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022 – Mr. Brown Goes to Ottawa
In this — our first episode on the new summer monthly schedule — we sit down to with Geoff Brown to talk about the recent Canadian Federation of Students Semi-Annual General Meeting. Geoff is the Vice-President Internal at the Univeristy of Winnipeg Students Association (UWSA) and the Local 8 Representative to the CFS and CFS-Manitoba. The UWSA is Local 8 of the CFS.
Similar to our discussion with Murray Jowett regarding the November 2007 CFS AGM, we ask Geoff how the discussion went on some of the more interesting motions that were brought forward at this Ottawa meeting. We’ll be adding a document containing the motions as well as updates on how all the voting went to this post as soon as we have them.
Download: 022 – Mr. Brown Goes to Ottawa
021 – Global Warming? But It’s Freezing Here!
After the technical difficulties, we had a short show today. Today’s interview more than makes up for the length though, as we spoke with Diane McGifford, the Minister of Advanced Education and Literacy for the Province of Manitoba.
Local newspapers and interest groups (students included) have been buzzing over the past week about the possibility of the Manitoba’s nine-year freeze on tuition fees disappearing in today’s provincial budget. We talked to the Minister to clarify what’s going on and to clear up some of the rumours that have been floating around since the announcement.
We’ll post all the details surrounding the announcement following this afternoon’s release of the budget.
Download: 021 – Global Warming? But It’s Freezing Here!
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019 – Who Do You Love?
In our quest to better understand what’s happening with students inside our three coasts, we look this week at Simon Fraser University, where their student society recently held a referendum on the continuation of their membership in the Canadian Federation of Students and the Canadian Federation of Students-British Columbia.
The in-show interview is with J.J. McCullough who, as Chief Electoral Officer for the Simon Fraser Student Society’s Independent Electoral Commission, oversaw the referendum. We also have a supplemental interview with Amy Fox, the External Relations Officer for the Simon Fraser Student Society. A representative from the Canadian Federation of Students was not available to come on the show.
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Download: 019 – Who Do You Love? (53.4MB)
The interview with Amy Fox will be available on Monday afternoon.
018 – What’s the Frequency, Cameron?
A big ol’ hallo to all you who have patiently waited for the downloads to reappear! We’re finally back on sturdy ground with our web hosting, so we’ll once again be putting new episodes online as they air, and over the next couple weeks we expect to have the archives back in full form.
Episode 18 features a chat with Cameron Derkson, Chair of the Board of the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association, giving a general overview of what the UWSA does at the organizational — or board — level. We also talk about the upcoming Annual General Meeting of the UWSA — what it is, why anyone should care about it, and how individual students can direct the priorities of the Students’ Association.
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If you have any questions about the UWSA, the board, the AGM, or anything else talked about in this episode, you can contact Cameron via email at chair@theuwsa.ca.
012 – Apa…whatever
Originally, we were supposed to talk to Ben Wickstrum, the legendary country singer, but when he cancelled we got the next best thing: Ben Wickström! Ben has been involved in numerous capacities on campus, including the sitting as both Director of Student Living and Chief Elections Commissioner for the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) Board of Directors, Mouseland Press, and both the University Board of Regents and Senate. Ben, just send anyone who is trying to hire you to this site because we’ve basically posted your CV here.
Recently he wrote an article for the Uniter about the UWSA and the implications of student apathy. We talked to him about that article for this episode.
011 – For Every Action…
Well, we’ve had a bit of a lag recently due to various essays, exams and practicum adventures, but we are back with another episode of student politic goodness.
In this episode we talk to Max Silverman, the Vice-President External Affairs for the Students’ Society of McGill University about such things as the recent student strikes in Quebec, as well as the recent decision of the Canadian Federation of Students to axe their membership in the organization.
We were also lucky enough to have a guest host in Devin’s absense. Former University of Winnipeg Students’ Association President Kate Sjoberg joined us and talked about her time at the University as President.
You can download the episode by right-clicking here and selecting “save as.”
There was so much content however, that we couldn’t include it all in the show. Below you will find some insightful extras from our conversation with Max Silverman that we couldn’t fit into the show due to time restrictions.
Max Silverman on…
009 – No Motion For You!
Yes, yes, yes, we’re a bit lazy when it’s come to posting the last few episodes. But here they are for your listening pleasure.
In this episode we talk with Murray Jowett, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) Liaison Director from the University of Winnipeg Students’ Assocation, about some of the motions that went to the CFS Annual General Meeting and how they apply to University of Winnipeg students.
We also talk with Laura Anderson, who is Chair at the Kwantlen Student Association. After they submitted their motions for discussion to the CFS, they discovered that some of their motions had been changed, and in at least one case, removed entirely.
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008 – Death By Election
The by-election is over and the dust has settled.
That’s why we asked University of Winnipeg Students’ Association President David Jacks and former Chief Elections Commissioner Matthew Molnar to speak with us about their impressions of this years election and what can be done in the future to improve them.
007 – Millennial Sunset?
This was, if you’ll excuse my language, a dilly of an episode.
We had the pleasure of speaking to Zach Churchill (National Director of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations), Amanda Aziz (National Director of the Canadian Federation of Students) and Noel Baldwin (no relation to Alec Baldwin, but happens to be a policy research officer at the Millenium Scholarship Foundation).
We talked to them all, not surprisingly, about the Millennium Scholarship Foundation. We talked so much that we had to edit them! Here for your listening pleasure is the full episode, plus all of the unedited interviews.
For the interviews in full click below.
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