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Still recovering from Sunday’s excitement. Since there is no Olympic highlights to watch this morning, join Mike and I for the Tuesday Morning Special Blend. At 8:10 Mike will be speaking with Catherine Fortin Lefaivre of the Amethyst Women’s Addiction Centre about a panel they will be hosting on March 8th to celebrate International Woman’s Day. At 8:30 Adam will be speaking with Andre Bendahan of the Montreal band Final Flash who will be playing Ottawa on March 4th. As per usual we air from 7-9am on CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa and at www.ckcufm.com for everyone else.

One of the largest earthquakes in the history of South America hits Northern Chile... but they will be okay.

Prorogation has ended and Parliament resumes sitting with Stephen Harper to present the budget on Thursday.
Apparently he found this one particularly difficult to put together.

Putting the ghosts of Ipperwash to rest, the Ontario government agrees to hand over the park to Aboriginals.

Thinking about reporting on Taliban attacks in Afghanistan? Think again says the Afghan government.

Helena Guergis does not like PEI… or airport security.

Minimum wage increases hurt the poor?

New conflict of interest rules severely limiting the number of engineering consultants the City of Ottawa can hire.

Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the second full week of the Vancouver Olympics, a time where our normal mid-games hysteria at not winning is all the more urgent because they are being played within Canada. To help offset the growing realization that we probably won’t actually own the podium (and the nagging fear in all of us that Germany will beat our Men’s hockey team), Adam and I have an exciting show lined up. Join us from 7 until 9 on CKCU FM, 93.1 for those with radis, www.ckcufm.com for everyone else.

At 8:30, I’ll talk with Shawn Menard of “Our Ottawa”, an collective of community organizers that is looking to have its voice heard in the lead up to and during the coming Municipal election. ]

Canada’s last WW1 veteran dies. Gordon Lightfoot: still allive.

Transit Committee bumps stroller ban to full council.

Obama has a plan for the Great lakes: no Brodeur in it.

Quebec Finance minister muses that the era of something for nothing might be coming to an end.

Lansdowne design symposiums begin tonight!

On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of having Chris Page in studio to talk about his new album, “A Date with a Smoke Machine”. In a fit of absentmindedness, I forgot to record the first half of the conversation, so you missed out on him singing Summertime Out, which is a shame because it’s my favourite track from the album. Worry not, though, as you still get the second half of our conversation and another in-studio song.

The in studio performances sounded excellent, but the CD itself is even better: it’s catchy and personal and filled with the sort of songs that will get in your head and have you humming. Think of it as a sort of vaccine against the wretched CTV olympic theme.

The CD release show is next Saturday at Dom Polski SPK (Waverly near Bank), with Camp Radio and Year Zero opening.

 Chris Page, Live on the Tuesday Blend [8:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I can almost guarantee that there won’t be any student listeners this morning as all university students in Ottawa are enjoying there reading week. However its business as usual on the Tuesday Morning Special Blend. At 8:15 we will be speaking with Matthew Barber who has a new album being released on the 23rd. Then at 8:30 we will have Chris Page in studio. Chris is part of the Kelp Records family and has a new album being released today. As per usual we air on 93.1 CKCU FM in Ottawa and www.ckcufm.com for everyone else.

Michael Ignatieff has priorities for this upcoming parliament. In a rare move for the Liberal Party he has actually made these public.

Non-natives are told to leave the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake near Montreal.

Vancouver 2010: On now at a television near you.

An appeal in the case of Toronto 18 member Saad Gaya and maybe not from the side you would expect.

Get your very own “I slept with Adam Giambrone” pin today!

Family Day protests by people who want the province to pay for them to have a family to celebrate the new holiday with.

CFB Trenton gets a new commander for pretty obvious reasons.

The three of us are all back this week so tune in to listen to the new and improved Tuesday Morning Special Blend Line-up. With that kind of tag line how could we not be the #1 morning show in Ottawa? Disregarding commercial cliches at 7:30 Adam will be talking with Councilor Clive Doucet regarding his latest proposal involving Lansdowne and the NCC. As per usual we air on 93.1 CKCU FM in Ottawa and at www.ckcufm.com for everyone else.

CTV Ottawa’s studios go up in flames but thousands of historical broadcasts are saved by building supervisor.

First Saskatchewan, then Ottawa cut funding to the First Nation’s University and now it is closing its doors.

G7 Finance Ministers trek up to the Arctic for a weekend of winter fun.

The Conscription Crisis: Afghanistan version

Jack Layton is diagnosed with prostate cancer

In more Lansdowne related news, two Ottawa architects are chosen to design the site.

Now the medical isotope crisis has gotten really bad as the Dutch reactor goes offline.

This morning, I had the pleasure of talking with Ottawa’s own Jill Zmud about her new album, coming to writing music past the “Britney years”, and the nature of musical collaboration in town. She had her guitar, and also treated us to live acoustic versions of “East of the Line” and “Wish”.

She plays in Memphis in the near future, for those heading to Tennessee. She plays Ottawa again later in March.

 Jill Zmud, Live on the Tuesday Special Blend [19:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This morning, Adam had a chance to chat with Peter Raaymakers of Public Transit in Ottawa about their new Journal on, of all things, public transit it Ottawa. The journal is free, online, and has a neat community-reviewed structure, and deserves to be checked out.

 Peter Raaymakers on the Journal of Public Transit in Ottawa [7:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today.

Forgive me: you only host a radio show on Groundhog’s day so often.

We have an exciting show lined up for this week: After 6 weeks away travelling the world and landing at AZNAC beach a century too late, Adam returns. If we’re lucky; he’ll regale with stories from the road. If he’s lucky, we won’t make him run up Dunton Tower while doing it.

At 7:30, we’ll be joined by Ottawa songstress Jill Zmud. At 8, we’ll chat with Darryl Boyce, Assistant Vice-President (Facilities Management and Planning) at Carleton, about the University’s new campus master plan. At 8:30, we’ll speak with Peter Raaymakers from Public Transit in Ottawa about their new Journal of Public Transit in Ottawa.

Also, apart from a series of terrible Groundhog puns, we’ll touch on the some of the following:

Ottawa’s growing need for a Springfield-esque coyote patrol.

Omar Khadr, Conservative Government simultaneously win and lose. Charter rights definitely lose.

Make parts of the moon an out-of-this-world heritage site?

Daycare to be Liberal priority number 1?

City finally considers fixing sewage overflow problem. Hint: It involves letting it mellow.

Obama unveils budget that has deficit best-articulated with made up numbers.

Well, with rain like that I guess I have seen all that January weather can offer, at least short of an ice storm. I’m comfortable with that. Anyway, January showers bring February flowers. Join josh and me at 8:30 where we will be joined by Shawn and Safwan of Wide Mouth Mason, who play Mavericks Wednesday night.

We’ll also touch on the following:

Prorogation protests! 20,000 people in almost 50 cities rallied against Parliament shutting down on Saturday. Josh was there. I was at Ikea.

Ottawa city council begins the budget deliberations. On the chopping block: bus routes, semester bus passes, and cutting Crime Prevention Ottawa. With a name like that, the “Ottawa Free Ice Cream for Orphans project” would have a greater chance of getting axed.

Raw milk activist wins court fight. Zombie Louis Pasteur is angry.

Ontario signs sweetheart deal with Samsung to build windmills. $7 billion gets you 1400 jobs!

Four years of Stephen Harper. Apparently we’ve changed him.

Colvin accuses government of getting back at him for his criticism.

Indefinately detained double feature: CSIS agent says we have nothing to suggest Harkat is a terrorist AND Supreme Court to rule on Omar Khadr on friday.

Ottawa bands to host Haiti fundraiser on Saturday.

Love is officially dead: Brangelina to split up. She apparently will get the kids, he’ll get the ridiculous eponyms.

This morning, I had the chance to chat with George Dark, who is heading up the Lansdowne Strategic Design Review and Advisory Panel. To bring people up to speed, as part of moving forward with the Lansdowne Live plan, the city opted to appoint a design panel to help sort out what the whole thing is actually going to look like.

I was already generally supportive of the Lansdowne Live plan, mostly because I was pretty sure that we were going to let hopes of the BEST PLAN EVER get in the way of something that we can all use and enjoy, but this makes me a lot more hopeful. Coming from this, I think its a lot clearer that much of what we’ve already seen is largely a first draft, that we sorta know what the pieces that are going to be used are, but not actually what exact form they’ll take. That’s a good sign.

There is also room for optimism in that it sounds like there is  going to be, or is at least an option for, public consultation in the early design phase. So, bidding companies will be encouraged to actually come and talk to the people that live here to help shape their proposal. That’s a good thing for a project that, rightly or wrongly, has left a nasty feeling of being imposed. We should all get uppity and make sure that happens.

 George Dark on the Lansdowne Design Panel [9:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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