Canadian Voices
Canadian Voices is a public affairs radio series produced by CJLY-FM (Kootenay Cooperative Radio), a volunteer-run non-profit community radio station in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
Through a series of one-hour audio programmes, Canadian Voices presents radio, internet, and media player listeners with the opportunity to hear talks by Canadian authors, academics, activists, artists, and thought-provoking citizens who explore ideas and events that characterize the political left in Canada. Topics range from human rights, climate change, and media analysis, to food security, art, education and spirituality.
Canadian Voices is coordinated by Zoë Creighton, with input and assistance from volunteers across the country. The series is distinct from much public and current affairs radio programming, as each featured speakers is a Canadian, the series is produced in Canada, by Canadians, and it focuses on topics that are of interest to Canadians.[1]
In addition to traditional radio broadcast on campus and community radio stations across Canada, Canadian Voices also podcasts. As of Oct. 2009, the program is aired on 37 campus and community stations across Canada and one station in the United States.[2]
The format of Canadian Voices was inspired by Alternative Radio, an established role model of progressive audio programming produced in Boulder, Colorado.
Selection of Featured Speakers
- Stephen Lewis Human Rights, Social Justice and Cultures of Peace
- Jane Jacobs An Evening With Jane Jacobs
- Irshad Manji Confession of a Muslim Dissident: Why I Fight for Women, Jews, Gays...and Allah
- Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers in Africa: New Angles on this Instrument of War
- Maude Barlow The Inconvenient Truth about the Commodification of Water
- Joy Kogawa Musings from a Writer's Life
- David Suzuki Biotechnology:The Future
- John Ralston Saul Democracy, Citizenship and Sovereignty
- Wade Davis Death and Life in the Ethnosphere
- Taiaiake Alfred Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom
- Percy Schmeiser Genetic Contamination and Its Effects on Family Farms
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Right to Be Cold: The Arctic Environment, Climate Change, and Human Rights
- Michael Geist Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble with Copyright
- Mark Kingwell Boredom, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Life
- Tzeporah Berman Who Will Repair It?
- Paul Watson Saving Our Oceans
- Naomi Klein Becoming Shock Resistant: Confronting the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- Linda McQuaig Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire
- Gabor Mate Addictions and the Biology of Loss: What Happens When Parent-Child Attachments are Impaired
- Maher Arar Fragile Rights: The Erosion of our Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security
- Margaret Atwood Debt as Plot
- Norman Doidge The Brain That Changes Itself
- Marina Nemat Prisoner of Tehran
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-08-07. Retrieved 2008-08-10. About Canadian Voices
- ↑ Canadian Voices website