Tag Archives: Calgary

Radio — Grassroots learning and education beyond school

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/310065521-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-194-dec-72016-grassroots-learning-and-education-beyond-school.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter and Liam O’Neill Gordon. They are involved in the Calgary School of Informal Education (CSIE), a new initiative that is creating opportunities for people … Continue reading →

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Radio — A new feminist music and arts festival in Calgary

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309851598-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-146-dec-302015-a-new-feminist-music-and-arts-festival-in-calgary.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Kaely Cormack and Hayley Muir. They have been involved in Calgary’s music scene in one way or another for quite some time, in the last few years as … Continue reading →

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Radio — Reconciling queerness and faith at the Human RITES Conference

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309730091-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-120-jun-242015-reconciling-queerness-and-faith-at-the-human-rites-conference.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Kim Holmes-Younger and Pam Rocker about the Human RITES Conference, a recent event in Calgary which brought together people from a variety of denominations and faiths to discuss … Continue reading →

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Talking Radical Radio: Infrastructure for Change

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Gerald Wheatley of Calgary, Alberta, talks about his work with the Arusha Centre. Arusha was founded in 1972 with a mandate to do international development education. In 1994, the federal government ended … Continue reading →

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Doreen Spence

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Scott

Doreen Spence, a woman of the Cree nation, was born in 1937 in northern Alberta, near the Good Fish Lake Reserve. Raised primarily by her grandparents, she moved to Calgary at eighteen after winning a scholarship to attend a small … Continue reading →

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Interview Excerpt from William Paterson

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Scott

The following is an excerpt from the interview I did with William Paterson, a trade unionist in Calgary, Alberta, in which he talks a bit about his early years in England and then in Calgary: WP: At the age of … Continue reading →

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William Paterson

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Scott

William Paterson was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in 1926, but spent most of the first 20 years of his life in London, England. He moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1949. He has been a trade unionist since the age … Continue reading →

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