If you're the early bird type, I'm the holiday fill-in for Seamus O'Regan this week on Canada AM. It means I was up at 3 a.m. and off to work at 4 a.m. today and for the next couple of days but, change is as good a rest, as they say, so I'm happy to take a break from my reporting duties.
The show airs weekdays, 7:30 am to 10 am in the Atlantic region, and 6:30 am to 9 am elsewhere in Canada on your local CTV affiliate.
This week, you won't be surprised to hear, we're spending a lot of time talking about the South Asia disaster. This morning, for example, we spoke with Sri Lanka's Commissioner to Canada, officials from the Red Cross, and the twin brother of a man who survived being swept out to sea in Thailand.
We also heard from CTV reporters in the region. My old Toronto bureau colleague Steve Chao, now our Beijing bureau chief, is in Phuket, Thailand and Matt McLure, who I trained with when we joined the network at the same time in 2001, is in Sri Lanka. Matt is the network's South Asia Correspondent and is normally based in New Delhi.
If we can, we'll likely speak with Steve and Matt Wednesday morning.