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Trumix.com listings available of CBC Radio: Editor\'s Choice Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. October 6th: Overcrowded School and School Safety Morley Community School in Alberta is so overcrowded, some classes are held in boot rooms. Staff say they need a new building. And, Charlottetown Rural High School runs an emergency drill to practice what would happen in case of a school shooting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 3rd: Canada's French-English Digital Divide and a Father-Daughter Flying Team The Canadian Internet Project recently reported a fifteen percent gap in Internet use between French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians. Nora Young of Spark spoke with a co-author of that report as well as a podcaster from Quebec about the issue. Also, Cecil and Dawn Hansen are from the Mackenzie Delta. They’re father and daughter, and they fly jets together all over the country for Canadian North Airlines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 2nd: On the Streets of Newfoundland The city of St. John’s is trying to make the legendary George Street a bit more family friendly. Host Aamer Haleem discussed the situation with CBC Radio National Reporter Vik Adophia on the debut episode of The Point. Then, we hear from a citizen and the deputy mayor of Gander. Dennis Turner has set up a sign on his property to remind passing drivers of the street's speed limit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 1st: Halifax's Forgotten Prison, Recreation Directors in the Yukon and Taking Care of Tokens Life in the city wasn't always as peaceful as it is today, especially in the city's south end. The provincial penitentiary used to be just down the road from Point Pleasant Park. ** Being a recreation director is an arduous task - budgeting, programming, planning, relying solely on volunteers to help out. Last weekend, recreation directors from the Yukon gathered for their annual meeting. ** No more tickets: A new era began this week for Toronto’s commuters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 30th: Shelagh Rogers and Paraglider Sam Pane First, a clip for you from the final installment of Sounds Like Canada. Shelagh Rogers joined host Kevin Sylvester. Then we follow a man as he takes his first flight on a powered paraglider. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 29th: Captains of Industry on Canvas Painter Geoffrey Raymond is out on Wall Street, with his portraits of CEOs and other big suits. He’s inviting passers-by to take a marker and scrawl something on them. Here he is on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 26th: Growing Up With Julie and Basketball Athlete Bo Hedges Growing up with Julie is the title of Gerry Steele’s first book. Julie was his mother, an Acadian woman who married into a Scottish family. Steele's book examines the racism suffered by his mother - while she worked to raise a family in poverty. Then we meet athlete Bo Hedges. Hedges was on the national men’s wheelchair basketball team at the Paralympic Games in Beijing this year. Canada won the silver, but lost the gold medal to Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 25th: The Elmira Produce Auction Co-operative In 2003, at the height of the B.S.E. or 'mad cow' crisis, the U.S. closed its border to a lot of Canadian agricultural products. In response, Mennonite farmers in the Waterloo and Wellington County region of Ontario decided to grow more fresh produce. But how were they going to get that increased domestic production to consumers? The farmers decided to help themselves by forming the Elmira Produce Auction Co-operative. The group sells to local wholesalers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 24th: Goodbye to a Steelworkers' Hall, Food Prices in Lutselk'e, and Fuel in the Fishing Industry 1. The historic Steelworkers hall in Sudbury, Ontario has burned down. The CBC's Greg Younger-Lewis spoke with Gary Patterson, a former president of local 6500. 2. In places like Lutselk'e, NWT, four litres of milk can cost almost fourteen dollars. That’s the impact of rising fuel prices. 3. There's an initiative on the go in Newfoundland & Labrador to address the issue of high fuel costs in the fishing industry. The goal is to reduce energy consumption by up to twenty percent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 23rd: The Journey of Prescription Drugs Today’s highlights are from White Coat, Black Art. This week, the show had a look at the journey a new prescription drug takes from research to testing to approval to sales. First stop, the Canadian Expert Drug Advisory Committee. Members weigh the costs and benefits of new drugs and recommend whether or not the provinces should pay for them, effectively sealing each drug's fate as a blockbuster or a dud. We'll also hear about backroom deals that provinces strike with drug companies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 22nd: Stephan Hopkins Memorial Foundation and James Collip The Stephan Hopkins Memorial Foundation in Deer Lake raises $200,000 for equipment used to find drowning victims. And, find out about James Collip, "the forgotten man" in the discovery of insulin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 19th: Glamour Guts and Cap La Ronde Today we have two items from CBC’s Information Morning in Halifax, Nova Scotia. First, living glamourously with intestinal disease. A new film has just come out that takes a light-hearted approach to the difficulties of living with the disease. Also, Nova Scotia is known as Canada’s Ocean Playground for its pristine beaches, but the province also has an ugly past of excavators chewing up shorelines for profit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 18th: Aboriginal Leaders Meet in Charlottetown, Cape Farewell and Nature Calling Where Nature Calls! 1. Aboriginal leaders from around the country are gathered in Charlottetown this week. They're there to brainstorm the best ways to build their communities without relying on government support. 2. Sean White is among a group of students on an arctic expedition to study climate change. 3. An eleven-year-old in Prince George, British Columbia comes face-to-face with a flying squirrel in his bathroom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 17th: Phlo Design Gets in Business Throughout the summer, Sounds Like Canada has been running a business makeover series. The series targets Canadian entrepreneurs whose businesses needed a little sprucing up and paired them with business students and mentors. Last week, host Kevin Sylvester and producer Jen Moss introduced us to Sarah York and Tasia Giannakopoulos of Edmonton, Alberta’s Phlo Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 16th: Cultural T-Shirts, Edmonton's First Streetcar and the Die Nasty Soap-a-thon 1. Lisha Hassanali drops by to explain the multicultural t-shirt revolution on Here and Now’s Passport to Culture. 2. Edmonton, Alberta's very first streetcar is now on display in Churchill Square. The CBC's Mark Harvey spoke with the President of the group that restored and now operates Streetcar Number One. 3. It's also the return of theatre season in Edmonton. And what better way to kick it off than a fifty-three hour, non-stop soap-a-thon? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 15th: Artistic Leaders on Funding Cuts In Q’s continuing coverage of the funding cuts to the arts in Canada, host Jian Ghomeshi spoke with a panel of artists, and there was more range of opinion than you might expect. Here he is with Co-Chair of the Canadian Arts Coalition Anne-Marie Jean, Professor S. Randy Boyagoda of Ryerson University and curator and writer Gregory Elgstrand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 12th: Veterans on The War in Afghanistan, CUPE vs. the Health Boards and a Speller From the North 1. David French of CBC British Columbia’s Daybreak South talks politics with three members of the Kelowna chapter of the Royal Canadian Air Force. 2. CUPE’s Newfoundland and Labrador branch says health boards are withholding retroactive pay for some support staff. Union President Wayne Lucas says hundreds of workers are effected. 3. Eleven-year-old Caitlin Chambers is set to represent spellers from the north at the national spelling bee in Vancouver. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 11th: Patrick Brown, "Butterfly Mind" CBC correspondent Patrick Brown has been reporting the world to Canadians for more than thirty years, covering war zones and countries in upheaval. Today, he lives in Beijing, where he's learned the language and makes television documentaries. He's also written a memoir, weaving his observations of that country and the other conflicts he's covered, into his own personal struggle with alcohol. Patrick Brown joined Dispatches host Rick MacInnes-Rae from Beijing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 10th: Prince Rupert's Christian Youth Group and Leadership Changes in the CAW Prince Rupert, British Columbia’s Fellowship Baptist Church is a busy place on Wednesday nights. The church has the city's only Christian youth group. Daybreak North's Robyn Burns caught up with the Youth Pastor, Jared Mawhorter. Also, the Canadian Auto Workers marked the end of an era on the weekend. Union members from across Canada met in Toronto to say good-bye to longstanding national President Buzz Hargrove. They unanimously elected Ken Lewenza to be his successor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 9th: Poverty and Wealth on the East Coast and Canvassing for the Arthritis Society A recently-released report on financial security illustrates the growing gap between rich and poor in Atlantic Canada and the growing dependence on debt. Also, It’s Arthritis Awareness month, and canvassers are fanning out across Nova Scotia. Information Morning's Margot Brunelle had a chance to chat with one of them as she was going door to door in Cole Harbour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 8th: Sounds Like Canada Election Phone-In Last Wednesday, Sounds Like Canada went across the country asking Canadians for their views on the impending election. Some themes emerged: leadership, patriotism, international relations. Now, not everyone could tune into every region as they went from Atlantic to Pacific, so they assembled some of the highlights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 5th: Kardinal Offishall on Q Kardinal Offishall has one of the hottest singles on the charts today. His new album "Not 4 Sale" is in stores next Tuesday, featuring guest shots from stars like Akon and Rihanna. But will it raise the international profile of Canadian Hip-Hop? Here’s Kardinal Offishall on Q with Jian Ghomeshi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 13th: Breastfeeding an Adopted Child You might assume that mothers who adopt their children are among those who have to forgo breast-feeding. But that's not always the case. One new mother was determined to breastfeed her son despite never having been pregnant. Reporter Jane Adey has her story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 12th: The Politics of Apologies On the morning before the Prime Minister’s formal apology for the federal government's role in Canada's residential school system, The Current examined the politics of apologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 11th: Lemonade Capital Prerna Chandak has her own company called Lemonade Capital. It lends money to young people who are trying to get their business ideas off the ground. Here’s Prerna on Sounds Like Canada with host Kathryn Gretsinger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 10th: Archives from CBC Radio's World Report CBC’s World Report turned forty last week and to celebrate, host Judy Maddren presented clips from the show’s archives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 9th: Labour in the Game Industry Some of the world’s biggest game developers have a major presence in Canada, but beneath the flashy graphics there's a real life battle being waged. Throughout the past decade the game industry has been hit by a series of lawsuits from employees who say they were overworked and underpaid. The game giants say they've put those practices behind them, the CBC’s Eli Glasner found that crunch time is still a crutch for the industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 6th: My Locs Tamika Royes believes many black women feel pressure to chemically straighten their hair. She wanted a more natural hairstyle and decided to loc her hair. As Tamika prepares for her graduation pictures, she explains why her locs are much more than just a hairstyle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 5th: The Kids In The Hall It is a comedy troupe that has had a special place in Canadian hearts since its show first aired in 1988. Now, 20 years later, the Kids In The Hall are back with a North American tour. Two of the Kids, Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald, joined Jian Ghomeshi live in Studio Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 4th: Life on the School Bus Last week, an incident of alleged bullying led a 17-year-old student to grab the fire axe from the front of his school bus. He then used the axe to threaten the teen he said had been bothering him. Here's the CBC's Barb Taylor with Doreen Wall, who has been a school bus driver in Prince Edward Island for thirty years. This segment originally aired on Charlottetown's Island Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 3rd: The Banyan Tree Foundation A few years ago, a Canadian organization had a bright idea - give loans to people who would use the money to make contributions to charities and then claim tax breaks. But now, Revenue Canada wants the donors to give back more than 63 million dollars in tax refunds - and charities are worried about losing a stable source of revenue. Here's Anna Maria Tremonti with the Current's look into what's happening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 2nd: Shelagh Rogers Looks Back Shelagh Rogers bid farewell to Sounds Like Canada last week. Here she is with highlights from the past six years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 30th: Farming and Infrared Technology Campaigns against smoking have forced many farmers out of the tobacco business. Some have sold their land and quit farming altogether. But not John Wenninger. He took a grant from the province of Ontario and invested it in new technology to dry fruits and vegetables. Now as freelance broadcaster Mary Ann Colihan reports, Wenninger's experiments have lead to new additives for craft beers and specialty baking products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 29th: Alex Trebek on Q He’s the Canadian-born quiz show host who you can catch on CBC Television starting this September. Here’s Q host Jian Ghomeshi with your audio clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 28th: Re-Thinking Pink Pink ribbon merchandise can be found amongst everything from clothing to office supplies, but breast cancer survivor Roseanne Cohen wants us to reconsider the colour and the campaign. Here’s "Re-Thinking Pink" from Outfront. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 27th: The William R. Bennett Bridge opens in Kelowna Kelowna’s much-anticipated William R. Bennett Bridge was officially opened this weekend. Nearly ten thousand people filled City Park for the celebration. The CBC’s Bonnie Allen was there for the speeches, the ribbon cutting and the rush across the bridge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 27th: The William R. Bennett Bridge opens in Kelowna Kelowna’s much-anticipated William R. Bennett Bridge was officially opened this weekend. Nearly ten thousand people filled City Park for the celebration. The CBC’s Bonnie Allen was there for the speeches, the ribbon cutting and the rush across the bridge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 26th: The BC Beetles The unusually balmy winters British Columbia have been a welcome mat for hordes of mountain pine beetles. They’ve left millions of hectares of BC forest dead or dying. Here’s The Current's Friday host Duncan McCue with a look into how those who manage Canada's forests are reacting, as the beetles munch eastward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 26th: The BC Beetles The unusually balmy winters British Columbia have been a welcome mat for hordes of mountain pine beetles. They’ve left millions of hectares of BC forest dead or dying. Here’s The Current's Friday host Duncan McCue with a look into how those who manage Canada's forests are reacting, as the beetles munch eastward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 23rd: Reconsidering taxes in Halifax Halifax is considering a new tax structure that would be the first of its kind in North America. A committee of council is looking at whether residents should pay taxes based on the services available to them instead of the value of their property. The municipality is asking for public comment, and CBCreporter Preston Mulligan visited an open house in ColeHarbour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 22nd: Flight of the Dragonfly The new book "Flight of the Dragonfly" recounts the abduction and eventual recovery of a Calgary woman’s two young daughters in Lebanon. Here’s Calgary Eyeopener host Jim Brown with author and mother Melissa Hawach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 21st: Urban Trees Trees are a vital part of our cities, but in order to reach maturity urban trees need a lot more care than their natural cousins. CBC freelancer Andrew O'Connor met with some arborists in Toronto to find out how they look after one of Canada's largest urban forests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 20th: The Royals in Calgary, 1939 In honour of Victoria Day, CBC Radio’s Rewind presented a collection of clips from the Royal Visit of 1939. As war loomed overseas, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the country by train to bolster the bonds of the Empire. Here’s Michael Enright with a clip from their visit to Calgary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 19th: Phyllis Lambert on Griffintown Montreal’s most prominent architectural activist is opposing a major redevelopment plan for Griffintown. Her name is Phyllis Lambert, and she says the city is taking the wrong approach in revitalizing Montreal’s historic Irish quarter. Here’s Sounds Like Canada host Shelagh Rogers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 16th: Sudbury's $550-Billion Question Whitefish Lake First Nation near Sudbury, Ontario is seeking $550-billion in compensation for lands it says were promised but never delivered. Here’s host Marcus Schwabe of Sudbury’s Morning North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 15th: Skateboarding for the Environment A skateboarder in Fredericton, New Brunswick took a stand for the environment. Now, he may end up standing behind bars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 14th: Snack Time on Q A couple of the Barenaked Ladies dropped by Studio Q to tell us about their freshly-based kids album "Snack Time." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 13th: The Big Pour at the Bow Tower This weekend, every large cement truck in Alberta was involved in the big pour for the Bow Tower in Calgary. It was a massive undertaking, and literally hundreds of construction workers were involved in the process. The CBC's Peter Akman met with the Associate Vice President of Matthews Development to find out more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 12th: The Face of Giving Many Canadians were out buying chocolates and flowers for their moms this past weekend. But in some parts of Africa, the best Mothers Day gift is a safe pregnancy. Thanks to the Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief, help is on the way. C-PAR spokesperson Roxane Tracey told us how they're helping to give the gift of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 9th: Hip Hopera Hip Hop and Opera are not the music titans they once were. Rap music sales dropped last year by more than thirty percent, and the future of Opera appears to rest with an aging audience. The Canadian Opera Company in Toronto is running an experiment called "Hip Hopera" to see if the two genres can help each other out. CBC Arts Reporter Eli Glasner was at the premiere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 8th: Aboriginal Reserves, Live Phone-in Sounds Like Canada continued its look at aboriginal life in Canada with a special live program. Shelagh Rogers opened the phone lines and asked for your opinions about reserves and whether or not they’re working in the best interests of aboriginal people in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 7th: Joe Keithley of D.O.A. Vancouver punk band D.O.A. celebrates the 30th anniversary of their debut album "Disco Sucks." Here’s front man Joe Keithley with Jian Ghomeshi on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 6th: Here's to Music and Education May 5th was Music Monday - an entire day dedicated to exploring music's ability to enrich the lives of young people, especially through music education. Here's To You on CBC Radio 2 asked listeners to write in with their memories of a music teacher who inspired them. Here's host Catherine Belyea with some of those letters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 5th: Eric Lindros, Ombudsman As an NHL player, Eric Lindros was among the best. Now, he’s behind the scenes with the NHL Players Association. Here’s host Robin Brown on The Inside Track. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 2nd: Four Years Later For four years, an Ontario couple has been waiting to hear the details surrounding their son's death. Twenty-five year old Karl Stunt died as the result of a workplace incident at Sunshine Village in Banff in 2004. The resort was eventually charged with a number of violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Bill Stunt is Karl's father, and he’s in Calgary to attend the trial. Here he is on the Calgary Eyeopener with host Jim Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 1st: Robert Robichaud in Maugerville, NB Robert Robichaud is just one of the many homeowners in New Brunswick watching the water rise in his basement. In 2005, flooding caused ten thousand dollars worth of damage to his home in Maugerville. This time around, he's prepared himself, but as CBC Reporter Nicolle Carlin found out, even the best preparations can't protect his home from the rising water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 30th: Yukoners in Tibet It's probably fair to say that many of the people who have been protesting China's treatment of Tibet have never been there. But two Yukoners, David and Darlene Sillery, are just back from a year-long bike trip that took them through the heart of the country. The CBC's Susan Stanley sat down with the couple to talk about their trip and their impressions of Tibet and China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 29th: Wanted - New Chief of Defence Staff Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier is preparing to step down. With our troops in an Afghan war, our government talking about Arctic sovereignty, and military observers getting out their calculators, The Current asked about the five men touted as contenders for the opening at the Department of National Defence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 28th: Quebec City's 400th Anniversary This week, Quebec City is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its settlement. Today, the city is thriving with the colourful stories of brave immigrants who made their home there. This special episode of C’est La Vie is live from the Palais Montcalm. Here’s Bernard St-Laurent with Part 1 of a special tribute to the capital city of La Belle Province. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 25th: Jay McCarroll and Reality TV Jay McCarroll was the first season winner of the hit TV show Project Runway. But after the cameras were turned off, he found making clothes was harder than making television. Jian Ghomeshi talked to him on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 24th: Chef John Bishop in Vancouver Food and Wine magazine has just came out with its list of the Top Ten restaurant cities, and only one Canadian city made the list – Vancouver. Many of the hottest chefs in the city have one thing in common; they all worked in the tiny perfect kitchen of John Bishop. Here’s Sounds Like Canada guest host Stephen Quinn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 23rd: The Green Club While some Canadians are still debating the merits of events like Earth Day, it's often members of the youngest generation that lead the most environmentally-friendly lives. Parenting columnist Karen Horseman found this out when she started a Green Club at her children's school. On Metro Morning, she tells us why the kids are giving her hope for a greener future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22nd: The Regina Music Box You could buy a Regina Music Box from the Sears mail-order catalogue back in the 1890’s for about $80. Today, Regina Music Boxes in good working order can sell for as much as $20,000. One such music box can be found in the Presentation Sisters Convent in St. John's Newfoundland, which is where Sunday Afternoon in Concert host Bill Richardson reached Sister Mary Perpetua Kennedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 21st: Yuki's Story It's not easy to be a teenager of any gender, let alone a boy who believes he should really be a girl. Joshua Damon lives in Summerside, PEI, and considers himself a trans-gendered teen. Some people in his community show him compassion, but others arent so understanding. The CBC's Angela MacIvor spent some time with Joshua, who has started to go by the name Yuki. Here is Yuki's story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 18th: Iman Kate's Arrival Iman Kate was an Iraqi widow who producer John Chipman met among Iraqi refugees in Syria. One of The Current's listeners was so moved by Iman Kate's story that she spent more than a year trying to help the Iraqi woman and her twin sons immigrate to Canada. Iman Kate and her children arrived in British Columbia last week to begin their new lives, and John Chipman was with them as they spent their first few days in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 17th: Entertaining Royalty Entertaining guests can be a lot of fun, but it can also be pretty nerve-wracking, especially if you have to do all the planning and organizing. Now, imagine having the names of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip added to the guest list. Here’s the Archives Guy, Ian Hamilton, with the dos and don'ts of dealing with royalty... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 16th: The Musical Blacksmith Forty years ago, John Little started teaching himself how to be a blacksmith. In a coastal community like East Dover, Nova Scotia, anchors were the order of the day, but John branched out. His sculptures have been featured in museums and played by reknowned musicians like jazz drummer Jerry Granelli. Last fall, John Little made the short lists for a couple prestigious Nova Scotian awards. Sounds Like Canada guest host Matt Rainnie dropped in on him at his barn in East Dover. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15th: The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek In the summer of 1980, international media portrayed Banff as a place under seige by a killer bear. One man died, others were seriously injured and as a result, tourism suffered. Sid Marty had just retired as a park warden when all of this was happening. He followed the events closely, helped the wardens on stakeouts for the bear, and now, 28 years later, he has written the story of what happened. His book is called "The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 14th: Parti Pris C'est la vie went back in time this week, to the 60's and the birth of a social movement called "Parti Pris." It was the cultural nucleus of what became known as the "Quiet Revolution." Malcolm Reid was a young journalist in Montreal at the time, and his book about Parti Pris is finally going to be translated to French. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 11th: Sarah Polley on Bill C-10 Oscar nominated filmmaker Sarah Polley is going to Ottawa to protest Bill C-10. Here she is with Jian Ghomeshi on Q to talk about her plan to kill the bill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 10th: Ex-Liberal Supporter Irma Ferlatte in New Brunswick A longtime Liberal supporter in New Brunswick says her party is self-destructing. Irma Ferlatte is a retired teacher, and she's spent half a century supporting the party. But this week, she'll be at a rally in Dalhousie to protest the elimination of early French Immersion in the province. She plans to literally set fire to her Liberal party membership card during the protest. Here’s host Rhonda Whittaker on Moncton’s Information Morning with Irma Ferlatte. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 9th: Community Cares on Cape Breton Island Guess what your future holds if you drop out of school, take drugs, get into trouble with the law, or, if you're female, get pregnant, when you're in your teens? The answer is probably not much. But in one town on Cape Breton Island there is a way out of a dead-end future for some young people. It's called the Community Cares program. The CBC's Holly Conners reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 8th: Homework If you're a parent, you know the drill. You walk in the door after a long day, and ask a question you really don't want the answer to: "Do you have any homework?" Here’s guest host Gillian Findlay on The Current. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 7th: Bi-Racial Families in Toronto Bi-racial marriages across the Greater Toronto Area are on the rise in a big way according to the most recent census results. For some of the staff at Metro Morning, that reality is more than a statistic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 4th: Ottawa Morning in Orleans Ottawa Morning did a special broadcast all about the changes facing a community in Orleans, Ontario called Queenswood Heights. It was Orleans first suburb, and many of the original owners never left.Now, it's a community grappling with change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 3rd: Kids, Africa, and the Circus CBC’s Newfoundland and Labrador West Coast Morning Show host Dorothy King spoke with a university student from western Newfoundland who plans to spend her summer in Africa helping kids join the circus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 2nd: Forcing the CFL to Go Metric Here’s a story from the April Fool’s Day edition of the Calgary Eyeopener. The CBC’s Jennifer Keene reported that the Canadian Football League would be facing some major changes this season thanks to a little known department in Ottawa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1st: Graphic Novelist Art Spiegelman On Q, guest host Laurie Brown spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman's best-known work is "Maus", a disturbing story of the Holocaust in which mice and cats take the place of human beings. He discussed how cartooning can educate and outrage, and where to draw the line. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 31st: Dr. Seuss Children’s books are often deceptively simple, and the works of Dr. Seuss are no exception. Behind all the bright colours and quirky characters, there are profound political statements for both kids and adults. With the recent release of Horton Hears a Who in movie theatres, The Current explores why the political messages Dr. Seuss conveyed 50 years ago are just as relevant today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 28: Prison Computer Courses When prison inmates serve long sentences, the world they’re released back into is often drastically different from the world they knew before. That’s why one prison in Edmonton is offering its inmates a hands-on course in how to repair computers. The goal is to teach the inmates the kind of valuable, marketable skills needed in today’s job market, so that when they leave prison, they’ve got a better shot at becoming fully-integrated and contributing members of society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 27th: The Food For Thought Finale It’s time to say goodbye to one of CBC Radio’s columnists. Don Genova has produced the Food For Thought column for us for the past ten years. In the last edition of Food For Thought, Don looks at the range of stories he’s brought us from here and abroad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 26: The Little School That Could A tiny school on the Eelground Reserve just outside Miramichi, New Brunswick is teaching the community more than just math and social studies. This school has won so many awards for innovation and excellence, it’s quickly becoming a leader in Aboriginal education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 25th: SIN Security The Current had a look at the Social Insurance Number system in Canada to find out if it’s anywhere near as secure as one would hope it to be. Guest host Mike Finnerty spoke with a member of the Fraser Institute who studies SIN theft and a Retired Detective Sargeant who wrote a book called “Stop Fraud.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 24th: The Good Show Today on Editor’s Choice, we’re presenting segments from our holiday weekend special The Good Show. Hosted by Amy Jo Ehman, these are stories from CBC Sasktachewan that tell of good people doing good things. They range from heroes who saved people from burning cars, to a group of student nurses who helped clean up an oil spill in Korea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 21st: Dancer Sashar Zarif In recognition of Nowruz, the Persian new year, Q invited dancer Sashar Zarif to the studio. He’s originally from Iran, but now he’s a professor at York University in Toronto.Host Jian Ghomeshi spoke with him about his life as a refugee, his switch from engineering to dance, and his definition of home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 20th: The Naked Swimmer For Carrie Saxifrage, swimming isn’t just a way to cross the five miles of water between two BC islands - it’s a spiritual, sensual journey that reconnects her with her body. And that’s why she’s doing the swim wearing nothing but a bathing cap and arm warmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 19th: Regarding Biopsies An inquiry is set to begin in Newfoundland surrounding more than one thousand incorrect cancer screenings, some of them fatal. The problem has doctors calling for an overhaul of the way biopsies are done across the country. Here’s Matt Galloway on Sounds Like Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18th: A Refugee's Story A refugee who now lives in Canada is trying to get his daughter out of Burma, also known as Myanmar. His family is Christian, and he says he fled because of religious persecution. The man told his story to the CBC’s Brian Higgins through the help of a translator, and he asked us not to use his name, in order to protect his family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 17th: Closing Schools, Making Schools Today’s Editor’s Choice is from British Columbia’s Daybreak North. A panel of speakers was invited to talk about the pros and cons of shutting down half-empty schools. They also offered their thoughts on specialized schools based on religion or ethnicity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 14th: Bad Weather, Good Behaviour According to many criminologists and police officers, bad weather means good behaviour – when the mercury drops, crime rates go down. And that’s got the CBC’s Blair Sanderson wondering if this winter will turn out to be one of Canada’s safest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 13th: Who decides on public art? When it comes to public art made for community spaces, a government committee gets to decide what kind of artwork is appropriate. But does this process encourage the creation of bland and boring pieces? And doesn’t it defeat the purpose of art to begin with? Here's Jian Ghomeshi on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 12th: The Cats in Fredericton There’s a group of cat lovers in Fredericton who call themselves CARMA. They’re concerned that the citizens of Fredericton don’t see the CAT-astrophe that’s right outside their doors. The CBC’s Shaun Waters delivered this report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11th: Aid for Edmonton's Sex-Trade Workers JoAnn McCartney works with Edmonton sex-trade workers who want to quit prostitution. Sounds Like Canada invited her to talk about her view on the trial of Thomas Svekla, and why women’s bodies keep turning up in the outskirts of Edmonton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 10th: Riding Clean Today’s selection is from The Inside Track. Professional cycling has been mired in drug scandals for much of the past ten years. It’s because of the deteriorating reputation of cycling that a team in based in Colorado is coming clean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 7th: Vanessa Farquarson's Green Year Last year, The Current interviewed Vanessa Farquarson. She was in the midst of her year-long resolution to make one ‘green’ change to her lifestyle every day. Well, 2007 is over now and Vanessa has celebrated her ‘un-greening’. Here she is on The Current with Anna-Maria Tremonti. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 6th: The Gold Rush This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the gold rush in the Yukon and British Columbia. Our Archives Guy, Ian Hamilton, explains how the events of 1858 made millionaires, destroyed lives, and left us with a rich legacy of Canadian folklore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 5: The Hydrogen-Powered Bus Every morning in Charlottetown, PEI, bus driver Kevin Ramsay's passengers have their commute fueled by hydrogen. It's one of ten vehicles being tested across Canada and it's been in use by Charlottetown's transit system for a couple of months. The CBC's Nancy Russell got on board to find out how the pilot project is going. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4th: A Panel of Undecided Voters Leading up to the provincial elections in Alberta, CBC Calgary's Eyeopener spoke with a panel of undecided voters. In their final discussion, host Jim Brown wanted to know what they would be doing once they got to the voting booth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 3rd: Hockey Fiction In this year’s Canada Reads debates, Paul Quarrington’s “King Leary” was crowned as the book for Canada to read in 2008. It was defended by guitarist and writer Dave Bidini. Here he is on The Inside Track with Robin Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 29th: Burden of Belief Producer Natasha Fatah traveled to Indonesia to investigate the rise of conservative Islam in that country. She discussed her project with The Current’s Anna Maria Tremonti and presented her documentary “Burden of Belief”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 28th: Gordon Pinsent on Q Newfoundland native Gordon Pinsent is a writer, actor, and director. His career has spanned half a century. He joined Jian Ghomeshi on Q to talk about his starring role in Sarah Polley’s “Away From Her”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 27th: The National Debt Budget day in Ottawa means that we, as in Canadians, get to find out how the federal government plans to spend our money. The largest single expense is interest payments on the national debt, but who does the government owe all this money to? The CBC’s Blair Sanderson reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 26th: The "Anne" Badge Girl Guides of Canada has issued a new badge to mark the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables. To find out more about the new Anne badge, the CBC’s Pat Martel reached Shauna Klein--she's a marketing manager with the Guide's head office in Toronto. This interview aired on PEI’s Information Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25th: CIDA's Afghanistan Task Force It's been a month since John Manley released his report on Canada's mission to Afghanistan, so CBC Radio invited Stephen Wallace to our weekly national politics program, The House. He’s a member of the Canadian International Development Agency, also known as CIDA, and is currently the Director of CIDA’s Afghanistan Task Force. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 22nd: International Mother Language Day To celebrate International Mother Language Day, the Calgary Eyeopener went to the streets to find out how new English-speakers deal with learning slang, and host Jim Brown spoke with John Archibald from the University of Calgary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 21st: Bio-Fuel and Wheat Prices Today’s Editor’s Choice is from The Current. It’s an investigation of how the rise of corn-based bio-fuel has led to a shortage of wheat and an increase in the price of bread across Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 20th: Jemeni's Love of Reading Here at CBC Radio, we’re getting ready for Canada Reads 2008. Starting on February 25th, five celebrity panelists will each defend a book to be named the Canadian read for 2008. We’re publishing a series of preview podcasts highlighting this year’s panelists. Hip-hop poet Jememi is defending Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson. Here she is discussing her childhood love of reading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 19th: Tony Visconti on Q Music producer Tony Visconti got his start in the early ‘60’s. Since then, he’s worked with artists like David Bowie and The Moody Blues. Here he is on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18th: Remembering the 1988 Olympics This year marks two decades since Calgary hosted the winter Olympic Games in 1988. Two-time Olympic skeleton racer Lindsay Alcock credits the ’88 games for inspiring her career. Here she is on The Inside Track with host Robin Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 15th: Hlinka on the Auto Industry Earlier this week, General Motors reported a thirty-nine billion dollar loss... but according to business columnist Michael Hlinka, the more important number was the one attached to the buyout package offered to thousands of GM’s American workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |