CJMP Podcast : CJMPNews

Snow! And interviews with Shawn Cator, operational manager for the city of Powell River, Caitlin Bryant of Expose Yourself and Chris McDonough of Villa Soccer.

We also feature "silver linings" on this "Positive Friday"

For this episode, we’re going to focus on one person in this community who has been a leader for many.

She received an honourary doctorate from Vancouver Island University in 2010. Received a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Historical Association. The book Written as I remember It: Teachings from a Sliammon Elder, published in 2014, won several awards. We are of course talking about Dr. Elsie Paul of the Tla’amin Nation.

Here she is speaking to Drewen Young in the 2015 on Elsie’s patio. Elsie had just come back from the Truth and Reconciliation closing ceremony in Ottawa. She talks about that and her experience growing up in the era of residential schools.

We cover the Dec 15 Regional District Committee of the Whole delegations: Friends of Stillwater Bluffs Association and PR Paws concerns over the Regional Trails Plan.

Hosted by Roger Thorn and Carrie Swiggum

On today’s show, we look at food security and farming on the sunshine coast.

We talk to Robert Gilchrist of Funky Beets Farm and member of the Powell River Farmers Institute.He made a remark at council on Nov 29 regarding the region’s lack of a farming strategy. We also talk to Chris Roberts of Okeover Organic Oysters from the Oyster Capital of Canada. But first we’re going to announce the winners of the SPCA Fall Raffle...

We speak with Yves Engler. He’s been described as Canada’s Noam Chomsky and puts a critical eye on Canadian foreign policy. He’ll be speaking at the Cranberry Seniors Centre Friday evening. Then an expert on Louis Riel, Dave Doyle, will be in the studio to fill us in on the city’s proclamation to make Nov 16 Louis Riel day in Powell River. He’ll be followed by an organizer of the Kinder Morgan pipeline protest who will talk about the nationwide vigil coming up this weekend. All this and more on CJMP News....