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The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio)

s1.e5.GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – FISHERIES & FISH TALES The life, death, and rebirth of the world class fisheries of the Great Lakes – and the myths, tales, and yarns that go with them.

The celebrated novelist and writer, Ernest Hemingway, was well known to be an avid fisherman. Expert guide Johnny Giuliani relates a Hemingway story of his own on fishing in the hallowed St. Mary’s Rapids. John Hartig of the the Great Lakes Institute gives a remarkable short history on fisheries in the Detroit area. We get a candid inside view on pro angling from competitive fisherman Adam Vallee. And Manitoulin Island native Crystal Shawanda, the award winning blues singer based in Nashville, dishes on the power of the Lake Huron waters that comes through in her music. Also, songs from Harry Manx and Julian Taylor.

s1.e5. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music & Art Credits

Three Fishes Photo Credit – Adriano

Title – Big Five Water
Artist/Composer – Ray Bonneville

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist/Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Mosaic Fish
Album – Mosaic Fish
Composer/Artist – John Bottomley/Tulpa

Title – Bend In The Water
Album – Beautiful – A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot
Artist – Harry Manx * Composer – Gordon Lightfoot

Title – Take What You Need
Album – Avalanche
Artist – Julian Taylor Band

Title – Scenic Jazz Medley
Artist – Doug Wilde

Title – Fish Out of Water
Album – Fish Out of Water
Artist/Composer – Crystal Shawanda

Title – The Whole World’s Got The Blues
Album – The Whole World’s Got The Blues
Artist/Composer – Crystal Shawanda

Title – On A Beach Somewhere
Album – Fish Out Of Water
Artist/Composer – Crystal Shawanda

Title – Ancestor
Album – Fish Out Of Water
Artist – Crystal Shawanda

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

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Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:19 May 2025 .

The Speak Easy Podcast evokes the spirit of fearless conversation and honest debate. Like the hidden bars of the Prohibition era, this podcast creates a space for unfiltered political discourse – where ideas flow freely, perspectives clash respectfully, and nothing is off the table. With co-hosts Robert Peace and Josh Vierimaa offering both seasoned insight and fresh perspective, The Speak Easy invites listeners into a conversation that is as bold as it is accessible.

Episode 5 05/25 – The Ring Of Fire : Whose Land, Whose Rules?

The “Ring of Fire” is in northern Ontario, a vast mineral-rich region known for containing significant deposits of various minerals, with several First Nations under treaty surrounding these resources. The Speak Easy invites former Batchawana FN Chief Dean Sayers to comment on the uneasy negotiations with federal and provincial governments, as the tension and controversy escalates.

Robert Peace is a longtime political strategist, media producer, and community advocate based in Sault Ste. Marie. With decades of experience advising leaders, running campaigns, and building grassroots initiatives, he brings sharp insights and a deep understanding of politics at every level.

Josh Vierimaa is an 18-year-old political consultant and rising voice in Canadian conservatism. As a strategist for both provincial and federal Conservative campaigns in Sault Ste. Marie, founder of the Conservative Youth at Algoma University and President of the Students’ Union, Josh brings sharp political instincts, a deep love of history, and a fresh generational perspective to The Speak Easy podcast.

Date:19 May 2025 .

MUSICOLOGY with dj Danny Mott

Musicology is a form of music analysis that emphasizes culture, sociology, and music history. When musicologists study music, they go beyond the notes on a page. Among other things, they track the history of music, the evolution of musical instruments, cultural contexts of various genres, and performance practices associated with certain types of musical ensembles.

MUSICOLOGY is powered by Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

About Your Host

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott

Date:18 May 2025 .

Casper Skulls is a successful Canadian band right in our backyard in Sudbury. The band is fronted by the beautiful lilting voice of Melanie St. Pierre. Melanie is also the Music Sector Development Officer for Cultural Industries Ontario North (CION). She helps musicians and bands of Northern Ontario with any and all things like touring, recording, grants, and more. Now ready to enter a new phase in her life she talks about maneuvering the music biz without going crazy.

Tommy
Thesis
King of Gold
Primeval
Ouija
Witness
Knows No Kindness
Monument
Mouth
Yards
Stay the Same

“When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape…the bones bend.”

Date:17 May 2025 .

Things like learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, decision-making – and a thumb – are what separates the human from the rest of living things. Computer science has created machine beings that are now performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. The ladies are up for more knowledge on this new world happening before our eyes and ears, and debate the morality of artificial intelligence.

Date:16 May 2025 .

John Hewitt is a force not seen since the end of the 70’s. There are bands, artists and songwriters that mimic and imitate but John Hewitt absorbs and reimagines. From folk clubs to house concerts, festivals to halls John is a master of storytelling, arranging, producing and a painter of poems scarcely seen in today’s musical climate. Since his early teens taking in the powerful sounds of the Beatles, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and the Grateful Dead he has been wandering, searching and yielding a crop of new ideas from the old world. A multi-instrumentalist from Sault Ste. Marie Ontario and being Alberta bound since 2018 John’s mark on the Western music scene is impossible to go unnoticed. Performing over 150 shows per year (From Alberta and British Columbia to Montana, Colorado, California and beyond), covering 20,000 miles per annum and releasing upwards of 3 albums in that same timeframe there is no comparison to the work ethic, the attitude and the drive that John has as an artist. Fronting the New Americans and touring solo most of the year his output impresses the young and the old, the folk and the rock, the country and the town and the only thing left at the end of the night is a feeling you won’t get anywhere else.

John Hewitt is a master, a choreographer of sound, a man of many hats all worn with style with a dream bigger than the world around him.

Running time: 54 minutes.

Date:14 May 2025 .

S2.E8: EDUCATION SYSTEM

Be it formal, informal or non-formal, the education of every individual is a process that never ends. Maria, with Fidgal, have concerns that the system is failing and needs to change, certainly in the way that it relates to the spiritual side. If change is to happen questions need to be asked?

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST – Maria Iuliano with Fidgal

Maria guides a successful business called Fidgal, named after Maria’s guardian angel. They met when Maria was 5 years old.

Maria is a Peace Therapist, graduated with Honours in Peace and Conflict Studies from Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology. With this knowledge, along with her expertise in the afterlife and her ability to see auras, Maria helps others find and create peace in their lives.

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“Every day is an education.”

Date:13 May 2025 .

The Speak Easy Podcast evokes the spirit of fearless conversation and honest debate. Like the hidden bars of the Prohibition era, this podcast creates a space for unfiltered political discourse – where ideas flow freely, perspectives clash respectfully, and nothing is off the table. With co-hosts Robert Peace and Josh Vierimaa offering both seasoned insight and fresh perspective, The Speak Easy invites listeners into a conversation that is as bold as it is accessible.

Episode 4 05/25 – The SSM Police Question

The Corporation of the City of Sault Ste. Marie is investigating the possibility of major changes to the way the community is policed. On the news of a significant budget overage report, The Speak Easy calls on retired police officer and current City Councillor, Sonny Spina, to provide answers and insight.

Robert Peace is a longtime political strategist, media producer, and community advocate based in Sault Ste. Marie. With decades of experience advising leaders, running campaigns, and building grassroots initiatives, he brings sharp insights and a deep understanding of politics at every level.

Josh Vierimaa is an 18-year-old political consultant and rising voice in Canadian conservatism. As a strategist for both provincial and federal Conservative campaigns in Sault Ste. Marie, founder of the Conservative Youth at Algoma University and President of the Students’ Union, Josh brings sharp political instincts, a deep love of history, and a fresh generational perspective to The Speak Easy podcast.

Date:13 May 2025 .

Lisa Deresti Betik has been a storyteller since she was small. She used to spin wild tales about invisible, blanket-eating alligators in her room, and she once convinced everyone that the Tooth Fairy had made her fall out of bed. Today she writes fun, fascinating nonfiction books for children. She is the author of Think Like a Goat: The Wildly Smart Ways Animals Communicate, Cooperate and Innovate (Kids Can Press, 2023) and In the Dark: The Science of What Happens at Night (Kids Can Press, 2020).

Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Lisa grew up surrounded by majestic lakes and forests that encouraged her curiosity. She is a graduate of the Concurrent Teacher Education program at Queen’s University, and she loves helping young people learn more about our amazing world. Lisa now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with her family, where she keeps a Little Free Library on their front lawn.

 “The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”

Date:13 May 2025 .

As pop culture races through time, its influence on each generation impacts language and expression that frequently differs from past generations, hence the gap. This often results in communication hijinks where meanings are misconstrued. Or value systems that have changed over time, may fuel awkward situations between age groups. The ladies of Gen X invite a Gen Z guest to cross the gap bridge together.

Date:9 May 2025 .