By sheer force of will, Paul Godfrey built a Major League Baseball team in what was then Canada’s sleepy second city, when everyone doubted it could be done. (He ended up in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the Blue Jays would go on to win two World Series.) He helped shake up a staid and boring local newspaper scene with the scrappy Toronto Sun, before going on to build a national media empire. Now, after 14 years at the helm of Postmedia, Godfrey is pivoting again. The legendary politician and businessman talks with Brian Lilley this week about his astounding rise from his humble start in local government to where he is now. And he says one of his next projects will be trying to help Toronto once again, the city he loves, which he says has become a city in decline. (Recorded Dec. 18, 2024.)
