Earvin Venzant is my brother in law. He’s a black American in Canada. And Earvin has some things to get off his chest about the recent election of Donald Trump as America’s next President.
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Lindsay Dunn is the lead anchor for the new Global News Durham. She’s also a huge basketball fan who grew up in the middle of hockeytown.
Today’s episode is a special Remembrance Day Special.
Major Adam Saunders is with the Royal Regiment of Canada.
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Jim Creeggan is 1/4 of the Canadian pop-rock band, Barenaked Ladies.
In this episode we talk about:
– his friendship with Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip
– the influence The Hip has had on him and Barenaked Ladies
– How Jim started in music and ended up with BNL
– How Jim almost quit BNL
– Why Steven Page left the band
– Jim’s favourite BNL song and album
– Jim’s new project with his wife called, The Together Project
– Listener questions and so much more!
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Two Left Feet is an acoustic guitar duo featuring Neil Haden and Mark Caruana. During their appearance they played:
Thank You – Led Zeppelin
I’ve Just Seen A Face – The Beatles
My Life – Billy Joel
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
Neil Haden is founder of the Uncle Neil and Friends Toy Drive. Mark Caruana is a high school teacher in Toronto.
Neil shared stories about meeting Jeff Healey and Rik Emmett and his wildly popular annual Toy Drive.
Mark shared stories about repairing guitars for RUSH and his one of a kind phonograph collection.
Join Neil and Mark on December 11th at The Birchmount in Toronto.
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Produced by James Khan and Adam Deacon.
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Trained at Toronto’s legendary Second City, Ron was named one of the “Top 10 Creative Canadians” by Marketing Magazine. His work has been recognized by organizations from The London International Advertising Awards to The Advertising & Design Club of Canada.
He is founder and CEO of The Tite Group and Executive Producer & Host of the Canadian Comedy Award-winning show Monkey Toast. He has written for a number of other television series, penned a children’s book, and wrote, performed, and produced the play, The Canadian Baby Bonus.
His new book, Everyone’s An Artist (Or At Least They Should Be), was recently published.
Oh, he’s also a big Blue Jays fan just like me!
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Today, I welcome Canadian broadcaster and author, Nora Young into the Girth Radio studios.
Nora was the founding host and producer of CBC’s award winning show, DNTO, is the founding host and co-producer of Spark and has authored a book called, The Virtual Self. She also hosts the indie podcast, The Sniffer: a podcast about trends in technology.
In today’s episode we discuss:
– Twitter
– Why Nora doesn’t blog anymore
– Why Nora is thankful Twitter was not around when she started hosting DNTO
– Tracking apps
– VR/AR
– Listener question
– What technology has both changed and not changed since it was invented
– And socks!
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Desmond Cole is an award-winning journalist and activist. A former staff writer at Torontoist, his work has also appeared in The Walrus, Toronto Life, VICE, NOW Magazine, and Ethnic Aisle.
Cole’s work focuses primarily on social justice, equity, immigration, systemic racism, and poverty.
Cole currently writes for the Toronto Star and can also be heard on Toronto’s CFRB 1010.
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Today I speak with the award winning journalist, 2012 Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal recipient and Weekend News Anchor for Global News, Angie Seth.
In today’s episode we talk about her early work with OMNI Television, working at CBC Radio, running the Boston marathon, her biggest news stories, and why her Twitter handle is @kateygoalie.
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Today we chat with Global News News Director, Mackay Taggart. First up, he claims to not be related to former Our Lady Peace drummer, Jeremy Taggart. We discussed the Obama inauguration in 2008; the rise of Donald Trump, Newsroom, Canadaland, and the sex symbol that is Justin Trudeau.
Here’s my conversation with Mackay Taggart.
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