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Feb 8	Mastery Journeys Off the Beaten Trail: In a society obsessed with quick-fixes and band-aid solutions it would be nice to get inside the lives of Canadians who have made the time in their lives to pursue something extraordinary ... the attainment of excellence for it's own sake. Too often these stories focus on the 'master' in a retros...
Feb 8	A Grittier Religion Show - A Religion of the Streets: CBC's Tapestry is an open-minded, thoughtful show on religion. It's great ... for boomers. A recent show, "Lessons For Living", interviewed a gerontologist. Past shows were about AA, Catholic saints, and mid-life. All fine topics but lacking ... grit. Meaning is no longer top-down -- God, the chu...
Feb 8	Moderated comments,WHY? The cbc does not allow comments on their site unless they are approved by a moderator. What are they afraid of? Most other sites,including the Globe and Mail,and this one,allow all comments and then delete the ones that are unacce: Moderated comments,WHY? The cbc does not allow comments on their site unless they are approved by a moderator. What are they afraid of? Most other sites,including the Globe and Mail,and this one,allow all comments and then delete the ones that are unacceptable. I'll say it again,What are they afr...

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Stand On Guard For CBC

Jan 31	Reimagine CBC web site launched: http://www.reimaginecbc.ca/ The CBC is under intense pressure. Good public media is good for our democracy and culture, and we all have a say in its future. So today, we are launching a new campaign to “Reimagine the CBC,” and make Canadian media better for all of us.
Nov 12	Majority Of Canadians Wants Funding Kept Intact: SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/10/cbc-funding-cuts-budget-poll-canadian-support_n_1087210.html?ref=email_share EXCERPT: OTTAWA – The Conservative government’s long-standing promise to keep the CBC’s federal funding stable appears to be in tune with public opinion. A Harris-Decima su...

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Planet CBC

Feb 8	My Essay on Not Being Nominated At The Juno Awards aka Riveting Nighttime Reading: When Juno nomination day comes around, if you're an artist like myself, who teeters between the worlds of anthemic pop and relative obscurity, you go about your day acting like you don't care about getting nominated when in fact, you really do. Maybe it's the curse of being raised as an extension...
Feb 8	A terrible, terrible Sherlock Holmes joke: There are even more, and even worse, here. I'm sorry ... but I know you'll laugh.

The Tea Makers

2010 Dec	Head out your ass?: What happened? Able to finally get your head out of your ass?
2010 Dec	Radio Music Producer, assigned to ‘Tonic’ – CAL00236: If you are interested in public broadcasting and strive to take pride in what you do, look no further. This is the place for you. The national public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada will give you the opportunity to work on projects you wouldn’t find anywhere else.The Canadian Broadcasting Cor...

Petroglyphs

Jan 16	Playwriting workshop exercise: I participated in a playwriting workshop lead by Gil Garratt on Sunday morning. It’s the first “workshop” event I’ve been to where the participants have actually had to work—hard! But it was worth it just for the creativity exercises, feedback and discussion; there’s good reason Garratt was cho...
Nov 29	#JianInLdnOnt: Come on Jian! Come on Jian! Poor Jianny G Sounds sad upon the radio 'Cause he isn't in Londontario Let your Frü flag fly Come along, who'd blame ya? Q's own, homegrown Now I must say more than ever (come on Jian!) A-E-O-L-I-A-N oh yeah This is it, just what you're after Come on Jian, oh I swe...

Inside the CBC

2011 Jan	Kirstine Stewart Formally Appointed as Boss of CBC English: Kirstine Stewart was formally appointed as the new executive vice-president for CBC English Services today. Stewart had been filling the role on an interim basis since the former vice-president, Richard Stursberg, was dismissed in August. A few minutes after the announcement Stewart sent this not...
2011 Jan	The Age of Persuasion – Now Available as a Podcast: The Age of Persuasion, a fascinating radio program about the black art of marketing, is finally available as a podcast. The show, which uses tons of TV and Radio clips from ad campaigns has been struggling to get the legal rights sorted out to podcast for, well, it seems like forever. The host...

The Tea Makers archive (Joe Clark)

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Worth the Fee to Read It

2009 Mar

A New CBC: In the interests of full disclosure, I am an ex-CBC employee (1992-1994). Victor Wong, over at The Phantom Observer, has, over the past few weeks, run a series of posts polling and asking for comment on the CBC and its future. For die-hard Friends of the CBC, of course, the answer is always and ...

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