CharacterDriven : Episodes
Yet another arrow has been aimed in the direction of Lantzville's Compassion Farm and Dirk Becker is still fighting back. This weekend he was busy erecting a fence between neighbour Brash's home and his urban garden, which has been under continuous attack for the past 19 months. Dirk gives the low down ...
Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent ac-tion, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, ...
Cynthia is a recovering addict who has managed to overcomes some of life's most difficult circumstances to where she is now helping others who find themselves in the same position
Bill Henderson and Chilliwack are fixtures on the Canadian music scene. I had a chance to talk to Bill from his home on Saltspring Island just before his gig at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo, part of a four city 'mini tour'...or 'dates' as he calls them.
Could the agenda behind chemtrail/geoengineering programs be more than what geoengineers are admitting? As awareness of these damaging programs increases around the world, theories about them include weather control, population control, morgellons disease, food control, etc. On October 3-7, 2011, scientists ...
Anyone over the age of 40 has probably heard of the "Summer of Love" which began at the corner of Haight and Ashbury Streets, the now famous corner known as the Haight District of San Francisco. The neighborhood became the center of the San Francisco Renaissance and with it, the rise of a drug culture ...
The Vancouver Island Music Festival has been providing summer entertainment to eclectic audiences for decades. Doug Cox has been searching out the act that comprise the sound of the festival and as a musician himself, his tastes run the gamut. Doug talks to me about his role in putting together the festival ...
Author, lecturer, teacher and world traveller Lyn Hancock talks about her work as a writer, her latest trip to Africa and Asia and her upcoming book tour in Calgary.
Sophie Hough and Francesca Vukovich are sixteen years old and want to challenge their peers to become more aware and involved when it comes to such things as social media. A case in point is the recent phenomenon "Kony 2012" which has gone viral on social media sites as a direct result of the video creators'
Phillip Ponchette is on a tour from Nova Scotia to British Columbia offering workshops that introduce participants to the Inner Peace Movement and how to begin experiencing the benefits of finding peace and fulfillment in our lives.
he Nanaimo Daily News featured a story on the front page of its February 8, 2012 edition. There, in bold headline read:
Dismantle Reserves and Integrate First Nations, with the first line reading, “The time has come to abolish native reserves and integrate, once and for all, our aboriginal brothers ...
Dismantle Reserves and Integrate First Nations, with the first line reading, “The time has come to abolish native reserves and integrate, once and for all, our aboriginal brothers ...
Billy Boy handed over the Blue Plate Special to DJ Dirty Job and DJ Blues Herron and this was the result: a show about the pioneers of the blues and the folks who made their work 'mainstream'...or at least lucrative...and didn't necessarily give them the cred they deserved. We're here to set things straight.
If you use energy of any kind- physical, emotional, spiritual or hydro- you need to hear Ian Gartshore talk about not only the tangible ways that we can conserve energy and re-channel our hearts and minds toward positive solutions to the various ways we waste energy.
Peadar O'Donoghue is a poet and publisher who is trying to keep up with the orders for his magazine "The Poetry Bus". The magazine began as an idea on his blog http://totalfeckineejit.blogspot.com. His anthology of poetry "Jewel" will be published by Salmon this Spring.
Lynn Thompson (www.livingonpurposelynn.com)and her niece Celeste Authors join me for a discussion about 'new beginnings': how we process the experiences that challenge us and create from that reality a positive outcome. Celeste had a promising career in the film industry in Toronto when she was hit by ...
Another episode from character driven
A rebroadcast of last year's interview with 'A Stellar Band of Neighbours' which brings together a bunch of amazing musicians from groups of various stripes: Del Cowsill (The Cowsills), Steven Drake (The Odds), Johnny Fay (The Tragically Hip), Kevin Kane (Grapes of Wrath), Simon Kendall (Doug and the ...
Another episode from character driven
Another episode from character driven
Another episode from character driven