Although I've never heard it before, "Pastor" is a very appropriate name for Peter Mansbridge.
  He's very competent and skillful, has a very graceful style. But he's too pompous and conservative for me, especially as the news anchor of the CBC. I've always seen him as a guy who wishes he could have been Winston Churchill.
  The CBC was supposed to be the people's radio network, left of centre. But there's nothing left-of-centre about Peter Mansbridge or Wendy Mesley. Or Rex Murphy or Andrew Coin. Or Mr. Sunday News Guy, G & M's John Ibbitson.
   Thirty years of Peter Mansbridge  as CBC news "Pastor", thirty years of surreptitious drift  ever rightward in Canada's politics, economics, and foreign policy.
   Hmmmmmm....