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I have a jam packed show today!
We sat down with Blaine Sharp to discuss his track The First Snowfall, which has reached over 100k streams! We discuss how James Cameron is rejecting the 51st state talk, the holiday season, what’s trending and we play the hottest old school and new school music!
There was no guest in the studio today, so Bob played some KWCon Christmas music by Waterloo Region musicians. Except for The Small Town Titans, but Bob couldn’t let such a catchy tune escape unplayed.
Download: ckms-community-connections-2025-12-15-episode236-kwcon-christmas-music.mp3 (53 MB, 57m43s, episode 236)
| Time | Title | Album | Performer Artist Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00:47 | CCCtheme |
|
Steve Todd |
| 01:18 | You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch |
|
Small Town Titans |
| 05:32 | Sleigh Ride |
|
Ed Ringwald and The Western Swing Authority |
| 08:15 | The Christmas Shopping Blues |
|
Kevin Westphal |
| 11:12 | Love Yourself |
|
Long Range Hustle |
| 15:21 | Christmas Changes |
|
Taylor Davison |
| 19:40 | Christmas is Coming |
|
Onion Honey |
| 20:57 | Christmas Parmesan | ||
| 23:33 | Christmas Comes by Rail | ||
| 26:33 | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | ||
| 29:14 | This Christmas |
|
The Purpletones |
| 32:35 | Snow Came Falling |
|
Carla Muller |
| 36:31 | Silent Night – Stille Nacht | ||
| 40:36 | Chasing A Star | ||
| 44:20 | Leise Rieselt Der Schnee | ||
| 47:02 | Hold Me Close |
|
Amanda Kind |
| 49:56 | All I Want for Christmas is You |
|
I, the Mountain & Friends |
| 54:36 | Santas On His Way |
|
Brian Chris |
| 56:20 | Shchedryk |
|
Anita Eccleston |
| 57:57 | CCCTheme Instrumental Extended |
|
Steve Todd |
CKMS Community Connections Hour One airs on CKMS-FM 102.7 on Monday from 11:00am to Noon, and Hour Two airs alternate Fridays from 3:00pm to 4:00pm.
Got music, spoken word, or other interesting stuff? Let us know at ccc@radiowaterloo.ca or leave a comment on our “About” page.
Subscribe to the CKMS Community Connections podcast!
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Video: CKMS Community Connections for Monday 15 December 2025 (YouTube)
Show notes and podcast interview content is Copyright © 2025 by the participants, and released under a 
Creative Commons Attribution Only license. Copy, re-use, and derivative works are allowed with attribution to Radio Waterloo and a link to this page. Music selections are copyright by the respective rights holders. The theme music is written and performed by Steven Todd.
Download: Synthetronic 80s – Episode #3 (MP3, 80 MB, 57m55s)
| TIME | TITLE | ARTIST |
| 00:42 | Sunglasses At Night (Album Version) | Corey Hart |
| 05:52 | We Run | Strange Advance |
| 09:45 | Fade To Grey | Visage |
| 13:26 | The NeverEnding Story (Club Mix) | Limahl |
| 19:26 | You Keep Me Hangin’ On (Extended WCH Club Mix) | Kim Wilde |
| 25:44 | Brand New Lover (Album Version) | Dead Or Alive |
| 31:02 | The Look (Big Red Mix) | Roxette |
| 38:30 | Winter Wonderland | Eurythmics |
| 41:54 | Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Extended Mix 1985) | Band Aid |
| 47:56 | [spoken interlude] | |
| 53:49 | Deck The Halls | Mannheim Steamroller |
Synthetronic 80s airs on CKMS-FM 102.7 on Saturdays from 8pm to 9pm.
Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/RadioNowhere241214Episode93Christmas1.mp3, 57m5s, 79.0 MBytes
| Put a Little Love in Your Heart | Annie Lennox, Al Green |
| Please Come Home For Christmas | Eagles |
| Song for a Winter’s Night | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Christmas in Prison | John Prine |
| Give Hope | Jon Anderson |
| River | Joni Mitchell |
| Blue Christmas | Mary Margaret O’Hara |
| Christmas Vacation | Mavis Staples |
| Getting Ready For Christmas Day | Paul Simon |
| Go Tell It On The Mountain | The Blind Boys Of Alabama (featuring Tom Waits) |
| Christmas Canon | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| Christmas On TV | Chris Isaak |
| Christmas Wrapping | The Waitresses |
| Little Drummer Boy | Grace Jones |
| I Saw Three Ships | Barenaked Ladies |
| I Believe in Father Christmas | Greg Lake |
dan kellar
Kitchener, ON – As the Waterloo regional police ask for another $20,000,000 dollars to be added to their yearly budget, in addition to $173,000,000 for a new “communications centre”, residents and even some regional councillors are questioning the ballooning expenditures. A primary concern is that yearly multi-million dollar increases to the police budgets are starving other services of funding since council is pressured to keep tax increases low.
The Waterloo Region police budget, which was over $230,00,000 in 2025, has increased by more than $100,000,000 since 2014, and has more than doubled since 2013. This year’s request of over $250,000,000 will represent over 30% of the regional budget. In comparison, housing and homelessness services are budgeted at $165,200,000 for 2026.
The increase in the police budget will result in an average 6.75% property tax increase for regional residents, that’s another 57$ a month beyond all the previous yearly increases.
The police presented their budget to the Regional Council at the end of November and in a council meeting on December 3rd council heard from the police association and residents. While the police say more money to the force and more cops “will help save residents” delegates noted that funding upstream services, such as housing options and mental health supports, have more impact on reducing crime than more armed cops with “boots on the ground”.
In a surprise move ahead of the budget vote on December 16th, Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic put forth a motion to block the police’s capital budget saying the new communications centre is “beyond their mandate” and it “is highly unlikely that all three emergency services would engage in this partnership in any foreseeable future”. However the same motion calls for the approval of the $20,000,000 yearly increase to the police budget.
This show features audio from both the December 3rd and November 26th council meetings.
What’s up, y’all? As always, first up, here is what I have added to Libretime since last week:
| Tria Prima | The Mortificatio | Metal | No | |
| Mossy Ledge | Christmas Lights – Single | Rock / Christmas | CanCon | |
| The Fake Friends | Sucker Born Every Minute – Single | Punk | CanCon | |
| Carina | Snowball Effect – Single | Pop / Christmas | CanCon | |
| The Naysayers | Everybody Comes Here To Die – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| Dual Dialect | Conglomerate [EP] | Electronic | No | |
| Dead Pollys | Xmas Evening | Punk / Christmas | No | |
| core blo77er | bulgaria | Alternative | CanCon | |
| Gao Hong, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, & “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band | Symphony of Self | Classical | No | |
| Discovery Through Torment | Telesynthetic Rebirth | Metal | CanCon | |
| kpec3 arrival | Heaven’s Gate – Single | Rock | No | |
| Blue Eye Red | Christmas With You – Single | Christmas | CanCon | |
| Marcelle George | Born Young | Folk | No | |
| Joseph Schertz | Merry Karma Christmas – Single | Rock / Christmas | No | |
| K. Forest | Final Bo$$ | Pop | Track 4 is NSFR | CanCon |
| Two Tonne Machete | Pigs Pigs – Single | Punk | Explicit and Clean Versions Available | No |
| Igor Lisul | Somewhere in Time, Vol. 2 | Rock / Instrumental | No | |
| Mezziah & DJ Ritz | The Bloom Effect | Hip Hop | CanCon | |
| Les Batards | Linge Sale | Punk | CanCon | |
| Sean A Mcnamara | HER – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| Jamie Hoover | Surfin With Santa – Single | Rock / Christmas | No | |
| The Dream Eaters | Year End Report | Pop | No | |
| Jeffery Straker | A Very Prairie Christmas | Folk / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Dead Broke | Hypernormal – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| Cut Flowers | Until It’s Time – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Dwayne Gretzky | The Chain – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| ARK IDENTITY | Falling Apart – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| Strawberry Alarm Clock | Blow Your Mind b/w Live Water – Single | Rock | No | |
| Checkmate | Favorite Song – Single | Rock | No | |
| Dave Lindsay | Follow the Sun | New Age | CanCon | |
| Devah | To Depression – Single | Pop | No | |
| Massimo Pieretti | The Next Dream | Rock | No | |
| Damndest | What Did You Expect? | Rock | No | |
| Gwynn Davies | The Definition of Insanity, a Commodity, a Human Being | Folk | CanCon | |
Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:
Tracklist:
Dave Lindsay – Moon Climbing
Gao Hong & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Reminisces, Pt. 1: Memories of Home [for pipa, bassoon, and orchestra]
Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider – The Story of Your Life
S-Pazz – Bees Die After Stinging
Alex Bird and the Jazz Mavericks – Christmas in the City
Vocal Quartet Misty – Kolenda
Michael Whalen – Silent Night
Touched Fables – What Could Have Been
The Dream Eaters – Bury Me Under Aisle 3
ARK IDENTITY – Falling Apart
Devah – To Depression
K. Forest – Deja’s View
Charles Webster and the South African Connection – Rain (feat. Bokang Ramatlapeng)
Noelly – Christmas Just Wouldn’t Be Christmas Without You
Carina – Snowball Effect
MAINEND – Coastal Trouble
MEZZIAH & DJ Ritz – I’ll Be Good
Marcelle George – Black Cats
Gwynn Davies – Terminal Velocity on Saturday
Cut Flowers – Until It’s Time
Johnny Beachit – Do You Like, Like Me?
Mike Van Eyes Big Band – Yield Not to Temptation
Jory Nash – Bombs Away
Cat Wells Blues Band – Merry Lil Christmas
Jeffrey Straker – Old Toy Trains
Sean A. Mcnamara – HER
Damndest – Noise Means Nothing
Core blo77er – the second day of the rest of your life
The Naysayers – Everybody Comes Here To Die
The Fake Friends – Sucker Born Every Minute
Discovery Through Torment – First Encounter Assault Regiment
Kasaka – Radio On
Carry the Sky – Sunday Morning
Also, to anyone curious, next week will primarily be dedicated to Christmas music — see y’all next time!
I hope you’re having a great holiday season and we have jam packed show on deck!
New tracks from the Nas And DJ Premier album, old school and new school jams and we discuss what’s trending
Sit back and tune in
Happy Holidays
David Par Radio
Download: Synthetronic 80s – Episode #2 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s)
| TIME | TITLE | ARTIST |
| 00:42 | It’s A Sin | Pet Shop Boys |
| 05:38 | Bad | Michael Jackson |
| 09:44 | Secret | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark |
| 13:31 | Everything Counts (In Larger Amounts) | Depeche Mode |
| 19:00 | Magic (In Your Eyes) | FM |
| 24:08 | Wind Him Up | Saga |
| 29:50 | I Love My Radio (European Mix) | Taffy |
| 36:59 | Can Delight | My Mine |
| 43:23 | Sleeping Bag (Extended Mix) | ZZ Top |
| 49:31 | [spoken interlude] | |
| 55:00 | Axel F | Harold Faltermeyer |
Synthetronic 80s airs on CKMS-FM 102.7 on Saturdays from 8pm to 9pm.
The Big Domino: Most Canadians view their tax refund as a “bonus” found money to fund a vacation. The Wealth Strategist views a refund as a failure of planning. It represents “Artificial Capacity”—capital that should have been compounding in your account all year, but was instead loaned interest-free to the CRA.
In this episode, Sunny Kochar reveals the math behind the Tax-Funded Multiplier. You will learn how to stop being a passive passenger in your financial life and how to legally use the government’s money to expand your wealth foundation.
Reference the “Factory Rebate Diagram” discussed in this episode.
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Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/RaulMaloSpecialDec92025.mp3, 44m33s, 61.0 MBytes
Raul Malo Tribute. Post only, no on-air broadcast.
We lost another great talent yesterday. And way before his time.
Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/RadioNowhere251208Episode140.mp3, 58m00s, 82.0 MBytes
| 1:43 | Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) | Kenny Rogers & The First Edition |
| 5:02 | Starburster | Fontaines D.C. |
| 8:43 | Wanganui | The Bambi Molesters |
| 10:45 | Waiting For Mary | Pere Ubu |
| 14:03 | The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead | XTC |
| 18:55 | When I Was Young | The Animals |
| 21:53 | Sunday Papers | Joe Jackson |
| 26:07 | Goodbye Train | Big Sugar |
| 31:13 | Right (2016 Remastered Version) | David Bowie |
| 35:23 | Right | Khruangbin |
| 40:24 | I Fought the Law | The Clash |
| 43:03 | Since I Lost My Baby | The Temptations |
| 45:50 | All For You | Imelda May |
| 48:37 | Beg Steal Or Borrow | Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs |
| 53:05 | Sunny Side of Heaven | Fleetwood Mac |
Joy To the World – George Frederick Handel
O Come All Ye Faithful – John Francis Wade
What Child Is This = Greensleeves
Away In A Manger – Anonymous
Hark The Herald Angels Sing – English Christmas Carol
Angels We Have Heard On High – James Chadwick
Sleigh Ride – Leroy Anderson
Jingle Bell Rock – Joe Beal, Jim Booth
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer – Johnny Marks
The Christmas Song – Mel Torme
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Ralph Lane, Hugh Martin
dan kellar
Kitchener, ON – A new space for folks to escape from the cold and receive food and social supports has opened in Kitchener as cold winter weather has set early in Waterloo Region. Thresholds Homes and Supports opened the doors to the new 30 bed overnight warming centre at 298 Lawrence Avenue in November. The new centre will serve any who is 18+ and is inclusive of all gender identities.
In a press release ahead of the opening Jessica Hill, the new warming centre’s team lead is quoted “We are working hard to go beyond giving people a place to warm up, and will have staff on site, including a peer support worker, to connect folks with other supports, and provide a hot meal and snacks to take with them when they leave.”.
The new warming centre comes at a critical time as homelessness continues to plague an increasing number of local residents. The provincial 2024 “Point-in-time” count found that nearly 2,400 people were experiencing homelessness in Waterloo Region, with about 78% of those folks experiencing “chronic homelessness. At the time only 301 shelter beds were available regionally, and with the new overnight 30 bed warming centre, the number is still well below the required capacity.
This show features an interview with Jessica Hill, the team lead of Thresholds Homes and Supports’ new overnight warming centre in Kitchener.
What’s up, y’all? First up, as always, here is what I have added to Libretime since last week:
| Jay Williams | In a Zombie World – Single | Pop | No | |
| Shannon Dooks | O Christmas Tree (Here We Are) – Single | Folk / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Adam Franklin | Plans – Single | Alternative | No | |
| Outlying | Oblivisci | Metal | CanCon | |
| Shores of Null | Latitude of Sorrow | Metal | No | |
| In Virtue | Age of Legends | Metal | No | |
| AITTALA | ILL-GOTTEN GAINS | Metal | No | |
| Half Dollar Dog | Small Town Xmas – Single | Rock / Christmas | No | |
| Mike Van Eyes Big Band | Yield Not To Temptation – Single | Blues | CanCon | |
| Son of Dave | I Like Surprises – Single | Latin / Christmas | No | |
| shy blossom | Stardust – Single | Rock | No | |
| shy blossom | Nothing To Say – Single | Rock | No | |
| shy blossom | Like You Used To – Single | Rock | No | |
| shy blossom | Don’t Call Me – Single | Rock | No | |
| shy blossom | Come On Dear – Single | Rock | No | |
| Alan Ward | Great Time – Single | Hip Hop | NSFR | No |
| Johnny Beachit | Do You Like, Like Me? – Single | Country | No | |
| Twilight Phenomenon | Phases | Ambient | CanCon | |
| Kasaka | Virtuality – EP | Rock | Released in 2007 | No |
| Kasaka | Climbing Life – Single | Rock | No | |
| Kasaka | Constant Change – Single | Rock | No | |
| Kasaka | Difference – Single | Rock | No | |
| Kasaka | Learn – Single | Rock | No | |
| Kasaka | Picture – Single | Rock | No | |
| Kasaka | Radio On – Single | Rock | No | |
| Kasaka | Twists and Turns – Single | Rock | No | |
| Kasaka | Star – Single | Rock | No | |
| The Gulley Family | I Love Christmas – Single | Christmas | CanCon | |
| Michelle Joly | All I Want For Christmas (Dreams Come True) – Single | Pop / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Melanie Peterson | Read It On The Radio – Vol 2 | Folk | CanCon | |
| Dandelion Highway | Either Way (Acoustic) – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Ihlan Irsahin | Istanbul Sessions – Yeditepe & Asmalı Single Two | World | No | |
| Jeremy Voltz | Feel It All – Single | Soul | CanCon | |
| Tedy | Scandalous | Pop | 3 NSFR Tracks | CanCon |
| Jenny Palacios | IYKYK – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| Dylan White | Fronds | Alternative | CanCon | |
| Wasting Time | Ripped Blue Jeans – Single | Punk | CanCon | |
| Tyson Ray Borsboom | Learning Slow – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Boyboy Militia | It’s a Boy | Electronic | No | |
| Starbuck | I’ll Be There To Take You Home – Single | Pop | No | |
| Cam Mac | Too Damn Fine – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| MAINEND | Missed Calls – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| MAINEND | Coastal Trouble – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| MAINEND | Bruised Youth – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| Martyrs | Sno-fi | Alternative / Christmas | No | |
| Travis Jenkins Piano Trio | Jazz in Meanjin 020: Live at JMI | Jazz | No | |
| Gemini DC | Late Nites | Hip Hop | NSFR | No |
| Vocal Quartet Misty | Christmas Wonderland | World / Christmas | Croatian | No |
| Kevin Asher and the Barnburners | The Bonds We Break | Country | CanCon | |
| Dan Sindel | Duck the Halls – Single | Rock / Christmas | No | |
| Will Lawrence | Rooftops in the Centerfold | Folk | No | |
| Jamurai Sack | Anagapesis | Rock | No | |
| Irish Millie | Between Then and Now | Folk | CanCon | |
| Andrew Irving | If I’m Not Alright – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| SH3 | The Blue Album | Pop | CanCon | |
Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:
Tracklist:
Travis Jenkins Piano Trio – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
Ginman Blachman Dahl – C Jam Blues
Steve Holt – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Donald Vega – Midnight Clear
Son of Dave – I Like Surprises
Shiny Cote – Memories
Boyboy Militia – I Can’t Stop
Tedy – Boys Boys Boys
Gemini DC – Girls
Alan Ward – Great Time (feat. 4 the Brotherhood)
SH3 – Peace of Me
VISSIA – Snowed In
Ryan Dsouza – My Children Found My Gummies
Blaine Sharp – The First Snowfall
Melanie Peterson – What’s So Funny Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
Will Lawrence – Dream Of Her Awhile
Dandelion Highway – Either Way (Acoustic)
Irish Millie – Wasted
Kevin Asher and the Barnburners – A Picture Cries A Thousand Words
Shannon Dooks – O Christmas Tree (Here We Are)
Maggie’s Wake – Song for a Winter’s Night
Kathy Stock & Doug White – Hope at Christmas
In Virtue – Gunslingers of the New American West
Jamurai Sack – “I’ve Never Met a Working Title With a Job”
Jenny Palacios – IYKYK
Wasting Time – Ripped Blue Jeans
shy blossom – Stardust
Half Dollar Dog – Small Town Xmas
Martyrs – Snow Came Down
Dan Sindel – Duck the Halls
See y’all next time!
Here we go! Christmas is around the corner and we discuss the hottest gifts and spots to hit up! Old school music and new tunes on deck. Plus, we discuss what’s trending.
Happy Holidays Yo
Bob talks with Boris and Paul of Love Your Neighbour Communities or LYNC. It builds attainable housing for the community, currently in the historic feed mill in Baden. Paul has a historic display in the mill. A LYNC Christmas is an afternoon of music to give back to the community that made this happen. Paul and Boris tell of their backgrounds, and discuss the ways that society has made it difficult for people to get assistance.
The interview starts at 4m17s.
Download: ckms-community-connections-2025-12-01-episode234-boris-and-paul-of-love-your-neighbour-communities.mp3 (53 MB, 57m34s, episode 234)
| Time | Title | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0m00s | Theme for CKMS Community Connections ccc |
 CKMS Community Connections |
Steve Todd |
| 0m53s | Temper |
 (single) |
Lost Faculty |
| 4m17s | Bob asks about Love Your Neighbour Communities. Boris says that it’s an organization to provide attainable housing for everyone in the community. They discuss the scarcity of available housing. “LYNC” is not the organization Bob thought it was, there are others using the same name. They’re working in partnership with the Region of Waterloo, as well as the Township of Wilmot. They’re redeveloping the old police station in New Hamburg, right beside the historic feed mill, which LYNC bought in 2022. The community came together to raise $1.5 million to purchase the properties. There will be 35 units of housing in this building. | ||
| 10m45s | Boris explains the term “Attainable Housing” — high quality housing that should be available to anyone. The development will be mixed income housing, mixed generational housing. There are accessible units, some with two bedrooms. This development is in New Hamburg, but Boris will be going to Drayton in Mapleton Township to see about developing there. Boris is looking to repurpose existing buildings to reduce the environmental footprint. | ||
| 16m04s | Paul has been creating a history program out of the mill block where you can see the history from the time the mill block was established. It started when someone requested a tour of the mill, but the building had been empty for two years and not ready for a tour. So Paul accessed research by local historians and put together the history of the mill. Some of this history is available on the LYNC YouTube channel. The housing should be ready around the time of the mill’s 200 year anniversary. Paul has set up one of the old police cells as a display area. There are community walk tours; Boris wants to have the mill and the history project part of that. | ||
| 21m03s | A LYNC Christmas is Paul’s brainchild. He says that as an organization, they need to give back to the community. There are two events to do this, one is the porch music festival. They raised $30,000 even though this wasn’t supposed to be fundraiser. A LYNC Christmas is free afternoon of music, tickets are about three-quarters sold. Boris gives the event details, and Paul runs down the musicians: Juneyt, Anat Hector, Lisa Hagen and the Local Vocals, and Derek Goupil and the Highview Community Church Band. Paul is concerned that the show will be sold out and people will miss the performances. Paul has a phenomenal reputation in the community, so he had contacts to get all these musicians. He’s not just an event planner, Paul is the treasurer on the LYNC Board of Directors. | ||
| 27m30s | Paul tells us of his past, when he was homeless as a youth, and how important it was to get help from his community. Bob comments on the precarity of housing, most people are only one paycheque away from not paying rent. Boris tells us of a young lady who is working, and making too much money to live in social assitance housing but not enough to pay rent at market rates, and so ended up homeless. Boris tells us of his frustration about this, how difficult the process for getting assistance is. LYNC doesn’t provide transitional housing, but focuses stopping individuals from getting on the street, provide housing so they can provide for themselves. The problems in society have become so great people can’t get ahead of it. People aren’t listening to what people need, Boris is changing that. Paul says that when he first looked to help from the community he was told “You’re not a brand.” Now LYNC is that brand. | ||
| 35m50s | Boris tells us of the LYNC partnership with a construction manager, Nith Valley Construction. LYNC finds people in the community who need jobs and find employment for them. The ground floor of LYNC is entirely social enterprises, ready to help people in all kinds of jobs. | ||
| 36m45s | Bob asks how rent costs are determined in a mixed income community. Boris tells us they’re aiming for “deep affordability”, far less than the government’s definition of 80% of market rate. One of the keys is that it has to be sustainable. The LYNC Board has financial planners, with experience in all things. And they will hire staff to provide building management. LYNC will maintain management of the buildings, but the tenants will form a cooperative to develop programs that meet their needs. And there is room for volunteers! That’s how they can have programs like A LYNC Christmas, and community gardens, and learning how to prepare food. Purchased food is so expensive, people can reduce those costs by growing their own food. | ||
| 43m33s | LYNC is looking for volunteers, but Paul has things well in hand for A LYNC Christmas. Paul makes a pitch for donations on Giving Tuesday. As a registered charity, tax receipts are made available for all donations. Donations can be made online at https://lyncommunities.com/donate/. Paul tells us about their newsletter, not just with info about LYNC but also info about he community. Bob explores the LYNCommunties.com website. | ||
| 45m50s | How did Boris get involved? He used to work at Ray Of Hope and was contacted by a former co-worker who needed help. He’s worked in organizations across the world, and LYNC is one of the most exciting groups he’s worked with. Housing is a big issue, more so than helping at the soup kitchen or donating to the food bank. LYNC gets lots of help from the Region and the Township, but the system makes it hard to do what they’re doing, but they keep on plugging ahead. And the community is very generous. | ||
| 50m17s | Paul got involved when he was living on the streets at age 15. He had help from people in the community, and he felt the need to give back. He started with LYNC when the building was purchased. | ||
| 53m41s | Boris recaps the event details for A LYNC Christmas, and Paul recaps the musicians, all local. Bob makes a pitch for local musicians to submit music to Radio Waterloo. | ||
| 56m33s | Bob gives the end credits. | ||
CKMS Community Connections airs on CKMS-FM 102.7 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm on Mondays and alternate Fridays.
Got music, spoken word, or other interesting stuff? Let us know at ccc@radiowaterloo.ca or leave a comment on our “About” page.
Subscribe to the CKMS Community Connections podcast!
See all CKMS Community Connections shows!
Video: CKMS Community Connections for Monday 1 December 2025, 354 MB (Radio Waterloo video)
Show notes and podcast interview content is Copyright © 2025 by the participants, and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Only license. Copy, re-use, and derivative works are allowed with attribution to Radio Waterloo and a link to this page. Music selections are copyright by the respective rights holders. The theme music is written and performed by Steven Todd.
Download: Synthetronic 80s – Episode #1 (MP3, 80 MB, 57m56s)
| TIME | TITLE | ARTIST |
| 00:41 | Take On Me (1985 Single Mix) | a-ha |
| 05:24 | Together In Electric Dreams (Extended) | Giorgio Moroder With Philip Oakey |
| 11:41 | Reunion | Erasure |
| 15:00 | Nova Heart (12” Extended Mix) | Spoons |
| 21:31 | Pop Muzik | M |
| 26:24 | Lucky Star | Madonna |
| 31:51 | Move To Move | Kon Kan |
| 36:21 | A New Day | Alex Chroma Band |
| 42:49 | Where Do The Boys Go? | Men Without Hats |
| 46:42 | New Song | Howard Jones |
| 50:52 | [spoken interlude] | |
| 55:32 | Airwolf Theme | KOSMusic |
Synthetronic 80s airs on CKMS-FM 102.7 on Saturdays from 8pm to 9pm.
The bank wants you to pay off your mortgage. Please keep it.
The Current State (Static Wealth): You have been taught that being “debt-free” is the ultimate safety. So you pour your liquidity into your home’s equity. That money sits there, trapped in drywall, earning 0% return on investment. It is “Dead Equity.” It has no velocity. When you pay off the bank, they take your capital and lend it to someone else to earn a return. They win. You lose liquidity.
The Future State (Kinetic Wealth): A Wealth Engineer uses a “Readvanceable Mortgage.”
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Stop admiring your paid-off home while your portfolio starves.
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Taking you through the static (quite literally) to show you some of my favourite music this year. Mostly songs that have come out this year, but also some older favourites of mine, so sit back and enjoy the sonic journey!
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Kitchener, ON – Adding to the tool box to build housing in Kitchener faster, the city has fully endorsed the federal government’s new Housing Design Catalogue, which makes full “off the shelf” building design plans available free of charge. Further the city has fast tracked parts of the application process to make sure that zoning compliance approval is done within 15 days of application, and building permit review is completed within 10 days.
In a recent press release from the city, Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic said “Together, with Kitchener’s flexible planning frameworks and resources and Canada’s new guide, we’re making it easier to build more housing across our city.”
The press release also claims that the housing design catalogue “aims to make housing more affordable and accessible, providing pre-designed, adaptable housing plans for homeowners and builders, including backyard homes, fourplexes, stacked townhouses and sixplexes.
You can check out the approved designs on the City of Kitchener’s and the CHMC’s websites.
This show features an interview with Katie Anderl from Kitchener’s housing and policy division and Tim Benedict, the manager of building in the city’s building division.
Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/RadioNowhere251201Episode139.mp3, 58m00s, 82.0 MBytes
| 1:10 | Four Minute Mile | Anthony D’Alessandro |
| 6:01 | Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is | Chicago |
| 9:21 | Papa’s Got a Brand New Pig Bag | Pigbag |
| 15:23 | Here for You | Neil Young |
| 19:51 | Dinero | Doug Sahm |
| 22:34 | Breakfast in America | Supertramp |
| 25:10 | Tangled and Dark | Bonnie Raitt |
| 31:13 | I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself | Dionne Warwick |
| 33:58 | I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself | White Stripes |
| 36:39 | Miss Ann | Delaney & Bonnie |
| 41:36 | Monkey Jump | Junior Walker & The All Stars |
| 43:40 | The Beginning/Lovely To See You Again | The Moody Blues |
| 48:09 | Push Pull | Purity Ring |
| 51:35 | Tiger’s Eye | Carly Dow |
| 54:39 | Embryonic Journey | Jefferson Airplane |
What’s up, y’all? First up, here is what I’ve added to Libretime since last week (like always!):
| Faultlines | Don’t Say I Love You – Single | Folk | No | |
| Jeff Johnston with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia | Avalon – Single | Classical | CanCon | |
| Ryan McMahon | There She Is – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| jeniverse | FREAK OF NATURE – Single | Rock | NSFR | No |
| The Deefons | Sunrise | Punk | 1 NSFR track | CanCon |
| Touched Fables | The Sum of All Wounds | Electronic | CanCon | |
| Velvetcut | The Great Chameleon (New Skin) | Rock | No | |
| Hannah Acfield | Golden Light | Pop | 1 NSFR track | No |
| The Nolas | So Much Fun This Christmas New Year’s Party Rock Anthem – Single | Rock / Christmas | No | |
| Blaine Sharp | The First Snowfall – Single | Pop / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Donald Vega | All Is Merry and Bright | Jazz / Christmas | No | |
| Alex Bird & the Jazz Mavericks | Another Christmas Day | Jazz / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Ryan Dsouza | My Children Found My Gummies – Single | Pop / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Angie Faith | This Christmas Album | Religious / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Noelly | Christmas Just Wouldn’t Be Christmas Without You – Single | Pop / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Noelly | 4 De Love: Tennis – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| Noelle | O Canada – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| Michael Whalen | Heart of the Holidays | New Age / Christmas | No | |
| Robert Peterson and the Crusade | Joys of Christmastime – Single | Rock / Christmas | No | |
| Fingerless | Grotesque – Single | Rock | No | |
| Margaret Dorn and the Accidentals | Acapella Holiday Classics | Christmas | No | |
| VISSIA | Snowed In – Single | Pop | CanCon | |
| One Hundred Moons | Black Avalanche | Rock | CanCon | |
| Kathy Stock & Doug White | Hope at Christmas – Single | Folk / Christmas | CanCon | |
| M0b | II | World | No | |
| The Big Christmas Crew | Our 12 Month Christmas | Rock / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Julian Loida | December Dreams – Single | Folk | No | |
| Allegories | Mid Century Nothing – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| Lisa SQ | Reel Me In | Rock | CanCon | |
| Danko Jones | Leo Rising | Rock | CanCon | |
| Doug Raney Quartet | Never Say Yes — 1986 | Jazz | Unreleased recordings from 1986 | No |
| Rosalia de Souza Quarteto 55 | Rosalia de Souza Quarteto 55 | Jazz | No | |
| Ginman Blachman Dahl | Play Ballads | Jazz | No | |
| Peppermoth | Albedo | Ambient | Guelph | CanCon |
| AV & the Inner City | Dinner With the Lord – Single | Soul | CanCon | |
| Kim Kaskiw | The Latin Jazz Fusion Project | Latin | CanCon | |
| Nicholas Campbell | I’ll Regret It In The Morning – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| Hot Mud | Shiny Songs | Rock | CanCon | |
| Cat Wells Blues Band | Merry Lil Christmas – Single | Blues / Christmas | Originally released in 2003 | CanCon |
| Fresh Finesse | Trap Noir | Hip Hop / Instrumental | CanCon | |
| Ordinary Birds | Ordinary Birds | Rock | CanCon | |
| Carry the Sky | Sunday Morning – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| Dazz-B MusiQ | Meropa | World | No | |
| Cappy and the Sunseekaz | Caribbean Christmas – Single | Reggae / Christmas | No | |
| Maggie’s Wake | Close to Home | Folk / Christmas | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Bridges Across The Bays – Single | Rock | AI Session Musicians (all selections) | CanCon |
| Grant Abbott | Channel of Disturbance – Single | Rock | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Climate Rage – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Sofia Abbott | Closer Every Day – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Eagle and Condor – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Fish Fog and Farewells – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Flags in the Cold – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | God Over Gavel – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Grassy Ass Amor – Single | Folk | NSFR | CanCon |
| Grant Abbott | Great Day At The Beach – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Heartbreak at the Gate – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Law of the Land – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | I Raise My Voice To Keep From Crying – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Love Courageously – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Musgraves Arms – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Never Far From Home – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Rebuilding Me – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Seeded Skies – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Sofia Abbott | Spirits Calling – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Stouts – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Tether to the Quiet – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Up Behind Pine Pond – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | Walk the Line – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Grant Abbott | You Think You Own It – Single | Folk | CanCon | |
| Steve Holt | Jazz Christmas | Jazz / Christmas | CanCon | |
Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:
Tracklist:
Jeff Johnston with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia – Avalon
Kim Kaskiw – Rise Up
Doug Raney Quartet – Get Out of Town
M0b – Echoing
Sonya Belaya – In the Garden
Rosalia de Souza Quarteto 55 – Dorme, Dorme Meu Menino
Peppermoth – Did We Ever Dance?
Noelly – 4 De Love: Tennis
AnAkA – CLEAR EYEZ (feat. NoGum Hundo)
PRIVATE NAME PRIVATE NUMBER – Can’t Compare (Freestyle)
Fresh Finesse – Cowboy Drip
Optikz – Champion
Hollie Cook – Night Night
Eddie Bullen – Show Us the Way (feat. Mel Dube, Kandice Kash, & Tasha T)
Cappy and the Sunseekaz – Caribbean Christmas
Faultlines – Don’t Say I Love You
Julian Loida – December Dreams (feat. Don Mitchell)
Grant Abbott – Up Behind Pine Pond
Jody Peck – Cook Shack
Duke & Goldie – Small Town Talk
Greg Carroll – Never Coming Back From Vietnam
Jolie Anastasia – Winter’s Song
The Deefons – Might as Well F***ing Dance
Muhnday – Straight Face
Jeniverse – FREAK OF NATURE
PHAETON – Augmented
Hot Mud – The Town That Fun Forgot
Ordinary Birds – F*K U POSER!!!
Fingerless – Grotesque
One Hundred Moons – Chairmen of the Bored
See y’all next time!
What’s up peeps. We have a jam packed show today; old school and new school jams, a big shout out to Singh Wheels And Tires in Kitchener, we’ll discuss what’s trending and Christmas season!
Sit back, grab a beverage and let’s gooooooo
A slightly spooky themed episode tonight to celebrate… the end of November… But good songs nonetheless, and some fun stories to go along with them, so sit back and brace yourself for some fun and funky tunes!
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