East Is Not West

 Today, as always, I listen to CBC. I hope it never disappears as was hinted some time ago. It is our one media that flows across the country like a gentle glue that unites Canada more than any other country that calls itself united when it is usually a collection of individual states priding themselves on being  unique units. And if that "uniqueness" is too strong, it's more putting up fences than uniting anything. Texas for example appears to stand alone in our minds as a kind of "country".  Or Rio, is another example. World wide, we ordinaries don't rush over to a globe to check these things out. It just is. Here in Canada, no city stands alone entirely. Yes, they are unique, but everyone feels the provinces on which they lie and the overall sense is that they remain, though special, truly Canadian. The far North, that sometimes I feel might want to be a different country because of its vast, shiningly icy differences, is and always will still be Canadian. But when, in the morning our delightful Steven Quinn on the West Coast puts a true Pacific spin into the air waves, he is followed not long after by Tom, a terrific radio personality and a brilliant one, but in my opinion solidy a Torontonian. I am able not to feel it cross-the-country radio Canada. And I do try. I adore Tom's interviews, his talk of visits to other places but who remains in the concrete boots, Toronto, Montreal and the Maritimes. Sorry, to say that because I am an avid listener and very much enjoy his program. For the rest of the day CBC continues, mostly Eastern Canada with issues there and the arts and sciences and politics there. Many of my young friends in BC, had to move there, to connect with the great monster talent guru, New York, USA in order to make it big. That is truth, my dears. Many of my childhood mates, such as Alexander Ross from little old New Westminster, BC went there specifically to make a name for himself. And he did. Come on, CBC, you  need to get over yourself and make a bit of a tilt toward the great peaceful, and beautiful oceanside, called The Pacific.