A day in the headlines with Patrick Brown

Running against scissors all around

CityStudio 🇨🇦 @CityStudioCA

Congrats to our intern Christian for stepping up to volunteer as host for #Brampton Mayor @patrickbrownont's tele-townhall. What better way to learn than under pressure to keep thousands of residents engaged.

While he appeals against Conservatives who disqualified him from running for federal leader, Patrick Brown claims to be undecided about running for a second term as mayor of Brampton, where his opponents lost a case in court. Meanwhile, the Brown campaign likes Jean Charest, even if Stephen Harper is still lurking in favour of crowning Pierre Poilievre.

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Bells start tolling for Rogers

François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 @FP_Champagne

I directed the companies to reach agreements on (i) emergency roaming, (ii) mutual assistance during outages, & (iii) a communication protocol to better inform the public and authorities during telecommunications emergencies. This outage will be investigated by the CRTC as well

Canada’s industry minister tasked telecommunications networks to come up with a plan that avoids repeating the kind of outage that struck Rogers—whose customers have been promised refunds pro-rated for their time offline. The failure was blamed on maintenance, but effects may include an additional barrier to Rogers acquiring Shaw.

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Justin Bieber hits aren’t Canadian enough under the current wording of Bill C-11. The proposed Online Streaming Act won’t accommodate productions whose foreign input similarly prevents them from qualifying as Cancon on the radio. It’s now been 30 years since the CRTC tweaked its rules only somewhat, due to griping by Bryan Adams.

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New radio room for an umlaut

Six months after Carol Off announced her departure from As it Happens, the CBC Radio staple named a replacement. Previous guest assignments like finding out how many hotdogs a person could possibly eat in one sitting were cited as what qualifies Nil Köksal for the nightly job, starting in September, opposite writer turned co-host Chris Howden:

Nil Köksal @nilkoksalcbc

Big news and big, happy tears. I 💜 AIH @cbcasithappens cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…

cbc.caNil Köksal is the new host of CBC’s As It Happens — and she’s ready to make radio ‘magic’ | CBC RadioNil Köksal, a globetrotting reporter with 20 years of experience at the CBC, is stepping down as host of CBC Radio’s World Report to take on a new role as the host of As It Happens.

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Paul Hanover dead at 97. The title of “Mayor of the Morning” belonged to the radio host who was heard from 1945 to 1982 on CHML in Hamilton. Subsequently, he spent five years on the FM dial before retiring in 1991. Hanover also hosted game shows for CTV, including the charades competition called It’s Your Move.

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Finally, spikier blackboard jungle

Class of 1984 hit U.S. theatres in summer 1982 as the kind of dystopian crime thriller that Roger Ebert understood—even if it was more often cited for starring Michael Fox before he added the “J.” But its producer was then CBC reporter Arthur Kent, who stars in a Toronto Star oral history of how this tax-shelter punk aesthetic invaded the halls of Central Tech: