dewline | Entries tagged with sunday edition

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.

Current Mood: uncomfortable

So, I committed an activist act just as I was logging in here. Signed up for this:

https://friends.ca/campaigns/michael-enright-in-conversation/

As good as Piya Chattopadhyay is in hosting the show now rebranded as The Sunday Magazine and I am also aware that Mr. Enright and CBC have continuing plans for a future in partnership...well, I've missed hearing his voice on the radio.

I'll be in Zoom mode with that writing workshop being run by the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre in tandem with the Toronto Writers Collective in about half an hour after I post this. It fills a couple of hours with job-skills practice and mental health support. That has to be good.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now

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.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: Home
Current Music: The Sunday Magazine

Today is the last edition of The Sunday Edition under that branding with Michael Enright as host. Mr. Enright will be moving on to build something new for the Public Broadcaster.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-june-28-2020-1.5624927

After today, the series will rebrand with Piya Chattopadhyay as its host effective next weekend. She's been training up for this for over a decade, and now I think she'll really get to put all her skills and experience to work for however many years.

Twenty years...

(Meanwhile, I'm getting some laundry done here as I listen.)

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home
Current Music: The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio

Michael Enright just announced that he's stepping down as host of The Sunday Edition to close out this week's edition. Resignation to take effect in five weeks. The series will continue with a new host - as it should, since Enright is not the first host the series ever had - and Enright will continue in other work with and for CBC Radio.

I am still surprised. And, yet, not surprised. Pandemic or not, this change would have happened eventually anyway.

Twenty years...

Current Mood: surprised
Current Location: Home
Current Music: CBC Radio

These facts are not new:

We can't afford to not change. We can use this crisis to leverage positive changes. Some of us are in fact doing that work.

Listening to The Sunday Edition on the radio at the moment, hearing a discussion between Michael Enright and one of those people doing that work at a church-sermon level with the wider public, Charles Taylor.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/after-covid-19-we-will-have-the-mother-of-all-battles-over-the-future-of-the-planet-says-charles-taylor-1.5402452

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: See above

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/a-covid-19-confinement-chronicle-week-six-michael-s-essay-on-the-nova-scotia-tragedy-1.5536440

Current Mood: frustrated

I'm listening to Michael Enright interviewing Linda McQuaig about the state of threat facing Canada's public wealth these days...crown corporations, public ownership, and social order...and she's got a new book out: The Sport and Prey of Capitalists on the current situation in Canada.

Current Mood: busy

Linkage offered without direct comment:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/why-the-sunday-edition-recorded-a-concert-at-a-maximum-security-prison-michael-s-essay-1.5352797

Current Mood: busy

Are we over-reacting? Do we owe ourselves a pat on the back, as Mr. Enright suggests?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/michael-s-essay-the-election-brought-out-the-worst-in-our-
political-parties-but-not-in-canadians-1.5335028

Current Mood: busy

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.

Michael Enright argued today that the Canadian press - as a whole, not just the news service that's trademarked the name "Canadian Press" - is not entirely free in Canada.

I would argue as a sidebar that the likes of James Sears got too little of what he deserved in response to his efforts to curtail the freedoms of his fellow humans. I would not call James Sears a journalist at all, in fact. Also, I consider that the likes of Jamal Khashoggi, Marie Colvin, and Anna Politovskaya - among many others across this planet - have certainly gotten none of what they deserved: long, productive lives in service of their fellow humans.

That we now have the Journalistic Sources Protection Act in force in Canadian law is, I think, an improvement upon the state of my nation's affairs. That it has some actual teeth, even more so. I hope those teeth and the jaws in which they're rooted stay healthy. Vigilance is required for that to become and remain so...in this, as in so many other things.

Current Mood: busy

Listening to this at the moment while resigning myself to going to work at another minwage-plus-4-percent day job tomorrow morning.

Quoth Dave Meslin:

"What's disrespectful about our voting system is that 60 per cent can vote against a particular party, then that party cannot only win, but win a majority of the seats. In almost every Western democracy in the world, if a single party takes complete control of a legislature against the will of a majority of voters, it's called a coup. And in Canada we call it an election."

I agree and yet Canada is trapped right now between the impulse this belief creates and the knowledge that the new fascist international is a real threat ready to pounce.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/canadians-may-or-may-not-elect-the-government-they-want-1.5282911