Grandparents

puppetmaker tells us that today is Grandparents Day. Currently, it is not officially recognized in Canada. That may change.

I have no living grandparents. The last of them died over twenty years ago in Saskatchewan, if memory serves. My mother was able to go to her funeral, but she was alone in that. The rest of us couldn't.

I miss them all, but for the maternal grandfathers - one by birth, the rest by marriage to that grandmother - that I never got to know. Work was too nasty, brutish and lethal back in those days of my mother's childhood.

The Sunday Edition is "Dead", Long Live the Sunday Magazine!

It feels to me like just a rebranding to go with a new host, but today, CBC Radio is starting anew with their Sunday morning current affairs talk show. Michael Enright has moved on to new projects with the CBC, and Piya Chattopadhyay is his successor as host of the renamed Sunday Magazine.

She's been guest-hosting everything from The Current to Q to TVOntario's The Agenda, as well as hosting her own show on Radio One for four-five years, Out in The Open. All of this leaves me thinking that she's been training up for something of this scope and scale all that time. And now we're here.

OTTAWA: Hand-Painted Signage is Back

A profile of the artist is carried by CBC News:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/old-fashioned-sign-painting-pandemic-1.5664984

Their business has its online home here:

https://www.pascalearpin.com/