dewline: "Truth is still real" (anti-fascism)
So while I've been working at my day job, I've also been using the afternoons to listen to this year's edition of CBC Radio's Massey Lectures series. Some of you may be familiar to varying degrees with the author delivering them...?

https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/ideas/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-astra-taylor

I needed to hear these six hours' worth of radio.
dewline: Text: Searching and Researching (research)
And switching from listening to The Current on CBC Radio One to watching Ottawa City Hall's Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting scheduled for this morning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHOotGLeso

Yes, my job search continues as I watch this. I consider watching city council meetings part of my job search intel-gathering process.

About the provincial "Blue Box" programme in Ontario?

https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=128210
dewline: (canadian media)
I didn't know that And Sometimes Y was being brought back out of the CBC Archives as a podcast series!

https://web.archive.org/web/20120321085750/http://www.cbc.ca/andsometimesy/
dewline: Virus Don't Care (pandemic)
Listening to The House on CBC Radio One at the moment. There is a class-action lawsuit intended to bring those who donated to the organizers of the Convoy Siege of Ottawa last winter to account financially for their role in keeping that siege going, and the consequences of it to the people living and working in downtown Ottawa. Listening to James Manson argue against that lawsuit is quietly infuriating me further.

And they move on to the medical consequences of "misinformation"...which certainly motivated some of the Convoy participants. Others were there to promote and enforce disinformation re: masking and vaccines. And we do not forget that "memorandum of understanding" calling for the removal of the Trudeau government, either. Timed to coincide with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, said invasion still underway. (Speaking of which: after the Convoy lawsuit, the show moves on to "how do we properly solve the Wagner group?", referring to the mercenary organization "working" alongside the Russian military against the Ukrainians.)
dewline: Text: Trekkish Chatter Underway (TrekChatter)
That was Ali Hassan - from CBC Radio! - playing Garry Walberg's TOS character from "Balance of Terror" on tonight's episode, right?
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It's been a quiet day here for the most part. Watching Clip Studio Paint-related webinars on YouTube, taking phone calls, shopping and exercise walks, listening to the radio. Even got some practice time sketching in Clip Studio Paint just before supper, which I'm in desperate need of.

Still feels like I'm getting nowhere helpful. Not right now.
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
Noting that As It Happens has taken on Ottawa Morning's long-time host Robyn Bresnahan as one of its current co-hosts.
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Practicing with the Cintiq and Clip Studio Paint and listening to Cross Country Checkup on CBC Radio.

Two things I am reminded of:

1. I have to got to learn to loosen up in my illustration process.

2. I am absolutely okay with the Confidence and Supply agreement between the federal Liberals and NDP right now. There's things I want to add to their to-do list (like eye care), but this was a possibility I was okay with when I cast my vote.
dewline: (canadian media)
Canada got a bit of a shock last night: Carol Off is ending 16 years as co-host of As It Happens on CBC Radio at the end of next month. Hers is a voice I've gotten used to hearing on the radio, of course, being a longtime CBC listener. The series will continue, of course, well into what we hope is its next full half-century.

The town of Tilbury, Ontario is getting a pleasant shock of its own: they're going to have a newspaper of their own again. Mohsin Abbas, a journalist originally from Pakistan now calling Canada home, is doing the work to make that happen for the Tilbury Times, liberating the brand - so we hope - from Postmedia control. The CBC News report goes into a lot more detail about Tilbury, Mr. Abbas, and the process of rescue and revival.
dewline: (amusement)
I am listening to All In a Day on CBC Radio One, and Alan Neal is fielding questions from kids about Christmas. One about what do reindeer enjoy games-wise got pivoted to SF writer Julie Czerneda - turns out she's also a biologist! - and Julie just improvised an answer about how antlers can be repurposed as hockey sticks!

(Yes, Julie and I chat on occasion at bookstores, at Can-Con events, and so on.)
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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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I just got home from walking exercise, which I needed to have. The weather is grey, unseasonably warm and wet, hereabouts this afternoon.

A few days ago, George Pérez broke the news of his inoperable stage 3 pancreatic cancer diagnosis, as I noted here.

Right now, I'm listening to an episode of White Coat, Black Art via CBC's On Demand radio services devoted to consequences of the Pandemic as regards cancer diagnoses in general across Canada...and the effects on the cancer-fighting sector of the medical professions, particularly morale and mental health.

So there's me, connecting dots, right? Dots that I'm not sure need connecting, because what's the point of it beyond blame-casting?
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One job lead is taking longer than I was expecting to see either pay off or not. So it looks like my flu vaccination appointment Monday morning can happen safely. I can take care of some follow-up stuff with my CPAP machine dealer on the way home.

Another job lead is set for an over-the-Net interview for Wednesday morning. We'll see how that goes.

Family's mostly okay today.

I'm listening to Ideas on CBC Radio One at the moment.

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