As we close out another great year at CJLO, we asked our DJs and staff to compile their favourite music, media, and, well, anything of 2024! Join us for recommendations of albums, songs, films, snacks, thrift stores, and other experiences you may have missed this past year. Happy New Year from your favourite campus-community radio station! 

We’ve made it to the end of 2024! It’s been a HUGE year here at CJLO. We put out over 25 Live from the Oven sessions and even more interviews and show takeovers. Funding Drive was one of biggest successes to date, raising over $13,000 for the station! 2024 also saw more original journalism published at the station than ever before. With help from the Community Radio Fund of Canada, CJLO was able to launch the Discordia series, which will be going strong through 2025. Further, CJLO’s schedule is now jam-packed with brand new shows, and volunteers are buzzing around the station in ways we haven’t seen since pre-Covid.

 It is of utmost importance to Hayden Pedigo that you know he’s from Amarillo, Texas. A place where the plains stretch on forever and the edge of town feels like the end of civilization as we know it. This great empty expanse called the Texas Panhandle is the background for Hayden Pedigo’s musical project. In numerous interviews, he’s cited Amarillo’s beautiful desolation as his greatest inspiration.

In February 1999, the Concordia Student Union fails to get accredited as a legal representative of the student body because of low voter turnout. About a year and a half later they manage to get over 50% of students to vote for accreditation. Student movements against austerity and corporatism, as well as a push for food sovereignty have also started.

This episode covers that story.

Discordia is presented by CJLO 1690AM, made with the help of volunteers at the station, and funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada. New episodes air Mondays at 6pm on CJLO.

By Sydney Sheedy and Piper Curtis

Art by James Fay