NO NEW NORMAL unpacks questions raised in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, examining the structural rifts exposed by the pandemic and the convergent struggles that have emerged in the aftermath of the quarantine.

Produced by Athina Khalid, with Emily Black, James Ward, and Gau Mahadevan.

No New Normal

Quarantine Interviews on West Indian Rhythms

CKUT's in-house coverage of the Peoples' University Encampment at McGill University, starting on Day 3 of the encampment on Monday 29 April 2024

Coverage of the Peoples' University Encampment at McGill Spring 2024

As part of the celebrations of 30 years on the FM dial CKUT put together a Time Capsule to document 30 years of free form independent radio. These interviews tell the story of getting the licence , defining ourself and experimenting on the radio.

30th Anniversary CKUT Oral History

Prison Radio

Montreal March 6th 2021 (COVID-19 when all of CKUT programmers broadcasted from home),  Howard "Stretch" Carr host of West Indian Rhythms interviews DJ, Producer, Photographer  DJ D-Nice, (KRS-One, Naughty by Nature, Too short . . . ) about his career and blowing up on Instagram with Club Quarantine . Joining in (via zoom) in the conversation are Montreal DJS Dru (Renegade Sound - Oh Boy!) and DJ Don Smooth (ex K-103, Oh Boy).

Interview with D-Nice

Howard "Stretch" Carr and Dru "Renegade Sounds" interview Barbadian Soca Artist Hypa Sounds.  March 20 2021.  These conversations took place while CKUT 90.3fm operated remotely during Covid 19 and aired on the show West INdian Rhythms.

Interview with Hypa Sounds

Howard "Stretch" Carr host of West Indian Rhythms and Dru of Renegade Int. interview Glen Washington April 10th 2021.  Part of a series of conversations with important Caribbean artist that took place while broadcasting remotely during COVID-19

Interview with Glen Washington

Howard "Stretch" Carr interviews Calypsonian The Mighty Sparrow on West Indian Rhythms April 17th.  Also Dru from Renegade International, and listeners Gemma Raeburn Bayne, Jewel Jones, Pat Dillon Moore and Henry Antoine.  Part of a series of conversations that took place while broadcasting remotely during COVID-19. CKUT 90.3fm Montreal.

Interview with The Mighty Sparrow

As part of a series of conversations that took place on West Indian Rhythms CKUT 90.3fm Howard "Stretch" Carr and Dru - Renegade International speak with Jamaican Reggae Singer Daville May 8th 2021

Interview with Da'Ville

Part one of an in depth look at the career and recordings of Lee Scratch Perry by Khalid M'Seffar host of Funky Revolutions on CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal.  Also featuring a conversation with Mossman.

Funky Revolutions

Lee Scratch Perry Tribute on Funky Revolutions Part One Oct 2021

Part two of an in depth look into the life and career of Lee Scratch Perry produced by Khalid M'Seffar, host of the radio show Funky Revolutions on CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal.  Also featuring the reflections  of Mossman. First aired Oct 23, 2021

Lee Scratch Perry tribute part two Funky Revolutions CKUT

Montreal's beloved Jah Cutta in conversation with Howard "Stretch" Carr and Dru on CKUT 90.3fm. Cutta takes us back to his early days in Jamaica and then in Montreal LaSalle High School right up to today.  Part of the Quarantine Conversations October 2021

Interview with Jah Cutta

Naomi Cowan was recognized as the Breakthrough Artist of 2018 (Jamaican Reggae Industry Awards). Daughter of impresario and former road manager to Bob Marley. Tommy Cowna, and Dr. Carlene Davis-Cowan (reggae vocalist previously interviewed in this series) she is carving her own path in the industry. Interviewed by Dru as part of the West Indian Rhythms Quarantine Conversations on CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal March 5 2022.

Interview with Naomi Cowan

Tony Gregory is a Jamaican soul and Reggae singer who attended the Alpha Boys School that educated many of Jamaica's most talented artists. In 1960 he became the lead singer with Byron Lee and his Dragonaires. He went on to a solo career that had him touring the world.
He also began his own record label . Tony Gregory in conversation with Howard “Stretch” Carr and Dru, part of the Quarantine Conversations on West Indian Rhythms, CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal originally aired on March 19th 2022.

Interview with Tony Gregory

we are joined by artist Jeffrey Kriksciun, whose winding journey has taken him from San Francisco to Portland, to Stockholm, to L.A, and back to Portland again. we discuss Scandinavian noise music, and the divinity of bugs. interview starts at 00:09:55.

for more information on Kriksciun, please visit: 
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/artist/25080
https://www.nieves.ch/878/fragile_jazz

for more information on the ragweed artist interview series, please visit:
www.ragweed.info/in-the-weeds-radio

In the Weeds with Jeffrey Kriksciun

In this episode, Angus and Veronika (Tuesday Morning After) discuss sound-walking as a research practice. 

For more information about Angus’ practice, please visit: https://angustarnawsky.com

In the Weeds with Angus Tarnawsky

CKUT's live in-house coverage of the Peoples' University Encampment at McGill University

Day 3 of the encampment on Monday 29 April 2024

Day 3 (29 Apr 2024): CKUT Live from the Popular University Encampment

Day 4, Tuesday 30 April 2024

Live and direct in the rain - an audio sit-in with the sounds of the people.

Day 4 (30 Apr 2024): Audio Sit-In

Day 5, Wednesday 1 May 2024

Lots of ambient noise of the encampment, some interviews

1-2pm

Day 5 (1 May 2024) 1-2pm

Day 5, Wednesday 1 May 2024

Interview with a camper

5-6pm

Day 5 (1 May 2024) 5-6pm: Evening updates live from the Encampment

New developments with counter-protestors, interviews with organizers, Ellen Gabriel, and Nima Machouf (Quebec representative on the Freedom Flotilla).

Day 6 (2 May 2024) 2-3pm: counterprotest, Ellen Gabriel, Nima Machouf, and more

Live from camp Day 17 (13 May 2024): Updates on the legal injunction filed by McGill

Hot off the press - live reporting from camp featuring breaking updates and legal analysis (Max Silverman, I.J.V.) from a full day in court as McGill's injunction against the encampment was heard.

Live from camp Day 17 (13 May 2024)

This week's episode of Harmony Express is a special guest mix from Naeem, recorded in Pittsburgh, PA. Naeem is the regular host of Side A Side B on MSYH.FM as well as an active organizer with Detour, a key collective in the Pittsburgh underground music scene, and a resident at the legendary Hot Mass party series. 

This mix comes as part of an exchange between Hex P and Naeem, and you can find Hex P's mix for Side A Side B airing today on MSYH.FM. 

Naeem: https://soundcloud.com/detournaeem
Side A Side B - Listen: https://soundcloud.com/sideasidebradio
Side A Side B - Follow: https://www.instagram.com/sasb.radio/

Tracklist:
1. Jaybird - Chroma
2. brainwave research center - treading water
3. Nature Music (Dolphin Play) - Watercolors
4. Maya Universe - Say It Right
5. Liftgate - Sequin Jacket
6. Jackson Ryland (JR2k) - Lo Voltage
7. trickpony - Shiver
8. Beta Librae - Vegas Nerve
9. M. Schaffhäuser - Sech Uhr Morgens
10. Dave Quam - Sitting Here... (Zouk Mix)
11. XC-17 - LSTMOON
12. Superabundance - Tempopalace
13. Physical Therapy - David (Jungle Reconstruction)
14. Callisto - Ambent I
15. c_robo_ - v2_SC_240807_002524.wav
16. Amy Kisnorbo & Ron Mercy - Pepper
17. Escaflowne - Deliverance
18. TSVI - Ffantasy (ft. Loraine James)
19. Introspekt - Wanna B Down (Darkside Mix)
20. Nico - Comma Drift
21. Astra Robotica - Side 7
22. JZKL - Total Body Extension (w/ Gladstone Deluxe)
23. DeFeKT - MG1
24. Aux 88 - Play It Loud
25. CMD - Outerworld
26. Paul Fleetwood - Quasar Cowboy
27. Miles Mercer - Unknown Origin
28. Plasma Arc - 1926 Subpart Z
29. Kha'DJ - Compersion
30. Pittsburgh Track Authority - The Tunnel (Dark Mix)
31. Polygonia - Shen Wai Shenfa
32. Oscar Celedon - Brighter Days
33. Samira Mendoza aka Mira Mira - amor_y_lucha
34. Conclave - Alati Yeye Chege (musclecars Remix)
35. Capricorn - 20Hz (Pura Pura Batucada Edit)
36. Abby Echiverri - Hives Of Lusus
37. Ali Berger -Pump Station
38. Love Higher - Wavering
39. Manny Dibiachi - Matter of Fact (HUNY XO Remix)
40. DØN - Only Scratching the Surface
41. De Schuurman - Scratchin    
42. Ayesha - Mother Tongue
43. Dj Love ft SDOT MUSIC - if prayers had a sound
44. Davis Galvin - Tem Lasa
45. Cygnus - Her Majesty (The Universe)
46. 2Lanes - Tincture (Howling Diablos Mix)
47. Shriekback - My Spine Is The Bassline

Harmony Express X Side A Side B: Naeem (Detour, PGH)

A pleasing mix from longtime CKUT programmer Hex P... sensual bangers for the late night heads. Originally aired on Harmony Express, 00:00-02:00, November 12 2024.

Follow Hex P
soundcloud: @harmonyexpress
newsletter: bit.ly/harmonyexpress
socials: www.instagram.com/h3xpy

"Hex Please" - Harmony Express 11.12.24

CKUT host and volunteer Mr. Saad's moving tribute to Brian Wilson - an accapella cover of In My Room 

mrsaad27 -- brian wilson (beach boys) tribute -in my room)

Eris Nyx, one of the founding members of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF), spoke about drug user rights, harm reduction, and the criminalization of care on Thursday June 26th 2025 at 5pm in the SSMU Ballroom at McGill University in Montreal. The talk was organized as a fundraiser for the DULF founders' legal defence fund, and also included a discussion by a panel currently working in harm reduction in Montreal.

DULF is a grassroots harm reduction organization based out of Vancouver BC's Downtown Eastside that pioneered a radical compassion club model to intervene in the toxic drug supply crisis, which has killed tens of thousands of poor and unhoused drug users across the country. In a fairly dramatic turn of political tides, the organizers of the compassion club, which had been tacitly permitted by the city and local police, were arrested and are now facing severe criminal charges, including the possibility of life in prison. You can read more about their evidence-based intervention and the campaign to support their legal plight on their website (https://dulf.ca/published-academic-research/). 

Find out more about DULF and donate to the legal faund at dulf.ca

The event is being co-presented by the Indigenous Support Workers Project and CKUT 90.3, and the space was secured with the generous assistance of Reform and Resettle.

Eris Nyx on the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF)

The two talk about relief efforts related to Hurricane Melissa.

Bhum Bhum Tyme Interview with the High Commissioner of Jamaica

Claire Boucher interned at CKUT while studying at McGill University. Listen to this live solo performance she did on the radio show entitled "New Shit" in March 2010.

Live on New Shit March 15, 2010

Grimes Live On CKUT March 15 2010

Le 7 Juin 2017, nous avons rencontre Siris, le commissaire de l'exposition de peinture ''Personnages" qui a lieu a la Brasserie Artisanale Le Cheval Blanc a Montreal jusqu'au 25 Juin. On vous invite vivement a profiter de ce cadre en famille, en couple ou en solo et a aller voir ces 27 Personnages jusqu'a la fin du mois.

Le Lendemain de la Veille - Interview avec Siris

Radio documentary on the Police raid of the LGBTQ community that happened in Montreal  July 1990.  Josh Marquis speaks to Puelo Dier and Linda Dawn Hammond about this event 25 years later for the CKUT radio show QueerCorps. More Oral History in CKUT's Time Capsule.

SEX GARAGE documentary  For CKUT Time Capsule

Sue arrived at CKUT in ’86 and was station manager from 1987-1989.

In this clip we talk details on the switch from cable to the FM signal, the controversy of the licence being granted to an Anglo station, digging our way out of financial debt and coordinating a stream of volunteers parading up  and down to the Mountain where our transmitter is housed for frequent – frequency tests. AND- discovering at midnight the night before we went to air for the first time, that we had to be incorporated (first call to the CRTC, second to a lawyer).

Also the writing of policy such as the Statement of Principles (which still is the backbone of CKUT today) ,  understanding what Balance of Programming means and convincing CRTC of it. the origins of “Gay Day” (the brutal murder of Joe Rose and subsequent community outcry) , amazing CKUT staff and volunteers, and a wild Molson fuelled first anniversary including an earthquake at midnight that, of course, did not stop the party.

She mentions Christof Migone, Pat Hamou, Ian Pringle, France Chevalier Stewart, Joel Savage  and has special fond memories of David Shannon and Don Rossiter.

After taking Montreal by storm, Sue moved back to her home coast, Victoria, BC, and now works in podcasting.

Oral History interview with Sue Elrington

Ian Pringle was a Bookkeeper, then Spoken Word Coordinator from 1987-1991.

He discovered CKUT when he was a McGill student, assigned to do a piece on CKUT getting our FM license for the student newspaper The Tribune. Taken with the diversity and excitement of the station he became a volunteer and ultimately staff member.   In this interview he talks about the passion and commitment to diversity and the democratization of media. He also talks about the profound impact people like Martha Marie Kleinhans, Lisa Vinebaum, Christof Migone and especially hosts of the Homo Show, David Shannon and Donnie Rossiter had on him. He also recollects the infamous and historic turning points in the Queer Community, the death of Joe Rose and the Sex Garage raid, police brutality and community uproar.  

He went on to work internationally in communications and radio, and now resides in Ottawa

Oral History interview Ian Pringle

Bryan Zuraw was at Radio McGill/CKUT from 1983-1997 as a volunteer, music librarian and music coordiantor.

He discusses what was going on musically at the time, musique actuelle, (the beginnings of Ambience Magnetique), college indie rock (pre-Nirvana), hip hop, dancehall reggae (when these genres really started to bloom)… the interest of community members to do radio (given that there isn’t an Urban radio station in Montreal)… establishing an identity and mandate for the station, maintaining a diversity of perspectives and benefiting from this process both personally and intellectually. And of course, conducting all station business (i.e. Steering, Programming, Committee meetings) in the hallway as there was no room to do so at CKUT. All of this was pre-internet. It involved writing to labels, researching magazines such as the Village Voice, OP (Option) Sound Choice, The Wire, newsletters and tape trading networks.  He also speaks on picking up the habit of waking up at 3am to make sure that someone is On Air, because if not, he would make his way to the station in the middle of the night.

Bryan now lives in Los Angeles with his wife (ex CKUT programmer Kie Ross Zuraw) and is still finding strange music to vibe to.

Oral History Interview Bryan Zuraw

CKUT intern Eve Fiertag looks at experimenting with the radio on the radio for this time capsule installment.  She speaks to ex CKUT Music Coordinator and Production Coordinator Christof Migone who participated at CKUT from 1987 – 92.  He also hosted the radio show “Dangers In Paradise” which he described as anything other than college rock.  He collaborated with Julia Loktev on a show called Body Map where they took the island of Montreal and imagined it as a reclining body and got people to call in so they could let them know what part of the body they were situated in.  He also collaborated with Margo Lane (also interviewed in this series) called Margo’s Intense Listening Corner.

Oral History interview with Christof Migone CKUT

As part of CKUT’s 30th Anniversary Oral History project, we interviewed Martha Marie Kleinhans who was one of the key driving forces behind CKUT’s fm licence application and move to FM. She says that Concordia University was expected to get the licence because of their active ties to the local scene however, CKUT’s (McGill) application put a strong focus on community programming and she believes this is what worked in the end. She also said there was some internal resistance as programmers knew that they would be evolving to a different kind of radio station. She volunteered prior to the license and ran for station manager on the basis of delivering the fm licence. She was the first station manager at CKUT 1986-87.  She said she worked closely with Don Rossiter and had the help of McGill Legal Professor Dr. F.H. Buckley who said “they rejected my idea that they go All-Monkees, All the time.”

She and Donnie went around to various cultural communities with a large hypothetical grid and said “should we get the licence would you be interested in producing radio”.

“We got the licence based on a promise.” The rest is history.

Oral History In Conversation with MARTHA MARIE Kleinham CKUT

Featured Speakers/Commentators:	 Dr. Karen Gedney; author, public speaker and internal medicine specialist.

Contributor:	 Prison Radio CKUT  [Contact Contributor]
Summary:  Dr. Karen Gedney is an author, motivational speaker, internal medicine specialist, sits on medical boards, is active in her community in early crime prevention and in prison reform. She is here today to discuss her debut book "30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor." As a woman working in an all-male Nevada State prison, she brings an unique and compelling story to something that few in the public know or understand. A great interview. A great book. An amazing woman. Enjoy.

Prison Radio Nov 23, 2018

Featured Speakers/Commentators:	 Justin Piche. Professor of Criminology at Ottawa U.; Emily Hill, who works for Aboriginal Legal Services in Toronto.

Contributor:	 Prison Radio CKUT  [Contact Contributor]
Summary:  Justin Piche will talk about Trudeau announcement that his government will end solitary confinement in Canada. I will believe it when I see it. Also, Emily Hill will delve into the Ewert Supreme Court decision that is about the applicability of psychological assessment tests for indigenous people caught up in the legal system.

Prison Radio Dec 28, 2018

Featured Speakers/Commentators:  Helen Hudson -- member of the Certain Days collective; Bill Van Driel - member of Solidarity Across Borders.

Summary:  The event was co-organized by the Certain Days Collective and The Caring for Social Justice collective. Today we’ll be airing the recording of the launch of theThe Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York and Baltimore, in partnership with a political prisoner being held in maximum-security prison in New York State, David Gilbert. Co-founders Robert Seth Hayes and Herman Bell were released from prison in 2018.

Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar, that focuses on the theme of Health/Care that took place in Montreal on Thursday, December 13th, 2018, 6:30 PM at QPIRG- Concordia. The proceeds from the calendar will go to Addameer (a prisoner support organization in Palestine) and Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP - a campaign mobilizing around the release of aging prisoners). For more info : https://www.certaindays.

The Caring for Social Justice Collective is a recently formed collective based in Tio'ta:ke (Montreal) who organize around issues relating to social justice in healthcare. Email: SoignonsLaJusticeSociale@riseup.net. 

Contributor:	 Prison Radio CKUT  [Contact Contributor]

Prison Radio January 10, 2019

Aube et Anis ont testé pour vous cette semaine la pratique de la Dérive, telle que développée par Guy Debord et les situationnistes.

Oui, d'accord, mais la dérive, kesséssa?

CKUT Lendemain de la veille

L'art de se promener: Introduction à La Dérive Situationniste

Featured Speakers/Commentators:	 Papi, ex-prisoner; Gene, coordinator for the Prison Radio Show; Angela Davis, acclaimed human rights activist.

Summary:  Papi, who spent years in Canadian prisons, talks about life in those prisons during the 70's and 80's. Gene, coordinator for PRS in Montreal, speaks about his experiences getting his drivers license after 28 years inside. Angela Davis, a worldwide respected human rights activist, in the first segment of three, will raise issues of Palestine, feminism, as well as her leadership in the campaign against mass incarceration.

Prison Radio January 25, 2019

Featured Speakers/Commentators:	 Papi, ex-prisoner, speaks on years in Canadian prisons.

Contributor:	 Prison Radio CKUT  [Contact Contributor]

Summary:  Papi, an ex-prisoner, speaks about his life experiences in the Canadian penitentiary system in the eighties and nineties

Prison Radio Show February 14, 2019

Depuis le 22 février dernier, un vaste mouvement populaire et pacifique a pris naissance en Algérie à la suite de l’annonce de la candidature d’Abdelaziz Bouteflika pour un 5e mandat.

Ce mouvement, inédit dans l'histoire de l'Algérie indépendante, regroupe toutes les franges de la société et cela sur tout le territoire. 
Des slogans « Non à un 5e mandat ! » à « Yetnahaw Ga3 ! » ( qu’ils dégagent tous !), le mouvement populaire, d’une ampleur sans précédent, continue de maintenir la pression sur le pouvoir.

Entre détermination dans les revendications et incertitudes sur les sorties de crises, retour et mise au point sur ce mouvement avec le politologue Omar Benderra* à l’occasion de ces 3 mois de mobilisations.

Omar Benderra est économiste et politologue, il est membre de Algeria Watch — site d’informations sur la situation des droits humains en Algérie.

Visitez le site pour des articles et éclairages de l’actualité politique algérienne :
https://algeria-watch.org/
Chaine YouTube - Algeria Watch

Amandla! - Hirak Algérien, mise au point avec Omar Benderra - 05/22

In our second episode, we spoke with Julian Karaguesian, advisor at Finance Canada and economic history professor at McGill University. We discussed how the neoclassical school of thought came to dominate economics as we know it and shape global capitalist society at large.

Get in touch at expandingecon.mtl@rethinkeconomics.org

Ep. 2 Neoclassical Economics and Global Capitalism: How Did We Get Here?

In the first episode of Talking Culture’s mini-series, on the topic of COVID-19, host Alejandra Melian-Morse talks with Dr. Samuele Collu, who will be joining McGill’s anthropology department as Assistant Professor in the fall. They discuss the implications of the current crisis for the discipline of anthropology and beyond, as well as what Dr. Collu calls the zoomification of our everyday lives.

Thinking Anthropologically with COVID: Samuele Collu

In this second episode of Talking Culture’s mini-series on the topic of COVID-19, host Alejandra Melian-Morse talks with Dr. Todd Meyers, who will be joining the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill as the Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies in Medicine this coming Fall. Their conversation ranges from war metaphors in relation to COVID to the intimacy of care in clinics and hospitals while also tackling issues surrounding the future of anthropology and what it will mean to address the issues that have been made clear due to the Pandemic.

Talking Culture Episode 2 : Thinking Anthropologically with COVID: Todd Meyers

In this third episode of Talking Culture's mini-series on the topic of COVID-19, host Alejandra Melian talks with fellow anthropology graduate student Heather Anderson. They discuss some of the difficulties for graduate students the pandemic has revealed and highlighted, as well as the purpose of research and goals anthropologists should be setting for themselves going forward. 
Link to Code Switch's episode mentioned by Alejandra in the introduction: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/code-switch/id1112190608?i=1000478299112 
Credits:  Produced by Alejandra Melian, Artwork by Sofia Melian-Morse, Music by Justin Cober. Produced in support from McGill University's Department of Anthropology.

Talking Culture Episode 3: COVID Conversations: Heather Anderson

All Da Way Live Radio hosts Widget and Pro-V take advantage of this COVID lock down to interview Montreal OG Don Smooth (former host, producer of Street Sounds on K103 Radio). A two hour discussion on the history of hip hop from early 80s to now. Broadcast June 10th 2020 on CKUT 90.3fm.

Oral History - All Da Way Live Radio interview Don Smooth June 2020

This is what you get when they put their guitars down and start gabbing. December 2015. If You Got Ears CKUT 90.3fm https://ckuttimecapsule.wordpress.com/

Sam Shalabi & Alexander Moskos Free Associate Clip Of The Week

Radio ad for CKUT Clip of the Week circa 2012. Clip of the Week was a sample of some of the amazing sounds and thoughts airing on CKUT . To learn more and hear them all go to https://ckuttimecapsule.wordpress.com/clips-of-the-week/

CKUT - Clip Of The Week  radio ad Ad

Adrian Harewood was the Station Manager at CKUT from 1997-2000. He was a McGill student graduating in 1993 whereby he moved to Ottawa to get involved in Community radio there at CKCU and then came to Montreal to take on the daunting task of being the station manager at CKUT.  He currently anchors the 6 o clock news on CBC-TV in Ottawa.
This is the speech he made at CKUT's 25th Anniversary celebration at Sala Rossa in Montreal. For more check out CKUT's Time Capsule https://ckuttimecapsule.wordpress.com/

Adrian Harewood Speech CKUT 25th Anniversary 2012

Clip of the Week - from 1994 late night reggae show, Roots Rock Reggae with your hosts Pryme Tyme, Fluxy, Johnny Black. In this clip the field late night callers. A time when people used to call radio stations to give their shout outs and greetings.  For more good stuff check out CKUT's Time Capsule.https://ckuttimecapsule.wordpress.com/1994/05/02/roots-rock-reggae-circa-1994-keeps-you-awake/

ROOTS ROCK REGGAE KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT 1994

CRISIS IN CARE: COVID-19 IN CHSLDs discusses the outbreak of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities in Quebec, arguing that the nearly 5,000 coronavirus-related deaths in long-term care facilities were due to decades of poor conditions in such facilities and government negligence.

NO NEW NORMAL unpacks questions raised in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, examining the structural rifts exposed by the pandemic and the convergent struggles that have emerged in the aftermath of the quarantine.

Produced by Athina Khalid, with Emily Black, James Ward, and Gau Mahadevan. Interviews with Kitra Cahana, Jonathan Marchand, Amy, and Alexandra. Theme by Sasha Cay (https://sashacay.bandcamp.com). Photo by Kitra Cahana (Instagram: @kitracahana | @Artists4LongTermCare).

Aired on CKUT on June 19, 2020.

Crisis in Care: COVID-19 in CHSLDs - No New Normal Episode 1

LOCKED DOWN: PRISONER JUSTICE UNDER QUARANTINE discusses the response to COVID-19 in prisons, arguing that the carceral system has failed to protect prisoners from COVID-19 and has imposed arbitrary measures that only make conditions more unliveable for people on the inside.

NO NEW NORMAL unpacks questions raised in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, examining the structural rifts exposed by the pandemic and the convergent struggles that have emerged in the aftermath of the quarantine.

Produced by Athina Khalid, with Emily Black, James Ward, and Gau Mahadevan. Interviews with Kiyha Schrouder, Sheena Hoszko, Souheil Benslimane, Cheryl, and Yasmeen. Theme by Sasha Cay (https://sashacay.bandcamp.com). Photo by John Mahoney.

Aired on CKUT on July 3, 2020.

Locked Down: Prisoner Justice Under Quarantine - No New Normal Episode 2

PEOPLE, NOT WORKERS: MIGRANTS AND THE BORDERS OF VIRAL CAPITALISM - Many migrant workers found themselves doing “essential work” when the pandemic was declared a public health emergency, but the industries in which they work–factories, meat packaging plants, long-term care facilities, and domestic work–took few to no preventative measures. Migrants are essential people, not workers. Everyone with precarious status deserves full and proper rights.

NO NEW NORMAL unpacks questions raised in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, examining the structural rifts exposed by the pandemic and the convergent struggles that have emerged in the aftermath of the quarantine.

Produced by Athina Khalid, James Ward, and Gau Mahadevan. Interviews with Mostafa Henaway, Mohamed Barry, Evelyn Mondonedo Calugay, and Abdoul. Theme by Sasha Cay (sashacay.bandcamp.com).

Aired on CKUT on July 17, 2020.

People, Not Workers: Migrants and the Borders of Viral Capitalism - No New Normal Episode 3

QUARANTINED WITHOUT SHELTER - At the height of the lockdown, people living without shelter found themselves unable to quarantine, and without many of the services that function as basic infrastructure for those experiencing homelessness and poverty. While the city took some measures to provide services, the services offer the bare minimum support for people living on the streets. People without shelter deserve access to proper and adequate housing, to truly universal healthcare, and to their communities.

No New Normal, a special edition of CKUT’s Off the Hour,
airs biweekly on Fridays at 5 pm EST. The series aims to unpack the questions raised by the COVID-19 outbreak, examining the rifts exposed by the pandemic and the convergent struggles emerging in the aftermath of the quarantine.

CKUT 90.3FM

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks