They don’t call it the world’s most boring country for nothing.

When a Canadian prime minister’s son was convicted of sexual assault, it barely made the front pages. When cabinet ministers have affairs, every reporter in Ottawa may know, but not a whisper will make it into print.
The couple’s six-week stay on Vancouver Island earlier this year resulted in zero photographs in the Canadian press, and when long-lens photos showing Meghan with her son emerged this week, it prompted irritation among reporters and local residents. “We kind of leave people be,” says Jimmy Thomson, a freelance journalist on Vancouver Island.

Thomson feels “a little bit embarrassed” now that he didn’t research a British tabloid before agreeing to do a few reporting chores for the paper this month. But after digging into the newspaper’s coverage, he “told them to get stuffed”, he tweeted this week.

But after digging into the newspaper’s coverage, he “told them to get stuffed”