Sun TV News goes dark, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome rebranding, Sound Book encore, and more...
It was billed as "Canada's Home for Hard News and Straight Talk" -- but today it got some hard news -- and former Sun News Network hosts gives us some straight talk on why they thinks it's gone off the air...An American study concludes that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome shouldn't be called a "syndrome" at all -- but a disease...and acoustics professor Trevor Cox sounds off on the incredible and invisible, in The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World.
Part One
David Carr obit
the late New York Times reporter David Carr survived drug addiction and cancer to become the paper's most distinctive and respected voice. A friend and former colleague tells us about watching Mr. Carr's fall and rise.
Chronic fatigue rebranding
An expert panel recommends that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome be rebranded, and officially recognized as a disease -- so doctors can better diagnose patients.
Loneliest whale
Meet "52 Blue", please -- the loneliest whale in the world because he sings at 52 hertz -- too high for his fellow whales to hear.
Part Two
Sun TV goes dark: Akin
In the U.S. last year, Fox News was the most-watched cable news channel. But Canada's similarly right-leaning counterpart was the least watched -- which is why today, with little fanfare, it was abruptly shut down. Former Sun News' Parliamentary Bureau Chief David Akin gives us his analytics.
Sun TV goes dark: Levant
Ezra Levant was the host of the Sun News Network program "The Source". He was perhaps the network's most controversial host -- he was reprimanded by the Canada Broadcast Standards Council for his on-air remarks, and faced criticism for some of his trademark show-opening monologues.
Part Three
Encore: Sound Book
An interview with Trevor Cox always resonates -- because of his fascination with resonance of all kinds. We'll have an encore presentation of my conversation with Mr. Cox -- a Professor of Acoustic Engineering speaking about "The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World".
From Our Archives: Touretteshero
Jessica Thom has Tourette's Syndrome -- and she uses her alter ego Touretteshero to educate people about her verbal tics. On the eve of Ms. Thom's appearance as a keynote speaker at The Progress Festival in Toronto on Saturday, we re-play our interview with her from April, 2011.