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Civically speaking is a podcast that focuses on all things civic - focusing in on Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and wider political, geopolitical, and related issues facing us in a 21st-century word. Host, Lenore Swystun, a Registered Professional Planner, Sociologist, and Facilitator together with Communications Specialist and former Journalist, Christina Cherneskey, invites guests and guest panels to discuss all things current and topical. Civically Speaking episodes are self-produced and aired weekly on Saskatoon's community radio station cfcr.ca along with providing podcast versions and special videocast and podcast direct specials. Tune in, try it, and we promise you'll find yourself coming back for more. We talk planning, politics, people - civically speaking!
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Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, In this episode I sit down with planning colleague, Eric Westberg, to share some planning field notes from his visit to Saskatoon including taking in the recent Saskatchewan Professional Planners Institute (SPPI) conference. We wander through a good range of topics ... the Housing Accelerator Fund and what it means for our neighbourhoods, observations from downtown Saskatoon, Riversdale and beyond, the possibilities of co-housing and different ways of living t...
Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, In this week's episode, we explore Alberta's referendum, Danielle Smith's political future, and what it all means for Saskatchewan and Canadian unity. We then head west to examine the political shakeup in B.C.'s municipal elections and implications for the upcoming provincial election, before returning home to Saskatoon's downtown arena debate, the proposed referendum, and questions of cost and public accountability. Different political landscapes but it has m...
Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, Christina Cherneskey and I covered a fair bit of ground on this week's episode. We started close to home with the ongoing discussions around encampments in Saskatoon, development of Tiny Homes, then moved into the proposed rezoning of some 35 properties connected to the city's Bus Rapid Transit system and sharing about the opening of the new Coming Home Centre. From there, our conversation took us into the growing interest in data centres, nuclear reacto...
Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, Who gets to decide? That question sits at the heart of this week’s episode and am starting right here at home in Saskatoon. Regrets from Christina, we'll aim to be back together next week. We dig into homelessness and the Avenue K encampment, the decision to change this year’s Point-in-Time homelessness count, and what happens when the people who are hardest to see are also the hardest to count. We look at housing, safety, neighbourhoods, protest, evidence and...
Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, Thanks for tuning in. Airing this week, recorded a few days ago, I interview Sara Wheelwright, outgoing Chair of Downtown Saskatoon. Sara is a repeat guest and in this episode we weigh in on a few items related to the downtown and branch into a few other civic areas. Have a listen and be sure to support community radio and local media wherever you live and wherever you find yourself. And thank you to those of you who donated to FM-Phasis - Ci...
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