Stuart Parker Dot CA

In this show, Jorge Cañizares Esguerra, historian of the Spanish Empire and I discuss the long-term legacies of colonialism in the Americas, from the origins of race and racism to contemporary education policies that discriminate against Latinos. We also enjoy some sangria.

In this show we discuss Eileen's faculty activism, her new design house and clothing line and our current moment in neoliberalism.

Jeremy Stewart, poet, musician, scholar and impresario comes on the program to talk about his novella, In Singing, He Composed a Song.

My partner and I chat about art-making and the extinction event over gimlets.

My longtime friend Ken Mills of the University of Michigan enjoy gimlets together and talk about lessons we can learn from the study of the Spanish Empire... and mystery novels.

I still post my interviews from other shows here. I guess the cancellation is wearing off. Mike Smyth puts me back on CKNW.

Today's show has a pretty deep dive into forty-three years of Star Wars material, which kind of crowds out the dynamic Green Party of Canada leadership contender, Dimitri Lascaris, who will, consequently, be back.

This is a compressed explanation of the profound changes wrought by the fossil fuel revolution in the late 18th century.

This is a short three-part lecture on the challenges of reproducing an Aristotelian or Ciceronian appeal to ethos or ethical appeal in the present day from my old Western Canon course at BCIT. 

I debate George Affleck, proponent of a 2030 Vancouver Olympic bid on Mike Smyth's CKNW show.

I was interviewed on SFU campus radio shortly after the founding of the BC Ecosocialists on October 27th.

This is the final lecture of the course, wrapping up the various themes addressed throughout.

This is the penultimate episode of the course, examining the epistemological and moral barriers to addressing the extinction event.

This is the fifth lecture in IS 373 - Global Environmental Politics examining the heyday of Soviet central planning and Keynesianism and how these optimistic, interventionist economic ideologies were reflected in environmental policy and action.

This is a lecture given to my Global Environmental Politics Class (IS 373) at Simon Fraser University about the birth of modern environmental consciousness. 

This announcement was played on CFIS following my removal as host, chronicled in this Glacier Media article here .

Today, my show moved to the coveted Tuesday timeslot and underwent a reset. Henceforth, we will be hearing more from our regular contributors more frequently and we will be getting back to a weekly roundup of global news stories. We began our show with that roundup, followed by Michael Demers our sports commentator on emergency backup goalies and the winter Olympics. We then moved to my D&D bu...

Our final Monday broadcast features Sebastian Nicholson from Positive Living – North talking about his work educating people about sexual health and sexual and gender identity questions. I also ask him about some of the big controversies in gender and sexual politics in BC today. In the second half, Patti Bacchus, the Georgia Straight’s education columnist and longest- serving Vancouver school boa...

Today’s show featured two longer interviews, one with Green Party of Canada leadership candidate Alex Tyrrell , currently the leader of the Green Party of Quebec and Annerose Georgeson, Vanderhoof artist featured in a major career retrospective at Two Rivers Gallery in downtown Prince George. 

We gave our whole show to widening the optic for understanding Prince George’s acute classroom teacher shortage and how it arises from a cross-partisan consensus in Victoria. We began with Joanne Hapke, President of Prince George’s BC Teachers’ Federation local, followed by Joanna Larsen, a Prince Rupert BCTF activist and then concluded with Andrea Beckett, President of the Prince George District...

On After Nine – Monday Edition, we continue our look at the BC-Wet’suwet’en territorial conflict in northwestern BC by taking a deeper dive into questions of framing and identity, first with policy analyst Adam Finch and then with Samir Gandesha from the SFU Institute of Humanities. We were then joined in studio by my partner, Corey Matthews Hardeman and her artistic collaborator Jan Little \to di...

Continuing our coverage of the Wet’suwet’en land protectors, we spoke to Ricochet Media’s Jerome Turner in the first part of our program. In our s econd, we spoke with Wayne Hughes, retiring executive director of the Prince George John Howard Society. I closed with an “edutorial” on the office of the Solicitor-General.

It was a great privilege to interview four women involved in defending the traditional territory of the Unis’tot’en and Gidimt’en clans this week. We began with Dr. Annie Booth of the UNBC faculty union, which just passed a resolution of support to the defenders. You can hear her interview , followed by the start of my interview Sleydo’ Molly Wickham at the Gidimt’en checkpoint. We then move on to...

Today’s show featured two guests, Jo Graber of PACHA, the People’s Action Committee for Healthy Air, Prince George’s local air quality citizens’ group, speaking about the problems associated with the proposed West Coast Olefins plant and David Merner, the only British Columbians running to replace Elizabeth May as Green Party leader.

After Nine – Monday Edition finished its 2019 broadcasting schedule with two leaders in BC’s alternative media, Gurpreet Singh of Radical Desi and Spice Radio on Indian disaporic politics, the rise of Hindu nationalism and the Kashmir crisis. Charlie Smith, editor of the Georgia Straight also joined us for a wide ranging interview about the climate crisis, challenges in alternative media and key p...