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Keith Gottschalk muses about the inevitable demise of the Bush presidency. Cathi Bond and Judy Rebick fight it out in a cheery little way about this weeks DVDs, Little Miss Sunshine. From the Golden Dogs' latest release Big Eye Little Eye, the song is Construction Worker. Meagan heads to a Lego robotics tournament in Scarborough, Ontario. Wayne's showing us all how to be more organized. Thanks, technology! A song called Runouttaluck, from the Golden Dogs wraps up our show.

Jen Moore takes us to the Press Freedom Awards on this episodes installment of Homebrew. Keith was watching the pre-election frenzy when he recorded his column, and he's got a prediction... is it now true? Music comes to us this episode from Shotgun and Jaybird. First up, a song called Stolen Mini-Van. DVDiva is trying something a little different this episode. She's bringing in her reel-woman podcasting partner, Judy Rebick. These two dames can sure chat up a storm about the movies. This episode, they think about The Proposition Wayne Macphail is in with another online tool. This time, it's Scrybe. More music to finish off the program, from Shotgun and Jaybird, this is RE - Tired. The rabble.ca membership drive is on now. Don't forget to sign up. There are lots of nifty prizes, and your dollars will be going to help keep independent media alive in Canada. Click the "join us" link at rabble.ca.

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Keith Gottschalk gets all fired up by US media coverage of the war in Iraq. Wayne interviews Rebekah Shoop about her new NGO for Mayan Guatemalans, Alianza. DVDiva lights one up for her review of Thank You for Smoking... Charlotte presents a new track from Montreal turntablist Kid Koala's new album, Your Mom's Favourite DJ, released last month on Ninja Tune Records. Wayne checks out Google Reader - the swiss army knife of RSS readers. Charlotte takes a sound-seeing tour exploring the dark moments of of McGill University's history with activist and PhD Ed Hudson. Check out Eric Squier's website for more in-depth information about McGill's strange history. A final track from Kid Koala from his debut album Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Visit Kid Koala's website.

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Homebrew takes us to a Kentucky prison where messages from distant relatives reach inmates via the airwaves. It's one of several projects run by appalshop.com. Keith is back from vacation in Canada, and reflecting on all that has occurred since he left. Brad is one guy. One guy who makes songs to put on the internet. And he has one CD. It's called I Don't Know What I'm Doing. The song we're going to hear first is called "Making Me Nervous" and it comes to us courtesy of Podshow.com. DVDiva is on the couch watching a 12 hour epic called Broken Saints. Is it worth the investment? Tune in to find out. Online tools is back with a new online extravaganza that all you bloggers are going to love. It's called vox. One more tune from Brad before we go. This is "Look and Feel Years Younger."

Keith Gottschalk is on the road and checking out Canada wherever he goes! Toronto's Pomegranate are a band of queer women with a conscious klezmer mission. You can check them out at sonicpomegranate.com While he was recently at the Media Giraffe Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, cohost Wayne MacPhail sat down with Cho and Ilona Meagher, of E Plurbis Media. E Plurbis Media is a citizen journalism collective from across the U.S. doing rigorous investigative journalism. The group is part of a growing trend towards "by the people, for the people" media online. (http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/). DVDiva is looking back at a group of screen sirens who made it to her doorway Should a person speak up when they witness cruelty to the dog next door? Auntie has a few solutions.

Keith Gottschalk reminds us of the power of peace love and understanding. Cathi Bond, our DVDiva gets happily horrified. Co-host Wayne MacPhail and his wife, Barbara Ledger, share a sound seeing tour of their recent hike thorugh Algonquin Park, close encounter included. Jen Moore brings us a freshly perked Homebrew that looks at the digital divide through the prism of gender. Harris Newman is a noted Montreal-based finger-style guitarist, who weaves very calming, acoustic instrumental tracks http://www.indieville.com/reviews/harrisnewman.htm

Online Tools for the 21st Century - RSS Feeds RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. RSS feeds are to web browsing what ordering by catalogue is to window shopping. You can use them to make sites send you fresh info instead of you going in search of it. You can learn more about RSS at http://frl.bluehighways.com/frlarchives/000123.html Check out Bloglines, an online RSS reader at: http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs Jennifer Moore visits with Patrick Elie. A prominent Haitian human rights activist prompts Homebrew to take a second look at the life and work of Jean Dominique. The complete conversation is available on radio4all.net.