On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

dewline @ 2021-12-14T20:08:00

2021-12-15T01:13:53Z

Ideas is replaying a defence of nihilism on CBC Radio One as I type this.

Meanwhile, I'm reading Rabble.ca articles.

Tomorrow, I hope to make time to resume work on a commission sketch. The reference materials sent to me for this one have been challenging reading. Somewhat more challenging to print out in a legible fashion.

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CBC/Ideas: Untold Stories of Ethiopa

2021-05-21T00:13:13Z

Listening to this programme as I type this entry. Per the title on the CBC page:

Maaza Mengiste on confronting the past without 'smoothing out the rough edges of history'
The writer turns to archival photography to explore how historical narratives are created

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/maaza-mengiste-on-confronting-the-past-without-smoothing-out-the-rough-edges-of-history-1.6033285

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

2020-09-13T13:12:04Z

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.

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CBC: Indigenous News

2020-03-14T20:54:36Z

CBC News has a section devoted to Indigenous news. It's good as far as it goes, but when you remember that everything at CBC is done on a shoestring budget compared to most public broadcasters aside from the US, you come to see that it's a miracle that CBC gets away with getting anything useful done. And wins awards at home and abroad, too. I want to see them better funded. Maybe this is another area where the priority of responding to COVID-19 can be leveraged to get good changes made in Canada?

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CBC/WEB/TECH: An Improvement

2020-02-20T13:27:35Z

Pages are loading more easily, as they used to before about two weeks ago. Someone got the word and figured out a fix, apparently.

Anyway, filing this under "good web-related news" about Canadian news services' websites.

More on other topics to follow...

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CBC/WEB/DESIGN: Update

2020-02-18T00:33:45Z

I had to whitelist cbc.ca with my Privacy Badger plug-in for the first time ever today. Never needed to do that before, so I'm disappointed with the website design people at CBC for wanting to work up web pages that EFF's Privacy Badger needs to break if not advised otherwise.

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CBC/BOOKS: Canada Reads 2020 Shortlist and Advocates

2020-01-22T15:09:34Z

This announcement got made today:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canada-reads-shortlist-panellists-1.5434913

If you're interested in Canadian-written books, this is a Big Damn Deal.

Full disclosure: I've met Cory Doctorow on a couple of occasions at Ottawa International Writers Festival events across the years. That may bias my choices in this.

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FLICKR: Morning Commute

2019-11-06T01:32:49Z

I like this view.

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CBC: Wrong Things to Hear

2019-10-27T11:24:11Z

I just started listening to the podcast of today's Sunday Edition. I should never hear a CBC podcast start with an ad for an Amazon Prime series.

Ever.

This is a deeply trivial yet deeply important thing to me.

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CBC Radio: End of an Era at the Current

2019-06-11T13:32:05Z

I've been reminded that Anna Maria Tremonti is leaving the host chair at The Current for the world of podcasting. And that she plans to make her work exclusively podcast-based from that point onward.

I am troubled by this news and I'm not entirely sure that I can explain why. Not yet.

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CBC: A Defense of Public Broadcasting by Sue Gardner

2018-09-25T02:04:18Z

Some of you will remember her name from her days at CBC, others from her time at the Wikimedia Foundation...and if you have an hour to spare, you might be interested in listening to this:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/a-matter-of-life-and-death-sue-gardner-on-public-broadcasting-1.4701029

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BOOKS/CBC: The Orwell Tapes

2018-08-26T02:15:18Z

I picked up a hardcopy edition of Stephen Wadhams' The Orwell Tapes today, derived from CBC Radio series' Ideas serial documentary of the same name.

I remember learning much from those broadcasts, and hope to keep learning from the hardcopy edition in due time.

One more reason why I want CBC to revive its book-publishing division.

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CBC-Radio Canada Archives: Further Cause for Worry

2018-02-25T14:09:24Z

Public broadcaster music library closing, CD’s to be digitised, destroyed - filed by Marc Montgomery for Radio Canada International English Service

I don't want this archive-scrapping to happen. At all.

So...how to stop it?

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Michael Enright on the Condition of the American Union c. 2017 ACE

2017-12-03T14:21:50Z

For your consideration:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-december-3-2017-1.4428070/michael-s-essay-lament-for-a-nation-1.4428086

Followed on the radio by a "sad trombone" interpretation of "America, the Beautiful"...

Good morning, and good luck.

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Musical Interlude: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings Covering Bruce Cockburn

2017-10-04T00:54:50Z

"If I Had a Rocket Launcher".

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Musical Interlude: "Tell Me" AKA "the Anthem of Q" by Bros of Saskatoon

2017-06-24T00:23:32Z

I didn't know this was an actual full-up song to be had. The band as shown here is an offshoot of the Sheepdogs of Saskatoon.

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CBC Board Appointment Process News

2017-06-20T21:19:15Z

Movement finally underway on improving the appointments process for the CBC Board of Directors, it seems.

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What I'm Listening To: 26 Feb 2017

2017-02-26T21:01:48Z

Yes, I recommend listening to this.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/what-is-the-key-to-creating-the-best-education-for-first-nation-communities-1.3994425

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More re: Stuart McLean

2017-02-17T02:40:55Z

Check this interview from 2013. It's a bit more sombre than we're used to from him, but it does show us something of the inner man in a good and helpful way.

http://www.broadcastingcanada.com/the-interview-blog/stuart-mclean

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Searchlight 2017

2017-01-21T12:43:09Z

Good morning, and good luck.

(At least it was local morning when I wrote this.)

CBC Music's starting up another edition of their annual Searchlight competition, for those Canadians reading this with an eye on music as part of their income-earning or sanity-supporting programmes.

Details on their YouTube channel on how to enter.

With diligence and luck, Canada's music library will improve in both size and quality as a result. It usually does.

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