Back in June of the year 2000, a young reporter for a weekly magazine out West handed his editor his usual list of new story pitches — the kind every low-level scribe has to submit. He had, in his own opinion, two particularly strong ones. One was a story about a rising Canadian tech firm called Research in Motion that was winning accolades for its cute, convenient Blackberry internet messaging device. The other was about a shocking new history book that explored the internments of Italian-Canadians suspected of harbouring Fascist sympathies during the Second World War.
