sentences:  In 2001, David Beers was fired from the features editor position at "The Vancouver Sun" as part of Canwest Global's famous purge of top-level journalists.Beers says, "When I was fired it was kind of a wake-up call, I was writing some forthright things after 9/11—they weren't radical, I didn't think, but they challenged the jingoistic tone of many commentators and politicians in Canada as well as the US.