February’s final show tells about the little-known 613 Casual Choir, an Ottawa board game guru, holistic healing taking place inside The Real You, and a Syrian food catering enterprise aimed at more than filling plates. We also find out from Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Muir’s high school drama teacher whether the star was always so cool. All that and much more on Midweek!
This Midweek wasn’t a Valentine’s Day special but had lots of heart, from protesters in Ottawa angry about what they see as an unjust verdict to brewers in Iceland who created a special beer so they could properly toast a friend who’d died. Hockey, Bluesfest, cookies, Pong nostalgia and more!
Drag superstar Peppermint (here performing at Ottawa U before leading a conversation of intersectionality) was just one highlight of our Feb. 7 Midweek show. It ranged through opioids, Olympics and flu, all the way to the carbon implications of cut-rate airlines. Plus a tribute to snowpeoplekind…
Our first live Midweek show of 2018 hit CKCU airwaves on Wednesday, Jan. 31. Hosted by Shauna McGinn and Mamta Manhas, the show took listeners from literacy and finance to the Women’s March, a gathering of pugs, and much more.
It may be the middle of winter, but a new season is just starting here at Midweek: A new crew of journalists have taken over the show, and had their first practice run at the helm on January 24, 2018, with hosts Naomi Librach and Kaitlin Fisher at the mics.
The final show of this fall’s Midweek season looked into struggles in the newspaper business, volunteers determined to help save LGBT refugees, others helping give survivors their own voice, and a college student who finally made the team — at 39! All that and more on Midweek!