It appears that a prominent Canadian newspaper executive with major real-estate connections to the Sault will be named chair of the scandal-prone Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation.
CBC News and other media outlets are reporting that Paul Godfrey has been nominated to oversee the beleaguered corporation.
Currently chief executive officer of the National Post, Godfrey has also served as president of the Toronto Sun and the Toronto Blue Jays.
He's currently chairman of the board of trustees of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust.
In Sault Ste. Marie, RioCan owns Cambrian Mall, Churchill Plaza and Pine Plaza.
The trust's other Northern Ontario holdings include RioCan Centre Sudbury, Sudbury Place, RioCan Centre Thunder Bay, Timmins Square, and New Liskeard Wal-Mart Centre and Timiskaming Square.
At the Toronto Sun Godfrey once feuded publicly with his firebrand Saultboy editor Les Pyette over a headine, "What a Boob!" placed by Pyette over a 1992 story about a television address by then-Premier Bob Rae.
To read the CBC coverage of this story, please click here.
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