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The St. John's Morning Show from CBC Radio Nfld. and Labrador (Highlights)
Happy City St. John's says the City's revised housing policy is a missed opportunity. Vice-chair David Brake joined us in studio to talk about it.
A transit system aficionado says the City of St. John's should be investing more in Metrobus instead of stripping away an unexpected surplus. The director of communications and advocacy at Transport Action Atlantic says there's a need to accelerate a transit plan so St. John's can catch up to the rest of the country. (Anthony Germain with David Brake)
The show speaks with author and wildlife biologist Holly Hogan about her book "Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist". We ask folks: what needs to change to get plastics out of our oceans? The show starts with David Brake, the community engagement officer for Iron and Earth. He talks about empowering energy industry workers to move to the green energy industry.
In this province people have to wait in line - often for months - to buy an electric vehicle... but last week at least one driver waited in line in Goobies for 90 minutes to charge his EV. The founder and editor of the online resource EVs In Real Life drops by the studio for a discussion about range anxiety and provincial infrastructure. (Anthony Germain with David Brake)
Series: Stand Alone Sermons
Canadian parents have had the option of taking up to 18 months of parental leave, instead of only 12 months. And while the program has been popular, we crunch the numbers to find out if families can actually afford to take it. Amy Dietz-Graham is an investment advisor with Bank of Montreal and shares her insight on the long-term financial impacts. We introduce you to one family that has got creative with the time to overlap the first four months after baby’s arrival. And Daddy blogger Casey Palmer joins us to weigh in on whether his family could make the extended leave work. You can find out more about Palmer by checking out his website CaseyPalmer.com. For parents with teenagers this will come as no surprise, teens are abandoning Facebook in favour of other social media platforms. But researcher University of Alberta researcher David Brake argues life without Facebook may mean our youth is not getting the full picture. Follow Kim Smith @Kim_SmithTV on Twitter and our guest Casey Palmer @CaseP
David Brake tells a story during a Personal Storytelling class at South Mountain Community College. If you want to learn how to be a storyteller, please visit our website at southmountaincc.edu/storytelling.
Series: Mark's Gospel
Series: Philippians
University of Alberta researcher, David Brake, who's also a parent, speaks about what children are watching on YouTube.
Series: Living for Christ
Series: Romans
Series: Stand Alone Sermons
Series: Summer 2017
Arazou is off sick this week, so Reya El-Salahi joins David Brake and the Independent's Jacob Stolworthy to discuss BRIDGET JONES' BABY, BLAIR WITCH, and HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE. Plus interviews with Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth.
This week, the team take a look at DC's attempts to rival Marvel in the 'extended universe' stakes with its take on SUICIDE SQUAD, making a funny film about a short Jean Dujardin is a tall order in UP FOR LOVE, and we cook up our review of Japanese drama SWEET BEAN. Film 4's Beth Webb joins host Arazou Baker and resident film critic David Brake.
Fight the Brexit Blues with this podcast as Christopher and Dan are joined by ORWAV's editor and head honcho, television's own David Brake, to blast through the landmarks of Roland Emmerich's destructive career. INDEPENDENCE DAY, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, 2012, and this year's INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE are all torn apart, rebuilt, and torn apart again because, while Emmerich had 20 years to prepare, so did ORWAV. Listen now.
In this week's episode, Arazou Baker and David Brake are joined by The Movie Jerk, Janz Anton-Iago, to discuss (see: savage) new fantasy epic (see: CGI orgy) GODS OF EGYPT. They also review horror sequel THE CONJURING 2, CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR, and TALE OF TALES. Salma Hayek talks to the show about her role in latter, and why she said yes to one of the stranger films of the year.
Series: John's Gospel
In this week's episode of London Film Club, Arazou Baker and David Brake are joined by Evening Standard culture writer Ben Travis to review Melissa McCarthy's The Boss, Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next, as well as The Stanford Prison Experiment, and foreign indie gem Embrace of the Serpent. Featuring interviews with Melissa McCarthy, Michael Moore, and director Ciro Guerra.
In the first episode of London Film Club Arazou Baker and David Brake are joined by Independent culture writer Clarisse Loughrey to review new releases WARCRAFT, THE NICE GUYS and RACE. Clarisse also catches up with THE NICE GUYS director Shane Black, before the team take a look at what's on offer at the Sundance Film Festival in London. The Evening Standard's Ben Travis also takes a look back through the archives at five films you might not know premiered at Sundance.
Series: Church
My guest today is David Brake, CEO of LRNGO.com, where learning meets the sharing economy. LRNGO is an open web & mobile marketplace where users in over 200 countries find experts and earn money teaching what they love, and exchange skills & knowledge with each other at no cost. (For instance: I'll teach you an hour of computer programming if you teach me an hour of graphic design, or I'll teach you a half hour of English if you teach me a half hour of Spanish once a week.) David is really passionate about learning, and he says, “Learning is personalized – it's your story, and no one has the same path as you.” David is also the founder of Teachers 2 Go LLC, a company that creates win/win situations for teachers to earn supplemental income by bringing them to the location of clients. He is also organizer of two not-for profit community groups: the Houston Language Partners and Houston Learning Exchange.
The One Room With A View Show continues its themed summer specials with an episode examining the great cinematic institution that is the blockbuster. What makes a good one? What makes a bad one? And where does 2013's The Lone Ranger fall upon that spectacular spectrum? Christopher Preston and Dan Orton discuss all of this and so much more with OneRoomWithAView.com's Editor-in-Chief himself, Mr David Brake (gulp!) and returning guest, ORWAV writer, and all around good guy Calum Baker. You won't want to miss this (unless you were anything to do with 2011's Green Lantern, then you'll probably want to skip this)!