I didn't realize that CBC News was offered in the Detroit metro area. When I was a child growing up in the Canadian prairies, our CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates were Detroit based. Consequently, I watched a lot of Detroit news when I was a kid and names like Chuck Gaidica, Bill Bonds and Diana Lewis are as familiar to me as Canadian broadcasting icon Knowlton Nash.

I feel like I gained a lot of perspective and a different sense of the world through my exposure to Detroit news. And now, I'm happy to hear that kids in Detroit have the same opportunity, though in reverse.