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Keith Gottschalk is not seeing the change promised by the Obama administration. Murray Dobbin has some suggestions that could change the face of the country. RPN's latest show F Word talks queer parenting. Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond talk wrestling. And music from Jenn Grant - Everybody Loves You.

Keith Gottschalk takes us on a Last Hurrah vacation, in his mind anyway. Next an excerpt of an interview with Susan Holtz of the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, where she shared some of her big-picture thinking about energy, food and transportation. Peter Stock opened with a question about the relationship between bio-fuels and food. Next we bring some of the choices around transportation closer to home. In the Lower Mainland of British Colombia, the transit authority Translink is short of money. They need $150 million in the next two years and double that amount to meet expansion plans. They say a tax on individual cars would be one way to bring in some of the cash, and have proposed a $100 levy. Jane Williams of Vancouver Co-op Radio's "RedEye" examined the proposal with Anthony Perl, director of the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University. Here's an excerpt of their conversation. Whenever, where ever Victoria Fenner travels she takes her audio gear with her, she samples sounds the way most of us snap pictures. And, in her new podcast, The Roaming Ear, she brings those sounds home, plucks them off her hard drive and serves them up as as audio fieldnotes. Here's just an acoustic taste of her travels and discoveries Finally, we leave you with a lovely, mellow tune from the Saskatchewen based group, Deep Dark Woods. It's just one Western Canadian group the Ruckus has been presenting on the eponymous podcast here on the rpn. But, before we go, just a remind you to consider becoming a rabble.ca member so we can keep bringing you shows like rabbleradio, the Ruckus, the Roaming Ear and so much more here on the good ol' rpn. Now, the music: This track is All the Money I Had is gone from the band's new album Winter Hours.

Filmmaker Tina Hahn's film Tale of a Yellow Bike was featured in Vancouver's Projecting Change film festival. She stopped by Redeye to talk about her film, and why bicycle culture doesn't thrive in North America. Part of Linda McQuaig's address at rabble.ca's eighth birthday celebration in Toronto on April 16th. Joel Plaskett speaks about working with his father on his latest album Three. Deny, Deny, Deny from Joel Plaskett's latest album Three. Cindy Corrie speaks about remembering her daughter during a Code Pink delegation trip to Gaza. Part of George Galloway's speech, delivered at the border, and played in Canada via internet. From Joel Plaskett's album La De Da, Absentminded Melody.

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Liana Salvador speaks to the crowd assembled for International Women's Day in Toronto about one of the factors that make equality difficult for young women - Student Debt. Keith looks at some of the women who are powerful in American Politics. Shani Mootoo talks with Allendria Brunges about her latest book, Valmiri's Daughter. Poet Lillian Allen performing at International Women's Day in Toronto.

Economist Armine Yalnizyan speaks to a conference for women negotiators for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). She says there is a way to save the economy, if governments will just act quickly.

Keith on the jobs crisis. Reel women remind us that "You Can't Take It With You" Roxanne Potvin, with the song "Je T'aime" Special Feature: first presentation from Who R U, a podcast featuring identity on the edge of tech.

Kevin McGowan's top music picks from last year. www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/theruckus. Allison Crowe, with the song Angels. Prudent Nsengiyumva takes us to Rwanda's first school for the deaf to meet a student who is changing her life by studying there. Norman Finklestein is an indendent academic. He writes on Israeli-Palestinian issues. His speech is called Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Ghandi. At one of his lectures he was asked to compare Barack Obama with Ghandi, which is when he told everyone that they should not believe the hype. His vociferous response was recorded from the crowd. Keith Gottschalk might love Obama, but he's been distracted. He'll tell you all about it. The Good Lovelies, with a song from their self-titled album. The song is Cheek to Cheek.

Jewish activists across Canada are taking action against the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Last week a group of Jewish women held a protest in the Israeli Consulate in Toronto. Rabble Founder Judy Rebick was there. She told her story to Rabble Radio's Meagan Perry. Judy Rebick is not the only one Karine Silverwoman is a Toronto writer, performer, and activist. She has worked with Nightwood theater, and Toronto's Mayworks Festival. She performed her piece This Is Not a Poem in Toronto early this month. Keith Gottschalk is keeping his eyes firmly on the economy as the Obama inauguration comes over the horizon. He's found his inspiration in the Maritimes. We're revisiting some of our best documentaries of 2008. This is Dave Kattenburg, from the Green Planet Monitor, on Ecological Food in Bolivia. Only one of the Reel Women is with us today, but Cathi's looking back over 2008 to tell us what her rental picks are. Let her help you through the early DVD questions of 2009.

Interview with Jaimie Biggar from Canadians for a Progressive Coalition about how to keep the coalition a reality. Keith Golding with his song Golden Cup. You can hear more from him at http://www.themeeting.ca Interview with Kenneth Whyte, the author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolf Hearst. The Reel Women on Hellboy II Kensington Prairie with Bluebirds