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  • 204 Rise

    204 Rise aims to doc­u­ment the ris­ing tal­ent hid­den with­in the streets of Winnipeg. 

    We want to reveal the tal­ents of the city, whether that be through music, art, or busi­ness, in an enter­tain­ing, knowl­edge-based expe­ri­ence! Check us on youtube and insta­gram to see exclu­sive video con­tent of some of the great guests we feature!

  • Akiiwan

    Aki­i­waan (It is the land, the earth) focus­es on Indige­nous envi­ron­men­tal injus­tices and issues, and includes tra­di­tion­al eco­log­i­cal knowl­edge and land-based learning.

  • Alternative Radio

    Estab­lished in 1986, Alter­na­tive Radio is a week­ly one-hour pub­lic affairs pro­gram offered free to all pub­lic radio sta­tions in the U.S., Cana­da, Europe, South Africa, Aus­tralia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace Inter­na­tion­al. AR pro­vides infor­ma­tion, analy­ses and views that are fre­quent­ly ignored or dis­tort­ed in oth­er media. AR is ded­i­cat­ed to the found­ing prin­ci­ples of pub­lic broad­cast­ing, which urge that pro­gram­ming serve as ​“a forum for con­tro­ver­sy and debate,” be diverse and ​“pro­vide a voice for groups that may oth­er­wise be unheard.”

  • Art World Innovators

    Explor­ing inno­va­tors in the art world.

  • Canadaland

    CANADA­LAND is a week­ly pod­cast host­ed by Jesse Brown.

    Sub­scribe at http://​canada​land​show​.com

  • Democracy Now

    Democ­ra­cy Now! is a nation­al, dai­ly, inde­pen­dent, award-win­ning news pro­gram air­ing on over 450 sta­tions in North Amer­i­ca. Pio­neer­ing the largest pub­lic media col­lab­o­ra­tion in the U.S., Democ­ra­cy Now! is broad­cast on Paci­fi­ca, NPR, com­mu­ni­ty, and col­lege radio sta­tions; on pub­lic access, PBS, satel­lite tele­vi­sion; as a ​“pod­cast,” and on the inter­net. Democ­ra­cy Now!‘s War and Peace Report pro­vides our audi­ence with access to peo­ple and per­spec­tives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, includ­ing inde­pen­dent and inter­na­tion­al jour­nal­ists, ordi­nary peo­ple from around the world who are direct­ly affect­ed by U.S. for­eign pol­i­cy, grass­roots lead­ers and peace activists, artists, aca­d­e­mics and inde­pen­dent analysts.

    • Monday, 12:00pm–1:00pm Tuesday, 12:00pm–1:00pm Wednesday, 12:00pm–1:00pm Thursday, 12:00pm–1:00pm Friday, 12:00pm–1:00pm
    • Amy Goodman
    • News & Current Affairs

  • First Voices Indigenous Radio

    Rough­ly 350 mil­lion Indige­nous peo­ples world­wide that are strug­gling to main­tain their cul­tures. FVIR is bring­ing those sto­ries and fea­tures to your ears from all con­ti­nents of Moth­er Earth. Some­day soon, if not now, the rest of human­i­ty will need those very same real Indige­nous cul­tures that mod­ern­iza­tion and so-called civ­i­liza­tion is destroying.

  • Freakonomics

    Freako­nom­ics Radio fer­rets out con­nec­tions between seem­ing­ly unre­lat­ed things. The pro­gram explores the rid­dles of every­day life and the weird wrin­kles of human nature — from cheat­ing and crime to par­ent­ing and sports — using the tools of eco­nom­ics to explore real-world behavior.

  • From The Vault

    From the Vault is the Paci­fi­ca Radio Archives’ week­ly pro­gram Remix­ing and Remem­ber­ing the past by explor­ing the vast­ness of sound with­in the vault of Amer­i­ca’s largest pub­lic radio archive.

  • GameChangers

    GameChang­ers cel­e­brates and cri­tiques the his­to­ry and cul­ture of gam­ing and the gam­ing indus­try with an eye on the future of fun.

  • HLLL!YH! WPG!

    Hll­lYh! Winnipeg!

    Dance, mix, fusion, rock, pop, noise, beats, treats, and hang­outs, doing-your-home­work, mon­day, 630pm, radio slot.

    So sit back,

    dance around,

    draw some stuff,

    read this book,

    crush on that girl or boy,

    go for a walk, decide to talk, 

    your dri­ving around, smok­ing those sticks,

    give some time to rethink those bricks

    and have a fun thought in the mid­dle the continent.


    Cheers!

  • Kipp Interviews His Friends

    Each week dash­ing racon­teur Kipp Kocay speaks to his friends. Dur­ing this strange time, some­times it’s nice to have a chat with some­one you love.

  • Latin Waves

    Latin Waves was born just over 3.5 years ago when Sylvia Richardson’s pas­sion for social change hit the radio air waves. The show was start­ed as a resource to edu­cate the pub­lic about the extra­or­di­nary changes and social move­ments that are hap­pen­ing in Latin Amer­i­ca, there is a lit­er­al black­out in the Cana­di­an main stream media around these his­toric changes. Short­ly after the show start­ed Stu­art Richard­son joined as co-pro­duc­er chan­nel­ing his pas­sion into jour­nal­ism and research, with such an over­whelm­ing amount of crit­i­cal news not being cov­ered prop­er­ly in the main stream media Latin Waves decid­ed to open its spec­trum. Our orig­i­nal man­date to cov­er Latin Amer­i­ca still stands but we have expand­ed our cov­er­age into local/​national and inter­na­tion­al issues mak­ing those crit­i­cal polit­i­cal con­nec­tions, we bring our lis­ten­ers in-depth cov­er­age of issues with a focus on the his­to­ry of an issue and what that his­to­ry means for us today and most impor­tant­ly what we can do to move soci­ety for­ward in a healthy way. In short our show is focused on build­ing com­mu­ni­ty across bor­ders, pos­i­tive social change has only come through com­mu­ni­ties of inter­est work­ing together.

  • Let's Talk About...

    Let’s Talk About is a pro­gram cre­at­ed by Jason Pcha­jek that aims to cut to the heart of sto­ries in the news, on social media, and in dis­cus­sions had in cof­fee shops across the coun­try. Jason aims to strip away the rhetoric, jar­gon, and (when appro­pri­ate) pol­i­tics sur­round­ing an issue to give you the best expla­na­tion of what exact­ly every­one is talk­ing about.

    What exact­ly is the Car­bon Tax? What does ​‘gaslight­ing’ mean? And what the heck are eSports? These ques­tions and many more will be answered by Jason and a rotat­ing cast of guests, friends, and experts from var­i­ous dis­ci­plines, fields, and walks of life.

    So, let’s talk about something.

    DIS­CLAIMER: All issues and top­ics pre­sent­ed dur­ing broad­casts of Let’s Talk About are com­plex and nuanced. As such dif­fer­ent aspects may not be explored and cer­tain infor­ma­tion may be missed. The aim of this pod­cast is to shed light on top­ics and help the aver­age lis­ten­er be more informed, and while many experts will be present, we might miss some­thing. Every­thing you read, see, and lis­ten to must be tak­en as only a piece of the puz­zle. This pro­gram is no exception. 

  • Live From A Lockdown

    As we will be pro­gram­ming under some dis­tant cir­cum­stances for the fore­see­able future, we’ve got some old friends who will be pro­vid­ing us with some pro­gram­ming dur­ing the lockdown.

  • Making Contact

    Mak­ing Con­tact, pro­duced by Nation­al Radio Project, is an award-win­ning, 29-minute week­ly mag­a­zine/­doc­u­men­tary-style pub­lic affairs pro­gram heard on over 200 radio sta­tions in the USA, Cana­da, South Africa and Ire­land. Mak­ing Con­tact is com­mit­ted to in-depth crit­i­cal analy­sis that goes beyond the break­ing news. Show­cas­ing voic­es and per­spec­tives rarely heard in main­stream media, Mak­ing Con­tact focus­es on the human real­i­ties of pol­i­tics and the con­nec­tions between local and glob­al events, empha­siz­ing pos­i­tive and cre­ative ways to solve problems.

  • Nasha Kasha

    Nasha Kasha is a half-hour week­ly com­mer­cial-free spo­ken word radio pro­gram about Ukrain­ian life. We trav­el Ontario and beyond to pack­age full-edi­tion doc­u­men­taries and inter­views about ordi­nary lives lived remark­ably. The pro­grams are most­ly in the Eng­lish lan­guage with Ukrain­ian includ­ing music to inform the top­ics. Each pro­gram is 28 min­utes in length.

    Nasha Kasha is broad­cast from CHRW-FM on the cam­pus of West­ern Uni­ver­si­ty in Lon­don, Ontario. 

    In Slav­ic and Jew­ish cui­sine, kasha is any grain boiled in water or milk. Like our pro­gram, it’s warm, nour­ish­ing and just a lit­tle bit messy: not unlike life itself. 

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  • One Great History

    A show about the great (and not so great) his­to­ry of Win­nipeg, Man­i­to­ba, Canada.

  • Our Panjabi Show

    **cur­rent­ly on a COVID-induced hia­tus, enjoy some ​“clas­sic” episodes until we even­tu­al­ly return**

    Win­nipeg’s home for pan­jabi roots and culture!

  • Prairie Design Lab

    Prairie Design Lab (PDL) is a pod­cast on ideas, design, and cul­ture, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with jour­nal­ist Ter­ry MacLeod. Each episode cov­ers a range of con­ver­sa­tions cen­tered around local and glob­al per­spec­tives and is pro­duced in con­junc­tion with the lec­ture series at the Fac­ul­ty of Archi­tec­ture of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Manitoba.

    The host, Ter­ry MacLeod, is an inde­pen­dent Emmy-nom­i­nat­ed jour­nal­ist and recip­i­ent of The Queen’s Dia­mond Jubilee Medal. In his 33 years with CBC, he estab­lished him­self as a respect­ed, informed, inquis­i­tive, and com­pas­sion­ate pres­ence. He left CBC for new pur­suits on Dec 31, 2016. With CBC Win­nipeg, he was a host on ​“Infor­ma­tion Radio” and host/​producer of ​“The Week­end Morn­ing Show.” In 2005 with Ter­ry host­ing, Infor­ma­tion Radio was named ​“The Best Local CBC Radio Pro­gram in Canada.”