Just wanted to note that journalist Sandy Naiman passed on April 15th. 

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/journalist-sandy-naiman-a-powerful-voice-in-the-community

She was an interesting lady.  #RIP.

I worked with her at CHFI in the early 80s when she used to record vignettes for a feature called Focus to help meet the station's 20 to 25 hours per week of enriched spoken word.  This was the reason behind Chronicle, Focus, and a few other features.  This didn't include their news commitment.    There was also 'mosaic' which meant you could intersperse spoken word, poetry, whatever with music.  That's where Tapestry came from.  There was also a restriction on announcers: "Announcers were strictly forbidden from 'ad-libbing' or engaging in 'banal' chatter. Every word spoken outside of news or commercials was supposed to be scripted or purposeful."    CHFI especially got it in the neck because of their 'beautiful' format and had to prove to the CRTC at every licence renewal that they were providing a service and not just acting as 'sonic wallpaper'.

Ps.  The CRTC made FM stations boring jukebox wastelands and owners rich when the rescinded the policy in 1986.  I miss it, and I'd bring back those regs. in a heartbeat.  Especially in today's Spotify world.