Red Deer Advocate -- copy editor who can write sports

Have been told this is a decent place to work.

http://jeffgaulin.com/jobs/JobDetails.asp?id=4159


Copy Editor REF#: 8969
Red Deer Advocate
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Posted: August 5, 2007
Deadline: August 17, 2007
Salary: not stated

Description
The Red Deer Advocate requires an experienced Editor to lay out sports pages and fulfill some other duties related to both the sports and general news.

The successful candidate will be required to work five evenings a week, Wednesday through Saturday. This position offers and excellent salary and benefit package.

Qualifications
Candidates must be able to lay out news pages in a MacIntosh/QuarkXpress environment and to regularly write sports copy.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

Submit resume with references stating Copy Editor position in the cover note (and that you found this job on Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board) to:

 

Can Americans just pop over and start working there?

 

Umm...does Canada have an extra day you guys haven't been telling us about?

 

I've never really gotten a satisfactory answer to this question -- I'd definitely be interested in infiltrating Canuckistan -- but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of legal hoops to jump through.

Of course, you could just marry a hoser and it gets a lot easier. That's what my friend did. He's living near one of Flash's old haunts now.

 

Wouldn't five nights a week be Wednesday through Sunday?

 

This might be one of those gigs where you really get a leg up by proofing the ad for them and bringing it to the interview.

 

yes, people in positions of power love to be told how stupid they are.

 

And Flash is single.

 

Every time I hear about this town, I cannot help but think of...

 

shottie - is that your weed dealer?

 

He could have been, my friend. He definitely could have been.

 

shottie - if he didn't sell you smoke, who is he?