Bruce Rogers is a Canadian broadcast journalist, author and political candidate. Rogers is best known for his work as a television host on TVOntario and as a radio broadcaster on CBC Radio and CFRB in Toronto. Rogers worked from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from the 1960s through the 1980s and was the first host of CBC Radio Toronto's Metro Morning from 1973 to 1974. He also hosted Radio Noon, Sunday Magazine,[1] The World at Six[2] as well as numerous hourly news bulletins. On television, he hosted CBLT's The Rogers Report as well as various newscasts. His work on TVO has included hosting a number of finance-oriented shows such as Money$worth and Money$ense.
After retiring from the CBC, Rogers was a newsreader at CFRB from 1991 to 1998, and has taught broadcast journalism at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).
He has run as a candidate for the New Democratic Party on several occasions:
- in the Toronto riding of Parkdale in the 1968 federal election in which he placed second;
- in Oshawa in the 2000 federal election;
- in Clarington—Scugog—Uxbridge in the 2004 federal election; and
- in Durham in the 2006 federal election.
Rogers has written a book on Canadian English and speech, You Can Say That Again! ISBN 0-88882-208-1.
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Hi neighbor, welcome again to this neighborhood. I'd like to show you something. Do you know what this is? Well maybe if I press this button. This is a cassette player with a little cassette in here, and there's nothing written on it, so we'll just have to play it to see what it is. Do you ever imagine things? Are they scary things? Do you ever imagine things, the things you'd like to have? Did you ever see a cat's eyes in the dark, and wonder what they were? Did you ever pretend about things like that before? Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind? You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. It's good to be curious about many things you can think about things and make believe, all you have to do is think and they'll grow. Imagine every person that you see is somewhat different from every other person in the world. Some can do some things, some can do others Did you ever think of the many things you've learned to do? Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind? You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. It's good to be curious about many things you can think about things and make believe, all you have to do is think and they'll grow. Did you feel like going like that? Let's give the fish some food. Mr. McFeely, I didn't order any whistles. (whistle solo) That's what they call a slide whistle. Did you feel like going like that? There are so many things to learn about in this world and so many people who can help us learn. Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind? You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. It's good to be curious about many things. you can think about things and make believe, all you have to do is think. You can think about things and make believe, all you have to do is think and they'll grow.
References
- ^ "Sunday Magazine". CBC. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
- ^ "The World at Six". CBC. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
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