of the characters from the imaginative pen of Charles Dickens... a nasty lot indeed," warned people against "multiculturalism gone haywire", and opposed the board's decision to organize a conference for students on apartheid in South Africa. Described as a "journalistic pit bull" in her years at education reporter for the Toronto Sun, McLeod was described by The Globe and Mail as having "influence among the bureaucrats who run Toronto schools from The Education Centre on College Street." After being fired from the Sun, she moved to Kingston, Ontario for three years where she worked as a reporter and columnist for the Kingston Whig-Standard. Our Toronto Free Press and Canada Free Press In 1991, she returned to Toronto and founded, with help from then-city councillor Tony O'Donohue, Our Toronto, a free monthly newspaper that printed and distributed 100,000 copies. Our Toronto Free Press, which as a free-distribution monthly newspaper with a right-wing stance, and which originally focussed on municipal politics and local issues. It was funded by advertising and from McLeod's personal savings; it was published out of her "modest" apartment. Reporting on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, in a 1999 article in Toronto Eye magazine entitled, Portrait of a Poverty Pimp, McLeod accused the leadership of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty of exploiting the homeless for the purpose of advancing a radical Marxist agenda, and was herself accused of "Red-baiting, misrepresentations, and badmouthing." In the 2000s, Our Toronto Free Press evolved into the Canada Free Press, which is now published online only. The Free Press has been described as "an online conservative tabloid." See also Steven Crowder Jamie Glazov Ezra Levant Gavin McInnes Mark Steyn Notes External links Canada Free Press A Criminal Mind Link to the Western Standard article with information about Rachel Marsden, Judi McLeod's apology, and the Tony O'Donohue lawsuit. Betty Disero Sees Hidden Enemies from Eye Weekly'' 1944 births Living people Canadian women journalists Journalists from Nova Scotia Journalists from Toronto Writers from Prince Edward Island Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia Writers from Toronto Canadian people of Scottish descent Canadian women non-fiction writers Conservative media in Canada