Viewpoints

The Cercle de Molière Theatre is celebrating a century of Francophone theatre in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. The Queens County Transit system becomes the leader in rural rides in Nova Scotia. Ridership… up by 30%. Layoffs at GM’s Oshawa plant have the Ontario NDP demanding to know what the government is going to do to help workers and their families. Mi’kmaq commercial fisheries look for new markets for their seal oil for humans and pets. Calgary’s BMO Centre reveals the newest painting by artist Keegan Starlight. And to close the show, we’ll go back to the Red Dress Day held on May 5th across the country. This, to remember the thousands of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People that were lost over the years. 

Thanks to our LJI journalists, Jesse Wentzloff, Rick Conrad, Ryan Funk, Tonya Organ, Dan Jones and William Balliko. Our National Editors are Victoria Fenner and Conrad Fox. Host and producer Boris Chassagne. Viewpoints is brought to you by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. 

As the dust settles after the federal election, we’ll take a look at what happened across the country. We’ll turn to BC, Ontario, Québec, and the Maritimes. Cape Breton’s Incumbent Liberal MP’s are going back to Ottawa. Liberal Fancy-Landry unseats Conservative Perkins in South Shore-St. Margarets, in Nova Scotia. In Ontario, Conservative Philip Lawrence secures a third term in the Northumberland-Clarke federal election. Then to the Pontiac region of Québec, where Sophie Chatel wins a second mandate. In British Columbia, Conservative Ellis Ross was elected in the Skeena—Bulkley Valley after 20 years of NDP rule. This election was not kind to small parties. To the NDP and Green Party in particular. So why do some candidates even bother when they know their chances are so low? Bad blood between the US and Canada has been hovering over the federal election. A growing number of Canadians are fed up with the US, selling their US properties & boycotting travel south of the border. Some are calling it The Exodus. 

A big thank you to our journalists this week: Mia Johnson, Dan Jones, Elisabeth Oakley, Rick Conrad, Caleb Nickerson, and Bill McCuish. Our National Editors are Conrad Fox and Victoria Fenner. Viewpoints is produced by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. Host and producer, Boris Chassagne. 

Grief in three dimensions–Canadian composer and playwright Britta Johnson talks about Life After, the musical that grew up with her. Syrup for Soldiers. A father and son duo turn their Maple sweet success into a Haliburton County charity. And we’ll travel just next door, well some 250 km away, and full steam ahead to the Elliott Tree Farm to get a taste of its version of the maple gold. 

Our journalists this week: Mia Johnson, Elizabeth Oakley and Riley Gillespie-Wilson. Our National Editors are Conrad Fox and Victoria Fenner. Viewpoints is produced by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. Host and producer, Boris Chassagne. 

In Winnipeg, Manitoba, a workshop explores how theatre can be used to build leadership skills. The Award-winning Poetry Walk returns to Courtenay, British Columbia, with a new interactive twist. Liverpool’s Astor Theatre gets a “life-changing” donation from the J&W Murphy Foundation. And Chris Donovan’s upcoming book, The Cloud Factory, explores Saint John’s, New Brunswick’s, industry and community. 

Our journalists this week: Mia Johnson, Ryan Funk, Heather Watson, Rick Conrad and Iona Coe. Host and producer Boris Chassagne. Our National Editors are Victoria Fenner and Conrad Fox. Viewpoints is produced by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. 

A Minden, Ontario, local eatery’s “Friday Favourite” fish & chips, will soon be featured in an international cookbook! Winnipeg’s new Green spaces Plan puts Indigenous knowledge at the forefront. The new policy aims to conserve and expand green spaces by 1,000 acres. Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds hopes that the Cobourg Council Committee will rename the Pond Arena, in honour of Grace Bowen, a child who lost her life to cancer ten years ago. A recently launched publishing press in New Westminster wants to do things differently. And the city of Kitchener, Ontario, is named as “Tree City of the World.”

Our journalists this week are Ryan Funk, Ian Jones, Elizabeth Oakley, Danny Nesvederani and Dan Kellar. Remember to get all our stirs on FrequencyNews.ca. Our National Editors are Victoria Fenner and Conrad Fox. Host and producer Boris Chassagne. Viewpoints is produced by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. 

Quebec’s expanding religious symbol ban sparks discussions about secularism. To Nova Scotia, where a Bookmobile delivers books, but also, a “sense of community” along Liverpool’s South Shore. In New Brunswick, a local historian publishes 1000 page-long book on the Canadian First World War cap badges! In Cobourg, Ontario, the Nightstop program is looking for volunteers willing to share their homes with homeless youth. And one person can make a big difference in the lives of many others. Oleh Dehtiarov’s Iron Man run is fuelling a bigger fight for Ukraine. 

Our journalists this week: Rick Conrad, Adam Inniss, Ryan Funk, Dan Jones and Aidan Keenan. Our National Editors are Victoria Fenner and Conrad Fox. Viewpoints is produced by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. Host and producer, Boris Chassagne. 

We’ll make our first stop in Montreal, Québec, as a record rent increase could soon become a reality. This as Quebec’s Tenancy Board permits record rent hikes. Tenants prepare for the worst. Then to Haliburton County, Ontario, where Intimate Partner Violence is considered to be an Epidemic. Out east in Nova Scotia: He left Burma in 1967 and retired four times. Dr. Mohan Virick, now 89 years old, lives in Cape Breton. He’ll soon receive the King Charles the third III Coronation Medal. In British Columbia: The Prince George Christmas Bird Count had its eyes on 19,641 avians. And a new 200-foot-long Indigenous mural is revealed at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg in hope of inspiring dialogue and reflection. 

Thanks to our journalists, Ryan Funk, Elizabeth Oakley, Bill McCuish, Adam Inniss and Ian Gregg. To our National Editors, Victoria Fenner and Conrad Fox. Viewpoints is brought to you by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. Host and producer, Boris Chassagne.

We’ll spend most of our time strolling down the streets of Montreal’s Little Burgundy Borough, in the company of British photographer Andrew Jackson. And to the other end of the country: American flags are still flying high in the streets of Smithers BC leaving some residents feeling uneasy. They could soon come down. 

A big thank you to both our journalists this week, Jules Bugiel and Pamela Haasen. Our National Editors are Victoria Fenner and Conrad Fox. Viewpoints is produced by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. I’m your host and producer, Boris Chassagne. 

We remember the work and contributions of Montreal Standard Time’s journalist and Canadian author, Mavis Gallant. Therapists can come in all shapes or forms. A four-legged horse at Minden’s Walkabout Farm changes lives in the community. Sixteen zero-emission buses have been purchased as part of Winnipeg’s Transition Fleet Project. Last October’s atmospheric river poured on to BC, but had a positive effect : record salmon counts are observed in West Vancouver. We’ll learn why!
And, it’s Canadian Agriculture Literacy Month, we’ll go to Fergus, Ontario where students get to learn more about farming. 

Our journalists this week are Jules Bugiel, Elizabeth Oakley, Ryan Funk, Danny Nesvaderani, and Riley Gillespy-Wilson. Our National editors are Conrad Fox and Victoria Fenner. Viewpoints is produced by the Community radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. Host and producer Boris Chassagne.

Six Nations and First Nations from across Ontario have approved a $8.5 billion Ontario Child and Family Services Reform Agreement. Sackville resident Emilie McBride has been fighting for the right to build a small rectangular shaped home. And she won her case! Third Annual Cape Breton Music Industry Hall of Fame inductees announced. And a rare railway horn was stolen from the Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum. A piece of history forever lost. 

Thanks to our journalists, Erica Butler, Andrew Dow, Ian Gregg and Jacob Postlewaite. Our National Editors are Victoria Fenner and Conrad Fox. Viewpoints is brought to you by the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. Host and producer Boris Chassagne.