Walter wrote:

AspectRatio wrote:

Perhaps Reshmi Nair for the afternoon "The Rush" on 1010 can now have a permanent co-host in Tory?

That's about the only way the show could be any worse.  Nair, who can't let anybody speak for more than 10 words without interrupting, with Tory, who can spend 20 minutes saying nothing without taking a breath.
 

I heard Matt Gurney fill in a few days ago...really good.  In my view he should be made the permanent solo host of The Rush.

I grew up London during the 70's and 80's.  Peter Garland was the morning man in the 80's - one of the finest in my opinion.

If businesses/consumers want to have transparency on the root cause of the outage, CRTC should be talking to the lead technical expert(s) at Rogers.   Anyone else (esp at the executive level) will spin the story to the point of dizziness.

I have a friend to works in IT and here's his thoughts which I found enlightening:
1.  The Rogers acquisition of Shaw should be off the table to provide more competition in the industry so that people are not forced to have all their eggs in one basket.  He went on to say comsumers should split their internet and cell services across companies.
2.  Because the internet is so critical to people's lives now, anytime there is an outage, it shouldn't be simply a matter of not being billed for the outage period.  There should be an outrageous penalty imposed to the service provider so that they do take immediate action to minimize the duration of the outage e.g. $1 rebate to the consumer for every minute the outage lasts.  Consumer are the last to be compensated when they experience issues with service delivery.  If you compare to banks (for example), you get dinged quite hard when you have an overdraft situation on your account.  His point was that companies can hit consumers quite hard, why not the other way around as well.
3.  Hold the Chief Information Officer (CIO) responsible for the communication to their customer base.  The general industry standard is to acknowledge an issue has occurred at the onset and then to provide hourly communication until the problem is resolved.  Of course, the media for communication (e.g. Twitter) would need to be published as part of the companies disaster recovery plan.
4.  Government work with all telcos to develop an agreement that when there is an outages, there is automation routing of the network traffic to other service providers (Bell and Telus in this case).  In addition, each telco should be mandated to have a fail-over system in place.
5.  Any company providing voice service over IP be mandated to have an alternate solution when their network be down to ensure services like 911 are still accessible.
5.  He urged everyone to contact the CRTC to take action on the above points.

 

Return of Tiffany Hendsbee, perhaps?

If memory serves correctly, Peter Truman co-anchored Global news with Peter Desbarats through the 70's.  I thought they made a good team.  Peter D would later become Dean of Journalism at Western.

This isn't about a prank but many years ago (back in the 70's or 80's), one of the radio stations in London had a contest featuring an all expenses paid weekend in Cleveland.  The second prize was two all expenses paid weekends in Cleveland.  As I recall, the radio station got an earful from Clevelanders who eventually heard about the contest.

Totally agree on making him main anchor.  He does a great job of reporting the news in an unbiased manner, in my opinion.