On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

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.

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...

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

For your consideration:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-december-3-2017-1.4428070/michael-s-essay-lament-for-a-nation-1.4428086

Followed on the radio by a "sad trombone" interpretation of "America, the Beautiful"...

Good morning, and good luck.

I think I'll just leave the link here. Listen or don't. I won't know either way, unless you tell me.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/farewell-to-2016-robert-harris-on-albums-that-changed-your-life-2nd-annual-shut-up-i-m-thinking-word-game-1.3906841/thank-god-2016-is-finally-over-let-us-work-to-find-a-better-world-in-2017-michael-s-essay-1.3907428

Michael Enright speaks of a divide between nations, of music, of grief and joy.

Can-Con 2016 is wrapping up in Ottawa today. It's been fun, it's been a learning experience. And I should have left for home last night at least a half-hour earlier than I actually did.

I have voted for several such candidates over the decades...and with perhaps one exception, I have no regrets myself about making those choices.