Me with the nicer folks up north: Journalist Kara Swisher on big tech's big personalities — and even bigger problems | The Current with Matt Galloway | Live Radio | CBC Listen cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵

Thanks Canadian Association of Journalists and Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) for the recognition, and to our incredible team at The Current on CBC Radio on this series. And congrats Ian and The Narwhal on your work!

.Kara Swisher is coming to #HotDocs23 via the Podcast Showcase Festival on Saturday May 9 at 5pm—with special guest Lilly Singh!

Listen to Kara discus big tech's big personalities — and even bigger problems — with Matt Galloway on CBC Radio: cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

News: NPR becomes first major news org to stop using Twitter, saying that the Elon Musk-owned platform “is taking actions that undermine our credibility.”

“We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility…”

25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, some say “ceasefire babies” have inherited a fragile place with not much prosperity. cbc.ca/1.6805068

Listen to The Current on CBC Radio Tuesday after the 8:30 news for a compelling documentary about IPV, followed by my conversation with Matt Galloway at 9:05 about what needs to change.

The Anishinaabe journalist will teach Indigenous journalism and storytelling at Carleton University. cbc.ca/radio/unreserv…

Canadian director Daniel Roher won an Oscar for his documentary Navalny last month — but he won’t be keeping the award where he can see it.

Hear the full conversation about his doc, and the man at the heart of it: jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny cbc.ca/1.6803568 .

Dennis Daley, the commanding officer of the Nova Scotia RCMP, has committed to enacting the recommendations of an extensive report filed in the wake of the province's 2020 mass shooting, even though he says he hasn't read it yet. cbc.ca/1.6797711

Thanks for the warm and generous welcome, Nova Scotia. Love this place. 📻

This was a lot of fun. Thanks to Sam Sifton for playing along.

Wild to see drivers hammering down Dupont and spraying slush on people (kids, seniors, ages in between) without a second thought. A year+ ago, the city installed traffic lights west of Christie, ostensibly to slow traffic down and make the street safer, but never turned them on.

Sandra Demontigny has early onset Alzheimer’s. She wants to one day access medical assistance in dying, but fears the disease may rob her of the ability to consent.

“I don't want to stay stuck in my body … just waiting to die,” she said.

LISTEN | cbc.ca/1.6764445 .

Some personal news: I have no plans to buy a tweed jacket.

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Take a listen to my documentary about the experience of becoming a soldier and a year at war, called Part of Our Souls.

How have civilians adapted? How have they changed as people? Roman offers insights that changed how I understand this war. Listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/0ArIBd…

Happy Thursday.

'To feel my body beginning to slow and become more mechanically difficult to manage was hard to take. Parkinson's is an insidious disease,' Harry Forestell told Matt Galloway in a conversation today about his diagnosis and treatment cbc.ca/1.6752210

Our latest episode of Canadiana is now our most popular ever — with more than 300,000 views.

The unlikely story of the spectacular highway the Americans built across the Yukon: youtu.be/KzwgqwqKqfQ