Toban Talks

On this week’s episode we spoke with UMFA pres­i­dent Janet Mor­rill (1:06), to briefly talk about the protest held on Feb­ru­ary 6 in regards to the selec­tion process for find­ing U of M’s next pres­i­dent. Fac­ul­ty of edu­ca­tion stu­dent Kristin Flat­tery, who is run­ning unop­posed to be a stu­dent rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the fac­ul­ty, spoke with us (4:46) and how she hopes to bring more Indige­nous issues into the spot­light. Final­ly, we spoke with U of M admin­is­tra­tor Bar­ry Lavallee (13:29), who is set to resign on Feb­ru­ary 18, due to his con­cern that there is a lack of response from uni­ver­si­ty admin­is­tra­tion on issues of anti-Indige­nous racism.

On this week’s episode we spoke with third-year nurs­ing stu­dent Riv­er Steele Guil­las (1:01), who is set to be edi­tor-in-chief for the 2019 – 20 edi­tion of the Pro­ceed­ings of Manitoba’s Under­grad­u­ate Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Research (PMUSER) jour­nal. We had a chat assis­tant pro­fes­sor in the fac­ul­ty of arts here at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­i­to­ba, Dal­las Hunt (9:33), to talk about a chil­dren’s book he recent­ly released titled Awâ­sis and the World-Famous Bannock. Final­ly, local Man­i­to­ba band The Mid­dle Coast gave their thoughts (17:24) as they set to do their farewell show on Feb­ru­ary 2nd, as well as drop their final EP, as they plan to dis­band and pur­sue their solo projects.

This week’s episode is fea­tur­ing more art than usu­al! We spoke with three indi­vid­u­als. At (1:07) we spoke with Erwin Hueb­n­er, artist-in-res­i­dence at the U of M school of art and recent­ly-retired biol­o­gy pro­fes­sor. He spoke about the recent open­ing of his art exhi­bi­tion titled, Outside the Boundaries: Explor­ing the Natur­al World Through Artist Books. New­ly appoint­ed dean of the Desau­tels fac­ul­ty of music Edward Jurkows­ki sat down for a quick chat with us (9:10) to talk about what brought him here and what he hopes to bring to the fac­ul­ty. Final­ly, we talked to Chris John­son (19:20), pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus and co-founder of the Black Hole The­atre Com­pa­ny. He is the direc­tor for their adap­tion of Hen­rik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, which is set to be per­formed at the 19th Roy­al Man­i­to­ba The­atre Com­pa­ny’s Mas­ter Play­wright Festival.

The first episode of the new year! In this week’s episode we cov­er the protest on Jan­u­ary 9 at the Portage and Main inter­sec­tion as an act of sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Wet’suwet’en land pro­tec­tors in British Colum­bia (1:31). We spoke with Mus­lim Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion exter­nal exec­u­tive Mohamed Sous­si in regards to UMSU exec­u­tives, includ­ing UMSU pres­i­dent Jakob Sander­son, lob­by­ing mem­bers of Par­lia­ment in ear­ly Decem­ber along with the Under­grad­u­ates of Cana­di­an Research-Inten­sive Uni­ver­si­ties (UCRU) on sev­er­al pri­or­i­ties, one of which, was to elim­i­nate the fed­er­al tuition tax cred­it (4:41). Uni­ver­si­ty of Win­nipeg asso­ciate pro­fes­sor Julie Nagam’s solo exhib­it, locat­ing the lit­tle heart­beats, is cur­rent­ly on dis­play at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03 until Feb. 16, and we spoke with Julie to dis­cuss the exhib­it, includ­ing the inspi­ra­tion behind the dis­play and what it means to her (14:47). Final­ly, we spoke with U of M stu­dent Michelle Wuzinis­ki to dis­cuss her award-win­ning paper titled ​“Devel­op­ing a Geno­typ­ing Scheme for Myobac­teri­um abces­sus Com­plex Using Whole Genome Sequenc­ing Data.” (23:00).

This week’s episode is a light edi­tion with three sto­ries. Our first sto­ry is an inter­view with Win­nipeg-born Juno-nom­i­nat­ed musi­cian Don Amero, who is cur­rent­ly on his ​“Amero Lit­tle Christ­mas” tour which ends in Win­nipeg. We also cov­er the exhi­bi­tion titled ​“For­est Encoun­ters” that is cur­rent­ly on dis­play at the School of Art Gallery. Final­ly, we spoke quick­ly with fifth-year play­er on Bisons men’s vol­ley­ball team Dustin Spir­ing to talk about his career. We cap off the show with ​“Cheers” fea­tur­ing Q‑Tip off of Ander­son .Paak’s lat­est album, ​“Oxnard”.

This week’s episode fea­tures four sto­ries. Our first sto­ry cov­ers the motion recent­ly passed by the Cana­di­an Fed­er­a­tion of Stu­dents which sup­ports the Pales­tin­ian-led BDS move­ment; the motion was vot­ed against by UMSU. Our sec­ond sto­ry is about the state­ment that was released by UMISA about what they believe are ignored calls for bet­ter engage­ment and sup­port with Indige­nous stu­dents. Our third sto­ry high­lights the sixth annu­al Indige­nous health sym­po­sium that was host­ed at the U of M Ban­natyne cam­pus on Nov. 21 and 22. Final­ly, our fourth and last sto­ry is an inter­view with the edi­tors of the 27th edi­tion of Ware­house Jour­nal, a pub­li­ca­tion by the fac­ul­ty of archi­tec­ture here at the U of M. 

On this week’s episode we have two sto­ries. Our first sto­ry is about a recent poster cam­paign led by mem­bers of the School of Fine Arts Stu­dents Asso­ci­a­tion (SOFA), we spoke with SOFA co-pres­i­dent Annie Beach and U of M Indige­nous Stu­dents Asso­ci­a­tion (UMISA) rep Kristin Flat­tery, as well as U of M secu­ri­ty ser­vices direc­tor Rick Jansen. Our sec­ond sto­ry is about U of M alum­nus Kris­ten Wach­ni­ak, grad­u­ate from the Desau­tels fac­ul­ty of music, who talked about her work and what she has been up to since graduating.

On today’s episode for our first sto­ry we have three inter­views: one with Indige­nous stu­dent coor­di­na­tor for the nurs­ing stu­den­t’s asso­ci­a­tion Riv­er Steele Guil­las, one with head of the depart­ment of native stud­ies Cary Miller, and one with UMSU pres­i­dent Jakob Sander­son. All inter­views were in response to the posters dis­cov­ered bear­ing the phrase, ​“It’s OK to be White”. Our sec­ond sto­ry cov­ers the cur­rent pod­cast avail­able through UMFM titled ​“Mino­gondaa­gan: the Good Voice”. A pod­cast about rec­on­cil­i­a­tion, we talked to Elis­sa Black Wolf Kix­en, exec­u­tive pro­duc­er of the pod­cast, and Sasha Mark, asso­ciate pro­duc­er. Our third sto­ry is in regards to the recent astron­o­my open house host­ed at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­i­to­ba on Oct. 31 by staff from the astron­o­my depart­ment and the Win­nipeg chap­ter of the Roy­al Astro­nom­i­cal Soci­ety of Cana­da. We spoke to Danielle Pahud, an instruc­tor in the U of M’s physics and astron­o­my depart­ment and is in charge of the Lock­hart plan­e­tar­i­um, and Bryan Stach, vice-pres­i­dent of the Win­nipeg chap­ter of the Roy­al Astro­nom­i­cal Soci­ety of Cana­da. We close the show with a quick chat with Nahlah Ayed, to talk about how she end­ed up in a career of jour­nal­ism and becom­ing an inter­na­tion­al correspondent.

In this week's episode we spoke with Niigaan Sinclair, a professor in the native studies department here at the University of Manitoba in regards to a recent lecture hosted by the extended education division on the topic of social justice in education. Milena Pirnat, chair of the education committee of the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Hemophilia Society and a University of Manitoba graduate, discussed her work in the field of hemophilia research and support. She also talked about her online support group, Hemophiliac Mother. Finally, we spoke with head coach of the Bison's football team, Brian Dobie, to give his thoughts post-game after a tough 38-34 OT loss against the UBC Thunderbirds. We close the show with a new track from Royal Canoe titled, "Peep This". It is off their new album, Waver, set for release on January 25, 2019.