My guest today is musician and road warrior Rory Taillon. Rory is on the tail end of his current Atlantic Canada tour before heading back home to Ontario. He joins me to play a few songs and chat about finding inspiration, looking backward and looking forward.

Rory Taillon is playing at The Abbey Café and Gallery tonight (May 28, 2025) at 7pm.

Moving can be difficult, especially for those experiencing domestic abuse. There are people who can help.

My guest today is Michelle Tupy, the Chapter Director of Shelter Movers New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. They are extending their operations into the Fredericton area, and Michelle joins me to talk about the work that the organization does, the need for the assistance, and how they go about helping someone.

No matter how you look at it, youth are going to be living with the consequences of politics far longer than anyone older.

My guest today is Amanda Munday, the Executive Director of New Majority. Their mission is to “activate young and first-time voters, ensuring [their] voice is heard where it counts”. They recently came to UNB campus to encourage youth to be involved in voting for the federal election, and she joins me to talk about their goals, scope of activities and encouraging people across the country.

The federal election is happening on April 28, but there are opportunities to vote on campus or in other places in advance of the election day. Additional information is available at Elections Canada.

The students all gather with professor Mark Tunney for a live show send-off, both for their own individual efforts and for the their retiring teacher.

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Josh Bravener, frontman of the Fredericton staple The Hypochondriacs, stopped by CHSR on April 5, 2025 for a chat about the band’s upcoming shows, highlights from the past couple of years, and what’s on the horizon for 2025.

The nature of artists is often change, growth and experimentation.

My guests today are John Heinstein and Peter Hicks, core members of the band Sleepy Driver (among other projects). They join me to talk about exploring new directions with the band, including many of the changes it has already had over its 20 year history, and the many friends they have a chance to work with.

A new album from Sleepy Driver should be in the works over the next year, and singles are being released in the mean time. You can catch them at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre with several of their friends for a concert on April 12.

My guest today was Tara Pyfrom, author of memoir The Ocean in Our Blood. Tara joined me today to give insight into the category 5 hurricane that hit The Bahamas in 2019, Hurricane Dorian. During our interview Tara discusses her experience with environmental immigration, PTSD, her and her family’s mental health journeys and the effects of climate change in areas of the world like The Bahamas.

If you would like to learn more about Tara’s story, The Ocean in Our Blood will be released July 2025, but is also currently available for preorder on her website.

Some things are universal throughout time, like political aspirations and those who prey on them.

For the last play of the season, Theatre UNB is staging a production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. Joining me is John Ball (director; professor & acting Chair of the Department of English at UNB), Shannon Munn (actor: “Mrs. Cheveley”) and James Gwathmey (actor: “Sir Robert Chiltern”). We talk about this lesser-known political dramedy of Oscar Wilde’s body of work, the delights and challenges in playing political characters, and the relevancy of a play published over a century ago.

Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband will be staged from April 3 through the 6th at 7:30pm nightly at Memorial Hall on campus.

Hosts Fernanda Sanchez and Caleb Desjardins look at the upcoming federal election through the lens of young people suffering from information and disinformation overload.

Sometimes, it takes beautifully-made art to show us the terrible things we might not know.

My guest today is Greg Davies, a painter, art historian, educator and administrator. His collection Chronos is part of the 2025 UNB Art Centre World Water Day showing, running from March 7 to May 2. He joins me to talk about how he came to paint portraits of extinct and perishing animals, the intent and emotion behind the project, and the choice of style to convey the point.

Chronos by Greg Davies is featured alongside works by Noah Poirier and Kyle Goguen in the World Water Day exhibition which opens on March 7 and runs to May 2 at the UNB Art Centre’s galleries in the Memorial Hall building on UNB campus.