Civically Speaking Podcast with Host, Lenore Swystun and Co-Host, Christina Cherneskey

Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, Thanks for tuning in. Much appreciated. In this special Behind the Ballot episode I talk with volunteers from the Atchison and Tarasoff campaigns. These conversations shed some interesting insights into the backrooms of campaigns. Much appreciation to both representatives. Resources, strategies and more are shared. Additionally, I give a rundown of the candidates i...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, Joining this week's show is Janet Brown, a Pollster and Political Commentator from Alberta with Opinion Research. Janet has done some recent polling for CUPE Saskatchewan and has a wealth of experience with polling and all things politically related - particularly in Alberta. Her accuracy in polling and related research is renowned. Janet is sought after...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Civically Speaking Listeners, We go behind the ballot during this episode with some field research into the campaign offices of mayoral candidates, Cynthia Block and Gordon Wyant. We sit down with their campaign managers respectively, Rebecca and Samantha.  I am also planning on reaching out to the other mayoral candidate offices for some behind the scenes sound bites - - as...

Send us Fan Mail Howdy Dear Listeners,  This episode is coming in two parts. In the first part Lang McGilp from Insightrix Research takes us through the latest poll results for the upcoming provincial election. What are we learning - things are definitely getting interesting. In part two we go a deep deeper into results and share some insights about the upcoming civic election in Saskatoon.  And P...

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Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, Apologies for the late release this week. We have mayoral candidate interviews running in back to back shows on CFCR's air time this week and last; so, this show is officially being uploaded and counted as a direct to podcast version of Civically Speaking. Popular guest co-host, Dale Richardson, of Earnscliffe Strategies and The SKoop Political Briefing,...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Listeners, It's our annual FM-Phasis campaign - so important - so we can continue to offer you great shows like this - especially ones like this. In this episode you get to learn a little more about Saskatoon's Mayoral Candidates. In this particular episode we first talk with Cynthia Block in Part 1 and Gordon Wyant in Part 2. Next week we will be airing candidates...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, It's a pleasure and an honour to host this show.  This particular episode will air on Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024, on CFCR.ca 90.5 at 6:30 pm. As a podcast listener, you will have access to this recording at the same time you have access to the first two mayoral candidate interviews that will be airing on September 24. 2024.  In this episode are featured respec...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, It is our annual FM-Phasis fundraising campaign - Radio on Repeat. Please donate right here.... Donate | CFCR 90.5FM | Saskatoon Community Radio A real treat of a show....Dale Richardson with The SKoop Political Briefing , James Yachyshen and Patricia Roe - join as this week's civic panel. We give an update on municipal candidates in Saskatoon that we know are...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners,  You are in for a treat. This may be the final episode of this podcast Season 9.  And, together with this, comes, guests Gord Androsoff and James Yachyshen.  We have a benign beginning and then get right into it - discussing the list, as we know it, informally so, of candidates so far we know/heard of who are running in each of the respective ten civic wards that m...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Folks, Oooh my goodness, Fall season, and it is starting out FAST...too fast...including uploading today's episode. Thanks ST for letting me know the incorrect episode was uploaded. In this episode James Yachyshen and I debrief the first Saskatoon Mayoral Forum held on August 29th - co-hosted by myself and Christina from Civically Speaking and our colleagues from Voice...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, Thank you so much for tuning in. Much appreciation.  Dale Richardson and Gordon Androsoff join me as co-hosts. Regrets from Christina this week. In part 1, we dive into what it means to have four candidates now in Saskatoon's Mayoral race. Joining Cary Tarasoff, Cynthia Block and Gord Wyant is former Mayor, Don Atchison (for a second run).  In part 2, we get i...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, Thanks for tuning in. So appreciated.  We love doing this show. On this week's show - we give a big shout out to Tracy Muggli, the most recent Senator appointment announced by the Prime Minister to represent our Province.  Tracy is an amazing person - truly, an earth angel. She is a social worker by profession and has been a true community champion. She...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Listeners, We are delighted and honoured to have Lang McGilp of Insightrix. In part 1 we get to know a bit about Lang and his work and how polling works. We then start to dive into some of the results. In part 2 we dive into the most recent Saskachewan poll results with respect to provincial politics and the lead parties.  You won't be disappointed.  Lots of wonderful i...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, Thanks for tuning in. Really appreciate this forum and the opportunity to share information in an informal and informative way about the pulse of our civic arena and all things civic (and by civic meaning -  duties and activities related to our local area) including politics, planning, development, and engagement taking place at all layers and orders.  In tod...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, Dale Richardson, of Earnscliffe Strategies, and, creator of The SKoop Political Briefing, joins Christina and I, for part 2 of several shows.  We dive right back into the Bye Bye Biden pool. And then, venture out into a pool- ilitical analysis of what the two main Saskatchewan political parties are up to - and need to be up to - by this time of year - a year...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, Indeed the political world continues to twist and turn. Joining us to deconstruct the most recent political happenings here and south of the border, we have with us, Dale Richardson. Dale is the former host of the SKOOP podcast, turned creator of The SKoop Political Briefing ...check it out. Have a listen. Support community radio. And share this show with others. ...

Send us Fan Mail Summer Wishes Listeners, And, the heat is on, summer temp wise for sure; political wise in Saskatoon, uhm...maybe not so much visible ... save a Ward 6 Candidate making his way through the ward. More on this and other summer shades ... And, in part 2, couldn't help it, we 'bidentrump' talk...Christina shares some wisdom from her years as a News Editor on what's...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, Sorry for the delay. Too much going on.   Indeed we had a full week last week re all things civic. Most interesting.  A public hearing to discuss the Housing Accelerator Fund that was created by the Federal Government. A fund with specific criteria that affects zoning in our city.  Have a listen as we try to unpack the information shared at the ou kic hearing.  Civ...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, We start off with a storm - okay - more like-  the typical thing Saskatchewan folks talk about - the weather. And, hail. And, more hail. And then we move onto a discussion about two recent events in Saskatoon - both involving walking and music and much more. And then we land on some observations re our municipal election and our provincial election - upcoming...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks for tuning, Listeners... We deconstruct a few of the most recent civic parcels in the current news stream. Gordon Androsoff with CHEP Good Food joins us for Part 2 - where we dive into one of the central issues facing our city - homelessness, safety. Have a listen. Support community radio and podcasts just like this. Civically Speaking, Lenore Swystun with Christina Chernes...

Send us Fan Mail What's For Launch? Listeners, you ask... Two current sitting politicians announce on the same day. One comes from within the current Council. Another sat on Council some time ago. And went on to provincial politics. In common - one position in the future they both want. Mayor of Saskatoon. Block. Wyant. Join, Tarasoff. Now there are Three. Tune in - for the details on two can...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we provide an update on the recent development re the new downtown library. And then we head into a few more musings including - what's the latest regarding candidate races.  And well....crickets...mostly.  In the podcast version, Part 2  has a tiny 'extended' discussion not heard on the radio version - re cellular coverage in Saskatchewan....

Send us Fan Mail Thanks for tuning in, We get into 'it' with Phil Tank, that is, we get into the latest dynamics resulting from the close of the Saskatchewan Provincial Legislative Session and last words of a Speaker and more.  Thanks for being on the show, Phil.  Support local media wherever you live.   Civically speaking,  Lenore Swystun with Christina Cherneskey99 Civically Speaking-...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Dear Listeners, Last week - was really one of those weeks. Historic from an outside looking in kind of way. Christina and I go into a discussion about what happened at the end of the Spring Session at the Legislative Assembly in Saskatchewan.  I caveat this episode by saying... we can only provide some thoughts/opinions and outside observations on what happened in terms of w...