When Carol Off first decided to stop globe-trotting and start hosting a radio show from a studio in Toronto, she says her friends “were really dubious.”
After all, the veteran CBC journalist had spent much of her career in the 1990s and 2000s in the field, reporting the news from all over the world.
“I was a wild animal and I was never going to be a house cat,” Off said. But both she and her friends were surprised to find that she really enjoyed hosting. “It’s just the world brought to me instead of having to go to the world.