Midweek for March 26, 2025
Our second last show! We began looking forward with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election call and ended looking back with Ottawa’s Nostalgia and Collectible Show. In between, we heard about the last 10 sacred days of Ramadan, the Global Day for Epilepsy Awareness — also known as Purple Day — and a historic first U Sports national championship win for...
Midweek for March 5, 2025
It was our 6th of 9 shows this term. After an update on the mercurial U.S.-Canada tariff situation, we heard a documentary from reporter Janson Duench on Carleton University’s Ravens women’s basketball team’s defeat against Toronto Metropolitan University’s Bold, which took them to this year’s USports National Championship. Sarah Hirsi’s documentary shared the Ramadan experience at Ottawa restaurants and cafés which...
Midweek for Feb. 26, 2025
Every week, the Midweek team relies on the newsroom printer to deliver multiple copies of the script for the entire one-hour show. Every story, every word, every studio direction for the week’s 60-minute production printed on several reams of paper must be given to the hosts, show producer, music producer and Dave Sarazin who operates the studio, well before airtime....