On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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?

"If I Had a Rocket Launcher".

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