Ehab Lotayef on the Tahrir, the Freedom Flotilla, Israel, Gaza, Palestine...

On March 15, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) Denis Rancourt's interviewed Ehab Lotayef about Canada's Freedom Flotilla vessel the Tahrir (LINK) which was confiscated by Israel in international waters. The interview includes Ehab's description of his treatment as a prisoner in Israel. [Background article HERE.]

March 28, 2012 Ottawa event:
Firsthand account of Capture at Sea of the Canadian Boat to Gaza

Dr. Denis Rancourt goes it alone critiquing science and science popular education propaganda

On March 8, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Host and producer Denis Rancourt went it alone critiquing establishment science and establishment promotion of establishment science as portrayed in YouTube videos...

Socialism v. Anarchism discussion with Dr. Susan Rosenthal

On March 1, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed author and MD psychotherapist Dr. Susan Rosenthal in a "debate" about socialism versus anarchism.

Please add your contributions to this discussion and your critiques as comments to this post.

Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Centre

On February 23, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's co-host Mireille Gervais interviewed Heather and Jess, two members of the Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Centre, live in-studio.

The Coalition wants a student run service for students funded by the university administration. The university administration wants control. The usual admin preoccupation with image over substance has caused the administration of "feminist" president Rosane Runte to bar the Coalition and to refuse to refer students to the free service.

Chad Wells and Chris Carter interviewed about Canada Court Watch

On February 16, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Chad Wells and Chris Carter, both of Canada Court Watch, about court justice, the Children's Aid Society, and the benefits of self-representation before the courts.

Resource web sites:

• Canada Court Watch
• Fix CAS
• Foster Care Council of Canada

David French on patents and public policy

On February 9, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed patent lawyer and expert David French on patents and society.

Just because you can does not mean you should... get a patent. The patent system may not be of net benefit to society... The majority of patents are vanity patents, some are for marketing use, and a few are gold mines for the patent holder. Demand on a product with unique supplier raises prices far beyond competitive prices.

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

Readings and thoughts about Malcolm X

On January 26, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt "interviewed" Malcolm X via the man's autobiography, and other topics in an hour of solo radio.

Malcolm X early on developed two explicit commitments that largely defined his public life:

(1) While in jail he decided to commit himself to telling the white man to the white man's face what the white man is really like.

(2) Out of jail while recruiting for the temple he started telling his black brothers that for too long the black man was paralyzed by fear of the white man and to urge them to find the greater dignity and humanity to defend themselves.

Atiya Hussain and Shelley Welchner on home schooling, with Mireille Gervais

On January 19, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM The Train's Mireille Gervais interviewed Ottawa-based home schooling parents Atiya Hussain and Shelley Welchner about the home schooling movement and about their families' experiences with home schooling and re-integration into state schooling.

Key resources are:

Home Based Learning Network

The Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents

Unfortunately, the sound recording experienced technical difficulties and is not usable.

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.

John Carroll as the artist -- Everybody Smokes in Hell

On January 5, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Ottawa musician and song writer John Carroll about his latest CD "Everybody Smokes in Hell" with The Epic Proportions band.

John's promoter and support teem Tiah was in studio with their three year old child Henry, who decide to play animal zoo in the lobby instead.

A low key intimate interview explored John as the artist, perspective, motivation, family, inspiration and, well, the harsh side of life...

"Don't be too quick to condemn your vice."

John was a main figure in the GSAED graduate student pub on campus back in 2004 or so where he met Tiah. He has been in residency at the renown Cafe Lafayette "The Laff" every Wednesday night since 2004. Catch up with him there, and with his ambiance style and amazing talking blues.

[NOTE: He had a problem with the recording of this Train interview! If a listener has a recording, please contact us: chuotrain@gmail.com.]

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.

Dr. Aalya Ahmad and activist Hugh about Occupy Ottawa

On December 22, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed CUPW staffer, rabble.ca journalist and Carleton University sessional lecturer Dr. Aalya Ahmad and tent-sleeping activist Hugh about Occupy Ottawa. The discussion was live in-studio.

Red-flag communists, safe-place zealots, Nazis, old-school feminists, white-skin privilege, class oppression, public-park-laboratory, police intervention...


Aalya's rabble.ca article about safe-space zeolots

Aalya's rabble.ca articles

Occupy Ottawa press release Youtube

Against Industrial Wind Power: It's a war...

On December 15, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed two prominent members of the political resistance to industrial wind power in Ontario: Jane Wilson and Dan Scharf.

Both guests are authors of chapters in the new book edited by Jane: "Dirty Business - The reality of Ontario's rush to wind power". Jane is a registered nurse, editor and award-winning writer. She is a member of the North Gower Wind Action Group. Dan has a degree in statistics and computer science and experience in product marketing, sales management, and risk management.

"This is a war between rural residents, landowners, and municipalities on one side and corporations, the provincial government, and environmental NGOs on the other. It is a war fought around a host of conflicting issues -- bird kills, coal plants, nuclear safety, wind turbine footprints, subsidies, energy strategy, property rights, and political agendas. It is a war..." (Dan Scharf in "Dirty Business")

Wind Concerns Ontario website

David Burton on civil liberties and police conduct -- PART-II

This is Part-II, an extra 20 minutes on the December 1, 2011, interview with David Burton, Board member of the Civil Liberties Association - National Capital Region.


Part-I (the first hour) is posted HERE.