[Swprograms] Fwd: Week of July 31st: Peter Gzowski Tribute

[Richard Cuff <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI...I know of a few Peter Gzowski fans here...

RC


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Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Subject: Week of July 31st: Peter Gzowski Tribute
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Hi Richard! This is your CBC.ca update. If you are having trouble
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Your newsletter for the week of July 31st

Peter Gzowski

Words and Music

If you were a fan of CBC Radio’s Morningside, you’ll want to join
Shelagh Rogers for Words and Music: A Celebration of Peter Gzowski’s
Literacy Legacy.

Peter Gzowski was a writer and broadcaster who worked for newspapers,
magazines, television and radio, but he is best known as the host of
one of the most popular network shows ever to run on

CBC Radio – Morningside – a job he held from 1982 to 1997. It was a
show about almost everything: politics, books, music, sports, world
events … from serious to silly, you heard it all on Morningside. And
Gzowski was, without a doubt, the show’s heart and soul. He died in
2002.

Gzowski was passionate about the importance of literacy and its role
in changing people’s lives. Twenty-five years ago he started the Peter
Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournaments for Literacy. It’s an annual
fundraiser for Frontier College, Canada’s original literacy
organization providing literacy programs for children, youth and
adults across the country. The tournaments are held coast to coast to
coast and have raised more than $12 million.

Last May, some of Canada’s finest actors, writers and musicians
gathered at Glenn Gould Studio to celebrate this rich literacy legacy.
It was a magical evening, full of surprises and laughter along with
moments of great poignancy. Gordon Pinsent brought the house down, and
who knew Stuart McLean, host of The Vinyl Café, could actually sing?
Roch Carrier, best known for the story “The Hockey Sweater,” provided
one of the evening’s most touching (and funny) moments with his poem
to Peter.

Tune in to CBC Radio at 5 p.m. on Monday, August 2nd, for Words and
Music: A Celebration of Peter Gzowski’s Literacy Legacy. (We regret
that this special will not be heard in Quebec and Newfoundland;
however, it will be live-streamed on CBC.ca and available  online
after broadcast until August 14th.)

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Photo: iStock

Asunder

If divorce is a painful and difficult process under even the best of
circumstances, imagine wanting to end your marriage when you live in
another country … one where you may not speak the language very well,
where you don’t know or understand the laws about divorce, where
you’re not sure what your rights are — and you don’t know where to go
to find out.

Immigrants may be unfamiliar with newcomer assistance programs, they
may be financially dependent on their spouse and lacking their own
means of financial support, and worst of all, they may have no one
else here, no one to turn to for emotional support.

Magda was 22 when she came to Canada with her new husband. Soon, she
had a baby girl. Shortly after their daughter was born, her husband
began abusing her, first verbally, and then physically. He belittled
her; he beat her; he restricted her movements outside the home and her
contact with others, even within their own community. When they had a
son three years later, Magda hoped the abuse would stop, but it
didn’t. She spoke little English, and with her self-esteem completely
eroded, it was easy for her husband to control her with threats.

It took Magda 13 years to get away from her husband. Five years later,
she has never heard from him. He never even tried to find their
children. She now says that while she worries about money constantly,
she is very happy and finally feels free.

This week, Asunder looks at divorce through the eyes of immigrants,
Monday at 9:30 a.m. (10 a.m. NT).

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