A new crew has joined Girls Meet World!

We talk about Carney’s investment summit and various climate news. Dave Gray-Donald interviews Michael Longfield, Executive Director of Cycle Toronto, about provincial overreach into municipal affairs and Doug Ford’s bike lane spite.

Labour Radio covers Ukrainian immigration to Canada and internment camps

Today, we will be talking with Hamna and Steve, two members of Off the Defensive who played leading roles in the 2025 conference at which OTD was founded. Our discussion touches on some of their takeaways from previous neighbourhood organizing in Toronto, the reasons that OTD was launched, and how we want to take our neighbourhood organizing to the next level.

This month, we are highlighting four articles from the Features section of the Tribune, covering a myriad of topics. Today, we’ll be talking about the Quebec separatist movement, the myth of cycle syncing, the harms of pretendians, and McGill’s long history of blackface, read through archived McGill Daily articles.

On September 30, join a national moment of remembrance and reflection. Remembering the Children honours residential school Survivors, remembers the children who never returned home and acknowledges the ongoing journey toward truth and reconciliation. Watch live beginning at 12 pm ET. #EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay #NDTR

Flux Festival is happening from October 1st – 12th, 2026! Flux Festival is a Montreal experimental music festival. The fest offers a unique mix of concerts, workshops, roundtables and launches configured around Archiving Improvisation: Community, Culture and the Weight of History. Listen to their takeover of the Montreal Sessions, where they have interviews with participating artists BIll Cole, Deanna Radford, Mostafa Henaway and programming highlights!

MUTEK Festival takes place in Montreal August 25 – 30, 2026, exploring the intersection of music and technology, and featuring local and international talent. Café interviews Vincent Lemieux about Village numérique

MUTEK Festival takes place in Montreal August 25 – 30, 2026, exploring the intersection of music and technology, and featuring local and international talent. Café interviews two participating artists, NGL Flounce et Abulzooz.

Butcher T’s Noon Time Cuts provides interviews from international/local artists and a wide variety of music genres from Old/New School, Soul/R&B, Hip Hop, Funk, and House. This program also airs the rhythms of Caribbean and Latin music including Reggae, Soca, Zouk, Salsa, Bachata, etc., just to name a few.

Featuring legendary DJ Butcher T, Noon Time Cuts began in 1992 and showed Montreal what a real Urban Programme could be like.

Butcher T lets the music flow and plays whatever genre suits the mood – full of surprises.

Sensual bangers for the Monday night heads. Hex P’s love for the tunes drips from the airwaves…. she’s playing tracks inspired by local dancefloors and late night connections, so pull out the futon and get grooving.

QueerCorps features artists from Festival Ctrl+Alt. Ctrl+Alt does not simply seek to showcase unfamiliar faces. It platforms voices that have been ignored for far too long.

From July 24 to 26, the Village is reborn as the epicentre of a politico-artistic act of expression. The Ctrl+Alt Festival materializes a space where the Arts of the night intertwine to compose a living portrait of Montréal after dark: a city shaped by its under-recognized talents, its Queer scenes, its creative margins, and its underground legacy.

Nelson and Andrea from the News Collective joined Andre Goulet from Unrigged at Casa Del Popolo on Sunday June 21st during the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival to talk about the goings-on that provide the political backbone that holds up this legendary Montreal experimental music festival, now in its 26th year. They were joined by Rosie Long Decter (Maisonneuve/New Feeling), Nik Barry-Shaw (Council of Canadians), Ole Hendrickson and Conor Curtis (Sierra Club Canada), independent journalist Rachel Gilmore, and tech writer Paris Marx (Tech Won’t Save Us).

Nelson and Andrea from the News Collective joined Andre Goulet from Unrigged at Casa Del Popolo on Sunday June 21st during the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival to talk about the goings-on that provide the political backbone that holds up this legendary Montreal experimental music festival, now in its 26th year. They were joined by Stefan Christoff (Free City Radio), Kalden Dhatsenpa from CUTV, Katia Lo Innes from the Breach, Savannah Stewart from The Rover, and Niall Ricardo, the federal NDP president.

Alex Apostolidis (iWant2BeOnTV, Criminal Trap, Durex) does a Suoni Per Il Popolo Montreal Session – reviewing Suoni past, present, and future – taking calls and some personal picks in the lead up to “The Spelling Bee Of The Century” on Friday, June 26th, 2026.

Kiva Stimac, Artistic Director, and CKUT fav Alexis O’Hara joined us live in studio for the second of four Suoni takeovers to talk about this year’s 26th edition of this legendary experimental music festival, happening from June 16-28 this year on the Plateau. This episode featured a chat with members of the Smash the Patriarchy! show and a live performance by Jahsun & Engone Endong.

Kiva Stimac, Artistic Director, and CKUT fav Alexis O’Hara joined us live in studio for the first of four Suoni takeovers to talk about this year’s 26th edition of this legendary experimental music festival, happening from June 16-28 this year on the Plateau.

The whole cast of The Teachings made it to CKUT’s studios with their kids in tow to do an extra special live episode for our 2026 Funding Drive and beautiful chaos ensued.

A special broadcast by Samaa Elibyari and Amir, featuring Mitchell Plitnick (ReThinking Foreign Policy, Jewish Voice for Peace), Abdallah El-Arian (Georgetown University, Qatar), Yves Engler (Montreal activist), with sounds from Montreal downtown anti-war protest, compiled by Amir.

In this segment, we continue the conversation with Sage from the previous week. We talk about what the current picture looks like in terms of (lack of) spaces for expression and conversation, (lack of) representation and adaptability in mental and physical healthcare, and (lack of) representation in academia and research. We then look towards the future in terms of what we’d like to see changed and give our listeners calls to action on how to take part in the change we’d like to see.

Utopia’s Paradise goes LIVE for the first time in 5 years with guest host Firuza (aka iPod Baby), bringing you 4 straight hours of deep house, NYC garage, Montreal disco, and underground club music from the 1970s to present day.

Narcy and Sundus Abdul Hadi guest co-host a special episode of Groundbreakers / All Da Way Live from 4th Space at Concordia.

POP’s Creative Director Dan Seligman hits the studio with a star studded guest list for two hours of classic Montreal September radio.

Famed historian, author, and archivist Dr. Dorothy Williams speaks with Pat Dillon-Moore and Phil Vassel (Canadian Black Music Archives) about the role music played in the tapestry of Black cultural history in Montreal. Jazz artist Ranee Lee joins by telephone. In collaboration with the Canada Black Music Archives and U of T’s Afrosonic Innovation Lab.