CKUT (Montreal) and CHLY Present

The 10th annual Homelessness Marathon
14 hours of live radio programming on justice, not charity

*Tune in and participate!*

//// February 22-23, 2012 \\\\
//// 2pm-4am \\\\

*TUNE IN all night long on 101.7FM, or online at www.chly.ca

*CALL in to our toll-free number from anywhere in Canada to participate
and speak your mind: 1-866-594-7729

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* What is the Homelessness Marathon? *

Every year, the Homeless Marathon serves up 14 hours of people-powered
radio, broadcasted on nearly 40 radio stations across Canada. With the goal
of being a consciousness-raising event, the Marathon will provide an
opportunity for homeless people and their allies to take to the airwaves,
and allow a nationwide discussion on homelessness issues and possible
solutions.

*35 stations carrying the marathon from coast to coast to coast! To find
the station nearest you broadcasting the marathon, visit:
http://ckut.ca/homeless/?page_id=93

*Some highlights for this year include:
** Open mic hour from midnight-1am (call in with your questions, comments,
and rants, or bring an instrument down to the centre and play a song) -
1-866-594-7729
** Other hourly topics and panels on gender and access to housing, police
repression and the law, art in the streets, migration and housing, and more!
** Segments of the marathon also being hosted live from the streets of
Halifax by CKDU radio, and the streets of Vancouver by CJSF radio!

*For the complete schedule, *and for more info, visit: www.ckut.ca/homeless

*Get involved!*
We need help putting up posters, getting the word out, and also on the
airwaves. Get in touch with marathon@ckut.ca, or call 514-448-4041 x.6788

After 2 years of operating at less than 2000 watts, we are pleased to announce we are back at full power!!  Thanks to all the members (including VIU Nanaimo Campus Students), donors, sponsors over the last 2 years.  With your help Radio Malaspina has purchased a new 350 Watt back up transmitter and has repaired its main 2000 Watt transmitter.

Dr. Paola Lake, registered psychologist, established her practice in 2004 after moving from Ottawa, Ontario. Shortly after settling into west coast living, she received a call from CHLY programmer Pam Edgar; host of Living for the Health of It, who invited Lake to become a monthly guest on her show. Lake eventually decided to produce and host her own talk show, The Dr. Lake show. Her show is motivated by a desire to help people build resources and community support to enhance personal resilience and people’s ability to deal with life’s challenges. The Dr. Lake Show has been on the air for three years.

Originally from Italy, Lake came to live on the Lower Mainland when she was 5 years old. She studied at the Universities of Victoria and Saskatchewan before moving to Ottawa. In addition to her private practice and teaching experience in Ottawa, she also co-hosted a radio show that focused on de-stigmatizing mental illness. She ultimately returned to Nanaimo where her parents had retired and is now firmly established in the harbour city.

In addition to having her PhD in Psychology, Lake is completing her certification as a life and executive coach. She enjoys the positive and action-oriented nature of coaching and its focus on building on people’s strength, instead of the traditional focus on pathology. She uses a multitude of tools to build on people’s strengths.

The Dr. Lake Show is a vehicle to ‘help people help themselves’ and represents Lake’s philosophy that together, we can work build strength and support to manage tough times. Because everyone experiences some degree of adversity in their lives, her focus is on building resilience. Like community radio, she sees her program as a vehicle to give voice to community members and experts and to create an accessible avenue to discuss mental health and wellness.

Although Lake is influenced by a variety of clinicians and authors in her work, such as Martin Seligman, Lee Pulos, Carl Rogers, and Gabor Mate, she draws inspiration from examples of everyday people who face adversity and achieve the unexpected while facing challenging circumstances. She stresses the importance of taking time to reflect on personal beliefs and examining whether they are enhancing or limiting our potential and quality of life. She also believes that most people can benefit from developing tools and skills to manage everyday challenges such as mindfulness practice, development of effective communication skills and strategies for achieving personal goals.

If you are interested in enhancing your resiliency and improving your well-being, tune in to 101.7fm every Monday evening from 7:00-8:00pm. Or, check out her podcasts at

www.chly.ca. Past topics include creating positive change, hypnosis, self esteem and developing a mindfulness practice.

Alison Roberts is the author of Clutter’s Dirty Secret and a volunteer writer with CHLY radio.

Photo Credit: Denisa Krausova

U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act awakens dissenting Canadians

January 18, 2012— Pro-Internet organization OpenMedia.ca is joining groups in the U.S. and Canada in darkening its website, in an effort to raise awareness about upcoming American legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). OpenMedia.ca joins domain registrar Tucows, Identi, and Internet law expert Michael Geist in so doing.

OpenMedia.ca is also providing an online tool that allows Canadians to join their U.S. counterparts, and millions of people worldwide, in speaking out against controversial censorship bills.

SOPA is a U.S. bill designed to block websites based offshore that peddle illegal content, but many groups and prominent websites—including Wikipedia, Google, Amazon, and Reddit—argue that it would fundamentally reshape the Internet for the worse.

SOPA contains provisions that would give the American government and private corporations the ability to force ISPs to cripple any website that they allege has made use of copyrighted materials. SOPA would also force websites like Google, Wikipedia, or Reddit to block links to content that they suspect may be copyrighted.

According to online rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the U.S. legislation:

..would grant the government and private parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet’s underlying infrastructure. The government would be able to force ISPs and search engines to block users’ attempts to reach certain websites’ URLs… the blacklist bills’ provisions would give corporations and other private parties new powers to censor foreign websites with court orders that would cut off payment processors and advertisers.

Those foreign websites include ones found in Canada. Michael Geist warns that “Canadian businesses and websites could easily find themselves targeted by SOPA.” Canadian Internet users and online innovators have a lot to lose if SOPA is passed. The bill could threaten the open Internet in the U.S., Canada, and the rest of the world.

Canadians can take a stand against SOPA here: http://openmedia.ca/sopa

About OpenMedia.ca

OpenMedia.ca is a non-profit organization that safeguards the open and affordable Internet. The group works towards informed & participatory digital policy.

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Contact

Lindsey Pinto
Communications Manager, OpenMedia.ca
778-238-7710
lindsey@openmedia.ca

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