Philippe Morin, an associate producer on the CBC Radio program ‘Northwind’, has been making sound slides – short radio documentaries accompanied by a slide show – and he wants to know what you think about the format.

“Should we keep making more? Do you prefer a video? What feedback do you offer?” Morin asked on a CBC Facebook fan page today.

Here’s the slideshow, take a listen and leave a comment below with your opinion, or go to the Facebook page and comment there.

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	North	Posted at 6:20 pm (08 Feb 2010)

Conway Fraser, a CBC Radio producer, warns that news coverage in the Sudbury area will be seriously affected by the layoffs.

Fraser and his colleagues protested the cuts on Friday in front of the CBC’s local office.

Fully half of the Sudbury staff are facing layoffs. The final decision on how deep the cuts will be won’t be made until the retirement incentive package runs its course. 

Fraser told the Northern News “he felt as if he had been punched in the stomach,” when he heard about the cuts.

“We kind of thought our share would be a position or two based on the proportion,” he said.

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	Layoffs, North	Posted at 7:38 am (31 Mar 2009)

Carol Morin, a familiar face to many northern television viewers as the former host of CBC Northbeat, has won a National Aboriginal Achievement award.

Morin was the first First Nations person to anchor a national newscast in 1989 on CBC Newsworld. Since then she’s been recognized as a role model in the First Nations community, and has worked as a host on several networks, “Morin has helped make First Nations peoples of Canada more prominent and visible to the general public,” the awards committee said.

Last year she left Northbeat to run unsuccessfully as an MLA in the N.W.T. assembly. She has since returned to Northbeat as a producer.

Morin won the award in the media & communication category. She will receive the award at the ceremony on March 6 in Winnipeg.

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	North, Personalities	Posted at 11:48 am (29 Nov 2008)

You’ve gotta admire him. Bryan Pearson (not pictured here), owner of the Astro Theatre in Iqaluit, has been quietly running a not-quite-legal rebroadcasting, uh, “service” — oh hell, I’ll say it, a pirate station — carrying CBC Radio for 13 years now.

He started it when CBC dropped Saturday Afternoon at the Opera from its AM broadcast. “That’s the only show that I listen to religiously,” he told a local paper. “So I got pissed off and bought a radio transmitter and a satellite dish.”

Pearson used to operate the station from his home, but later moved it to improve the signal’s reach. Still, on rainy days, some people in Iqaluit have trouble picking up the signal. It operates on only 1.8 watts of power, although the actual broadcasting licence he has is for 1/600th of a watt. “The same as your toaster,” he lamented.

Pearson says he’s never been hassled about the station, despite it being illegal.

CBC Radio now has a new station in Iqaluit, at 88.3 FM. Pearson says he’ll leave his station running anyway.

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	Fanatical Fans, North, Transmission	Posted at 7:46 am (17 Sep 2007)

The CBC’s Whitehorse bureau was evacuated yesterday morning when a pickup truck slammed into the back entrance.The driver suffered minor injuries in the incident, which took place around 10 a.m. PT. No one else was hurt.

“He sped up and hit the building,” said Whitehorse resident Ron Edwards, who was getting coffee when he saw the older-model truck swerving down Third Avenue.

RCMP are investigating the incident.

At the time of the crash, reporter Cheryl Kawaja was recording an interview in a radio studio just metres from the point where the truck came into contact with the building. The impact of the truck was loud enough to be picked up by microphones in the soundproof studio.

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	North	Posted at 8:27 am (15 Aug 2007)

On this day in 1973, CBC network television transmissions began to the North by way of the Anik-A communications satellites. The Anik A satellites were the world’s first national domestic satellites. Each of the satellites was equipped with 12 C-band transponders, and thus had the capacity for 12 colour television channels.

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	North, Today In CBC History, Transmission	Posted at 3:32 am (05 Feb 2007)

Proving the case that there’s something for everyone on the Internet… I found these instructions for sleeping in the Iqualuit airport. Crazy.

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	Asides, North	Posted at 9:22 am (10 Aug 2006)