Podcast appearances and mentions of peter gzowski

boom 97.3's Jeff Chalmers talks about a lifetime in radio, experiencing the transition from turntables/tapes to 100% digital, maintaining listener relationships now approaching 50 years [shoutouts to Libby! Steve! Sue!], his interactions with Ozzy Osborne & Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, working at CFTR/Q107/CBC Radio/The Hog/Jack-FM/boom 97.3, hosting the Midnight Metal Hour on Q107, getting starstruck in front of CBC's Peter Gzowski, and why he still LOVES to play vinyl! Catch Jeff on boom 97.3 at https://www.boom973.com/on-air/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian High Jumping legend Debbie Brill talks about developing the 'Brill Bend,' comparisons to the 'Fosbury Flop' [and her relationship with Dick Fosbury], jumping [and breaking world records] into her 50s, her positive interview experiences on the CBC with Adrienne Clarkson and Peter Gzowski, reaching that zen place of being ‘one with the jump,' sharing a good chuckle with Queen Elizabeth, and why jumping ridiculously high was essentially “just this trick I could do for fun!” Debbie will be inducted into the Trailblazer category at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame on October 23rd in Gatineau, Quebec...for more information, please visit Canada's Sports Hall of Fame at http://www.sportshall.ca/ and the Order of Sport Awards at https://orderofsport.ca/ Thanks to Jason Beck [@jasonbeck82] for some great research material! TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“He's not well, Stuart.” We're going way back today with two pieces from pre-Vinyl Cafe days! One is a favourite you've been requesting, back from Stuart McLean's regular appearances on Peter Gzowski's Morningside. (Spoiler alert: You'll see what happens when two presenters get the giggles on live radio.) Excerpt from Morningside reproduced by permission of CBC Licensing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sports Literati turn back the pages on a hockey classic, Peter Gzowski's The Game of Our Lives, a behind the scenes account of the 1980-81 Edmonton Oilers, led by a young Wayne Gretzky. They also discuss hockey as Canada's national myth, and whether it is still at the core of Canada's national identity today.

On this episode of THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW, Neeley and Chris talk about a woman who claims she's having a love affair with a rollercoaster and has kids from it. Following, they talk about the lame excuses guys use on women to avoid wearing condoms. Finally, they end with some recent footage of Iggy Pop from a show in Copenhagen. Please SUBSCRIBE, click the notification bell, leave a comment or a like, and share this episode! **NOTE: Everything said here, and on every episode of all of our shows are 100% the opinions of the hosts. Nothing is stated as fact. Do your own research to see if their opinions are true or not.**

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

We interview Ken Boon, president of the Peace Valley Landowners' Association about the current state of the Site C megaproject and then follow up with our regular science and energy guy, Art Vanden Berg, tech entrepreneur and former city councilor.

The BC Government has finally released its report on Basic Minimum Income. The answer: we're not doing it. Cheryl Wiens of the Greens, Sam Schecter of the NDP, Ryan Campbell of the BC Liberals and Nathan Giede of the BC Tories weigh in.

In this episode, we return from another unexpected broadcasting hiatus to talk with Prince George activist and yoga instructor about her campaign to label architecture hostile to unhoused folks. We then move to Rebecca Smith and Dean McGee on the defection of Asad Syed, Niovi Patzicakis and themselves from the NDP to the Greens on the eve of last fall's election in Surrey.

Our regular panel of Nathan Giede (Conservative Party), Ryan Campbell (BC Liberal Party), Sam Schechter (BC NDP) and Cheryl Wiens (BC Green Party) weigh in on last year's #DefundThePolice campaign and its implications and effects in BC politics.

Our broadcast covers the two issues I feel we covered best last year, (1) efforts by the Wet'suwet'en to stop the #HorganPipeline being built through their territory without consent and (2) a generation of mistreatment of rural and Northern BC by BC's Ministry of Education, right up to the reopening of our schools in September. It features past interviews with guests Patti Bacchus, Jerome Turner, Karla Tait, Molly Wickham, Adam Finch, Joanne Hapke and Joanna Larson. Thanks folks for coming on the show last year and explaining events as they transpired.

This episode is a shorter show featuring a longer interview with Samuel Getachew, an Ethiopian-Canadian journalist who helps to put the Tigray political and humanitarian crisis in sharper relief. The show also features a historical background on Ethiopia and Samuel, who is slumming it by coming on our show after writing for the Washington Post.

This is our year in review, 2020, program featuring a panel comprising Piers Brown, a professor of English at Kenyon College in Ohio, Jeff Ranger, a college instructor in Vancouver and Arthur Hatfield, a data security professional in Atlanta, GA. Piers, former Secretary of the BC Green Party, Jeff, a former director of the BC Ecosocialist Party and Arthur, a director of Los Altos Institute, bring a materialist, left perspective to their observations.

Sam Schechter (NDP), Nathan Giede (Conservative), Ryan Campbell (BC Liberal) and Cheryl Wiens (Green) discuss the entangled questions of emissions, exports, rural-urban differences and economic fairness in BC's climate change debate.

Today's show features Connecticut sex worker Sensual Stormi on her work with disabled clients and dangers faced by contemporary sex workers, followed by Michael Laxer, publisher of the Left Chapter and former Ontario Socialist Party leader on the state of the left in English Canada, particularly Ontario.

This week we spend, not 100% intentionally, our entire show interviewing Hugh Esco, Secretary of the state Green Party of Georgia. We touch on the challenges faced by Greens in a highly polarized, highly monetized political environment in the US generally and Georgia in particular. But the main purpose of the interview is to promote an online event by the Georgia Greens to bring an ecofeminist, materialist approach to ending violence against women.

Communications and journalism professor Sean Holman returns to the show to talk about recent revelations at the Cullen Commission, BC's commission on illegal gambling, money laundering and real estate. Before he was a professor, Sean was an investigative journalist who helped break the original story of political interference in the BC government's decision to disband the RCMP taskforce investigating this. Then, Sean Frackowiak, our entertainment columnist, returns to the show with Christmas movie advice and a review of Borat.

Our regular post-election political panel, comprising Cheryl Wiens of the BC Green Party, Sam Schechter of the BC NDP, Ryan Campbell of the BC Liberals and Nathan Giede of the BC Conservative Party evaluates the new regional political of BC post-campaign and looks at shifting public opinion on BC's management of the pandemic.

The show begins with an introduction to the glyphosate spraying issue for listeners from outside of BC's rural industrial belt. I then interview long-time friend of the show, Laura Parent who made her first run for public office in Prince George-Valemount this fall, followed by Mike Morris, re-elected as a BC Liberal MLA for Prince George-Mackenzie. We discussed the rural-urban divide in BC politics, challenges facing smaller communities and, most importantly, Mike's renewed initiative and private member's bill to end glyphosate spraying in our forests.

We touch down in two swing states with members of the most coveted demographics in the US. Scott Moore of suburban Raleigh, North Carolina and Arthur Hatfield of suburban Atlanta, Georgia offer their observations from the vantage point of coveted voters in swing states. Edward Kopp follows up, talking about the post-election work from Brooklyn, New York.

I tried to feature the parties that made a difference in this election that did not appear on last week's political panel. Very interesting interview with the former mayor of Telkwa and first-ever candidate for the Rural BC Party. And another warm and nostalgic interview with Doug Gook, the Green candidate in Cariboo-North. This was followed by some election analysis by me because the Christian Heritage Party declined their interview.

Join Sam Schechter from the BC NDP, Ryan Campbell from the BC Liberals and Nathan Giede from the BC Conservatives for a discussion of BC's issue-less election, the disastrous BC Liberal campaign, the place of social conservatism in BC politics and the relevance of the BC Greens. With the BC Ecosocialists declining to run candidates in the election, Jeremy Stewart has left the panel and Cheryl Wiens' substitute, Wes Regan, was unable to join the call.

Cheryl Wiens of the Greens, Nathan Giede of the Tories, Ryan Campbell of the Liberals, Sam Schechter of the NDP and Jeremy Stewart of the BC Ecosocialists discuss the drug poisoning epidemic, the return to school and the correctly-predicted imminent election call. Sorry for the three-day delay in putting this one up. Those in the know might know I've been a tad busy.

I interview Rebecca Smith, Executive Director of Surrey Hospice Society about the challenges of providing hospice care during Covid, the tough decisions she has had to take regarding staffing, programming and a shrinking budget, and then I interview Donna Flood, who does the same job in Prince George, who tells us a very different story. While there are important commonalities between these interviews about grief, loss, community and their interaction with Covid, the differences are the subject of a short post-show editorial.

We interview a local social entrepreneur and school trustee for District 57 (Prince George), Trent Derrick, along with Joanne Hapke, President of the SD57 BCTF and Andrea Beckett, President of the SD57 District Parent Advisory Committee. On BC's back-to-school plans and how they are going to shake down locally here in Prince George and the Upper Fraser.

Nicole Lindsay, an organizer of the August 31st Prince George vigil for families who have lost loved ones in the drug poisoning crisis speaks about her experience of losing her son to the epidemic and the need to move beyond discourses of overdose and addiction. Scott Costen the Canadian correspondent for Redaction Politics, a new leftist news source for the Anglosphere talks Maritime politics, police violence and the Green Party leadership race.

We finished my first year as a radio broadcaster with the BC politics panel, featuring our regulars, the NDP's Sam Schechter, the BC Liberals' Ryan Campbell, the BC Greens' Cheryl Wiens and the BC Tories' Nathan Giede. Filling in for BC Ecosocialist Jeremy Stewart was UNBC's Nicole Lindsay, former editor of BC Hansard. This week, we discussed how to do "big tent" politics in BC, especially with respect to social conservatism. We also spent some time considering whether there is a "third rail" in BC politics as there is or was in the US

I spend a little under an hour interviewing Harold Steves about BC politics, eco-politics and socialism, past and present. Harold has served as a Richmond city councilor for nearly fifty years, following three years as the member of the BC legislature for Richmond.

There has been a lot of bad news in Canadian journalism the past year with the developments at the Toronto Now, Georgia Straight, Metro and Torstar. The one bright spot has been the arrival of the Narwhal, providing not just non-profit, ecologically conscious journalism but old school investigative reporting with close editing, travel budgets and a careful careful research. We interview their newest journalist, Matt Simmons, the BC Northwest beat reporter. But before that, we check-in with Michael Demers, our regular sports reporter, on the rush back to work by Anglo America's main sports leagues.

In honour of the holiday weekend, we recorded a whole episode on barbecuing. Our first interviewee was June Starkey, an an Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of Toronto's OISE, speaking after her successful cottage country barbecue near Prince Edward County. She was followed by Culinary Institute of America-trained executive chef Edward Kopp in Brooklyn. Ron Shewchuk, PR flak, award-winning competitive barbecuer and barbecuing cookbook author, both of who talked about the relationship between barbecuing and grilling, while passing on some solid culinary ideas.

Over the last weekend of July, the BC Politics panel of Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George met to discuss the ethics of a fall election. John Horgan has been talking about ending the Confidence and Supply Agreement with the Green Party as early as September. Is this legal? Is this ethical? Is this good for regular folks in BC? This episode welcomed Cheryl Wiens as our permanent Green Party representative. She joined the NDP's Sam Schechter, BC Liberals' Ryan Campbell and the Ecosocialists' Jeremy Stewart. The BC Tories' Nathan Giede was not able to join us from his long work assignment in Churchill MB.

This show, we interviewed Martha Rans, head of the Artists Legal Outreach Clinic, whose practice of providing pro-bono legal advice to artists is becoming a Canada-wide enterprise. This was followed with an interview with my romantic partner Corey Matthews on her up coming show at Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George as well as landscapes, reservoirs and the kinds of things Martha's organization seeks to protect artists from.

I am teaching three courses at UNBC this fall on The Indian Rim Since Antiquity, Historiography and Early Modern World history. So, to promote enrollment in my classes, I thought I would feature a sample on my show. So, what you will hear on today's podcast are excerpts from my lecture on the idea of landscape, delivered at Simon Fraser University last spring.

Anthony Dunn, one of our UK election commentators was back for a wide-ranging chat about the state of the post-Brexit scene. The model for the Captain Morgan painting on the Anglosphere's most illustrious mid-priced rum, he has variously worked as an assembly line factor worker, used car dealer, tour guide, university lecturer, TV actor, West End stage leading man and Ibizan dance instructor/comedian/sex worker. He grew up in Norfolk in a working class Anglo-Indian household. He recently had a letter on class analysis published in Private Eye Magazine.

Wes Regan, Green politician, urbanist, opinion leader and high-level policy-maker public servant dropped by to converse about a major area of mutual interest: the threats posed by the growth of modern conspiracy theory.

This week our political panel discussed the Justin Neufeld scandal in which a BC Liberal volunteer was cut from the party over social media posts comparing Black Lives Matter to the Nazis. Urbanist and public health expert Wes Regan represented the Greens; arts impresario, poet and Derrida scholar Jeremy Stewart represented the Ecosocialists; Sam Schechter, Douglas College communications instructor represented the NDP; Nathan Giede Prince George citizen columnist and radio host represented the BC Conservatives and Ryan Campbell, construction project manager and long-time Fair Vote Canada director represented the BC Liberals. The panel delved into questions of how changing ideas of labour and democracy are remaking our political parties at the grassroots level.

June 15th's Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George features Meaghan Cursons, Executive Director of the Cumberland Forest, talking about the economic, social and ecological evolution of a post-mining town and efforts to democratize land use and remediation. Then we have the second part of our epistemology of authoritarianism series with OCAD University's Eileen Wennekers and Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University's Samir Gandesha who make some interesting comparisons between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi.

James Douglas is the first returning guest on my CFUR show. He and his partner in many things, Danette Boucher give the final interview on Barkerville Historic Site's dive into virtual public history and the Zoom platform at the end of the program. They are preceded by Social Work MA candidate Juls Budau on Northern BC's overdose crisis and the need for a safe drug supply and then by journalist and opinion leader Jordan Tucker on Prince George's Black Lives Matter and police reform solidarity protests.

Our June 1st, 2020 show features Albany-based food security and racial justice activist James Surano on the policing crisis in the United States, followed by Victoria Councilor Ben Isitt on a Vancouver Island initiative to keep key new government "emergency" programs post-Covid.

This is the first of our monthly political panels on Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George. It is a deliberate tribute to the Dalton Camp-Eric Kierans-Stephen Lewis panel of the 1980s, from the world before talking points, back when people demonstrated their loyalty to their party not just by praising it when it was right but criticizing it when it was wrong. Kierans and Camp epitomized that old school loyalty that made them challenge their leaders from time to time. We have a very clever and loyal bunch on this panel: Sam Schechter former North Vancouver city councillor, communications instructor at Douglas College, former BC NDP staffer, member of the party's oversight committee. Jeremy Stewart arts impresario, poet, PhD candidate at Lancashire University, former BC Ecosocialist Communications chair and communications and outreach director for the White Rock Business improvement association. Wes Regan former Green candidate and federal party director, environmental activist, urban studies commentator and population health expert for the BC government. Nathan Giede former BC Conservative Party candidate, CFIS radio show host, Prince George Citizen columnist and copier salesman. Ryan Campbell former BC Liberal riding association director, long-time Fair Vote Canada national director, co-founder of Liberals for Fair Voting and construction sector project manager Wes is not our regular Green Party contributor. Cheryl Wiens will be sliding into his chair in the summer.

I had to move hundreds of pounds of furniture and books this weekend and tired myself right out. So, I went to my trusty show archives and found a whole hour just of Sean Frackowiak doing his very witty entertainment column. Sit back and enjoy. Regular current affairs programming will return next week.

We finished our interview with Dimitri Lascaris and then had a long, curiosity-driven discussion about how fascist and authoritarian movements figure out what is and is not true. Prepare to have your vocabulary expanded in party two.

Today's show has a pretty deep dive into forty-three years of Star Wars material, which kind of crowds out the dynamic Green Party of Canada leadership contender, Dimitri Lascaris, who will, consequently, be back.

I am proud of this show. Each of the interviews saw Covid-19 as a jumping-off point for thinking more deeply about major issues in our society, from bereavement, death and loss to no-fault insurance schemes to cosplaying the industrial working class. Rebecca, Echo and Ingrid are all sharp interview subjects I'm eager to speak with again.

This show is a technically rough show for a bunch of reasons, the chief of which is that we do not do studio interviews or have access to studio editing facilities. Despite the tech problems, we have two great guests, Fiona York of Carnegie Community Action Project, a partner of Red Braid Alliance, in the Squat2Survive campaign. Our regular Red Braid Alliance guest, was in jail at the time. This was followed by a longer interview with local Prince George conservative opinion leader for an in-movement perspective on all things conservative in Canada.

This week's show featured three guests on very different beats. Dock Currie, former NDP candidate, law student and former York university instructor joined us to talk about the emerging personality cult around BC's chief medical health officer. Our regular sports guy, Michael Demers, had some advice on how to handle the end of live sports entertainment during the pandemic. And Prince George activist Laura Parent filled us in on the Kelly Road school controversy, the bizarre, racially-charged conflict that our city was focused on before the pandemic.

This week was our second episode on CFUR 88.7 and the first in our regular time slot of 11am Pacific Time. We had three guests, Isabel Krupp from Red Braid Alliance (formerly Alliance Against Displacement) talking about the special challenges of the unhoused and underhoused during the pandemic and state of emergency. We then talked with Jennifer Neilson, chairperson of the BC Ecosocialist Party about the need for local control during major emergencies and ended up with communications instructor Sam Schecter from Douglas College, looking at the prospects for higher education during the pandemic.

For our first episode on CFUR, we interviewed Prince George city councilor Cori Ramsey on local governance during the Covid-19 crisis and Mount Royal University Professor Sean Holman on the ways Covid-19 is reshaping public discourse and ideas of authority.

If the harvest show was an homage to Peter Gzowski's Morningside of the 80s, this show owes credit to Kathryn Gretzinger's Early Edition. In our first segment, my partner and famed BC nature artist Corey Matthews speaks on her return to Prince George and our shared project working on landscape through Los Altos Institute. Former Prince George Symphony Orchestra executive director and poet Jeremy Stewart then joins us to compare notes on Prince George's and South Surrey/White Rock's moral panics about downtown business and poverty. Our regular sports columnist Michael Demers joins us to talk about the NHL coaching abuse scandal, followed by our movie reviewer Sean Frackowiak offering a spoiler-free review of the final Star Wars movie now showing in theatres.

A few weeks ago, New Brunswick lost a great storyteller when journalist Jackie Webster died at the age of 97. A writer and columnist for the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Peter Gzowski’s Morningside, The Sunday Times and many more, Jackie lived large and was frequently seen holding court at the Boyce Farmer’s market in Fredericton on Saturdays and at her beloved Tuesday Club which met on...Wednesdays at the Beaverbrook Hotel. A lunch meeting since 1987 - co-founded with Dalton Camp, academics, politicians, business people and journalists all share a love of NB, politics. Last year, Atlantic Voice listeners got a glimpse into Jackie Webster’s spirit when the CBC’s. Myfawny Davies attended the Tuesday Club for the passing of the Gavel after 32 years.

Episode #86 Sitting down with David Warrack was a real treat for me. David strikes me as someone who has, over time, become even more passionate about the arts and living a creative lifestyle. He has not become jaded or bitter about certain projects not going the way he wanted or maybe not even being produced at all. He has figured out a way to adapt and go with the flow of change in the industry through his career as an artist. David is a real champion of the artist. Your success is his success and he strives to create that kind of supportive environment wherever he goes by creating and producing new work, cheering on his colleagues, and most of all listening to the thoughts and feelings of others until they feel understood. The last thing he said to me before we parted was, “I am only an email away” and after spending time with him, I knew he meant it. Sometimes it’s what people say that impacts me the most and sometimes it's the impact of who they are that leaves the biggest impression. With David, it was both. In this episode, we discuss what changes he would like to see happen in the entertainment industry, why he believes every artist should explore writing on some level, what was the biggest takeaway from his lunch with Leonard Bernstein and so much more!   About David: Conductor, Pianist, Organist, Composer, Lyricist, Book-Writer, Musical Director, Orchestrator, Arranger, Singer, Vocal Coach, Music Producer, Producer (theatre, television, recordings), Guest Lecturer, Teacher Toured for fifteen years with Maureen Forrester, starting with the Vancouver Symphony at EXPO 86 (CD), 5 years with Jeff Hyslop (CD), and 8 years with Michael Burgess, in each case as Musical Director/Accompanist/Conductor.  In 2013, enjoyed a 19 concert cross Canada tour with Rebecca Caine and Michael Burgess.  2010 – 2015:  conductor of the Rose Orchestra in Brampton.   Starting in 2017 – touring with the quartet of Rebecca Caine, Ben Heppner, Gary Relyea, and Jean Stillwell. Musical Director of over 200 shows for stage or television, including SHENANDOAH on Broadway, 9 of Ross Petty’s Pantomimes at Toronto’s Elgin Theatre, the cross Canada tour of JACQUES  BREL …, the Vancouver production of UNFORGETTABLE, seven consecutive years at the Elora Festival, and all of the CBC’s DuMAURIER SEARCH FOR STARS.   Founding Conductor of the Canada Pops Orchestra. Credited as writer or co-writer of 79 professionally produced musicals, including some of the longest running shows in Toronto’s Theatre History (FLICKS, SWEET REASON, THE VAUDEVILLIANS, TEASE FOR TWO).  ROB ROY opened at the Edinburgh Festival (Scotland) in 2006 to rave reviews, and was recorded in 2007. More recently, THE THREE DAVIDS (the music of David Shire, David Frishberg, and David Warrack) premiered in 2013.  A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS, written with Norm Foster, premiered at Theatre Collingwood in 2014. The Oratorio ABRAHAM premiered in Toronto in 2015 with Richard Margison in the starring role, along with a cast of 6, plus the Bach Children’s Choir and the Elmer Iseler Singers.   Current: SHE’S NO LADY in workshop; CATWALK optioned as a film. Beginning with the 1972 radio special of the Charlottetown Festival’s BALLADE (orchestrator, conductor), over 40 years as a studio musician.  Recent: THE SECOND TIME AROUND (film). Huge body of choral and instrumental work. Created role of Jack Ayre in THE DUMBELLS at the Charlottetown Festival.  Shared the stage over the years with iconic performers, including Ronnie Hawkins, Don Harron, Len Cariou (most recently at 2013 Stratford Music Festival), Sheila McCarthy, Marilyn Lightstone, Sheila Brand, Brent Carver, Louise Pitre, Juan Chioran, George Masswohl, Mary Pitt, Thom Allison, Ma Anne Dionisio, Cynthia Dale, and Amanda Martinez.  Recently performed with the Bravura Baritones. Playing for Blues/Gospel Diva Jackie Richardson in October and November.  THE UNIVERSE IS DANCING (one man show) in October (Guelph, then the Jazz Bistro in Toronto).  CD release Hugh’s Room. In December.Christmas/Hanukkah show with Theresa Tova. 1980: produced TORONTO TORONTO, which ran for three years, followed by 2 years of TORONTO TORONTO 2. 1981: He had six shows running simultaneously in Toronto and he produced the award-winning CBC television superspecial  ALL FOR ONE. 1981 – 1983, he produced the Dora Mavor Moore Award shows for Toronto theatre, the only three years they were ever televised. He has won three Doras: producing TORONTO TORONTO, producing ON TAP, and music directing CLOSER THAN EVER. Starting in 1985, he was a regular guest on Peter Gzowski’s MORNINGSIDE (CBC radio) singing his trademark satirical songs, and creating songs spontaneously. Organist/Choir Director at Hillcrest Christian Church since 2006. Part of three man artistic team (along with Michael James and Kevin McCormick) who created SONGS OF THE CITY for United Way Toronto (now United Way Toronto/York Region) in 2015, a theatrical event originally presented at the Jane Mallet Theatre, which matches up three United Way speakers who have been “rescued” by a United Way sponsored organization with a three composers who each write a song about his or her experience. These songs are then performed during the evening, along with other selections which celebrate the renewal of the human spirit.  A second SOTC took place this past spring, and a third is happening in April, 2017, moving into the 1,000-seat Wintergarden Theatre.  A version took place last year in Fredericton, New Brunswick , and one is being planned for Halifax, Nova Scotia early in 2017.  Created as a Donor Appreciation Event, SONGS OF THE CITY has had a huge impact already in terms of increased pledges to support the remarkable work of United Way in the community. While the ongoing involvement in the various segments of the arts community has not allowed David the time to contribute to the education of up and coming artists that he might have preferred, he has maintained a presence in developing students to become professional artists.  For 20 years, he has been on the faculty of the Avenue Road Arts School. He participated in the BMI Music Theatre Workshops in New York and Toronto, originally conceived by Lehman Engel.  When BMI no longer supported the Toronto workshops, Mr. Warrack kept them going on his own initiative. He has taught part-time at the Randolph Academy and the Ryerson Theatre School, and given numerous guest lectures at Sheridan College (now University).  For many years he was on the advisory board of Humber College, and he is currently on the advisory board of the Toronto Film School. He is also an honorary member of IATSE. David is married to Lona Davis, a celebrated musician in her own right, and they are blessed with three children – Gordon (Jessica), Cayleigh (Patrick) and Levi, as well as four grandchildren: Alexis, Grayson, Griffin, and Neave, all three years old or younger! Connect with David! www.davidwarrack.ca e:dwarrack@rogers.com      Chelsea thisischelseajohnson.com Facebook: @thisischelseajohnson Instagram: @thisischelseajohnson Twitter: @thisischelseaj  

The following is adapted from the preface to my book, Northrop Frye in Conversation:I first met Northrop Frye in 1984 when I interviewed him for a programme called "History and the New Age" which I was then preparing for Ideas. My CBC colleague Peter Gzowski once described Frye as an interviewer's nightmare: a man who actually answered the questions he was asked rather than the ones he would have liked to have been asked. His answers were usually pithy, sometimes cryptic, occasionally gruff, and they often ended in conversation-stopping aphorisms. On this first occasion I chattered nervously while I set up my tape recorder. Frye's seraphic smile and patient, unyielding demeanour did little to put me at ease. I then stammered my way through an hour-long interview in which Frye gave brief pointed answers to my long and sometimes pointless questions. I returned twice in the succeeding years — Frye was always gracious about receiving interviewers, despite his evident lack of relish for the procedure — once to talk about Canadian culture and once to take about the English poet William Blake. In both cases the rhythm of the conversation remained fairly jerky. This made me reluctant to undertake the worthy, and even overdue project my Ideas colleagues kept urging on me: a series devoted to the ideas of Frye himself. However, in 1989, through the good offices of Frye's secretary Jane Widdicombe and Sara Wolch, my Ideas colleague and a friend of Frye's, it was all finally arranged. For a week in December, Frye and I spent each morning in recorded conversation. Sara and I and our recording engineer, Brian Hill, turned up at Frye's Massey College office every morning at nine and, by midweek, had begun to feel quite at home there. Sara's presence helped to create a relaxed atmosphere, and the fact that I had spend the previous months steeping myself in Frye's work helped me to dig beneath the surface of the epigrammatic answers Frye sometimes gave to questions he had been asked once too often. Whatever the reason the interview possessed a fullness and flow that I had not previously experienced with Frye, and we ended our conversation on Friday in peaceful silence, gazing out through gently falling snow into the quiet courtyard of the college. Just over a year later Northrop Frye died.I supplemented my interviews with Frye with conversations with friends, colleagues, and interpreters, and the resulting three-part Ideas series was broadcast early in 1990. Two years later a transcript of our entire conversation, made by Frye scholar Robert Denham, was published as Northrop Frye in Conversation. I don't think my interviews with Frye really added anything to what he had already written, as my interviews with more reticent and less fully articulate thinkers like George Grant and Ivan Illich sometimes did. Frye wrote from a clear, stable and consistent vision, and in more than twenty books he spelled out this vision with great thoroughness, as well as never-failing wit. All I can claim, I think, is to have brought the remarkable range of his criticism together in one place and offered an introduction to it. I have the impression that Frye, like many thinkers neither current, nor classic, is no longer read as much as he deserves to be. I hope someone may discover him anew here...

From Morningside to The Next Chapter, Shelagh Rogers has been a familiar companion to CBC listeners for decades. In this interview, Shelagh speaks about her childhood growing up in Ottawa, her beginnings in radio at Queen's University, the first time she met Peter Gzowski, and her decades long battle with depression.

Andrea Koziol was originally with the band Chesterfield Inlet when Peter Gzowski's player their music on his Morningside program. Soon after, she went solo and has recorded a number of albums, and we feature a track from her latest 'Half Way Sweet'.

I reached the zenith of my erstwhile career as a “technology commentator” in 1995. The previous summer I had produced a summer series for the local Island Morning show called “A User’s Guide to the Future.” It was all my friend Ann Thurlow’s fault. And, also, I suspect, due to Ann’s patronage, I found myself in the Morningside rolodex filed under “technology.” And so it came to be that I found myself standing beside a van in the field outside the Robertson Library at the University of PEI one May morning in 1995. The inimitable Barry Vessey was at the controls in the van and, through the magic of radio, I was hooked up with Peter Gzowski, Kevin Kelly, and Gerri Sinclair talking about, as Gzowski put it, “a swing of the pendulum.” We were gathered together as a part of a series called “The New World” to talk about the impact of the “new technology” on all of us. Thanks to my father’s compulsive documentary instincts, I’ve come into possession of a recording of the panel. Oh how young I sound — almost chipmunk like; I’d like to think that is an artefact of the audio compression, but I fear I simply was that young and urgent. My favourite part of the session comes near the end: Me: I wonder if we should maybe just all calm down a little bit… ah, not us here specifically, but society in general… Gzowski: Ah, the voice of Prince Edward Island… calm down! Me: Yes, indeed… I just… I’m thinking about the fact that I’m sitting here in a field on the campus of UPEI talking into a little metal thing talking to someone in Toronto and someone in Ottawa, that seems pretty amazing to me in the greater context of technology… radio’s been around for 100, 150 years and I still think it’s amazing, and I don’t think we’ve explored the boundaries of it at all yet. Oh to be characterized as the calming voice of Prince Edward Island. Those were the days.