Radio Free Edville

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Missy unpacks Bill 666, An Act for the Enforcement of Domestic Tranquility; Edna toasts the Gazette’s ground-breaking coverage of oversized vegetables; Roy lampoons self-censorship at the Associated Press; Dick offers Ben Affleck a lime-green RFE toque; Bertie frets about BC’s worm shortage; Hugo traces a hamster’s recycling odyssey; Hugo ponders Elon Musk’s call for lawlessness on Mars; Heddi muses about meat in the German diet; Sara reports on French parents catapulting their kids into school yards; and an extinct African chameleon is discovered to be in witness protection.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna celebrates the balmy summer weather; Dick skewers light pollution; Edna frets about Toronto’s sad unpainted candy canes; the editorial board ponders bloater fish in Lake Ontario; Roy airs his dirty laundry on music royalties; Ottawa flounders in the face of the Nova Scotia lobster dispute; Parks Canada promotes caribou sexy time; Marcus Gee waxes sentimental about grosbeaks; P.J. cheers the robust health of democracy in the U.S.; and Hugo ponders a big iron space potato.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna ponders the world news shortage; Dick filets Bob McDonald on Halloween spending; Edna proposes the introduction of Edville Standard Time; Dick instructs children on how to bamboozle their parents into giving them more screen time; Janelle reports on the salmon migration crisis in Port Hope and Europe; P.J. analyzes the crucial Malarkey swing vote in the U.S.; Hugo wonders why the moon is so blue; Roy despairs at Merriam sanctioning the word irregardless; and Heddi reports on trains resting on whales in Europe.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Missy reports on entomologists, murder hornets and killer bees; Edna ponders the blight of abandoned trailers; Dick challenges the removal of parking privileges for veterans; rowdy Port Hope seniors protest in the streets; Cobourg considers becoming a wrestling Mecca; Canada undertakes secret talks to annex Cuba; Abigail probes pineapple scents for the ladies; Hugo discusses NASA’s mission to the asteroid Bennu; and Sara exposes gluten-shaming in the UK.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Missy reports on the mysteries of heavier-than-air flight; Edna ponders Prince Edward County’s gift for self-promotion; Dick advocates for an Edville coat of arms; statues of Canadian prime ministers are repurposed as anti-bear weapons; Tim Hortons takes the UK by storm; the moon gets overpriced cellular service; IKEA’s buy-back program boosts couples’ therapy; Hugo wonders why the Artemis Space Accords are losing thrust; and Heddi ponders the crack epidemic in Brazil.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Dr. Tam offers her best Halloween advice; Edna instructs city folk on closing up their cottages; Dick asks why Canadians drive SUVs; Colborne is rocked by a conspiracy theory; Canadian border agents crack down on lettuce; Sara wonders about making ATVs street legal; Italians cock up barriers for flood control and tourist traffic in Venice; Bavarian postal workers make an embarrassing discovery; a new international space race targets the moon; and Hugo worries about bad omens sealed in ancient sarcophagi.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna wonders whether pandemic rules scapegoat strippers; Dr. Tam offers her best Thanksgiving advice; Dick suggests “Have Great Sex in Edville” as a new town motto; Brighton town council ponders an outdoor skating rink; the HKPR District Health Unit confronts frothy dogs and humans; Heddi explores the mental-health risks for parents of home schooling; the international MOSAiC Arctic expedition confronts charges of sexism; blue lobsters explain why everyone loves Canadians; a Russian cat grants wishes; Justin Bieber makes Crocs great again; and Bob Dylan sells whisky without selling out.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, a French teacher tests the limits of tolerance for demonic tattoos in the classroom; Edna unravels the mysteries of World News Day; Bertie frets about the Feral Swine Bomb; unpopular musicians are right at home in empty bars; Holly wonders why Canada is lagging in the new space race; Janelle fleshes out the great Canadian Optimum caper; Alpacas are enlisted in new soccer-based sport; Hugo gauges the impact of high-level impulse noise on WiFi in Wales; and Roy explains why fans think Rolling Stone’s new Top 500 album list is crap.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, a French teacher tests the limits of tolerance for demonic tattoos in the classroom; Edna unravels the mysteries of World News Day; Bertie frets about the Feral Swine Bomb; unpopular musicians are right at home in empty bars; Holly wonders why Canada is lagging in the new space race; Janelle fleshes out the great Canadian Optimum caper; Alpacas are enlisted in new soccer-based sport; Hugo gauges the impact of high-level impulse noise on WiFi in Wales; and Roy explains why fans think Rolling Stone’s new Top 500 album list is crap.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Belleville officials crack down on painted rocks; Edna wonders why a big Canadian diamond has everyone agog; Dick goes full potty humour on the question of stool transplants; Gucci brings out jeans that are pre-grass-stained; Bertie is embarrassed by Dick’s potty humour; Janelle recounts the great Canadian hot tub caper; a BC man is charged with not driving a self-driving car; Sara ponders an airborne porta-potty; Barbados calls it quits with Queen Elizabeth; and Hugo explores moon-based asteroid defence.