Syndicated shows air on Radio Waterloo but are produced at other stations or by other producers.
Nature Answers is a podcast from Farm Radio International that shares stories from rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, where some of the most vulnerable people on earth are turning to nature for solutions to a changing climate. And it’s working!
Nature Answers is syndicated from Farm Radio International and airs on CKMS-FM alternating Wednesday’s from 1:00pm to 2:00pm.
In 2019, 
She Is Your Neighbour was launched in the form of a blog series and social media campaign. Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region (WSCWR) asked community leaders to share their perspectives on domestic violence and explain why they are invested in ending it. These community leaders became ambassadors of the She Is Your Neighbour project. Together, WCSWR and these leaders explored different types of abuse and challenged the misconception that domestic violence refers only to physical violence. Many ambassadors shared stories of emotional, psychological, and financial violence that they have witnessed or experienced.
In fall 2020, the She Is Your Neighbour podcast was released! In the podcast, WCSWR takes a deep dive into domestic violence. Through thought-provoking discussions WCSWR addresses hard topics like domestic violence and the drug trade, violence against Indigenous women and girls, challenges for transgender youth seeking support, and more.
Season Two was produced in 2021. Throughout this season, we build on topics we explored in Season One and fill in the blanks by covering new topic areas. Join us as we explore the realities and complexities of domestic violence.
Our goal is to increase awareness and understanding of domestic violence through thought-provoking discussions, highlighting groups who are disproportionately impacted. We all have a role to play in ending domestic violence.
She Is Your Neighbour is hosted by Jenna Mayne.
She Is Your Neighbour is now in its seventh season, and re-airing on CKMS-FM on Tuesdays from 10:00am to 11:00am starting with Season One in April 2025.
WCSWR encourages you to get involved! Read a blog story, tune into the podcast, buy a book, start conversations, and use the hashtag #SheIsYourNeighbour. We can’t do this without you! We all have a role to play in ending domestic violence.
There are many forms of domestic violence, all of which include attempts to maintain power and control over the thoughts, beliefs and behaviour of a woman by creating fear and/or dependency. All forms of abuse result in the woman feeling powerless, unequal and unsafe.
Domestic abuse includes but is not limited to:
Signs of domestic abuse include but are not limited to:
Use the hashtag #SheIsYourNeighbour
Sovereign Canada highlights what makes us Canadian. Show host Mike McCulloch presents interviews with Canadian political leaders and subject matter experts in fields relating to sovereignty – spanning history to political science, and from international relations and law to immigration, military, and more. He recaps news as it relates to the continuing threat of annexation, and endeavours to speak with regular Canadians who are making a difference. .
Sovereign Canada is syndicated from NCRA station CIVL-FM and airs on CKMS-FM on Fridays from 10:00am to 11:00am.
Les Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF) is one of the cultural events organized annually to celebrate International Francophonie Day (March 20), which promotes the French language and the many ways it is expressed across Canada.
From March 1 to 31, Canada will be celebrating its Francophonie! Hundreds of activities are planned across the country, including multicultural gatherings, performances, film screenings, contests, and educational activities—it’s all cause to celebrate!
The RVF is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate together!
Les Rendez-vous de la Francophonie is hosted by Catherine Fisher, and is syndicated from the NCRA and CRFC, and airs on CKMS-FM on Sundays in March 2025 from 5:00pm to 5:30pm with the following episodes:
Hello there!
As we gear up to celebrate World Radio Day on Thursday, 13 February 2025, we are excited to invite you to a significant event that underscores radio’s vital role in uniting communities across Canada and beyond. We were thinking you could provide some valuable information and interesting discussion during this event on our live-to-air, syndicated radio show and in-person event.
After last year’s event, the NCRA/ANREC, CKCU‑FM and Farm Radio International are collaborating once again to bring you an environmentally focused live-to-air broadcast. With this year’s theme being “Radio and Climate Change” we hope to showcase the transformative power of radio in promoting dialogue, fostering cultural diversity, and giving a voice to underrepresented communities.
If you’re attending in-person at Carlton University in Ottawa, there will be snacks with radio peers alike and a live broadcast by CKCU‑FM. This is an event that aims to bring industry professionals together, as well as politicians, to showcase the power of radio.
The event will take place at Carleton University from 11:00am to 2:00pm EST on Thursday, 13 February 2025. Lunch will be provided free of charge. CKMS‑FM Radio Waterloo will be simulcasting the event with CKCU‑FM.
Attend in person and be live on air for a quick discussion.
This discussion can touch on the theme “Radio and Climate Change” or another relevant theme to community radio, and our celebration could take 5 to 10 minutes.
If you wish to attend, registration is free, but you need food numbers. Please reserve your spot.
If you cannot attend but would still like to show your support, we ask that you take the time to tune in and show support for your favourite local radio station, campus radio, public broadcast, or a special program that day.
We look forward to seeing you on World Radio Day.
Warm regards,
Barry Rooke
Executive Director NCRA/ANREC
On behalf of NCRA/ANREC, CKCU‑FM and Farm Radio International
Get more information about World Radio Day from UNESCO and from the NCRA Invitation to World Radio Day 2025.
Every day on 
!earshot Daily a different host from within the National Campus and Community Radio Association’s member’s station and network hosts a 30-minute show. The host selects the songs, shares stories and talks about what’s important to them and their community, connected to the larger Canadian network. !earshot Daily features artists found at !earshot-Distro or on the official campus and community charts for Canada, !earshot-Online.
!earshot Daily is hosted by DJs from Campus and Community stations across Canada, and airs on CKMS-FM every weekday from 5:30am to 5:59am.
Frequencies of Change Media (FoC Media) uses audio storytelling to inspire a more just world. As a journalism organization committed to truth, we honor the rich wisdom and lived experience of historically oppressed and marginalized communities. Through our radio show and podcast, “Making Contact,” we challenge harmful power structures and move toward the future we envision.
Our vision is a just and thriving world based on collective healing and interdependence. We embrace the human experience in all its complexity. Through the power of storytelling, challenge dominant narratives and empower communities to engage in meaningful action.
Making Contact is syndicated from Frequencies of Change Media and airs on CKMS-FM Mondays from 1:30pm to 2:00pm.
WR Podcasts is CKMS-FM Radio Waterloo’s showcase of some of the podcasts produced in Waterloo Region. Each week we air one or two episodes from local producers to give you a taste of what’s available in Waterloo Region.
WR Podcasts is not currently on the CKMS-FM schedule.
On Wisdom features a social-cognitive scientist in Toronto and an educator in London discussing the latest empirical science regarding the nature of wisdom.
Old Grey Mayors host Rob Deutschmann sits down with community leaders, civic leaders, and others from across Waterloo Region to learn more about their experiences and how those lessons can apply to today’s issues.
Bonn Park Podcast where hosts Marshall Ward and Sara Geidlinger chat in-depth with fascinating people living, working, and creating in Waterloo Region.
Watershed Writers with Tanis MacDonald features interviews within an exciting mix of local fiction writers, novelists, poets, authors, playwrights and essayists.
Talk To Me with David Ward features Dave Ward going one-on-one with Canadian artists, politicians and business people from all walks of life.
!earshot20 is a nationally syndicated radio show that counts down the Top 20 albums of the week from across Canada according to www.earshot-online.com
!earshot20 is hosted by DJ Darko, syndicated from !eDDS run by the NCRA, and returns to the CKMS-FM schedule on 26 December 2024 to air Thursdays from 1:00am to 3:00am.
Dickson and Bruce isn’t the the theatre performances, but Interviews with actors from the Dickson and Bruce show. Learn about both the actors and the characters they portray.
Dickson and Bruce is syndicated from Stephen W. Young and airs on CKMS-FM on Fridays from 11:30pm to Midnight.
Home Range: Promenade is an experimental community radio magazine. Promenade is produced by the Home Range Story Kitchen, an offshoot of the Commons Studio at The Working Centre.
Home Range: Promenade is hosted by Martin de Groot, is syndicated on CKMS-FM from the Home Range Story Kitchen, and airs on Monday from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.
September 30, 2024 is the fourth federal statutory holiday to honour residential and day school Survivors. Radio Waterloo and the 
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), in partnership with the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, will be broadcasting a 90-minute fully-bilingual live broadcast event to mark the day. This is an opportunity for you to hear from Survivors, and to help to further reconciliation efforts.
The gathering will be broadcast live from Parliament Hill in Ottawa between 3:00pm-4:30pm Eastern Time on Monday, 30 September 2024.
This is an opportunity to amplify the voices of survivors through the only live broadcast National event to commemorate this important day. This broadcast pays tribute to the children who never made it home from residential schools and honours those who survived. This deeply-moving gathering will encompass sacred ceremony, powerful reflections from esteemed Elders and Survivors as well as moving performances from First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists.
The event itself is open to the public and will draw thousands of Canadians together in a gesture of healing.
The event, shaped by the NCTR’s Survivor’s Circle, is held partly in response to the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (CTA #85) and the Calls for Justice from the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (CTJ#6.1).
On Broadway with host Stuart Brown features chats and interviews, a companion to Sounds of Broadway – a 24/7 online Broadway music radio.
Sounds of Broadway is hosted by Stuart Brown and is syndicated on CKMS-FM on Wednesdays from 11:00pm to Midnight.
Jackson Reed says: 
Guess That Record starts with an interview where the guest and I talk about their career. In the second half of the show, I pull a record out of my collection, and we then play a game of 20 questions to determine the identity of the album. Once that’s done, we have a discussion about the record..
Guess That Record is hosted by Jackson Reed and airs on CKMS-FM every fourth Wednesday from 11:00am to 11:59am.
BirdNote Daily is a two-minute radio show that combines rich sounds with engaging stories, to illustrate the amazing lives of birds and give listeners a momentary respite from the news of the day.
BirdNote Daily is syndicated from BirdNote and airs on CKMS-FM on weekdays from 8:59am to 9:02am.
Boots and Saddle is your humble home of honky tonk & beautiful Country music by beautiful Country music singers. Hosted by Sean Burns in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Boots and Saddle is syndicated from CKUW-FM on Radio Waterloo. It airs on CKMS-FM Mondays from 4:01pm to 5:00pm.
The Feminist Shift is an advocacy capacity building collaborative between YW Kitchener-Waterloo and YWCA Cambridge that started in 2019. Together, with partnerships in the community, The Feminist Shift is taking on gender-based violence in Waterloo Region and working to improve the lives women and gender-diverse people. Their mission is to build a region that acknowledges and rejects gender-based violence. They will do this through engaging in thoughtful conversations, challenging engrained local issues with other feminist organizations, hosting knowledge sharing and training opportunities and through pointed and strategic advocacy projects.
This project is funded through Women and Gender Equality Canada’s capacity building grant, which allows The Feminist Shift to increase our community’s understanding of gender-based issues and build policy and preventative solutions to tackle these issues. The understanding of feminism is from an inclusive, strengths-based, intersectional lens and they focus on smart advocacy that promotes systemic progress and change.
The Feminist Shift is now in its third season, and airs on CKMS-FM every fourth Wednesday from 11:00am to Noon, starting on 10 July 2024 with Season 1 Episode 1: The Work Begins.
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems’ (LCSFS) podcast 
Handpicked: Stories from the Field showcases the excellent and varied research happening at the LCSFS with a focus on how the work creates meaningful changes to the ways we produce, get, eat and understand our food.
Handpicked: Stories from the Field is hosted by Amanda Di Battista, the LCSFS Project Coordinator, and Laine Young, PhD Candidate in Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
The first season of the Handpicked podcast launched on 30 September 2019, and is now in its fourth season.
Handpicked: Stories from the Field airs on CKMS-FM alternate Wednesdays from 1:00pm to 2:00pm, staring on 26 June 2024 with Season 1 Episode 1: “Because Everybody Eats:” Exploring Sustainable Food Systems for a Better World.
Subscribe to the podcast at https://handpickedpodcast.libsyn.com/rss
Words and Culture weaves conversations with Indigenous language and knowledge keepers together with music by Indigenous artists. The team creating this original content is made up exclusively of Indigenous producers, hosts and guests. Words and Culture is funded by SiriusXM through the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC).
Follow Words and Culture on social media!
Facebook: @wordsandculture
X (formerly twitter): @wordsandculture
Instagram: @wordsandculturepod
Words and Culture is syndicated from the CRFC and airs on CKMS-FM on Sundays from 3:30pm to 3:59pm starting in April 2024.
Rights Back At You is the Amnesty International Canada podcast that examines anti-Black racism, policing, and surveillance. They delve into stories of resistance and meet the people making change unstoppable. From facial recognition and the right to protest to the war on drugs and defunding the police, this series connects the dots and passes the mic to people building a better future now. They unravel the Canada you think you know and challenge the systems that hold back human rights.
Rights Back At You is syndicated from Amnesty International Canada. It is not currently on the CKMS-FM schedule.
The 2024 
Les Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF) podcast series features conversations with eight bilingual and multilingual guests.
Many of this year’s guests have worked or volunteered in campus and community radio.
Rendez-vous de la Francophonie is hosted by Catherine Fisher, and is syndicated from RVF and the NCRA, and aired on CKMS-FM on Sundays from 3:30pm to 4:00pm during the month of March 2024.
On February 13th, people worldwide will celebrate 
World Radio Day. Whether you listen to it in your car, at home, on your mobile phones, at work, radio continues to play an essential part in everyday lives. We rely on it to learn what is happening in our communities, when disaster strikes, to educate us on important topics or to feel better connected to the world around us. And while radio is seeing some declines with station closures, it’s seeing a rise across sub-Saharan Africa, where rural people rely on it for their lives and livelihoods.
To celebrate, the NCRA/ANREC and FRI are partnering to get people to listen to the radio on February 13th. Whether it’s your favourite local radio station, campus radio, public broadcast, or a special program that will be streamed live that day, we want as many people as possible to tune in to show that audio continues to impact our everyday lives.
NCRA/ANREC and FRI will also partner with CKCU-FM to host a live broadcast, syndicated here on Radio Waterloo from 11:00am to 2:00pm. You will hear from broadcasters past and present and from around the world talking about the importance of radio.
“In Canada, campus, community and Indigenous not-for-profit radio reaches over 75% of Canadians, providing invaluable local news, information and entertainment in spaces where the local voice is often not heard. It fosters music growth, disseminating verifiable information with journalistic integrity and provides opportunities for organizations and companies to inform their community through a free-to-access medium,” says Barry Rooke, Executive Director for the NCRA/ANREC.
“In sub-Saharan Africa, radio is the world’s most accessible and popular communication service. When combined with mobile phones, which allow farmers to share their own stories on the airwaves, it brings lasting change for some of the world’s most vulnerable people—small-scale farmers in rural Africa,” says Kevin Perkins, Executive Director of Farm Radio International. “By sharing knowledge, amplifying farmers’ voices, and supporting better practices, audio has the power to reduce food insecurity, improve health and nutrition, and plant the seeds for long-term positive change.”
Last year, Farm Radio International directly reached an estimated 24.1 million people with life-changing audio services over the airwaves, enabling about 5 million to make a positive change.
This live broadcast will take place on Tuesday, 13 February 2024, at a morning event in downtown Ottawa, re-broadcast on CKMS-FM 102.7 Radio Waterloo from 11:00am to 2:00pm.
On 
All Things Palestinian Rafeef, Tayla and Tom from CJPME dive into the realm of what it means to be Palestinian. They explore all aspects of Palestinian culture and art as well as history and politics to encourage Palestinian pride and engagement. They are frequently joined by Palestinian guests to shed insight and perspective on new and thought-provoking topics.
All Things Palestinian is not currently on the CKMS-FM schedule.
The 
Green Planet Monitor specializes in global environment, development and social justice issues.
Green Planet Monitor host, publisher, and editor Dave Kattenburg has been creating audio documentaries since 1986.
Green Planet Monitor is syndicated from Earth Chronicle Productions and airs on CKMS-FM on Monday from 3:00pm to 4:00pm.
The fourth season of 
She Is Your Neighbour, Understanding Femicide first aired on CKMS-FM on Monday, 13 March 2023. The guests share impactful stories, and we can learn how to prevent these tragedies from happening.
In this series, we explore what happens when domestic violence becomes lethal. You will hear stories from survivors, experts, and family members of women and girls who lost their lives to femicide. In this six-episode series, we find out how they persevered in the darkest times and managed to take action following these tragedies.
The series kicks off with two episodes: “A Family Story of Femicide with Fallon Farinacci” and “When Systems Fail with Dr. Jennifer Kagan-Viater”. These stories are truly incredible. Fallon is an Indigneous woman who lost her parents to femicide and is now using her story to empower others. And you may have heard about Kiera’s Law in the news, which Jennifer Kagan-Viater has been advocating for since she lost her daughter.
All seasons of She Is Your Neighbour are airing on CKMS-FM Tuesdays from 10:00am to 11:00am starting with Season One in April 2025.
Nature Answers
