David H. Brett is the Editor & Publisher of The New Westminster Times, an online news outlet with an X account & growing YouTube channel that covers local, provincial, and national stories. Launched in September 2022 with a mission to “uncancel culture,” early NWT contributors include Amy Hamm and Jim McMurtry.

Key story priorities for Brett include gender ideology, the overdose crisis, wokeism, critique of decolonial narratives, exposing activist chicanery, and fighting antisemitism. The NWT’s viral “Death to Canada” video on X & other pro-Hamas protest coverage has made Brett unpopular with anti-Israel activists. Brett has an MBA (SFU) and a BA in Religious Studies (UBC). As an entrepreneur in the mining and IT fields, Brett has raised tens of millions, explored rugged wilderness landscapes from Argentina to Yukon, engaged with indigenous communities, travelled the world on business, published academic journal articles in the field of Knowledge Management, and filed a patent regarding online markets for digital goods.

David was also a part time professor in the MBA program at Trinity Western University teaching Venture Finance. Born and raised in Vancouver, Brett has lived in New Westminster since 1994, where he raised his family and is very active in the community with his wife Lorraine Brett, Assistant Editor of the NWT.

Joe Warmington has been a reporter and columnist with the Toronto Sun since 1991 or, in other words, before the internet when there were composing rooms, presses, desk phones, no digital or cell phone cameras, and certainly no artificial intelligence. His first stories for the Canadore College newspaper, and the North Bay Nugget were written on a typewriter. Who knew that old-school journalism background would help a veteran scribe of 40 years thrive in the new media?

But no matter the era, no matter the platform, it’s about scoops, unaffiliated analysis, opinion, and fierce independence, which are a pillar of the Toronto Sun and of the writers who have made their careers there. It doesn’t matter which device a story is prepared on or read on, Warmington will apply the fair and balanced principles which were the norm during the era when they yelled stop the presses, they actually had to stop the presses. As a father and proud Canadian, his approach is to make it all about people and their lives.

While Warmington has travelled much of the world, covering the biggest stories on the globe and won awards, including being inducted into his beloved college’s alumni hall of fame, his passion is about local coverage. Local people, businesses, local safety, and local success. He holds no grudges, loves people from all perspectives, and enjoys respectful debate and disagreement with a view to a better outcome. Whether it was as a general assignment reporter, The Night Scrawler street column or as city columnist, the approach is the same as it was back before today’s digital world. The story he tells will be about your city, province and country. The story will be about you and your life.

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