CHUO funding drive banter::: Critique of global warming science and more

On May 12, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM Ottawa The Train host Denis Rancourt runs a funding drive effort with music by Nina Simone, a Corbett Report interview about the global warming myth, and an exploration of U of O president Allan Rock's image-management fetish, etc.

Related and background posts:
Corbett Report interview about global warming
Denis Rancourt's blog about climate change

Queen's University professor Adele Mercier on the philosophy of mind and gender politics and more

On May 5, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Queen's University philosophy professor Adele Mercier, live in-studio, on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, Chomsky's foundational contributions to linguistics, gender legality and gender politics, the state of academia, gender discrimination and mistreatment at Queen's University and more... including her recently filed Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) complaint on behalf of twelve female students and junior academics in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University.

Author and blogger David Malone on how world finance actually operates

On April 28, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed author and blogger David Malone by phone from the UK about his analyses.

The interview developed an incisive model of how world finance actually works (or doesn't work)! The analysis of China and the geopolitical leveraging for world currency primacy is particularly riveting.



These were the music break videos:
Pretty Green by The Jam
Money (That's What I Want) by The Flying Lizards

Dominic Lamontagne of Le Naked Lunch::: Food libertarianism

On April 21, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed food expert (Gastronomie Le Naked Lunch) Dominic Lamontagne about the food libertarianism movements in the US and Quebec.

The virtual impossibility of running a single-unit restaurant, the insanity of government regulations against small producers, the fascist agri-food push, the need for social change on the food front...

Background and related links:
Jean-Pierre Maheu radio interview about student food
Everything I want to do is illegal
Shiv Chopra radio interviews about food toxicity
Matrix thought control regarding public health

Mireille Gervais on defending students at the University of Ottawa

On April 14, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM Ottawa The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Mireille Gervais, Director, Student Appeal Centre (SAC), Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO), live in studio.

What is the SAC? Campus justice. Nature of the university administration beast. Gross examples of injustice. President Allan Rock's inaction. The recent outrageous case of Dean of the Faculty of Education Marie Josee Berger...

Criminal malfeasance web at the University of Ottawa

[Photo: President Allan Rock, University of Ottawa]

On April 7, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM The Train's Denis Rancourt (although rather talkative here!) interviewed Dr. Waleed AlGhaithy (MD, neurosurgeon) about the incredible web of malfeasance in the Faculty of Medicine and in the Allan Rock administration regarding the terminations of three medical residents for attempting to make human rights complaints.

Related Background:
The latest U of O Senate meeting discussed in the interview
Allan Rock blocks human rights speakers at Senate
Overview of the case and appeal to the university community
Student senator Joseph Hickey's blog about Senate
The article about medical stress discussed in the interview
The Youtube with Maria Aragon

Students Against Israeli Apartheid - Carleton U

On March 31, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM Ottawa (Canada) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Morgan Meloche and Mariful Alam about the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) campaign of Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

The main topic was SAIA-Carleton's highly successful university Board of Governors (BOG) action of Tuesday that was widely reported in Ottawa media: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE.



[Note: All six executive officers of Hillel Ottawa were invited for a full-hour interview (individually or together or any number) to present the Israel side. After explaining that they could be accommodated in any way regarding scheduling, Chelsea Sauvé, Leah Labib, Jennifer Hadad, Adam Moscoe, Alex Izso and Sam Levine declined the interview.]

Related background article:
The Canadian Zionism Question

Brain surgery 101 -- with Dr. Waleed AlGhaithy, neurosurgeon

On March 24, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Dr. Waleed AlGhaithy about brain surgery, medical education, the evolution of professional training, human rights politics, cancer treatment, polar bear death, surviving bullets through the head, and life-changing developments.

The goal of the show was to allow the listener to learn enough about brain surgery to be able to perform emergency intervention using common household tools. It's not that difficult and you may need these skills when you least expect it...

Enjoy the humour and the social analysis!

Media links for some topics discussed with Dr. AlGhaithy:
National media story about U of O medical scandal
Brain-induced death of German zoo polar bear
Medical malpractice lawsuit Ottawa Hospital

Sandra Ruch on the Canada Boat to Gaza (Freedom Flotilla II) campaign

On March 17, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt (CHUO 89.1 FM) interviewed activist organizer Sandra Ruch by phone from Toronto about Palestine, Canadian Israel policy and the upcoming Canada Boat to Gaza that will be part of the Freedom Flotilla II in May 2011.

Sandra Ruch is a Jewish Canadian woman who lived in Palestine for two years - which lead to her becoming a committed activist for Palestinian human rights.

The conversation far-reaching, deep, hopeful, and rich with personal experience.

Sophie::: Teenage mother's fight against the CAS to be with her son

[Photo: Sophie at her weekly protest with Foster Care Council of Canada chair John Dunn.]

On March 10, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed social activist Jane Scharf and teenage mother Sophie live in studio about their fight against the Children's Aid Society (CAS) after it took possession of the baby in hospital.

Sophie is a teenage mother (runaway survivor of the CAS) who unjustly had her baby boy taken from her in hospital after birth by the Children's Aid Society (CAS) of Ontario - the vicious corporation that has effectively replaced residential schools in Ontario.

Sophie has help from her school-day friends and from her "team" of activist supporters. She now pickets the courthouse and the CAS building every week and is starting a "parent's fight back" support group.

Related essay by Denis Rancourt:
On the prison of delayed fertility

Link to Youtube:
Pregnant Women are Smug

Universite Populaire A Montreal (UPAM)

On March 3, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed founding organizer of the Universite Populaire A Montreal (UPAM) Anne Goldenberg.

The UPAM was both an academic squat free school and a strike action at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) that sustained itself in the critical meltdown strike and government tutelage period of November 2007 to March 2008.

Anne guided us through this exciting experiment in self-organized free education. Anne has gone on to organize large conferences using this self-organized model in which the schedule is spontaneously created by the student-teachers and there are no professors.

Mohamed El Rashidy on the Egyptian popular revolution

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On February 24, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) director Mohamed El Rashidy about the recent and on-going Egyptian popular revolution.

Mohamed is Egyptian born and has an intimate and connected perspective on the recent events in Egypt, like few other commentators.

The analysis covered the psychology of liberation, police state structure, the role of electronic communications, the class structure of the revolt, the conditions of dignity deprivation, the role of the army, and much more.

[photo: Mohamed El Rashidy]

Terry Stavnyck stands firm against justice-system malfeasance

On February 17, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Ottawa resident and long-time peace activist Terry Stavnyck. (Background print media story HERE.)

The theme of the interview was Terry's legal battle against absurdly false criminal charges being carried by a Crown that logically must be either criminally incompetent or ethically challenged, in this reporter's opinion.

The 128 pound practicing pacifist who has multiple sclerosis and now walks with a cane is accused of striking a muscle-bound Parliament Hill security guard in the groin no less than four times, in the face of contradictory video evidence and medical examination report of the guard - all this while he was being brutally attacked by two such guards...

Matthew Behrens on country music activism, Canadian torture, secret trials, economic apartheid, squatters' rights and more

On February 10, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed long-time and dedicated community organizer and agitator Matthew Behrens, by phone from the Ottawa valley.

Matthew is with Homes Not Bombs and has found a way to spend most of his time and creative energy working to create more social justice. The discussion was inspiring! Matthew challenges us to be radical and to insist on righteousness in our lives.

For our Supreme Court judges and politicians we concluded that "power is power" and "cowardice is cowardice".

Canadian Animal Liberation Movement (CALM)

On February 3, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed two members from the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, cell of CALM (Canadian Animal Liberation Movement): Erin Skinner and Sean Isaacs.

Sentient beings, racism vs. speciesism, consciousness of spiders, principles of action, anarchism, radicalizing movements, higher education, music of animal liberation, stopping the fur industry... Listen in to a fascinating exploration...


Sean is relatively new to the movement and has decided to be an animal justice activist. Erin is a "senior" member, has a Ph.D. in neural psychology, works with the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, and is an organizer of CALM.