What makes a perfectly sane and capable executive leave a thriving private broadcaster to take on one of the most thankless, high-profile jobs in Canadian broadcasting - one which has crushed the spirit of many who have gone before? Only Kirstine Layfield knows for sure; she's the former svp at Alliance Atlantis who became executive director of network programming at Canadian pubcaster cbc in February.

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