This is what an Earthquake Early Warning System, currently being tested in California, might sound like.

QuakeWARNING.mp3

Internationally-acclaimed BC landscape artist Robert Genn has died, from pancreatic cancer, at 78.  I was privileged to talk to Genn in December, a few months after his diagnosis, at a time when he was destroying some of his own art that he deemed less worthy.

Robert Genn CBC Interview

The US Patent & Trademark Office has cancelled the Washington Redskins trademark registration, saying it's disparaging to Native Americans.  But native logos and names aren't just an American thing. On the Island, we have the Saanich Braves and the Comox Valley Chiefs, both with logos sporting feathered headresses. For more on native appropriation in sport and elsewhere, I called Adrienne Keene of NativeAppropriations.com


Native Appropriation

Why do we North Americans insist on calling it soccer when almost everyone else calls it football? Well, there's a pretty good explanation, actually (and you have to listen all the way through...)

SOCCER or FOOTBALL

My conversation with Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver on the on-going BC Teachers' strike and the government ads on the strike.

Andrew Weaver on BC Teacher Ads

My re-edit of some of Ezra Levant's comments on Justin Trudeau's weddding photo bomb... set to a bit of music, of course. 

Ezra Levant's Trudeau Tirade Re-Mixed

I couldn't pick a favourite Christmas classic to play on our Christmas Eve show, so I wrote this one instead and recorded it very, very early in the morning.

A song for Christmas Eve

Victoria residents are grumbling about the low-frequency rumblings from US Navy jets on Whidbey Island. And they're not alone. David King is the Mayor of the City of Port Townsend, Washington. He told Gregor Craigie why people there don't like the noise.

US Navy Growler Jets cause a rumble in Victoria & Port Townsend WA

In the run-up to the 2011 election, I asked Heritage Minister James Moore whether a re-elected Conservative government would maintain funding to the CBC. His answer, I think, was a pretty clear yes.

James Moore on CBC funding before the 2011 election

After the 2011 election, I asked Heritage Minister James Moore cut the CBC's budget by 10-percent, when he pledged to maintain that funding just before the election. 

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