Within a week of his dismissal , 5,000 subscriptions were cancelled . In Parliament , NDP leader Alexa McDonough stated : " Russell Mills was fired because the Prime Minister 's buddy happened to be his boss ... That is downright dangerous to democracy . We need a full public inquiry into media concentration , ownership and convergence . " After dismissal from the '' Ottawa Citizen '' , Mills became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University . In 2002 , Mills received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Carleton University for services to the community and the newspaper industry ; he was also awarded with the Queen ’s Golden Jubilee Medal for services to Canada . Mills joined Algonquin College in 2003 as Dean of the Faculty of Arts , Media and Design
Queen ’s Golden Jubilee Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
Russell Mills (publisher)