 After he graduated from Mount Allison, he studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School for a semester, but returned to Nova Scotia without graduating.He found employment as a journalist, in effect becoming a one-man show, by editing, reporting, typesetting and publishing the "Glace Bay Gazette", a union-owned mass-published daily newspaper from 1942 to 1945.He joined the Labor-Progressive Party (as the Communist Party was known) and moved to Toronto in 1945 and worked for the party paper, "Canadian Tribune" and "Vochenblatt", a Yiddish communist weekly newspaper, as editor of its English-language section writing political articles, book reviews and then theatre reviews.