“Nothing better illustrates the heartless and mechanistic nature of our system than modern day gold mining.” Sakura will give an overview of the gold mining industry, from environmental and human rights impacts to an overview of many communities resisting its abuses. She will also talk about the complicity of the Canadian government in collaboratio…

CKUT 90.3 FM, QPIRG Concordia, No One Is Illegal, The Anti-Colonial Solidarity Collective, Climate Justice Montreal, and Submedia.tv present The 7th Edition of Under The Weather Defending the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Extraction featuring MEL BAZIL, indigenous Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en organizer, sovereigntist, and anarchist of the Unist'ot'en …

This is the 6th edition of Under The Weather, featuring Joanna Petrasek MacDonald of the Climate Change Adaptation Research Group A Necessary Voice: Youth Engagement in Climate Change Policy, Research, and Action She is currently completing her Master’s thesis at McGill on the impacts of climate change on the mental health and well-being of Inuit y…

March featured a special in-studio edition of Under The Weather. The focus was on urban sustainability. We interviewed Kevin Manaugh of the McGill School of Environment and the School of Urban Planning and then sat down for a round-table discussion with Julia Freeman and Marieve Isabel of the Montreal Urban Sustainability Experience at McGill Unive…

The Soil Connection: Eating Meat For the Good of the Planet a lecture by HOLLY DRESSEL Best-Selling Author, Teacher, Environmentalist and Researcher Best-selling author and researcher, Professor Holly Dressel of McGill’s School of the Environment is one of Canada's most recognized names in teaching, environmental studies, health care, economic conc…

This is the fourth edition of Under The Weather, featuring Dr. Timothy Merlis of the McGill University department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Timothy Merlis´s research focuses on modelling climate sensitivity, tropical cyclones, and atmospheric circulation. Listen to this podcast to hear about climate modelling and the challenges of resear…

In November 2013, when Detroit community organizer Charity Hicks visited Montreal to give her lecture for Under The Weather, CKUT programmers Melissa Fundira and Irene Dambriunas sat down with Charity for a one-on-one interview. Take a listen!

Visionary Organizing in an Age of Climate Crisis with Detroit organizer Charity Hicks Many people feel we live in ecologically destructive, highly unequal and spiritually toxic economies. They crave an alternative. But what should it look like? And how will we get there? Detroit is a city on the front-lines of neoliberal and ecological devastation.…

In October, the National Energy Board met in Montreal to make its final arguments regarding the reversal and expansion of Enbridge Line 9b, a pipeline running from Montreal to Sarnia. This edition of Under The Weather was a panel featuring three climate justice organizers and their takes on the National Energy Board meetings. The panelists featured…

Amy Miller, director and producer of The Carbon Rush and No Land No Food No Life, gives a talk on how documentary films can serve as educational tools in the climate justice movement. This talk took place on Thursday, September 12th 2013 at McGill University and was broadcasted live on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal.…