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Monday On The Island. Big box childcare. A chain of daycare centres that have been criticized elsewhere is now offering its services to the University of Victoria. Plus business columnist Nisha Patel, and the tale of one of two extreme commuters who run and cycle for hours just to get to work.

Playlist


Monday
Aidan Knight - Jasper

Tuesday
Immaculate Machine - Love You For Your Car
Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few - Cowboys

Wednesday
Anne Schaefer - Get Out of My Face

Thursday
Dustin Bentall - Railroad

Friday
George Benson - Billie's Bounce

Interviews

Lyn Brown
Catalyst has appealed a court ruling in a tax dispute with North Cowichan. The paper company is digging in its heels, in a case which it says, is about the fundamental fairness of B.C.'s tax system.
Listen to the interview (runs 7:31)

Mountain Ash Farms School Program
A high school class in Powell River is looking for just the right pickle supplier. But why? Find out on Stephanie Mitchell's press review.
Listen to the item (runs 3:40)

Meredith Lewis
Podcasting from the back of a bicycle. We speak to a Vancouver Island woman who is podcasting her adventures on a cycling trip to Mexico.
Listen to the interview (runs 5:05)

Pete Devries
A Tofino man made history this weekend  by winning a world class surfing competition in front of a hometown crowd. Jacqeline Windh was there.
Listen to the piece (runs 6:30)

Gray Robinson
We hear from a kite surfer whose Tofino misadventure saw him and his Coast Guard rescuers wallowing in the chilly water.
Listen to the interview (runs 7:35)

Lynn Hunter
We hear about the Cook Street Village food court conundrum from a city councillor.
Listen to the interview (runs 7:07)

Robert Amos
The Cook Street Conundrum. A well known Victoria artist speaks out against the mobile food vendors in Cook Street village.
Listen to the interview (runs 7:39)

Kevin Pellett
Lighting the way home for salmon. An experiment to get salmon to migrate at night has been successful near Stamp Falls. We'll speak with the biologist in charge.
Listen to the interview (runs 5:24)

Jesse Cornes and Marc Fagen
Food fight on Cook Street.  Mobile food vendors say the city is throwing up too many hurdles in their effort to establish an outdoor food court.
Listen to the interview (runs 8:57)

Darryl Walker
Cutting costs by cutting residential care. The B.C. Government and Service Employee's Union  is not happy with the health authority's plan to close two Island care homes. We talk to the president.
Listen to the interview (runs 7:08)

Dave Mackas
A crash course in krill power. The small shrimp-like creatures feed a whole lot of fish in the waters around our island and they've banned catch krill in U.S. waters.  Hear about what Canada's doing about YOUR  krill.
Listen to the interview (runs 7:06)

Renee Hetherington
Where will humankind end up on the evolutionary tree when climate change really hits. That's the gist of a presentation being made by a Victoria climatologist this week at an international climate change conference in Morocco.
Listen to the interview (runs 7:35)

Bishop of  Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, the Right Reverend James Cowan
Anglicans face a grim reality.  We'll talk to the Anglican Bishop for Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands about the financial crisis facing the diocese.
Listen to the interview (runs 8:16)

Greg Kolodziejzyk
We do a lot of stories on this show about pedal power usually bikes. But how about pedalling a boat to Hawaii? We meet an adventurer who plans to do just that.
Listen to the interview (runs 8:21)

Maha Laxmi and Magda Havas
Is technology making us sick? We'll talk to a Victoria resident who says she's on the verge of homelessness because everyday chemicals, cell phone and wireless internet waves are making her sick. And to a professor who's an expert in what's being called Environmental Illness.
Listen to the interview (runs 11:07)

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