid off 30 journalists.

Meanwhile, Canada gears up this weekend for a celebration of epic proportions: Peter Mansbridge is retiring. And confederation, something something.

Finally we dig into Jonathan Kay\u2019s Twitter mobs and how they\u2019re killing free speech for anybody who\u2019s not a National Post columnist.

Vice Senior writer Manisha Krishnan joins us.

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