All In A Day
with Alan Neal

Every week it seems there's a new headline about health care: Four million Canadians can't find a family doctor...Clinics are cherry-picking wealthy clients...Wait times are through the roof.

 

Well, one of the most influential voices in this debate has a new leader. The Canadian Medical Association has elected Dr. Christopher Simpson, the chief of cardiology at Queen's University, to lead the CMA starting next year. He joined us from Kingston to explain his priorities.

When you go to a play or a movie, you're probably focusing on the stage or the screen. You're likely not thinking about what you're sitting on. But that's been the year-long preoccupation for Mitchell Burton.

 

Mitchell is one of the artists-in-residence at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa, and on Friday night, he'll debut his solo show "Seats."It's a photographic tour of Ottawa spaces where people sit down and take a load off, and Mitchell joined us to explain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are a lot of interesting characters on Montreal singer-songwriter Caracol's most recent album, Shiver. And as she revealed to Alan, those characters are coming from a very different place now that she's writing more and more in English. Caracol plays the NAC tonight.

 

 

 

 

Today at city hall, Ottawa learned the name of its new team in the National Basketball League of Canada. The pro team will be called the Tomahawks.

But if Twitter's any indication, the new name is anything but a slam-dunk. One tweet called Tomahawks "racially insensitive at BEST" and another urged, "Enough w/ the stolen native names already."

Gus Takkale is the president of Bytown Sports and Entertainment, the driving force behind the Ottawa Tomahawks. He dropped by All in a Day's studios.

So for the past couple of weeks we've been asking you to vote on the best musical act in the Ottawa area. It's for CBC Music's Searchlight contest, and the idea is that, eventually, one act from Eastern Ontario will go on to the national finals, where they'll face off against other regional finalists. And after that, a national champion will be crowned, and bestowed with some great prizes.

 

Your votes are in, and we now have our top 20 finalists from the 613! They are...

• Alexa Bradley
• Atra Aeterna
• Blackwell
• Brett MacLean
• The Etheriol
• Finding Chuck
• Go Long (!)
• Henry Norwood
• High Waters
• Liam Callan
• Mark Fossen
• Rae Corcoran
• Rat Crown
• Renée Yoxon
• The Roosevelts
• Searson
• Stoyan Ganev
• Those Gulls
• Three Little Birds
• The Wobbly Tones

Your next task: to narrow these 20 finalists down to a final 5 shortlist. Go to our Searchlight page to vote!