thePodcast: Mike McCardell says goodbye

For the week of  Sept. 8, 2024: A reporter’s reporter. A storyteller like no other in B.C.  Mike McCardell delivered his final Last Word report and retired on Aug. 30. The 80-year-old made a career of telling extraordinary stories about everyday people. It all began in his native New York with the Daily News. The late-1960s and early-1970s were the glory days of newspapers and crime reporting. It was also a dangerous time to raise a family in New York.  McCardell came to Vancouver with his family in 1973 to work for the Vancouver Sun. He switched to BCTV (now […]