On today\u2019s show, nature and literature will be our beat:<\/b>
\nWe\u2019ll first take a long walk through the Pickard Quarry: a \u201clittle pocket\u201d of wilderness in the middle of residential Sackville. And then we\u2019ll have a chat with environmental writer Katharine Fletcher of the Pontiac in Quebec, who has decided to retire from writing her column, after 34 years. And get to learn more about Kingston author Iain Reid who has made the Governor General Literary Awards short list.<\/p>\n
Many thanks to our journalists Caleb Nickerson, Christina Lawrie and Erica Butler. To our national coordinators, Maureen McEwan and Victoria Fenner. Host and producer Boris Chassagne. Viewpoints<\/em> is brought to you by the Community Radio Fund of Canada. Tune in to all our stories on canada-info.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On today\u2019s show, nature and literature will be our beat: We\u2019ll first take a long walk through the Pickard Quarry: a \u201clittle pocket\u201d of wilderness in the middle of residential Sackville. And then we\u2019ll have a chat with environmental writer Katharine Fletcher of the Pontiac in Quebec, who has decided to retire from writing her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":195785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,222],"tags":[16042,32991,13378,13488,16046,32990,14936,26236,32992,13490],"radio":[],"origine":[274,1145,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195799,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195783\/revisions\/195799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195783"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=195783"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=195783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}