Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora is a writer/artist/critic/archivist of mixed Turkish and settler-Canadian heritage. Yasmine holds a Bachelors in Art History from the University of British Columbia and currently lives and works between the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ and the K'ómoks First Nation.

CJSF 90.1 FM is Simon Fraser University's arts, public affairs and indie music radio station!

CJSF strives to provide points of view that are rarely expressed in mainstream media. We take pride in being an alternative to mainstream media, offering the public a forum for expressing perspectives that otherwise may not be heard.

CJSF 90.1 FM broadcasts from the Burnaby Mountain campus of Simon Fraser University to most of Greater Vancouver, from Langley to Point Grey and from the North Shore to the US Border. 

As a non-commercial station, CJSF takes pride in being an alternative to mainstream media and offers the public a forum for artists and social issues that otherwise may not receive media attention. This includes music by independent artists from a diverse range of genres and public affairs programming that addresses issues faced by marginalized or disadvantages communities. 

CJSF and all campus/community radio enables the public to create the media they want to hear. They have over 150 volunteers from the SFU and Metro Vancouver community and are always looking for new recruits to come in and make radio. 

Bookings: daniel@jackmode.com

Rex The Dog makes and performs music with analogue electronics and a self-built Modular Synthesizer. 

He carries this precious machinery around the world, bringing his idiosyncratic sounds to packed crowds at the best clubs, festivals and parties.
In the last 18 months this has included everywhere from Berlin’s hallowed Panorama Bar, to an intimate pop up gig in a Barcelona record store.

We are temporary. We are urbane.

And this is our podcast, in which members of the SFU Urban Studies community pick up the mic to talk cities once and cities future, the urban lives we live and dream about and the people, ideas and options the city has left behind, misplaced, misguided. A lot of the time, we talk about the city of Vancouver, whether it is because we can never imagine leaving this city, can never imagine being able to afford to stay in this city, whether we lament seeing Vancouver being drained of all its temporary life-force or whether we see Vancouver gathering steam to join the ranks of the more eternal cities of the world.  

Our statistics tell us that Canada has undergone a complete reversal, since Confederation, from a nation in which nearly 85% live in rural areas to one in which that kind of percentage lives in cities. This is not a temporary phenomenon. Urban areas are expected to absorb more than 100% of the world’s demographic growth in coming decades and take up double the space on earth. About 4 out of the 8 billion people on the planet today live in cities; but when the global population expands to more like 9.5 billion by 2050, cities will have swelled to 6.5 billion people. 

Loving a city enough to identify with it is a complicated thing. Being Canadian, in one way or another, makes it even more complicated, as we as a mixed bag of people are pulled to the north, pulled to the south, pulled to the wild, pulled to the suburbs, pulled to equivocate. Loving a city like Vancouver when you realistically can’t say how long you can afford to stay, even with a graduate degree in Urban Studies, is an even more complicated emotion. 

Tune in to listen to our stories and conversations.

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