Many thanks to Ezra Levant for having me on his show tonight to talk about our project. Watch below - my part starts at the 21:20 mark. https://youtu.be/QC_K0_pD_2U
Today an Ottawa icon, Steve Madely of News Talk Radio 580 CFRA, announced his retirement after 50 years in broadcasting and 35 with CFRA including over 20 as a superb, model talk show host.
I have had the privilege of being a guest on his show once a week for many years and was witness to his extraordinary professionalism, his combination of determined preparation and outstanding journalistic instincts. But Steve was much more than just a great journalist. He was a tireless advocate for worthy causes, a true friend to those in need, and a compelling voice of sanity and decency.
He will be much missed in Ottawa and on CFRA. But he has given great service to his listeners and his community over the years and is fully entitled to smell the roses, stop getting up at 3:30 a.m., enjoy his wonderful family and follow the prow of his boat wherever his fancy inspires him to point it.
Let us remember his example and try to live by it.
Congratulations, Steve, and happy trails.
I was on the Andrew Lawton show yesterday to discuss my latest National Post column about women in combat. You can listen below. It starts at the 40:29 mark. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224939496" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]
I'm scheduled to be on 770 Afternoons at around 3:30 (eastern) this afternoon, with Danielle Smith, to talk about my latest National Post column. You can listen live at the link.
A nice comment on iPolitics about my "Why I Can't Vote For the Harper Tories" National Post column, from Michael Harris, who I worked with at CFRA. There's something fishy about him calling me an "old trout" as I don't make a habit of saluting colleagues as "abalone" or "plaice" or other terms associated with aquatic life. But nice otherwise.
I was interviewed by CJAD's Dan Delmar yesterday about my latest National Post column. You can listen to it below. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218262528" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]
I'm scheduled to be on CJAD 800 in Montreal this afternoon at 3:35 (Eastern) to talk about my latest National Post column about why I can't vote for the Tories. You can listen live here.
In today’s National Post Tristin Hopper wrote pointedly about the inferior facilities and tours at Canada’s magnificent Vimy Ridge site. He’s right. In fact, in France last April filming a documentary on World War One, I was provoked to record an irritated segment about our feeble official remembrance even compared to some modestly funded French and Belgian museums. I put it aside during the editing process because the documentary was about the war’s importance to liberty and Western civilization, not my irritation with official Canada’s passion for the bronze. But I’m posting it now because we can and should do better for those who died for our freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=915xcTzZjBw