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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!

  • 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

  • Engage!

    ENGAGE! is a brand new pod­cast on 101.5 UMFM that inter­acts with the peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions in our com­mu­ni­ty who have tak­en the ini­tia­tive to help grow and give back. 

    Join hosts @_JosueDavi__ and @CaidJones each week as they fea­ture inter­views from those in the city who tru­ly stand for and embody the word​“Com­mu­ni­ty”. From con­stant­ly giv­ing back to under-rep­re­sen­t­ed folks, to lead­ing vital com­mu­ni­ty based ini­tia­tives here in Winnipeg.

    Our com­mu­ni­ty has gone through strug­gles and adver­si­ty before and we all know this past year has been even hard­er on so many of us. At Engage, we con­nect direct­ly to those in our com­mu­ni­ty who are work­ing to make a dif­fer­ence, fight­ing for those under­served and underrepresented.

  • Fireside Chats

    Fire­side Chats is a series of talks on Indige­nous knowl­edges host­ed by the Indige­nous Stu­den­t’s Cen­tre, it was orig­i­nal­ly cre­at­ed by Elder-in-Res­i­dence Carl Stone.

    Fire­side Chats was cre­at­ed so that we have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to lis­ten to tra­di­tion­al knowl­edge and teach­ings from knowl­edge keep­ers and Elders from our com­mu­ni­ties and across Tur­tle Island. They remind us that our teach­ings are not a thing of the past and they allow us to see how their wis­dom apply to life and liv­ing today.

    We look for­ward to hav­ing you sit in the cir­cle with us.


    *Fire­side Chats airs every oth­er Thurs­day dur­ing the school year.*

  • 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.

  • For The Wild

    For The Wild is an anthol­o­gy of the Anthro­pocene; focused on land based pro­tec­tion, co-lib­er­a­ton and inter­sec­tion­al sto­ry­telling root­ed in a par­a­digm shift from human suprema­cy towards deep ecology.

  • 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, 6 to 8pm, radio slot.

    So sit back,

    dance around,

    draw some stuff,

    read this book,

    crush on that girl or boy, they’re prob­a­bly not who you think they are,

    go for a walk, decide to talk, 

    you’re dri­ving around, smok­ing those sticks,

    give some time to rethink those bricks,

    and have a fun thought in the mid­dle of the continent.


    Cheers!

  • Latin Waves

    Latin Waves was born almost 10 yrs 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 chan­nelling 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. 

  • 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.

  • Not Necessarily The Automobile

    Wel­come to the this sum­mer series on 101.5 UMFM, which focus­es on alter­na­tive trans­porta­tion in Win­nipeg. We will cov­er var­i­ous sub­jects includ­ing: pub­lic and active trans­porta­tion, health care, cli­mate change, fem­i­nism, and how our city can change from being car cen­tric. Hope you enjoy.

    We appre­ci­ate your feed­back, sug­ges­tions and ideas. our email address is notnecessarilytheautomobile@​gmail.​com

  • One Great History

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

  • 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.”

  • Rabble Radio

    rab­ble radio is a week­ly pod­cast and radio pro­gram that tunes in on the issues and actions that mat­ter to you. 

    It is the flag­ship pod­cast of rab​ble​.ca, an award-win­ning, inde­pen­dent, com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven media. Among the first dig­i­tal jour­nal­ism orga­ni­za­tions in Cana­da, and the first to incor­po­rate as non-prof­it, rab​ble​.ca has been at the fore­front of report­ing on nation­al pol­i­tics with a pro­gres­sive lens that cen­tres issues of social move­ments, of labour, and of grass­roots activism.

    We began as a vision of jour­nal­ists, writ­ers, artists, activists and tech lead­ers across the coun­try. They saw, first hand, the need for broad­er report­ing on sto­ries from civ­il soci­ety. In the ear­ly days, before big tech explod­ed on the media scene, we pio­neered the place of tech­nol­o­gy in jour­nal­ism – from our pod­cast net­work (ahead of iTunes!), to our ear­ly explo­rations of the use of live video to, for exam­ple, stream activism live from the streets across the country.

    Over the years rab­ble has brought labour jour­nal­ism back to Cana­da, intro­duced a par­lia­men­tary reporter to pro­gres­sive, non prof­it media and pro­vid­ed train­ing to gen­er­a­tions of jour­nal­ists through intern­ships and fellowships.

    If you like what you hear, remem­ber we here at rab​ble​.ca cov­er and pro­duce a lot more time­ly news, com­men­tary and even events online. You can find it all at rab​ble​.ca.