SAC Director and La Rotonde Editor in Chief on campus developments, administrative misbehaviours

On February 2, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed University of Ottawa student union staff Director of the Student Appeal Centre Mireille Gervais and La Rotonde Editor in Chief Anais Elboujdaini on University of Ottawa campus developments regarding some of the university administration's various misbehaviours.

Main topics were:

• Three medical doctors dismissed by the Faculty of Medicine
• President Allan Rock refusing to meet with student media, questionable behaviour

Bernard Desgagné on media responsibility and Canadian warmongering

On January 12, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Bernard Desgagné, French-language independent researcher and journalist extraordinaire.

The themes included Québec separatism, Canadian waring and war crimes, the absence of critical mainstream journalism, Libya, Ivory Coast, Syria, Congo... Just trying to restore some balance against the mainstream establishment media.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya on NATO war crimes in Libya

On December 29, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt first read his essay "A theory of chronic pain" and then interviewed Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (Associate at Global Research and graduate student, Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Canada) about his independent journalism in Libya.

This interview gives a true sense of the war on the ground in Libya and explains (the tactical reasons for) the war crimes perpetrated by NATO and its hired thugs.

Lia Tarachansky on the on-going mass civil protests in Israel

How can the North American mainstream media not cover this?!

On August 18, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed The Real News video-journalist Lia Tarachansky by phone in Israel about her investigative reports on the on-going massive civil unrest and tent cities in Israel.

Fascinating and needed current affairs overview about Israel.

Media activist Stephen Lendman on Obama-care, Palestine, US-crimes, START treaty and more

On December 23, 2010, The Train (CHUO 89.1 FM Ottawa, Canada) interviewed Stephen Lendman in a wide-ranging discussion about Obama being worst than Bush, Israeli crimes in Palestine, the START arms treaty, and more.


Lendman makes a strong case that the Obama administration is much worst than was the Bush administration, "without a doubt!"

Lendman's impassioned description of Israeli crimes in Palestine is the most engaging we have heard in a long time from any continent.

Stephen's recommended links on Palestine:
Palestine Chronicle
Electronic Intifada
Palestine Telegraph

The STIMULATOR tells it all -- An interview with Franklin Lopez

On October 21, 2010, The Train interviewed Franklin Lopez, aka The Stimulator of submedia.tv fame.


Yup, it was "another sedition" of "it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine" about activism, direct action, the Black Bloc, revolution, diversity of tactics, alternative media, film making, our enemies in blue, and so on...

Mr. Lopez put aside his stage voice in order to be down and real about his understanding of resistance in Canada.

In particular, hear a unique testimony of the Black Bloc violence at G20 Toronto and hear Mr. Lopez challenge the dominant view among progressives that the state used and manipulated the Black Bloc...

We await the release of submedia.tv's new feature film entitled endciv (as in "end of cvilization").

The Corbett Report

On April 11, 2010 show co-host Denis Rancourt aired and commented a pre-recorded interview with James Corbett, creator of the Corbett Report - an "online open source intelligence news" network. The original recording was sound recorded by Skype from Japan on February 8, 2010.

In an intermission report co-host Rancourt also described the ongoing Fulcrum student newspaper scandal regarding cover surveillance and unethical journalistic behaviour (background HERE). In a second intermission co-host Rancourt commented on U of O president Allan Rock's behaviour during this year's Israeli Apartheid Week.