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CJLO celebrates 3 Years on AM!
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CJLO is proud to be turning three years old on October 15th, 2011. We've been bringing the best in local and underground music to the AM dial since 2008 and we want to thank all of our volunteers and listeners for helping CJLO become the award winning radio station that we are today.
If you'd like to wish CJLO a happy birthday, record and send an mp3 to program@cjlo.com and we'll play them on-air.
Happy Birthday CJLO! Bonne fete!
Postal union fights back
Canada’s postal workers are once again fighting for their rights. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is taking the Harper government to court over controversial back-to-work legislation that snuffed out a series of strikes in June.
Union president Denis Lemelin calls the federal government’s actions unjust. He says the union’s legal action is necessary in order to protect workers' rights to free collective bargaining.
The government countered that a strike during an economic crisis would do more harm than good. This argument is being repeated as Air Canada’s flight attendants consider their own strike.
A government spokesperson claimed the postal strike caused serious harm to small business across the country. However they refused to comment on the Postal Union’s threat of legal action.
Robin "Cartoongal" Fisher
Name: Robin Fisher
What is your DJ alias? & what are its origins?: Cartoongal. My show is about the graphic arts, cartoons are a graphic art. The main mandate of my show is to make the graphic arts accessible to all people. I like to say, "let me be your guide, let me be your cartoongal." (You know, like your gal Friday.)
Show: The Onomatopoeia Show
Genre: "All graphic arts, all the time." Talk radio with music.
How long have you been at CJLO?: 3 years.
What is the best thing about working at CJLO?: The sense of community and the opportunity to reach an extremely wide audience with very little censorship.
Describe your show as a potential life partner. What are its qualities? Omg! My boyfriend is extremely dreamy! He has such great taste in music, soooooooo much variety. One time he made me a mix tape of all tunes from WWII. Another time he played underground Japanese bands all night. And he reads Everything! Like one week he's scouring a book on fashion illustration and then like today, he wouldn't stop talking about this book called "Who censored Roger Rabbit?" Did you know that was a book and a cartoon/live action movie? Sometimes he brings his friends. Artists, animators, writers, he knows tons of interesting people. He loves talking about Female comicbook artists, kids books, one time he ranted about how various action figures are modern sculpture. He totally loves cartoons and graffiti........sigh, I could listen to him even on a Sunday. He's just So enthusiastic, he's contagious. It never fails, whatever he's talking about, you want to read it, he makes it sound so appealing and fun.
Two reasons why you do your show?:
A. I consider myself a comic book activist and am compelled to make the world realize that there are comics out there for everyone. That the simple amalgamation of art and literature, elevates the art form to more than anyone could ever imagine.
B. I listen to a lot of music and read a lot of things. I can't stop sharing and am freakishly enthusiastic about the good non mainstream stuff. Which makes me an ideal radio show host for a show about the graphic arts at a university radio station.
If you weren't doing your show, in what other ways would you express yourself?: Through writing articles about comic books, etc. Possibly with twitter or a website.
What was the biggest turning point in your musical journey?: Jeepers, I don't think I've ever had a musical journey. How about what got me started in radio? Doing an hour long Canadian Content show at Lake State University (Sault Ste Marie, USA) circa 1994/95. Musically I've always listened to things that are not the mainstream and I relish the chance to play music people might not have heard before. So I strive to find the best of the non mainstream.
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If I could travel back in time and bring back anyone, I would bring back Jim Henson. Because he created a new art form (The marriage of marionettes and puppets = Muppets) and because he made generations of millions and trillions of people, all over the world, happy.
Name your 2 favorite albums of all time: While I love music, my show is about comics. My favourite comic of all time is Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children. Currently, I'm in love with "Mouseguard" by David Petersen and "King City" by Brandon Graham
What is the one piece of technology you cannot live without?: The combustion engine.
Describe yourself in 3 words: enthusiastic, educator & open-minded.
October 13, 2011
Read by: Sofia Gay
Stories by: Joel Balsam, Dominique Daoust, Shaun Malley and Brandon Judd
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Blackberry service disruption reaches Canada
Research in Motion CEO Mike Lazaridis announced service on the Blackberry network had been restored worldwide on Thursday. Blackberry users across Canada had been grinding their teeth in frustration on Wednesday after a network failure in Europe early in the week led to a worldwide Blackberry service disruption. An unknown number of Canadians were left without access to their messaging service and to internet on their smartphones.
David Yach, RIM's chief technology officer, pegged the problem at the failure of a back-up system in Europe. He says the company throttled traffic in order to get back on line.
Yach says all messages will be delivered once service is restored.
The disruption came at an unfortunate moment for the makers of Blackberry, as the iPhone 4S comes to stores on Friday. Apple has included a service called iMessage on the new phones to rival Blackberry’s BBM messaging service.
There are around 70 million Blackberry users around the world.
Mutassim Gaddafi reportedly captured
Police arrested Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mutassim in Libya yesterday.
He was detained in Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
Libya’s National Transitional Council said they are holding him in Benghazi.
Fighters in Sirte reportedly celebrated the news of his arrest.
And Tripoli was awash with honking car horns and guns firing into the sky.
But military spokesmen have not yet confirmed the arrest. The NTC previously claimed it captured another of Gaddafi’s son in August. This turned out to be false and he remains at large. So observers have doubts over the veracity of today’s claim.
Mutassim was his father’s national security adviser. He wielded significantly less power than his older brothers, however. But citizens loathed Mutassim for his role in Gaddafi’s dictatorship.
Neither Gaddafi nor any of his wanted sons have been confirmed killed or captured to date.
Felix Von Geyer speaks for rights
The Concordia chapter of journalists for human rights hosted its second Speak4Rights event this Tuesday. It featured Felix von Geyer, a Concordia professor and sustainable development journalist. Luciana Gravotta reports.
Felix von Geyer attracted an audience of around 50 people that packed the small upstairs room of the Bishop street Burritoville.
With a Socratic flair, Von Geyer’s talk encouraged the audience not just to listen but to think.
He questioned the outcome of human dominance over the environment.
“It seems to me that on an environmental basis we’re actually managing to master the planet, master our destiny, and somehow screw it all up.”
And he poked fun at politician’s framing of the global warming crisis.
"When Stephen Harper says carbon is a tool for life, the key to life, why don’t you put him in a room with 10% carbon dioxide and see what happens.”
Mostly, von Geyer talked about how frail the concept of human rights is without a sense of duty to enforce it.
He says duty creates a link between environmental responsibility and human rights. A sense of duty towards the environment will bleed over to human rights. The dominant perspective needs to change. People, like the environment, are not a utility.
The event’s casual forum concept encouraged participants to stay after the Q&A to continue the conversation. Von Geyer stayed until the very end, beer in hand.
The next Speak4Rights event will be held November 22nd.
For CJLO news, I’m Luciana Gravotta
No conflict, no controversy, as CSU Council passes all motions at meeting
No controversy this time at Concordia’s second Student Council meeting of the year.
All the by-law reforms proposed were passed. And students at large were elected to standing committees.
Wednesday’s meeting featured a presentation by a member of Concordia’s Centre for Gender Advocacy, which earned support for the creation of an official CSU policy on gender equity. A directory for those affected by sexual assault will also be composed.
In a political move, the CSU voted in favour of officially supporting the protests on Wall Street. They will try to convince students to protest here in Montreal starting October fifteenth.
To learn more about the by-laws and documents from the meeting go to csu.qc.ca.
Photo by: Joel Balsam
Concordia Mob Squad takes aim at Quebec government
The battle over university tuition fees is heating up just two months ahead of the provincial annual budget announcement. Students from Concordia University protested outside the Ministry of Education on Thursday.
This is part of a province-wide movement demanding a tuition freeze. But the Quebec government shows no signs of letting up. They plan to raise tuition one thousand six hundred and twenty five dollars for Quebec residents.
Students at one university in particular aren’t quite ready to empty their pockets. Joel Balsam takes a closer look.
The Concordia Mob Squad aims to convince students to get active – even if that means getting out of their comfort zone. Ada Doucet is one of the group’s organizers. She hasn’t ruled out any type of action if it will help freeze tuition.
“We have the power to say no, we have the power for the government to hear our voice and I’m going to use that power.”
Quebecers already pay the lowest tuition fees in the country. The government wants to raise the price tag to keep its universities competitive.
Finance Minister Raymond Bachand says its time for students to start footing the bill.
“In 1968 the students paid 26 percent of the cost of universities, today they pay 13 percent. Who pays the difference? It’s the taxpayer.”
But a report by the Federation Etudiante Universitaire du Quebec questions where the extra money will be spent. And if a hike is nothing more than a government cash grab. The report estimates that if the hike goes through, thirteen thousand students will not be able to attend university next year.
Doucet might be one of them.
“It will effect me, I’d be considering what to do. Really, I’d be like should I take a semester off just to work and pay for the next semester? I don’t know, I have no idea, but they better not do it, they better not do it.”
Not so different for Chad Walcott. Even as a local Quebecer he may have to think twice about going to school if tuition continues to rise.
As VP External of the Concordia Student union and one of the coordinators of the Mob Squad, Walcott is at the forefront of student activism against tuition hikes. He is prepared to do whatever it takes.
Walcott lead Thursday’s protest at the Ministry of Education.
He plans to bring five thousand Concordia students to a province-wide protest on November 10th and battle for every last buck.
“This tuition hike won’t go through, it won’t pass and we’re not gonna let it. Failure is not an option.”
As the deadline fast approaches with both sides not bending, don’t expect these students to turn down the noise.
Joel Balsam, CJLO News, Montreal.
Photo by: Joel Balsam
Air Canada strike cancelled
The union representing nearly seven thousand Air Canada flight attendants says it has cancelled its planned strike for Thursday. The Canada Industrial Relations Board said employees have to remain on the job while the contract dispute is being reviewed.
The Board said in a statement that they had to determine if services needed maintaining for the safety of the public. They said a section in the Canadian Labour Code forbids a strike or lockout until a decision is made.
The flight attendants served a three-day strike over the weekend. This was caused by sixty-five per cent of votes cast against the latest tentative for a collective agreement. This is the second time in recent months that they have turned down a tentative deal with the airline.
Since Parliament is only resuming sitting on the seventeenth, a strike could last a few days before legislation goes into effect.
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