Mark Elliot (born ca. 1953) is the professional name of Nils Johanson, a late night talk radio host on radio station CFRB 1010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and an addictions counselor in private practice. 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ... A radio station is a sound broadcasting service. ... CFRB, or CFRB 1010 as it is often referred to, is an AM radio station, broadcasting on 1010 kHz, with a shortwave radio simulcast by CFRX on 6070 kHz. ... }|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Diversity Our Strength {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Location. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal it began, loyal it remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... Addiction is an uncontrollable compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its negative consequences. ... A Counselor is a general definition for a person who advises. ...

From Monday to Thursday from 11 pm to 2 am EST he hosts the general interest talk show The Nightside, and over the same period on Friday he hosts People Helping People, dedicated to addictions and addiction recovery. Elliot is himself a recovering alcoholic, drug abuser, and compulsive gambler. The Eastern Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting five hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... The Nightside is a popular Canadian late night radio show on CFRB. In 2004 Mark Elliot took over for the former host Jim Richards. ... People Helping People is a late night broadcast on CFRB that deals with drug addiction and other forms of addiction. ... Addiction is an uncontrollable compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its negative consequences. ... Polish propaganda poster saying: Stop drinking! Come with us build happy tomorrows. ... Drug abuse has a wide range of definitions, all of them suggesting disapproval at the use or overuse of a drug for a nontherapeutic effect 1. ... Compulsive gambling is an urge or addiction to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. ...

As of 2005, Elliot is the only openly gay host on CFRB. Also on the left wing politically, he presents a somewhat challenging figure for the historically conservative station. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The slang term being in the closet has been used to describe keeping secret ones sexual behaviors or orientation disapproved of by society; typically homosexuality or bisexuality, but also including transgender or transsexual people and various paraphilias. ... Although the word gay originally meant happy, in modern usage the term is often synonymous with homosexual. However, there are important differences between the terms: while homosexual relates specifically to sexuality, the term gay is often a political or social marker. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word...

Elliot's radio career began at what was then CHIC radio in Brampton, a Toronto suburb, in 1974. He moved on to work as a radio disk jockey at the last English-language commercial radio station in Quebec City, Quebec and then in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At his next home, in Ottawa, he became a legendary evening Top 40 host and local celebrity on CFRA and CFGO. In 1987, a sympathetic employer fired Elliot rather than let his position continue to enable his addictions. Motto: Welcomes you Area: 266. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir (I shall put Gods gift to good use) Ville de Québec, Québec, Canada Location. ... During the 1960s, a terrorist group known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Location. ... Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Glorious and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Lieutenant Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Area 647,797 km² (8th)  - Land 553,556 km²  - Water 64,241 km² (14. ... This article is about the capital city of Canada. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... 580 CFRA is a major talk-radio station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ... CKQB is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts active rock at 106. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Elliot moved to Windsor, Ontario, where he received treatment in a Roman Catholic treatment centre; inspired by the people who worked with him, he would convert to the faith himself. He returned to the air with the CHUM radio group serving Windsor and Detroit. }|135px|City of Windsor, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Windsor, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Windsor, Ontario, Canada Location. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Religious conversion is the adoption of new religious beliefs that differ from the converts previous beliefs; in some cultures (e. ... The famous ChumCity Building on the corner of Queen and John in Toronto. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the territorial city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Michigan Founded  -Incorporated  July 24, 1701  1816 County  Wayne County Mayor  Kwame...

With executive producer Warren Cosford, Elliot initiated People Helping People on Windsor's CKLW, later syndicating it to Toronto's Talk 640. Both stations dropped his program before he was picked up by CFRB, Canada's most listened-to commercial talk radio station, first to do PHP on weekends, and eventually to take on The Nightside after its longtime host Jim Richards moved to an earlier timeslot. CKLW is a 50,000 watt AM radio station broadcasting at 800 kHz located in Windsor, Ontario. ... In the entertainment and news industries, syndication is a method of making content available to a range of outlets simultaneously. ... CFMJ is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 640 on the AM dial in Toronto, Ontario. ...

While many other electronic media shut down, Elliot was on air during the Great Blackout of 2003, providing information and reassurance to untold numbers of listeners in Southern Ontario. A massive power outage produced a blackout in parts of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003. ... Categories: Canada geography stubs | Ontario ...

Elliot has also worked as a counselor with the Salvation Army Harbour Light Treatment Centre, and he is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian evangelist denomination, as well as a charity and social services organisation, with international headquarters at 101 Queen Victoria Street London, England. ... Alcoholics Anonymous (known commonly as A.A. or AA) is a world-wide fellowship of alcoholics whose primary purpose is to stay sober and carry the message of recovery from alcoholism through the Twelve Steps. ...

Elliot grew up in Weston, then a suburb of Toronto. He now lives in the Church and Wellesley area of downtown Toronto. The town of Weston is now a neighbourhood within Toronto, in the north-west end of the city. ... View of Church Street looking north from Maitland Street Church and Wellesley is a gay-oriented community located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

External links

• markelliot.com
• CFRB biography
• Notes from an interview (Fab)