September 13, 2012 show: John McMurtry on his ideas and academic career, also professional football history

On September 13, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM The Train's (Ottawa) Denis Rancourt interviewed renowned Canadian academic Professor John McMurtry about his ideas, his life before academia, and some of his notable published works.

June 28, 2012 show: Professor Robert Ivan Martin on freedom of expression in Canada

On June 28, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Professor Robert Ivan Martin about his latest book "Free Expression in Canada", and about the state of Canadian society regarding expression, freedom, and the law.

Denis Rancourt on Left ideological control-indoctrination

On June 23, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM The Train's Denis Rancourt went solo in a critique of "critical race theory", including select readings and music to accompany the developing theme.



Word policing... SFUO student union... Ann Coulter... calculus... recycling cult... discourse... anti-oppression as oppression... groupthink... opinion mobbing... hate speech... personal agency... political reform vs freedom of inquiry... Golden Rule of institutional preservation...

"War is bad and love is really good..."
-- hummm

Related article: USA academic freedom scholarship as a measure of corporate fascism

Books cited: "Politics by Other Means" by David Bromwich

Music links: 111111, 22222, 33333, 44444, 55555.

Barbara Todish -- Banned from academia and from her professional associations for her honesty about the human condition

On June 16, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed teacher and performing artist Barbara Todish based in Newark, NJ; by phone about her banishment from academia and from her professional associations for being honest and real.

Barbara is an eclectic original, a Freirian educator, a criminology researcher, a certified performing artist, a stand up comic, a survivor of economic apartheid, and a former prostitute (for three months).

This is an interview you do not want to miss.


DR: What is one key thing you learned from being a prostitute in that three-month period?
BT: Well... I learned I could enjoy sex... (explained in the interview).

Cited articles:
"Love Is Only Practice for Absolute Meaning"
"Just trying to attract attention?"

Campus News!

Our April 22, 2010, show was dedicated to campus news.

For updates on the resource optimization plan, Denis Rancourt's case and the U of O's surveillance of Burma activists check out the show!



Most importantly, we discuss claims that Allan Rock is ethically challenged and question how he became U of O's president.

H1N1 Scare and Claude Lamontagne on Academic Freedom

The September 10, 2009 show began with a critical look at the fear tactics used by the University of Ottawa's Office of Risk Management regarding the H1N1 pandemic.

We were later joined in studio by 3M National Teaching Fellow Claude Lamontagne who gave his views on the state of Academic Freedom.

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