Fairweather Father is hosting our second scream for the voiceless event geared toward helping the Animal Advocates Society fight animal abuse and to help pay for animal rehabilitation. They have an absolutely no Kill Policy.

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GLEN FOSTER songwriter and singer gives a solo concert in an intimate setting as part of “The Troubador” Concert Series at Michelle’s Hair Studio, Nanaimo, playing guitar, dobro and harmonica featuring all original songs.

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This will be a European-style, bike friendly, low impact local festival showcasing international talent. Two days of music, art film & food at 7 Roberts Creek venues on the stunning Sunshine Coast Victoria Day weekend.

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Bestselling author Diana Phillips will be signing copies of her new book Beyond the Home Ranch (Harbour Publishing, $34.95) in Nanaimo on Friday, May 18 at 1pm at Nanaimo Maps & Charts, 8 Church Street in Nanaimo.

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During tonight’s interview Rhythm’a'ning host Kerilie McDowall will catch up on Christine’s latest projects, her composing and upcoming Nanaimo summer workshops and performances. The 2011 JUNO winning album Treelines features intricate melodies, harmonies and textures with Christine Jensen’s Jazz Orchestra and we will be listening to tracks off the JUNO winning album and exploring the latest from one of Canada’s most recognized musicians.

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The perfect opportunity to safely watch a partial solar eclipse over Nanaimo, Sun May 20.

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Denman’s 25th annual pottery tour takes place on Saturday and Sunday, May19th and 20th. Ten studios will be featured.

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Nanaimo’s Glen Foster Group plays The Courts Pub (formerly the Globe Hotel), 25 Front St, Nanaimo, Sat May 19

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The Gabriola Island Photography Club’s next exhibition and sale will be from noon to 4:00 pm on Sunday June 3 at the Rollo Centre. This show’s theme is “Pushing Boundaries”.

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Littlehead rocks the classics and nails the new stuff. If you like Foo (Fighters) tunes and more, you’ll love Littlehead in Cassidy at the Timberland Pub, June 9

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Gary Fjellgaard in concert with Saskia and Darrel at Costin Hall, 7232 Lanzville Rd, Lantzville, May 20, one show, 2pm

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THE LAST FIVE YEARS is a contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up; or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it.

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Crimson Coast Dance Society offers its final work of the season on Saturday, May 19 at Malaspina Theatre with an original production by Montreal’s Trial and Eros Productions based on T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”.

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Experience the transformative power of art at the HerART Finale Showcase. Featuring works created by women and girls under the guidance of local artists.

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Victoria’s Ska Fest brings fans the best ska, reggae, dancehall, dub, rock, jazz and latin music from across the world. It is the largest and longest running festival of its kind in North America!

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Supercharge your mind and body with author Kim Goldberg in this unique outdoor course combining Healing Sounds Qigong with creative writing exercises amidst the majesty of forest, river and sky. Register before May 1 to get the early bird price of $75.

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Application made to reopen Cohen Commission into the decline of Fraser River salmon Discovery of Salmon Heart Virus Threat to Fraser Sockeye April 24, 2012 (Vancouver, BC) Today, the Aquaculture Coalition, which includes Alexandra Morton represented by Gregory McDade, submitted an application to the Cohen Commission into the decline of the Fraser Sockeye seeking to [...]

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Symbiosis is a gathering of people in celebration of the annular eclipse which happens on Sunday, May 20. This event will be visible in its full effect in a narrow strip from North America to Asia. The event takes place on SACRED Native land, not open to the public for over 25 years. Check out pyramideclipse.com for more info.

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Homestay families are needed for a group of Japanese students that will be visiting Parkland Secondary School May 10-13. Two (2) students/home, English-speaking and excited to have an international student. Compensation provided.

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Fashions, food, handicrafts, textiles, jewellery and music from Africa presented by the NanGo Grannies

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A weekend workshop to teach you how to increase your intuitive abilities & learn tools & techniques to use in your daily life presented by Mystic Vancouver Island.

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Watch this video to find out how!

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FREE STUFF!!…For a very worthy cause…to help heart surgury patient Malvene Pettit. a craft sale & more at Marshmeadow Farm

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The following video was produced by
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A CHLY mention is a 10-12 second recorded segment in which listeners can have almost any message they want broadcast once a week. An example message could be

“This hour is brought to you by John Tesh. Reminding you that easy listening music is the only way to go.”

Local business can also purchase a mention as well. An example message could be.

“This hour is brought to you by, John’s Plumbing on Texada Island. Specializing in removing the crap from your toilette. Call John at 555-555-5555″

Some restrictions apply. For more details please email sales@chly.ca or call 250 716 3410

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What do you do when you live in a province with winter temperatures of minus six or seven degrees? You pine for warmer climates. One year when musician Dave Teichroeb found the winter a bit frosty he jumped in the car and headed south…to Austin, Texas. Once there he discovered Americana, a blend of folk, [...]

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Artist and Naturalist Robert Bateman deplores the BC Liberal’s decision to force Smart Meters on the public without consultation or providing freedom of choice.

Robert Bateman discusses health and Smart Meters from ICTV Victoria on Vimeo.

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Local government representatives across British Columbia have been successful in their request for an independent review of BC Transit, due to a strong lobby effort led by Regional District of Nanaimo Chairperson Joe Stanhope.   “I have received a letter from Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Blair Lekstrom confirming that the independent review we requested [...]

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The intention is to provide a positive and unbiased comparison of the candidates for your convenience in the hope of increasing voter participation and awareness.

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The inappropriate use of rate-regulated accounting by BC Hydro is highlighted in the latest Auditor General’s report to the legislature. The Green Party of BC joins those calling for the government’s immediate action to rectify the deficiencies identified. We support the auditor’s recommendations that BC Hydro be required to produce a plan demonstrating how it [...]

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  Cortes Island, BC – Cortes Community Radio announced today that it has suspended transmission at 89.5 FM to comply with Industry Canada regulations regarding testing of broadcast facilities. It is expected that the station will be off the air for a period of about three weeks followed by on air testing which may not [...]

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Billieboy lived on the Sunshine Coast for twenty years before deciding to move to Nanaimo. One of the draws was CHLY, the campus community radio station. He first learned of the maverick station through a friend who used to bundle his kids up and take them out to the car so that they could listen [...]

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Altered Egos is a news show that has been broadcast on CHLY radio for many years. Bob Hansen, the current host, has been manning the mike for the last 1 ½ years. In order to produce the two hour show Hansen spends about twenty hours a week pulling clips from a handful of related websites. [...]

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Many people in Nanaimo associate the words Huge Explosion with the 1887 mine explosion that killed 150 miners, but others know that the Huge Explosion is an eclectic rock mix that can be heard on CHLY radio every Friday afternoon from 3:00-5:00pm. Apparently the mine explosion was felt and heard all over Nanaimo, and in [...]

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How does a busy yoga instructor whose current practice exceeds 100 students a week manage to fulfill her responsibility to share her knowledge and reach out to even more students? She proposes yoga radio to CHLY, an independent station, and lets the ripples permeate the atmosphere. Just shy of her ten year anniversary on the [...]

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Living on Purpose’ began in August 2004 as a ‘live’ radio show on community campus radio station CHLY.ca local dial ~ 101.7fm, and aired for three years until August 2007 in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, BC Canada. Your host then took a year off to produce interviews independently for podcasts. Missing the ‘live’ the show and the local listeners, ‘Living on Purpose’ returned to CHLY from August 2008 – August 2009. At that point ‘Living on Purpose’ officially graduated from those 4 years of volunteer broadcasting.

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Nanaimo, October 18, 2011: The Honourable BC Premier Chrisy Clark responds to a question put to her by CHLY’s Stein Johnson, with regard to the Occupy Nanaimo demonstration (the local incarnation of the Occupy Wall Street movement), which was occurring outside the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, where she was speaking about the “BC Jobs Plan” in response to a $200 million-dollar initiative announced by Western Forest Products to create $75,00-140,000 per-year jobs within the local lumber industry to help serve exports to Asian markets for BC wood. Says Clark, “because ultimately, when people are working, and they’re working at decent, family-supporting wages, that’s the beginning of social equity.”

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Episode #46 – Marian van der Zon interviews Sheila Nopper and Ron Sakolsky, two activists and artists who speak freely on their resistance to the proposed Raven Coal Mine in the Comox Valley. Show’s theme is media and media literacy – television, radio, books, internet, audio. Brought to you by Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Media Studies Department and Media Research Lab and Media Research Lab at Vancouver Island University.

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Before hitting the air waves in October of 2010, “Be The Media” was an idea that was tossed around for a couple of years. It is an idea whose time has come. Eager to create a platform from which students of the Media Studies Department at Vancouver Island University could showcase their work, lynch pin Marian van der Zon founded the show with two criteria in mind: it would be about the media and it would be inclusive.

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Dropping another R&B and Hip-Hop show this week, with a D’Angelo feature in the middle. This week featuring artist such as Fitima, Zo!, Leon King, Ian Kamau, Da Grassroots and Zebrahim Click here to listen or download Hosted by Emile Weekes, Groove Concept Radio, is heard on CHLY radio, Saturdays 1:30 -4pm. The show’s content [...]

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Inteview with Brandon Bauer, permaculture educator, about food forests and about some of the many aspects of permaculture that go beyond food.

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Alice Duff arrived at 3:12am June 29th 2011, weighing in at 8lbs 4oz, 20 1/2″ long, ten fingers, ten toes, mother and baby are well and very happy. Congrats to Stef and her husband John!

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Free Trampoline, July 14 Episode, Hosted by Ron. In this episode three hours of music from a very fine year for music – 1991. Put on your flannel, tune in, and party like it’s 20 years ago!

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Johnny was a founding member of the Radio Malaspina Society in 1999 and is excited to come back and assist CHLY. He is currently a Media Technician at Vancouver Island University where he helps faculty, staff and students create audio/visual projects for teaching and learning. He is a certified Macintosh Technician and has been the System Administrator for the Navigator Newspaper since 1998. Johnny is the Director of the Vancouver Island Short Film Festival which he co-founded in 2006 to help local artists and filmmakers showcase their work. He just recently became the Secretary-Treasurer of the VIU Faculty Association.

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Check out photos of CHLY 101.7 FM at this years Island Music Fest. All photos taken by CHLY volunteer Joan Herron. Listen to CHLY over the next week for new station ID’s from Musicians, and festival attendees!!

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The Nanaimo Art Council presents it’s newest project – a collaborative video with Manly Media that highlights the challenges of having a disability and accessing the arts.

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Here’s some photo’s of CHLY at last years Islands Folk Fest.

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I’m Katelyn McDougall, a student at Vancouver Island University where I study Sociology and Geography. My involvement with CHLY started as I am a regular guest on In the Red on Friday nights (aka “funky fresh”). As I am originally from Nanaimo I have watched the dynamics of downtown change significantly over my life span. I value the strength and power of community and believe that CHLY radio station is highly beneficial to both the downtown community and the VIU campus community alike. Ideally, I would like to see CHLY celebrated more, with a greater presence at VIU by developing a satellite station at the Nanaimo campus. Alternative media outlets can be such a powerful and great tool for students to utilize. I also look forward to being part of a radio station that helps promote originality and create new discourse for a better community.

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I’m Ryan Butler a second year sociology student at Vancouver Island University, a recent Vancouver Film School grad, and a relativity new resident to Nanaimo. I believe we live in a media saturated environment where public spaces have been consumed with advertising. As a result, media is being sold to the highest bidder and important information, which may not be profitable, is not getting heard. CHLY, however, gives any citizen of Nanaimo the opportunity to broadcast and support local issues, news, and events. Using this invaluable resource, I’d like to continue CHLY’s efforts to promote local initiatives, such as Nanaimo Food Share. Vancouver Island University and its student organizations contribute to our community beyond the academics, such as placing bike lanes on Fourth Street, redesigning local youth centres, or providing public gardens. I’d like to support and cultivate more student and community events like these.

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I’m Beverly Hampson, currently a 4th year sociology student at Vancouver Island University, I’m also a co-host on In the Red on Friday nights. I got involved with CHLY because I believe community/campus radio is very important for building fundamental relationships in our city especially with university students. Independent radio is a powerful tool in which I hope to help increase marketing towards the university student body and the community as a whole. As a board member I would like to focus on positive relationships with the university and the continued progress of developing a satellite station on VIU’s Nanaimo campus with the intention of bringing in more student involvement without having to leave campus.

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I co-host Enthusiasm Radio with Ken Holiday on Tuesday mornings from 7:30 to 9. I’ve been involved with the station for a number of years and have seen it through various cycles and leadership rotations, I used to suffer from major guilt because I was such a lackadaisical layabout about putting in time at the station and felt passionately that what CHLY needs is committed volunteers working behind-the-scenes writing policy, applying for grants, raising funds, organizing events, soliciting new music and promoting the station on campus and in the community. One day I buried the guilt and joined the board. True story. Guilt free.

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