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This is the podcast for Stuart Parker's weekly public affairs show, which began on Prince George's CFIS 93.1 as After Nine - Monday Edition and has now moved to CFUR 88.7.

Stuart Parker


    • Feb 15, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 57m AVG DURATION
    • 127 EPISODES


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    Cocktail Hour - S02E23: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023 35:46


    Don talks about more of his adventures abroad, in France and the Middle East and we discuss the Punic Wars and their impact on our imaginative empathy.

    Cocktail Hours - S02E22: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023 50:14


    Don talks about his trips to Europe following retirement.

    Cocktail Hour - S02E21: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023 53:47


    This interview covers the period from 1963 to the 1990s when he worked as a professor of philosophy first at UBC then at SFU. Here we get Don's take on the hippie movement, the discipline of philosophy and anti-intellectual fads, past and present.

    Cocktail Hour - S02E20: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2023 51:26


    Part two of our program finale wherein Don recounts his encounter with the Beat movement.

    Cocktail Hour - S02E19: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2023 46:23


    This is the first part of Cocktail Hour's five-episode finale featuring the philosopher Don Todd

    Cocktail Hour - S02E18: Ira Zbarsky's Public Lecture on Fair Trade and Eco-Anarchism

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2022 96:48


    Los Altos Institute hosted Ira Zbarsky, a lifelong supporter of communities seeking autonomy through bioregional self-reliance and fair trade on November 28th in Vancouver.

    Cocktail Hour - S02E17: Stuart Parker/My Baby Pictures #2

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2022 51:17


    This second of two episodes of my political baby photos covers 1996 and 1997. The first interview is the Green Party's first appearance on Rafe Mair's (or any other major radio) talkshow on April 16, 1996 in response to a vigorous campaign by our supporters to break the six-year media blackout under which we had been labouring.

    Cocktail Hour - S02E16: Stuart Parker/My Baby Pictures

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022 53:48


    While you wait for me to finish the Don Todd interviews, here is the radio equivalent of my baby pictures, featuring four interviews I did when I was 17, back in 1989. I talk about what animated me at the time: youth suffrage, McDonald's ozone-damaging packaging and the proposed Stanley Park zoo expansion.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E15: Jon Beasley-Murray/Margaritas

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2022 73:31


    Jon and I meant to discuss three issues on the show but discovered that an hour had passed talking about the first one, the state of the modern university.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E14: Sam Schechter/Cotes du Rhone Guigal

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2022 68:59


    Sam wanted to talk about men's experience of miscarriages, which, other than wine, is mostly what we talked about.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E13: Andrew Chestnut/Maracuyas

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2022 63:45


    In the show, we drink passionfruit mezcal cocktails discuss Tabasco sauce, Oaxaca cheese, the background and mixed record of Pope Francis, the rise of Latin American Pentecostalism and the relationship between neoliberal healthcare austerity and rising magical belief.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E12: Cherry Smiley/Dry

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2022 72:30


    Cherry Smiley is a dark horse candidate for leader of the BC New Democratic Party running on a feminist platform. We spend seventy minutes talking provincial issues and about the challenges of participating in the NDP.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E11: Nathan Giede/Rum and Coke

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2022 96:59


    Nathan Giede, Prince George-based Assiniboine columnist, podcaster, Catholic traditionalist, former Tory candidate joins us to talk about all and sundry as we relaunch the show.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E10: John Thompson/Rum Drinks

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 59:38


    In this episode I interview my longtime friend John Thompson, military man, defense policy analyst and now author of a new book on the Second World War. We drink rum; Thompson's bum leg went out so he couldn't make it to the shops and had to subsist on his emergency navy rum supply.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E09: Edward Kopp/Manhattans

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2022 76:46


    After a two month hiatus, the Cocktail Hour is back on the air with the amazing Edward Kopp, navy man, chef, public intellectual and candidate in the Democratic Party 2024 Brooklyn congressional primary.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E08: Ukraine Panel Substitute Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2022 69:05


    This is a show produced for Los Altos Institute's podcast channel being reposted here. It's a panel discussion on the Ukraine conflict with Jonathan Sheps, Stuart Parker, Tom Ewasiuk and RT Hatfield.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E07: Bill Tieleman/Manhattans

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2022 64:57


    We interview Bill Tieleman, long-time political operator in British Columbia on the left and law enforcement, as well as the state of the New Democratic Party.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E06: Lierre Keith/Dry

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2022 77:30


    This week, the conversation was over tea with Lierre Keith, co-founder of Deep Green Resistance, founder of Women's Liberation Front (WOLF) and author of several books on feminism and the ecological crisis.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E05: Jonathan Sheps/Black Russian

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2022 68:41


    This episode of Cocktail Hour, I interview my friend and comrade, geneticist Jonathan Sheps. We talk politics, diaspora and Zionism but we also get to hear his potentially world-changing synthesis of DNA research into bedbugs, lice, syphilis and early hominids. There is even something for sasquatch and yeti enthusiasts.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E04: Derrick Jensen/Dry

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2022 78:27


    My second interview with Derrick Jensen of Deep Green Resistance covers his up coming book, Marijuana: A Love Story, chronicling the perverse effects of marijuana legalization. We then move on to discussing the problem of scale, properties of capitalism and the Identitarian turn of the eco-left.

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    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E03: Scott Costen/Best Bitter

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2022 64:12


    We enjoy a beer with Hants County Nova Scotia journalist and opinion leader Scott Costen, host of the Sidebar on the prospects for socialist politics in Atlantic Canada and more broadly in the English speaking world. You can find the Sidebar at @thesidebar1 on Twitter and https://thesidebar.ca/.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E02: Heather Mason/Dry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2022 50:36


    Heather Mason, prisoner rights campaigner talks about the devastating impact of the Gender Orthodoxy on incarcerated women in Canada. If you care about the physical safety of Indigenous women and girls, this show is a must-listen.

    Cocktail Hour - S02E01: Rick Halpern/Negroni

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 71:46


    Historian, chef and photographer Rick Halpern catches up with Stuart with a negroni in hand. Subjects range from Szechuan cuisine to the rise of the authoritarians to the colour line's upsetting persistence.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S01E10: Erin Weir/Rum and Coke

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2021 67:34


    The last NDP MP Saskatchewan sent to Ottawa was in Hawaii. We caught up over rum and cokes, talking about the prospects of the Canadian left.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S01E09: Hannah Barale/Black Russian

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 79:30


    This is the last of our four-parter on the gender orthodoxy, as the review of this show by CFUR is over and we have been summarily canceled from the public airwaves in Canada. So, unrestrained by the fear of cancelation, we have a great discussion with a young, lesbian, Marxist intellectual heavyweight with a great sense of humour.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S0108: Amy Hamm/Gin and Soda

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021 61:30


    Amy Hamm is a nurse in Vancouver who is currently fighting the loss of her accreditation to practice on the grounds not of her nursing practice but of the political opinions she expresses when not at work. We talk about the social movement that launched the complaint to have her removed from the nursing profession, its demands and the other intimidation and speech-chilling tactics it uses.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker S01E07: Chris Elston/Chewbacca

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2021 62:49


    Another cocktail-free cocktail hour due to the exigencies of this new journalistic project. Still, the intro contains a cocktail recipe and recommendation, the Mighty Chewbacca. Start at minute four if you want to dive directly into Chris Elston's campaign against the widespread use of puberty blockers on our children.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker S01E06: Daniel Kaufman/Dry

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2021 86:26


    In this episode, I make some additional announcements about the show's current status and then we take a break from cocktails to discuss the Identitarian turn in modern identity politics with Daniel Kaufman, a professor of philosophy at Missouri State University. Dr. Kaufman focuses much of his critique on the idea of compelled speech and its incompatibility with a liberal society. It is the first of an indefinite series of shows with critics of Identitarianism that will end when Identitarians stop their efforts to prevent people from hearing this show.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker S01E05: Jorge Cañizares Esguerra/Sangria

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2021 56:26


    In this show, Jorge Cañizares Esguerra, historian of the Spanish Empire and I discuss the long-term legacies of colonialism in the Americas, from the origins of race and racism to contemporary education policies that discriminate against Latinos. We also enjoy some sangria.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker S01E04: Mary Eileen Wennekers/Upper Canadian Coffee

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2021 57:23


    In this show we discuss Eileen's faculty activism, her new design house and clothing line and our current moment in neoliberalism.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker S01E03: Jeremy Stewart/Limoncello

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2021 52:50


    Jeremy Stewart, poet, musician, scholar and impresario comes on the program to talk about his novella, In Singing, He Composed a Song.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker S01E02: Corey Hardeman/Gimlet

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 56:38


    My partner and I chat about art-making and the extinction event over gimlets.

    Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker S01E01: Ken Mills/Gimlet

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 57:25


    My longtime friend Ken Mills of the University of Michigan enjoy gimlets together and talk about lessons we can learn from the study of the Spanish Empire... and mystery novels.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.37 (59): Final Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2021 55:54


    This is the final episode of Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George, explaining the show's cancelation and the show that will replace it.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.36 (58): The Green Party of Canada Leadership Crisis Panel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2021 57:51


    Join former Green candidates Wes Regan (Vancouver), Cheryl Wiens (Langley), Darcie Lanthier (Prince Edward Island) and Green Party of Quebec leader, Alex Tyrrell as they discuss the crisis gripping the Green Party of Canada.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.35 (57): Sean Holman and Art Vanden Berg on Patrick Moore

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 64:15


    Professor, journalist and philosopher of the Fourth Estate has written an article fact-checking climate denialist Patrick Moore. He discusses the piece with tech entrepreneur, Los Altos fellow and former Green Party city councilor Art Vanden Berg.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.34 (56): Norm Farrell of Insights.Ca

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2021 58:12


    We spend a full hour with Norm Farrell of Insights.ca, an accountant who has made it his business in retirement to look at the financial dimensions of the BC government's love affair with mining, forestry and energy companies.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.33 (55): More Leon and Eric Bibb from 2006 and 2011

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2021 58:05


    We return to the Leon Bibb archive today and listen to some of his duets with his son Eric and return to Leon's recollections of Paul Robeson, Muhammad Ali and Leonard Bernstein.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.32 (54): Ian Rocksborough Smith, Avneet Johal, Dean McGee and Cheryl Wiens Discuss the Changing Political Demography of the Fraser Valley

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 56:10


    I discuss the changing demography and politics of the Fraser Valley with long-time residents, activists and academics.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.31 (53): The Political Panel on Childcare

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2021 58:16


    Nathan Giede, former BC Conservative candidate, Sam Schechter, former BC NDP candidate and city councilor, Cheryl Wiens, former BC Green Party candidate and Ryan Campbell, BC Liberal Party organizer discuss provincial and national childcare programs and promises.

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    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.30 (52): Naomi Kavka and Leon Bibb archival recordings

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 58:07


    This episode includes more archival recordings of the Leon Bibb interviews of 2011. Leon is then followed by musician, musicologist and polymath Naomi Kavka, continuing on themes of race and musical genre.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.29 (51): Newfoundland Novelist, Humourist, Essayist and Professor Andrew Loman on Forthcoming Books

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2021 57:45


    Andrew Loman is a most erudite man, a professor of literature at Memorial University and popular essayist. We spend an hour reading and discussing his work.

    My March 31st Interview on the Vancouver Olympic Bid

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2021 16:16


    I still post my interviews from other shows here. I guess the cancellation is wearing off. Mike Smyth puts me back on CKNW.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.28 (50): Democratizing Land Use Decisions in BC with Darcy Repen, James Steidl and Meaghan Cursons

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 57:58


    Darcy Repen, former mayor of Telkwa and Rural BC Party candidate, James Steidl, Prince George woodworker and anti-glyphosate activist and Meaghan Cursons, Executive Director of Cumberland Forest on democratizing land use decisions in BC.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.27 (49): The Political Panel on Municipal Jurisdiction and Representation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2021 57:39


    The regular panel of Sam Schechter (BC NDP), Nathan Giede (BC Conservatives), Cheryl Wiens (BC Greens) and Ryan Campbell (BC Liberals) discuss questions of municipal jurisdiction and representation.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.26 (48) Jordan Brown MHA for Labrador West

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 58:04


    We spend the whole hour talking with Jordan Brown about his re-election in Newfoundland to the riding of Labrador West and how it is that New Democrats like him remain popular and relevant in rural and industrial communities, unlike their political fate in BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.25 (47): Sean Frackowiak on DC Comics movies, Musicologist Naomi Kavka on Surf Music

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 57:36


    Sean Frackowiak, our film correspondent returns with a discussion of Zac Snyder superhero ensemble movies and the problems of Medicaid. Naomi Kavka, musician, musicologist and singer joins the show as our regular music correspondent.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.24 (46): Archival Recording of the Late Leon Bibb, Singer, Civil Rights Leader, Actor, Director and Writer

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 58:00


    In 2011, I received permission to write the authorized biography of civil rights leader, actor, director and writer Leon Bibb. Leon has since passed away, the interviews and writing project incomplete. But I have been left with some great archival footage of candid interviews I conducted in the summer and fall of 2011, along with notes from my interviews with the Bibb family in Louisville, Kentucky in the spring of 2012. For the next few weeks, I will be airing the portions of those interviews suitable for radio broadcast as part of a new approach to completing the biography.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.23 (45): The Political Panel on a Possible Federal Election Call

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 58:09


    We join our regular political panel, Ryan Campbell of the BC Liberals, Nathan Giede of the BC Tories, Sam Schechter of the BC NDP and Cheryl Wiens of the BC Green Party in discussing the implications for each provincial party of a likely federal election call.

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    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.22 (44): Nathan Giede and Aaron Eckman on their new show Ram & Stag

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 57:59


    An interview with long-time friend of the show, Nathan Giede, BC Tory and Roman Catholic activist, broadcaster and writer and Aaron Eckman, former treasurer of the BC Federation of Labour on their new BC issues and identity podcast, Ram & Stag.

    Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George - Episode #2.21 (43): Writer, Philosopher, Activist Derrick Jensen

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 58:01


    We interview author, philosopher and activist for eco-politics Derrick Jensen about his latest (of more than two dozen) book, Bright Green Lies and related matters. You can purchase the book here: https://www.monkfishpublishing.com/products-page-2/environmentalism/bright-green-lies/

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