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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Radio One <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:48 PM Subject: Week of July 31st: Peter Gzowski Tribute To: [email protected] Hi Richard! This is your CBC.ca update. If you are having trouble viewing this email please click here. 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.) ________________________________ 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). ________________________________ Wondering what else is on? Check out the CBC Radio program guide. 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