Dave Cameron

The Dark Side of Saint Peter

Songbirds are chirping, coffee is brewing, and the voice of Morningside is salving the nation's soul with his offhand geniality. Then the microphone switches off

On the afternoon of Saturday, November 2, as the CBC celebrated 60 years of public broadcasting, I was exposed for the first time to the Peter Gzowski phenomenon. Inside Mother Corp.’s marble mausoleum on Toronto’s Front Street, women and men in their fifties climb on perimeter railings for a better look as the cheering begins. […]