disclosure: i am one of hundreds of cbc journalists - past and present - who have signed an open letter calling for cbc tandem to be shut down - i have never protested anything before - taking sides makes my job something else - but this does too -
so many of us are still connected to the world - but working in isolation - to my
@cbcnews
colleagues - to everyone - hold fast - and thanks to grocery/drug store/health/essential workers who can’t work isolated - you’re real heroes
my first day subbing on the supercool
@cbcasithappens
and i think fmr host dennis trudeau is making woo woo eyes at me - i choose to take it as a warm welcome - btw the ‘stache is on point
Reality for HCPs caring for pts with covid who have small children: No school, (sometimes both) parents working in hospital, grandparents need to be off limits, emergency nanny quit because of our work. It's a high price being paid not only by HCPs, but our kids too
Now that is what I call a
#StanleyCup
post game
#meal
. For those of you wondering from L2R right is: palak paneer=spiced spinach/cheese curry, raita=homemade yogurt with spices, cholay=chickpea curry, eggless vanilla cupcake and bhaturay=homemade deep fried naan bread 😁🤤👊🏼
#NHL
Skip stones in the 2nd... I'm so distracted by everything tonight. The media bench is clamouring about my looming 90,000th tweet. I'm supposed to be writing a story and clearly that's not happening.
#cbccurl
that was a fun week on
@cbcasithappens
-
@caroloffcbc
and the show’s crackerjack producers treated me well - i tried to not break the furniture (which i actually have done in studios before). tx to all of them. elxn night on
@cbcradio
here i come
i said to peter - i’d like to report into the election special (on how cabinet ministers fared) from a bar (hey - it was legit news -
@cafreeland
‘s victory party) - and a big grin breaks onto his face - no wonder he won all those awards - i miss him already
We just learned our
@cbcradio
news coverage of election night won the
@RTDNA_Canada
award for best live news special. The man who led us that night was Peter Leo. Another in a long list of award winning coverage he helmed. We lost Peter on the weekend. A bittersweet moment. 😔
@wisem
oh mike - i’m sorry for your loss - she raised a fine man i think - i wish i could tell her in person - again so sorry - i hope your message reaches many
@NPRmageddon
is made possible by a grant from the bruce willis foundation - bruce willis - smirking and turning bad movies into good money since - um - well - before armageddon anyway - check out the guns on
@matt_kwong
nous sommes chanceux que vous êtes là. bonne chance dans la grande aventure amigo/voisin de travail. y a-t-il des fans de bruins en asie? <il y en a un maintenant!>
Après 12 ans à Toronto, l’emballant défi d’être correspondant en Asie basé à Pékin pour
@RadioCanadaInfo
m’attend. Merci pour cette occasion incroyable et pour la confiance.
no one else on the sidewalk gets hassled - just the totally professional journalist mike crawley (
@CBCQueensPark
) - i’d be interested to know whether
@fordnation
and ont atty gl
@douglasdowney
approve of this
The CBC's Mike Crawley (
@CBCQueensPark
) was reporting on the Ontario PC convention when security tried to intervene. That didn't stop Mike, who kept his cool and carried on...
@DFisman
david, thanks for your hard work on our behalf, all of it, including the honesty you have sent out on this awful app. many only want to hear what they already believe. some of us - me - still have so much to learn.
christie was dear and ferocious at the same time - i can’t list all the things i’ve learned (and stolen) from her over the years - this is such awful news - rest in peace
Toronto-based columnist Christie Blatchford dead at 68. Blatchford was one of Canada’s most prominent writers; she did stints with the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun and National Post over her career. She was diagnosed with cancer last fall.
This is one of the scariest & hardest things I’ve ever had to write but here it goes. I am pledging my brain to Ted Carrick and the
@Carrickinst
(Carrick Institute) to be used for study and furthering understanding of the consequences of traumatic brain injury when I pass
@NHL
Thrilled to announce l’ll be the interim host of CBC Cross-Country Checkup this season while Duncan is on a fellowship. I love live, unscripted broadcasting and looking forward to playing a role in this weekly national conversation. (Still doing The National Fridays and Sundays.)
ing was an admirable and indomitable colleague.
"The reality is every single one of us is a mortal human being with human bodies and will have to face something."
rip
sympathies to her family
My daughter’s grandfather bought her this tiny radio and she thinks it’s the coolest present ever. In this world of iPhones, she didn’t actually know radios existed outside a car. She keeps switching the channels and marveling at this magic box. 😂😂😩😩
@donnovanbennett
1 donovan bailey - number 1 by a lot / he could be 1 through 5 / 2 terry fox / 3 clara hughes / 4 gretzky / 5 anyone from the edmonton grads
with respect - my report did note police driving into protesters - other violence by police in the reports both before and after me - and in the headlines of w6 - we go to great lengths not to mislead - one of our reporters was injured by police yesterday