The Globe and Mail

“Disappointed in a good way”. The French speaking part of Switzerland uses this expression to describe something you didn’t expect to deliver the goods and which turns out to be more than satisfactory. Described quite accurately my experience with the G&M app. I’m a Canadian expat of over 25 years in Geneva and I recently acquired the app to be able to talk to my mum in Vancouver about political and social issues back home. It’s turned out to be much more than that. I’m constantly surprised by the Globe’s incisive and wide-ranging coverage of world affairs, the arts, the zeitgeist and its creative way of bringing the issues of contemporary post-gender society to the fore. My memory of the G&M from back when I lived in Canada was of a fusty, Torontonian heavily business-oriented paper with a heavy Anglo-bias against Quebec. Well, it’s still heavily business oriented ;) but reporting on Quebec is a lot more objective, thanks to great writers like Konrad Yakabuski. I was originally loath to shell out for the app. Now I’m hooked. Money well spent indeed.

This is a super app; easy to use. As a Canadian living abroad, it keeps me up to date with events in Canada as well as providing a Canadian perspective on international news. I begin each day with this app.

I can see them on the iPhone app but they say “unauthorized” on the IPad app. I am logged in on both apps. What gives? Update: It’s August 2024 now and still can’t see comments on the iPad app…but they work fine on the iPhone app. I’m a paid user. Please fix.

I really like its unlimited device model and it has article reader option for most articles. There are 2 improvement area: 1) more local news - we can get better local news from cbc, free!!! 2) investment data/news is very limited or outdated. E.g.1: Click an ETF ticker symbol in an article you’re reading inside the app, you can’t even see its top holdings/% of the fund, companies/sectors; or, E.g.2: you saw a stock in your Watch list had a big move on a given day, but when you clicked for its news from the Watch List, its last news was more than half a month ago. Yahoo Finance have all those for free and much more timely.

Recommended articles should be much better

This current version on my iPhone 13 keeps returning to the top while I am scrolling down, making it almost unusable. I’ve stopped using this version on my phone entirely.

App not working

Zbc

The app has greatly improved over the past six months or so. As a subscriber though, every article should not be interrupted by several ads in the middle of the text. Unusable.

So on the main pages, if you slide your finger to the left and right it'll switch views to the next category of articles. But if I accidently slide to the left or right slightly with my finger it'll bring me back to the top for no reason. I'm trying to get through the articles below and now I have to scroll all the way back down. I rather use the website on my phone