William Boss (May 3, 1917 – October 17, 2007) was a Canadianwar correspondent and reporter for the Canadian Press, commonly known as Bill Boss or 'bb' (his wire initials). He was known for his work in World War II and the Korean War, and for his famous ginger beard. Colleagues described him as the toughest war correspondent they have ever known, and Pierre Berton is quoted saying that Bill 'was as fiery as his red beard. He ate censors for breakfast.'^[1]

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Boss was born in Kingston, Ontario on May 3, 1917 and died of pneumonia at the age of 90 on October 17, 2007 in Ottawa.

Education, music and early reporting[edit]

Boss spoke many languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Dutch and Russian, as well as a little Korean and Japanese. He was also a musician who played the piano and organ, as well as composed music and conducted numerous symphony orchestras in Ottawa, as well as in Italy and the Netherlands later. Boss obtained a philosophy degree at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, where he also founded the Ottawa Concert Orchestra and worked part-time as a journalist for the Ottawa Citizen. In 1937 Boss moved to Toronto, where we worked as a correspondent for the Times of London and in 1938 worked for them in London for several months, after which Boss returned to Ottawa and obtained a bachelor of arts at the University of Ottawa in 1941.

WWII[edit]

In 1943 Boss was shipping overseas to Italy with the Canadian Corps as a Public Relations Officer, in charge of escorting journalists to the front lines. In 1944 chief Gil Purcell of the Canadian Press had lieutenant Boss drafted out of the Canadian Corps and hired him as a war correspondent for the Allied advance through Italy and Northwest Europe. In early 1945 Boss left Italy to cover the liberation in the Netherlands. After the war Boss continued to work with the Canadian Press as a foreign correspondent, mostly stationed in London and Amsterdam as well as a brief stint in Edmonton in 1948.

Korea[edit]

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When the war in Korea broke out in 1950 Boss became the leading Canadian journalist and largely shaped the Canadian perception of the war, as many Canadian newspapers at the time relied heavily on the Canadian Press for their coverage. Boss was sent to Busan, South Korea with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and immediately wanted to diminish his reliance on military authorities so that he could get to the places we wanted to report from, without censorship. Boss acquired copious amounts of Scotch, which he traded for a tent, generator, trailer and Jeep (later known as the 'CP Jeep') so that he was able to travel separately from the military. Boss went on to cover every major battle in the Korean War involving Canadian forces, including the Battle of Kapyong, the Battle of Chuam-ni and the Battle of Maehwa-San.

A number of other reporters despised Boss, and even tried to have him removed from Korea, as he refused to censor his content and often wrote about war crimes committed by Canadian troops. A particular incident was that of three Canadian soldiers beating and raping two Korean women, followed by bombing several Korean soldiers. Boss wrote an article ten days following the incident which was 'lost' on its way to Canadian headquarters. It was later revealed in Maclean's magazine that Boss's story had been intercepted by American occupation officials in Tokyo, forwarded to Canadian Army Headquarters and disregarded. However, Boss was known for his persistence in reporting what he saw and refusing censorship, and holds the Korean endurance record for war correspondents.

After war[edit]

After the Korean War Boss opened the first Canadian news bureau for Canadian Press for Moscow. In 1958 he retired from the Canadian Press to become the founding director of Public Relations at the University of Ottawa. Bill Boss finally retired in 1982 and traveled the world on ocean freighters in search for a warm refuge from the cold Canadian winters, eventually settling in Sri Lanka.

Awards[edit]

• 1951: National Newspaper Award for 'Feature Writing/Reportage'
• 1954: National Newspaper Award for 'Staff Corresponding'
• 1998: Conducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame

References[edit]

1. ^'Friends, colleagues remember legendary war correspondent Bill Boss | CBC News'.

1. National Newspaper Awards. 2008. http://www.nna-ccj.ca/wordpress_dev/wordpress/?page_id=64&lang=en
2. Stephen Thorne, Canadian Press. 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20130720044506/http://www.thecanadianpress.com/our_people_and_editorial_values.aspx?id=2001
3. Ottawa Citizen. 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304211326/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=57494640-3d9f-4a14-8dfd-527935842ee6&k=77756
4. Archives Canada. 2004. http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1143412449030_206_191_57_196&l=0&lvl=2&v=0&coll=1&itm=271295&rt=1&bill=1^{[permanent dead link]}
5. John Price. 2012. http://www.japanfocus.org/-John-Price/3678
6. Empire Club of Canada. http://speeches.empireclub.org/59975/data

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Version 1.2.2 Changes:

• [New] Added full macOS Catalina support including being Notarized by Apple and using the Hardened Runtime.
• [Fixed] Issue where pending bill amounts would show as overdue or due soon notifications.
• [Fixed] Issue where the monthly total would be incorrect if there were pending bill amounts.

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• [Fixed] Issue where the menubar icon needed to be clicked twice to open.
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• [Fixed] Issue with the formatting of total amounts owing if multiple currencies were used. It now uses a current locale friendly way to display the amounts.
• [Fixed] Issue where new semi-monthly bills were not set to the 1st or 15th automatically for the next due date.
• [Fixed] Potential crash if the currency symbol was not available for a payment.
• [New] Payments can now be filtered by All, Today, Last Week, Last Month and Last Year.
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• [New] Support for macOS 10.14 Mojave including the system Dark Mode.
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• [New] Added support for bills with variable amounts (ex: most utilities). When the bill is moved to the next due date, it will allow the next amount to be set when it's known.
• [New] Added dedicated delete and edit buttons for both bills and payments.
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• [New] Added option to not move a bill to the next due date when adding a payment.
• [New] Notifications are now grouped together if there's more than 2 for a type (overdue, due soon and next amount pending).
• [New] Added search field to Payments so they can be filtered by name.
• [New] Payments can now be edited.
• [New] Changed action in due soon / overdue notifications from View -> Paid for convenience. Clicking on the notification will still open the window and highlight the bill.
• [Fixed] Issue where bills could be duplicated when switching the cloud sync provider.
• [Fixed] Issue where the bill & payments sheets were resizable.
• [Fixed] Issue where the exported payments CSV file would be corrupted if there was a comma in a bill name.
• [Fixed] Issue where the status menu wouldn't update immediately after adding or changing a bill.

Version 1.1.4 Changes:

• [New] Support for macOS 10.13 (High Sierra).
• [New] Confirmation dialog is now shown when choosing to remove old payments.
• [New] Using standard macOS segmented control for switching betweeen bills and payments.
• [New] Updated Paddle framework to resolve multiple issues within it.
• [Fixed] Crash editing or paying a bill if iCloud syncing was turned on but not available.
• [Fixed] Issue where it was possible to have more than two decimal places for the bill totals.
• [Fixed] Issue where 'syncing' label would show when cloud syncing was turned off.

Version 1.1.3 Changes:

• [New] Improved reliability of the next due date for all reoccurring bills.
• [Fixed] Future bills not displaying properly in the menu when using system dark mode.
• [Fixed] Potential crash when paying a bill if the due date and frequency were a specific combination.

Version 1.1.2 Changes:

• [New] Added support for multiple currencies, including in the all and monthly totals.
• [New] Added support for printing the list of bills from the app.
• [New] Added currency used when editing payments and paying bills.
• [New] Updated the main window so there's more space for the totals.
• [Fixed] Issue where bills were due on the last day of the month may not have been included in the monthly total.
• [Fixed] Issue where the main window would always show on app launch (annoying after a system restart).
• [Fixed] Issue where the prompt to log into Dropbox wouldn't always work on app launch.
• [Fixed] Issue where periodic syncing would never complete if the previous attempt failed.

Version 1.1 Changes:

• [New] Added ability to edit payments by double clicking on them.
• [New] Added ability to delete multiple bills at once (instead of one by one).
• [New] Added experimental Dropbox support for cloud syncing.
• [New] Added option to turn off cloud syncing completely so everything stays local.
• [New] Added note column for bills to easily see which ones have them.
• [New] Note column icon is now only shown for bills & payments that actually have one.
• [Fixed] Issue with delay in updating changes to the bill list if the cloud sync was slow.
• [Fixed] Issue with potential crash if the company name was empty.
• [Fixed] Issue where bills & payments might not have shown up right away after syncing on a new Mac.

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