CKMS News -2026-07-27- Youth food markets serving fresh local produce at the neighbourhood level

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 by: dan kellar

In a press release, Grace Ihejiamaizu, the Program Manager for Youth in Food Systems wrote “This year, youth Market Leaders have also helped design different Pay What You Choose approaches for their markets, exploring how fresh, local food can be made more accessible while giving young people practical experience in leadership, teamwork and community engagement.”

The markets run every Wednesday until August 26 at Eastwood Collegiate Institute and Victoria Hills  Community Centre in Kitchener, from 4:00pm – 6:00pm, and at the Fiddlesticks Community Centre in Cambridge from 3:00pm – 5:30pm.

This show features an interview with Luma Abuarqoub, the summer Youth Program Assistant for the Youth in Food Systems program. Luma details the work of the youth, and we discuss where the program fits in larger efforts of food security, and how the hazardous air quality brought on by climate change fueled forest fires in northern Ontario have affected their operations this summer.

The YFS program, now in its 5th year, is organised by Seeds of Diversity, a Waterloo based charity focused on seed-saving and resilience in local food systems.

Synthetronic 80s plays 1980s synth-pop, dance-pop, hi-NRG, Italo-disco, and up-tempo pop/rock music. A mix of mainstream and lesser-known tracks.

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Download: Synthetronic 80s – #34 – Jul 27, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s)

Synthetronic 80s airs on CKMS-FM on Sundays at midnight and Mondays from 9am to 10am.

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What’s up, y’all? Like I always do about this time — first up, here are the submissions to the station that I have added to Libretime in the past week:

Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:

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Tracklist:

Janice Lacy – Embraced

See y’all next time!

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Aired on Friday the 24th of July, 11 AM-2 PM

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ERITREAN COMMUNITY RADIO 26 JULY 2026 SHOW,  ARTICLES ERITREAN FESTIVALS, ABOUT FINAL FIFA WORLD CUP 2026, TEN IMPORTANT POINTS TO KNOW ABOUT CANADA, INTRODUCING VILLAGES AND CITEIS FROM ASMARA TO FILFIL SOLOMUNA, AUDIENCE MESSAGES , ONTARIO WEATHER FORECAST.

MUSIC LIST AND START TIME

We have news on Fan Expo Toronto, Rogers Stadium and more! Interviews with hip hop artist John Kabongo and artist Tia McGraff.

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Playlist

Memphis Bleek Featuring Jay Z – Is That Your Chick

The Notorious BIG – I Love The Dough

Jon Kabongo – The Follow Through

The Game – All Eyez

Daz Dillinger – In California

Drake – Feel No Ways

David Banner – Like A Pimp

Drake – STFU Janice

Tia McGraff – Caterpillar Song

Super Hero Songs – Spiderman Song I Am Spiderman

DJ Khaled – I’m The One

DJ Khaled – No New Friends

Tyla – Push 2 Start

Soundgarden – Live To Rise

Drake – Nice For What

Drake – Q And A

T.I. – And Won’t

K OS – Man I Used To Be

DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince – Summertime

Rascalz – Movie Star

Drake – Headlines

Tupac – Do For Love

Didn’t have time to prepare an actual show this week, so rather than skip it I decided to live up to the show’s name and literally put (the highlights of) my library on shuffle, testing my knowledge of my own library on the fly. The results are definitely a little scuffed. But maybe charmingly so? I stand by enough of the tracks that showed up, anyway. Less so my chatter. Will hopefully be better with a slightly more curated library next time. I’d say more than half of these are tracks that I would put on an actual show.

Next tracks would’ve been Nine Inch Nails’ “Sanctified” and X’s “The World’s a Mess, It’s in My Kiss”. Those would’ve been good ones to play. Ah well.

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CKMS News -2026-07-24- Tuning into Transit: The Story Behind Cambridge’s Fife-Playing Bus Driver

Eren Yoruk

Cambridge, ON – A Cambridge bus driver is bringing a piece of history to local transit terminals through his passion for music. Tracy MacDonnell, a Grand River Transit (GRT) operator, uses his route breaks to step off the bus and play the fife, an 18th-century military instrument similar to a flute, for waiting passengers.

MacDonnell has been playing the fife for 36 years, after first learning the instrument while working at Toronto’s Historic Fort York. What started as a job requirement became a lifelong passion for traditional fife and folk music.

Over the past two decades as a GRT driver in Cambridge, MacDonnell has continued using music as a way to manage the stress of the job and connect with the public. Passengers have often responded positively, with some applauding his performances and sharing their appreciation.

In this CKMS News interview, MacDonnell discusses the history of the fife, how he became a bus driver, and why sharing a brief moment of happiness through music remains meaningful to him.

CKMS News -2026-07-23- Community town-hall discussion to guide David Alton’s mayoral run

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by: dan kellar

The first event, which took place in June was The Right to Belong, with the second in the series The Right to Housing happening Saturday July 25th at the Chandler Mowat Community Centre in Kitchener.  The other events will take place once per month in the lead up to the October election.

According to government data including the “Point in Time” count, nearly 2,400 people were experiencing homelessness in Waterloo Region, with about 78% of those folks experiencing “chronic homelessness. Provincially, the rate of homelessness increased by 25% between 2020 and 2024 and across the country according to the federal government “Over the past five years, the total population experiencing homelessness on a single night has increased by 59%”. The total number of homeless folks on any given night in Canada is over 65,000.

Candidate Alton, who was a recipient of the Region of Waterloo’s “Community educator award in housing” told CKMS News that “I see this campaign as a public education opportunity” and that each townhall will lead to calls to action and it is their intent to “Spread these calls to action and these platforms that are community built, to every candidate to try to get them as far as possible.”

This show features an interview with David Alton

Electronic Forest plays the week’s best new electronic dance, pop, trance, house, and melodic techno music.

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Download: Electronic Forest – #13- Jul 24, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s)

Electronic Forest airs on CKMS-FM on Fridays from 9am to 10am and Saturdays at midnight.

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