On the CKMS Community Connections for Monday, 13 May 2019 Yenny Stronge and Bob Jonkman spoke with Brian Doucet, Canada Research Chair in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo in the first hour, then in the second hour with Matt White, the Artistic Director at Green Light Arts.
Show Notes
Brian Doucet
Brian Doucet
Brian Doucet is an Associate Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, and the Canada Research Chair in Cities. He came to talk to us about gentrification and the LRT, but our conversation wandered a little.
The interview with Brian starts at 14m00s.
14m00s: Part One
37m07s: Part Two
Matt White
Matt White
Matt White is the Artistic Director for Green Light Arts, which is putting on the play Guarded Girls from now until 19 May 2019.
Tue. Wed 14, 2019 | 7:30pm
Wed. May 15, 2019 | 7:30pm
Thurs. May 16, 2019 | 7:30pm
Fri. May 17, 2019 | 7:30pm
Sat. May 18, 2019 | 2:00pm
Sat. May 18, 2019 | 7:30pm
Sun. May 19, 2019 | 4:00pm
Venue:
The Registry Theatre
122 Frederick St
Kitchener, ON
Every day is a chance to start again. We are not defined by our mistakes or missed opportunities. There are things that I wish I could have done differently, or that I could take back. I’m not perfect, but there is grace. It is there with me in my coming and going…everyday. When I sleep and when I wake. My past is for yesterday and my present shapes the future. Today, I choose grace.
I’m amazed that I can look back at where I was, even just a year ago, and see a huge difference in my self-confidence and perseverance”
Being true to herself and sharing her honest experiences so someone else will feel encouraged, Kaleena Schultz will tell it all…. In Conversation with Rashmi
I am very excited to host my first guest who is absolutely amazing, Elaine Kapogines
Elaine a mom of two daughters, 6 and 3. She worked in publishing for 8 years before the birth of her first daughter in 2013. She had worked in various senior editorial and management roles in the GTA, including launching her first independent publication in 2008. She then started The Holistic Parent after she decided not to return to work after her first maternity leave, and has been growing the business ever since while being a full-time stay-at-home-mom. Elaine will share the challenges, risks, struggles and success in growing her own business while trying to also balance the home front. She is the owner and publisher of The Holistic Parent, a natural health and wellness hub for families in the Waterloo Region and Wellington County
Tonight’s show features Desert Rock and its origins. This a return to proper Into the Void sound. Lots of music to roll around in your brain while you drift off and bliss out.
10 pm!
My show also replays on Sundays at 6:30pm
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Since I am currently Resting and Relaxing in Mexico, I thought I would bring a little Mexico to you. Grab a Corona or Tequila if you have some, sit back and picture your self on the beach staring at some blue water. Your shirt is open, there is sweat on your brow and life if perfect, if only for a moment.
10 pm!
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Crowdsource the show notes! If you’d like to help out you can listen to the show and make a list of events, interviews, other notable conversations, and song titles and artists along with the time they appear. Send it to office@radiowaterloo.ca with Show notes for 22 April 2019 in the subject line. You’ll get full credit, with a link to your website.
Tonight is the 4th installment of the Under the Covers Series. This show features Jazz Fusion Standards – the show will be filled with the usual culprits you hear on my show when venturing into Jazz Fusion – this time the will be performing each others songs.
10 pm!
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Crowdsource the show notes! If you’d like to help out you can listen to the show and make a list of events, interviews, other notable conversations, and song titles and artists along with the time they appear. Send it to office@radiowaterloo.ca with Show notes for 15 April 2019 in the subject line. You’ll get full credit, with a link to your website.
Tonight’s show is the 3rd installment of the Under the Covers series and it will feature only Beatles covers. Hopefully Covers you never heard for the most part.
10 pm!
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Crowdsource the show notes! If you’d like to help out you can listen to the show and make a list of events, interviews, other notable conversations, and song titles and artists along with the time they appear. Send it to office@radiowaterloo.ca with Show notes for 8 April 2019 in the subject line. You’ll get full credit, with a link to your website.
This show is part of a series of shows I’m calling Under the Covers – songs that are covers, re interpretations, tributes or Jazz standards.
This episode is Great Unknown Rock Covers part 1
This was recorded on remote location during a live show at Elvis Freshly’s jam studio, I performed first then went live to air with my show. The sound quality is pretty poor. I couldn’t keep the mixer from clipping, but I had a blast. I hope you enjoy!
10 pm!
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Crowdsource the show notes! If you’d like to help out you can listen to the show and make a list of events, interviews, other notable conversations, and song titles and artists along with the time they appear. Send it to office@radiowaterloo.ca with Show notes for 1 April 2019 in the subject line. You’ll get full credit, with a link to your website.
Also! I will be performing solo experimental music for March Madness CKMS fundraiser event on Friday March 29th at 37 Lancaster St W Kitchener. Come out and support the station and hear some weird music. Follow link for more info.
An interview with Louisa, a person working to support residents of 103-105 West Lodge Ave in Toronto as they have faced intermittent heat, power, and water service in their apartments from at least February 2019. The two high rise apartment buildings were recently bought by the multinational asset management firm Timbercreek who have focused on evicting residents through the landlord tribunal while letting the buildings fall further into disrepair.
In the interview we hear about frozen sewage filled pipes bursting and leaking through ceilings and walls, people stuck in unreliable elevators as power fluctuates, food spoiling in inconsistently powered fridges, and long walks up dark stairways with bottles of water for drinking, cooking, and cleaning. Through all the issues, Timbercreek is not compensating people for their losses, while the ignore much-needed repair work and shamelessly continue to evict residents.
Louisa notes you can call the Timbercreek office in charge of rentals (647-951-5498) and demand fair treatment and fair compensation for existing tenants, ending eviction actions against tenants, and immediate repairs to the building.
Background information about the resistance in Toronto’s West Lodge towers:
Timbercreek has a history of similar behaviour through Canada and around the world. Check out this in-depth article “The battle for Heron Gate”, which looks into Timbercreek and their assault on the Heron Gate neighbourhood and community in Ottawa.
Also! I will be performing solo experimental music for March Madness CKMS fundraiser event on Friday March 29th at 37 Lancaster St W Kitchener. Come out and support the station and hear some weird music. Follow link for more info.
Tonight’s show features songs from my youth, songs that give me that wistful yearning to return to a time and place that no longer exists. Sometimes a happier place, sometimes a place of hope and wonder.
10 pm!
Be sure to download here if you missed it or any past episode.
Also! I will be performing solo experimental music for March Madness CKMS fundraiser event on Friday March 29th at 37 Lancaster St W Kitchener. Come out and support the station and hear some weird music. Follow link for more info.
Focusing on the ongoing war on drugs and the resultant public health emergency, this episode opens with the trailer for the new podcast “Crackdown” which features “Drug user activists covering the drug war as war correspondents”, and continues with an interview with organisers of a “Pop-Up Overdose Prevention Site” in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Focusing on the ongoing war on drugs and the resultant public health emergency, this episode opens with the trailer for the new podcast “Crackdown” from Vancouver based host and producer Garth Mullins which features “Drug user activists covering the drug war as war correspondents”. This monthly podcast is “about drugs, drug policy and the drug war led by drug user activists and supported by research”.
Shifting from the west coast to Waterloo region, the show continues with an interview with Kyle Wall and Julian Ichim, 2 organisers of a pop-up overdose prevention site campaign in Kitchener-Waterloo. This new campaign is has two main goals. The first is to prevent deaths of drug users by creating a place where they may more safely consume drugs. Many of the deaths triggered by fentanyl and other opioids would be avoided if the drugs were taken in a setting where someone else was present to administer naloxone and emergency breathing if needed. The second goal is to put pressure on the government in the Region Waterloo to take action to open the much needed supervised injection and consumption sites that have faced long delays in their approval and funding.
Background:
On February 28th 2019 at 5pm, members of the “Alan Ryan People’s Community Defense Brigade” organised a gathering in downtown Kitchener and marched to the Region of Waterloo headquarters to set up the first pop-up overdose prevention site in a new campaign to prevent deaths of people who use drugs, and to put pressure on the regional council who have been dragging their feet on establishing much-needed supervised consumption and injection sites.
At least 10 people died in the region in January alone from opioid overdoses, with February death toll similarly high, with at least 2 additional deaths in the final days of the month.
The group set up a tent and stocked it with necessary supplies, like clean needles, water, blankets, disposal bins, and most importantly, naloxone kits, which when administered to someone experiencing opioid induced respiratory depression, can help stabilise their breathing. After several hours, the group packed up for the eve, announcing that they will be setting up this operation daily in different spots around the downtown until official supervised sites are established.
Today we are joined by organisers Julian Ichim and Kyle Wall To talk about the grassroots overdose prevention site campaign and the larger public health emergency brought forward by the manufactured opioid crisis.
The show closes with the song “Mutiny in Heaven” by The Birthday Party.
Show Links:
For information on the Pop-up Overdose Prevention Site in KW, check out the facebook page for the “Alan Ryan People’s Community Defense Brigade” here: https://www.facebook.com/thealanryanbrigade/
Also! I will be performing solo experimental music for March Madness CKMS fundraiser event on Friday March 29th at 37 Lancaster St W Kitchener. Come out and support the station and hear some weird music. Follow link for more info.
Also! I will be performing solo experimental music for March Madness CKMS fundraiser event on Friday March 29th at 37 Lancaster St W Kitchener. Come out and support the station and hear some weird music. Follow link for more info.