On The Record Podcast

On this episode of Centre Scope, we hear from the Ryersonian’s Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) beat reporter, Frank Quaranta, about the ongoing RSU elections. We dive into Tuesday’s debate, voter turnout predictions, the running slates and what to expect in the coming months.

Host/reporter:Giulia Fiaoni

Co-hosts/Reporters: Simran Singh and Meara Khanna 

Mixers: Giulia Fiaoni and Manuela Vega

Executive Producer: Manuela Vega

Centre Scope’s special edition episode explores how poverty affects certain members of the LGBTQ2S+ community. Manuela Vega hosts, with appearances from Toronto-based activist and former incarcerated person, Moka Dawkins, and researcher Alex V. Green. Dawkins shares details about her life before and after jail, considering how race, sex work and being trans have played a role in her criminalization. Green discusses her research on queer poverty, criminalization and what she calls queer anti-capitalism. Both highlight the varied realities among white cisgender queer people and Black trans people.

Host/reporter: Manuela Vega

Co-hosts/Reporters: Simran Singh and Giulia Fiaoni

Mixers: Simran Singh, Giulia Fiaoni and Manuela Vega

Executive Producer: Manuela Vega

On the fifth episode of Centre Scope, Opinion Editor Emma Buchanan takes over as a guest host, speaking with photojournalists and filmmakers about creating space for Black creatives in Toronto and beyond. Photojournalist turned producer James Russell discusses his origins as a photographer for an activist group newsletter and the importance of Black journalists in recording history. The Young & the Restless actress Tonya Williams tells the story of how her character on the show was created for her and why she founded the Reelworld Film Festival. Lastly, Diane Liverpool speaks on her experience as an eager 8-year-old journalist and the comfort of doing her placement in 1979 with Contrast, one of the first Black newspapers in Toronto. Each guest speaks on the importance of Black-told stories being recorded in what Russell simply calls “accurate history.”

Guest host/reporter: Emma Buchanan

Co-hosts/Reporters: Simran Singh and Giulia Fiaoni

Mixers: Giulia Fiaoni Manuela Vega

Executive Producer: Manuela Vega

Episode Shownotes:

Tonya Williams’ Reelworld Film Festival and Screen Institute

The Access Reelworld Directory for BIPOC creatives in Canada: 

James Russell’s MANKS Production Inc

Ears, Eyes Voice: Black Canadian photojournalists from the 1970s to the 1990s

Learn more about the legacy of Contrast Newspaper:

Cecil Foster’s personal essay 

Angles Covered Blog. “The Legacy of Contrast Newspaper” 

https://anglescovered.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-legacy-of-contrast-newspaper.html

On this episode of Centre Scope, we learn about a few trailblazers in Canada’s legal community. On behalf of the Ryerson Faculty of Law, we heard from prominent Justices like Harry LaForme, Gregory Regis and Micheal Tulloch. They paid tribute to Lincoln Alexander, Charles Roach and Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré, some of the country’s most influential figures that shaped Canada’s social, political and legal community. Simran Singh hosts.

Co-hosts/Reporters: Simran Singh and Giulia Fiaoni

Mixer: Manuela Vega

Executive Producer: Manuela Vega

In the third episode of Centre Scope, hosts Simran Singh and Manuela Vega discuss three of the past week’s big stories: Asmaa Toor’s reflection on the Quebec mosque shooting that took place four years ago, Vega’s coverage on Ryerson’s delay in updating the community on action against anti-Black racism and Singh’s look into Ryerson students’ investments following the GameStop uproar.

Co-hosts/Reporters: Manuela Vega and Simran Singh

Mixers: Giulia Fiaoni and Manuela Vega

Executive Producer: Manuela Vega

In this episode of Centre Scope, Arts & Life Editor Manus Hopkins takes over as a guest host and reporter. Hopkins speaks with three Ryerson students who are managing their finances, studies and wellbeing as essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guest host/Reporter: Manus Hopkins

Co-hosts/Reporters: Giulia Fiaoni and Simran Singh

Writers: Giulia Fiaoni, Simran Singh, Manus Hopkins, Emma Buchanan and Manuela Vega

Mixers: Simran Singh, Emma Buchanan and Manuela Vega

Executive Producer: Manuela Vega

The Ryersonian‘s Winter 2021 podcast team introduces Centre Scope, a weekly podcast for Ryerson University and the Toronto Centre. In this episode, host and reporter Giulia Fiaoni speaks with Editor-In-Chief Abhi Raheja about his plans for the paper and how he has been running it all the way from India.

Host/Reporter: Giulia Fiaoni

Co-host/Reporter: Simran Singh

Writers: Giulia Fiaoni, Simran Singh and Manuela Vega

Mixer: Manuela Vega

Executive Producer: Manuela Vega

In this eighth episode of the fall season of Blue & Gold, we explore two stories outside of those that have dominated the news cycle.First, our video executive producer Deepak Bidwai speaks with author and academic Monia Mazigh, about Islamophobia in France and around the world. Then, host Nojoud Al Mallees chats with Brad Galloway, Coordinator at the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology,  on the rise in far-right extremism in the United States.Blue and Gold is a weekly podcast from the Ryersonian profiling each week’s top stories; created, hosted and produced by Jasmine Rach, Nojoud Al Mallees, Sidra Jafri and Alex Cyr.

The seventh episode of the fall season of Blue & Gold takes a dive into the world of varsity sports here at Ryerson. This fall, both the Ontario University Athletics conference and national sports governing body U SPORTS announced that all athletic events under their umbrella would be suspended until 2021. This week, our host Alex Cyr chats with Ryersonian sports editor Daniel Centeno about the stories he covered despite the cancellation of all varsity sports contests. Then we hear from Kaitlyn Wilson, a fifth year figure skater and OUA All-star who is learning to practice her sport in the absence of facilities. And finally, Ryersonian reporter Coby Zucker tells us about E-sports: the fastest growing – yet most misunderstood – sport offered at Ryerson. Blue and Gold is a weekly podcast from the Ryersonian profiling each week’s top stories; created, hosted and produced by Jasmine Rach, Nojoud Al Mallees, Sidra Jafri and Alex Cyr.