http://previous.ncra.ca RSS of the most recent programs EN-ca Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:57:15 EDT Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:41:01 GMT http://previous.ncra.ca NCRA Program Exchange [email protected] (Magnus Thyvold) [email protected] (Magnus Thyvold) http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310652 4 Mar, 2026 || 0:58:00 || Music beyond boundaries for a digital world! || Deep Threes is now available on the !earshot platform. Please contact Jay at [email protected] to find out more. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310652 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310649 4 Mar, 2026 || 0:29:58 || Pledge drive 2026 || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310649 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310516 2 Mar, 2026 || 0:57:01 || Gerald Horne – How Trump Happened || How Trump happened is a question a lot of people ask. From an aggressive foreign policy to an immigration crackdown to cutting Medicaid to tax breaks for the super-rich to undermining environmental regulations and much more. Where did these policies originate? A good place to start is Project 2025. It’s a detailed 900+ page agenda designed to reshape the government, specifically focusing on expanding executive power and implementing conservative policies across federal agencies. Organized by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is a road map for this administration. Its policies have generated pushback. Recent polls show rising opposition. David Brooks, the noted PBS conservative commentator, says of Trump, “This is the most imperial presidency in American history.” http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310516 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310496 26 Feb, 2026 || 0:58:00 || Music beyond boundaries for a digital world! || http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310496 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310493 25 Feb, 2026 || 0:29:59 || Mission Breathe, CARES, MAID protest || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310493 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310362 23 Feb, 2026 || 0:57:01 || Jesse Jackson – Keeping Hope Alive (special program) || Jesse Jackson was a giant of the civil rights movement, an icon of the struggle for justice and equality. He worked with Dr. King. An ordained minister, his charismatic speaking style enthralled audiences. He was twice a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. He was the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. He proudly proclaimed, “My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disrespected and the despised.” In his long life of activism he kept hope alive. Reverend Jackson passed away on February 17 at the age of 84. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310362 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310291 18 Feb, 2026 || 0:29:58 || College Justice Case, prosthetics, aftd || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310291 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310093 16 Feb, 2026 || 0:57:01 || Joanna Macy – Deep Caring for the Earth || The challenges humankind faces from the climate emergency to species extinction to terminal war may be difficult to comprehend but we ignore them at our peril. Looking away is a lot easier than facing reality. Viewing the Earth as a giant shopping mall to be exploited is leading us to a literal dead end. The capitalist system solely cares about making money. Can a deep caring for the Earth emerge that is nourishing and sustaining rather than recklessly exploiting it? What creative steps can we undertake to reverse the dangerous course we are on? The clock is ticking as our precious planet takes one hit after another. Can global society wake up to implement policies that will avert catastrophe? If not, Joanna Macy says, “It’s curtains.” http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310093 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310062 11 Feb, 2026 || 0:29:40 || night owl, wonderful works, LDAWE || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=310062 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309912 9 Feb, 2026 || 0:57:04 || Jeffery Robinson – The South, Slavery & the Lost Cause || The Lost Cause is rooted in the South’s search for justification and the need to find a substitute for victory in the Civil War. In attempting to deal with defeat, the South created an image of the war as a noble epic fought by brave men. The war, the mythology goes, wasn’t about preserving slavery; it was about Southern values. Monuments to Confederate soldiers and the naming of military bases not only glorify militarism but are everyday reminders of white supremacy and the subordination of slaves. Slavery, free labor for centuries, created huge wealth for the plantation master class. To heal and repair, we need an honest accounting of history. Some monuments have come down, and military bases may be renamed. We can’t continue to mythologize the past. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309912 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309862 4 Feb, 2026 || 0:29:42 || Disability without poverty, ecc, asthma Canada || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309862 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309710 2 Feb, 2026 || 0:57:01 || Michael Parenti – Capitalism || Discussions about democracy probably started in Athens about 2500 years ago. A truism is society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. U.S.-style democracy is located within the capitalist economic system infamous for producing colossal inequality. There’s no level playing field, as great income and wealth translate into political power for the haves at the expense of the have-nots. We have procedural democracy: elections, broadcast debates, primaries, etc. Citizens are largely marginalized, overwhelmed by big money and powerful lobbies. Look at the widespread demand to ban assault weapons or for universal single-payer health care or to protect the environment or for affordable housing. People want those things but elites have a simple message: Vote. Then go home and leave everything to us. Actual democracy is hollowed out. A Davos-type class rules. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309710 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309679 28 Jan, 2026 || 0:29:58 || Mayor, Ministry, Employment || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309679 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309435 21 Jan, 2026 || 0:29:53 || Assistive Technology, Geneva Centre, Musician || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309435 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309227 19 Jan, 2026 || 0:57:01 || Martin Luther King - Beyond Vietnam || Martin Luther King Jr.’s charismatic “I Have a Dream” speech is emblazoned in our historical memories. But another address to a much smaller audience on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York is no less significant. There King demonstrated his deep understanding of how the system works. He moved beyond a simple race analysis to include class and foreign policy issues. He forcefully denounced the war in Vietnam. He called the U.S. “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world” and he deplored the “giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism.” Exactly one year later King was assassinated in Memphis where he had gone in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize winner, is one of the 20th century’s most esolidarity with striking sanitation workers. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309227 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309194 14 Jan, 2026 || 0:29:55 || Autism Anglers, ministry, epilepsy || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=309194 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=308964 12 Jan, 2026 || 0:56:58 || Koohan Paik-Mander - The Nuclear Legacy of Artificial Intelligence || We hear from many quarters that "AI will destroy the world." But everyone's got a different scenario for what that means. The most sensational perspectives come from theorists like Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called "godfather of AI" or industrialists like Elon Musk. They warn us that one day, a superintelligent AI could replace human beings in controlling the planet. But we don't need to make conjectures. The scorched-earth destruction is already happening. Jobs are hemorrhaging with no sign of return. Data centers are turning U.S. farmlands into barren industrial gulags while consuming record levels of power, spewing volumes of carbon and using up our last freshwater sources. Fusillades of deep-fake videos politically paralyze the public. An AI surveillance infrastructure is being constructed that will lock in fascism. And algorithms are telling ICE and the IDF who lives and who dies. It seems all too overwhelming. However, by tracing AI's lineage to the development of the atom bomb -- with the same ideologies and twisted logic -- it becomes apparent that solutions to the AI dilemma can also be found in nuclear history, and in its disarmament successes. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=308964 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=308941 7 Jan, 2026 || 0:36:32 || Thrive, Family Alliance || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=308941 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=308807 5 Jan, 2026 || 0:57:01 || John Shattuck - Resistance || In a time when scoundrels abound and corruption is rife, the need for resistance is critical. This is no time for fence-sitting and twiddling thumbs. Throughout history, people have fought and defeated autocracy by organizing with allies to challenge, disrupt, and roll back unfair rule. We are in such a moment now, as power is being centralized and the rule of law and decency are being undermined. The odds may seem too difficult, but perseverance and collective action can be effective. Through resistance, authoritarian rule can be rolled back. Historian Howard Zinn reminds us," The power of tyranny is overestimated and can be overcome by the unity and the determination of apparently powerless people." http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=308807 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=308804 31 Dec, 2025 || 0:30:00 || Avanti Group, BC adaptive snow sports, custom orthotics || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=308804