Profiles

Adrienne Arsenault

By Jennifer Hartley Photos courtesy of CBC “I don’t think I am toxically optimistic, but I am aggressively optimistic ” says Adrienne Arsenault, chief correspondent of CBC News and host of The National, who has been bringing us the world for over three decades. It is quite something to hear that from a journalist and foreign...

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NANCY HUGGETT  PENS THE POETRY OF CAREGIVING

  By Parker Charles In 1997, Nancy Huggett chronicled the daily adventures of raising her daughter Jessie, who has Down Syndrome, for CBC Radio’s flagship program Morningside. Those segments, read by Nancy herself (once an on-air personality at CKCU), made a sizeable impact on both management and the public. When they were published in a...

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