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Editor's Notes

True North Perspective celebrates a record-breaking year

But we need your help!

We have Letters to the Editor telling us what a great job we're doing

We have more visitors, more pages, more hits by the tens of thousands
with an ever increasing number of readers in 123 countries tuning in

We got all that, but one thing we don't got — we don't got dough

Friday, August 20, 2010
True North Perspective
Vol. 5, No. 36 (240)

Our summer hiatus continues to be a very productive working "holiday". We are on schedule for our September 3 relaunch, an edition that will include our star correspondents Alex Binkley, Dennis Carr, Anita Chan, Frances Sedgwick, Lakshmi Sundaram, The Rev. Dr. Hanns F. Skoutajan, Alberte Villeneuve-Sinclair and many others.

We are working hard to transform True North Perspective's public face and its inner workings. This would be an easier task if we could work at it full time. But, because True North Perspective is financially desperate, we can't afford full time. So we work on it and a myriad of other projects on a dead run. Needless to say, not the most efficient way, but unfortunately, so far, our only way.

As you know, True North Perspective provides a unique eye on the world, produced by a band of hard-working and dedicated volunteers — but even volunteers should be paid something! And if we're going to continue to bring you the world, we're going to need your help!

To those of you who have already made a donation or donations we extend our most sincere heartfelt thanks. I cannot exaggerate how helpful your donations have been. During our August hiatus I'll find time to send you a personal thank-you note.

If you're a long-time reader who has been meaning to make a contribution, please do it now! If you're a new subscriber, if someone has forwarded you a link to True North Perspective or if you've stumbled upon us via a search, please take a few minutes (or hours!) to visit our archives and see just what we can bring to you. And if you like what you see and read, feel free to contribute your pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and mucho-mucho loonies!

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We hope you enjoy the True North Perspective classic we present each week until we return live Friday, September 3.

So, although we're up to our neck in alligators, we haven't forgotten that our job is to clear the swamp.

Meanwhile, take it easy, but take it.

Looking forward

Carl Dow
Editor and Publisher
True North Perspective

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