CiTR news is committed to providing you with in-depth Olympic coverage from an alternative prospective. As part of this coverage we are launching a new Eyes on the Street feature where Vancouverites will have a chance to tell their Olympic story.
We want to hear your perspective on life in Vancouver during the games.
Be CiTR’s Eyes on the Street this February. If your at an event, a protest, a celebration, or even simply on the bus – tell us about it. There are three ways to file a report. Call our Eyes on the Street hotline at 604-822-5334, email news@citr.ca or tweet CiTR news.
Then sit back and wait for your report to be featured on the next edition of News 101, which airs Monday and Friday at 5:00pm right here on CITR 101.9 FM in Vancouver.

Every year, for some time now, CiTR radio in Vancouver, and a few independent and college radio stations around the globe, have worked to give modern art a transmitter. The concept of giving art a birthday was introduced by French born artist / peacenik Robert Filliou (associate of John Cage, by the way) In 1963 asserted that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Filliou had lofty ideas floating around inside his skull about relative permanent creation, an exercise in inner peace to be directed outward and into world peace. A continuing playful anarchy as a way of rejecting the fascism of the square world; the world which refuses to break free of conventional wisdom and the inevitable war it falls into again and again. Interestingly, through plan or coincidence, war and the horrors of fascism tend to be recurrent themes in many of the 24 Hours of Radio Art’s sound collages. (more…)

Michael Ignatieff speaks at UBC and answers questions; hydrogen buses to arrive in Whistler; Haitian Canadians respond to disaster

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Every year, for some time now, CiTR radio in Vancouver, and a few independent and college radio stations around the globe, have worked to give modern art a transmitter. The concept of giving art a birthday was introduced by French born artist / peacenik Robert Filliou (associate of John Cage, by the way) In 1963 asserted that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Filliou had lofty ideas floating around inside his skull about relative permanent creation, an exercise in inner peace to be directed outward and into world peace. A continuing playful anarchy as a way of rejecting the fascism of the square world; the world which refuses to break free of conventional wisdom and the inevitable war it falls into again and again. Interestingly, through plan or coincidence, war and the horrors of fascism tend to be recurrent themes in many of the 24 Hours of Radio Art’s sound collages.

Join us Sunday Jan.17 for an audio journey into the recesses of the unusual, unique and downright weird sounds that definitely defies description! this internationally celebrated annual event has always been a hit, so tune in, turn on and freak out!

Headlines from the front pages of the Ubyssey with Samantha Jung and Katarina Grgic; Edward Pullman from the UVSS about supporting the AMS’s human rights complaint to the UN regarding tuition fees; Steve Kerstetter of First Call detailing the 2009 BC Child Poverty Report Card; Bill Briscall from Raincity Housing speaking about emergency shelters in Vancouver. Listen here!

CiTR is sponsoring Calgary band Woodpigeon at the Biltmore, with opener Chris Smith on Saturday, January 16. Woodpigeon Woodpigeon is touring its third album, Die Stadt Muzikanten.

News 101 interviews NDP MP Libby Davies (Vancouver-East) about the prorogation of Parliament and the threat to Canadian democracy, Steve Anderson of the Net Neutrality Coalition, Hugh Mackenzie of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on the highest paid CEOs in Canada, and News 101 brings you coverage of the climate change activists who will not be charged for the sit-in at Conservative MP Andrew Saxton’s office. Listen to the news!

Last month News 101 reporter Brad Peppinck spoke with David Swan, executive director of AIDS Vancouver and Spencer Herbert, MP for Vancouver West-End, about the impact of recent funding cuts to Community Based Health Organizations.

December 18th – aids demonstration part 1
December 18th – aids demonstration part 2

News 101’s Andrew Longhurst speaks with Ihsaan Gardee, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Canada, about the fire-bombing of a mosque in Hamilton, Ontario. The crime occured on January 4th and Hamilton Police have launched an investigation. Listen here

This Wednesday, January 6th, join us for another edition of our monthly DISCORDER night!
We have three great local bands, and awesome DJs to keep you dancing in between sets.

Starting at 10pm, THE MAGICIAN & THE GATES OF LOVE, KOBAN (formerly known as Manta-Ray Gun), and TELEPHONE GIRLS.

Cover is only $5 and doors are at 9pm.
Thats at 769 E Hastings, the Astoria Hotel.
Crazy CHEAP drinks! and Pool!
RSVP