On Wednesday, February 25 to Thursday, February 26, 2015, CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston, Ontario will host the 2015 Homelessness Marathon. The yearly overnight broadcast is shared on campus and community stations from coast to coast, creating linkages and raising awareness of homelessness in Canadian communities.

The Marathon began in 1998 in Geneva, New York and this year the 17th annual Homelessness Marathon will take place in Sarasota, FL. The concept moved North to Canada 13 years ago with CKUT-FM in Montreal as the host station. Last year the Marathon was hosted by CJSR-FM in Edmonton.

The 2015 marathon will feature local and national programming including 14 stations representing six provinces, as well as a special edition of GroundWire focusing on homelessness, with headlines and feature stories from more stations across the country. The 2014 Homelessness Marathon was broadcast by 35 community radio broadcasters across Canada.

Check out CFRC-FM's webpage about it here.

Voices of Community Radio is back this week with Vancouverite extradinarie Maegan Thomas, Spoken Word Coordinator at CJSF-FM and former Advertising Coordinator of host of the Arts Report at CiTR-FM, and Rob Schmidt, Station Manager of CKUW-FM in Winnipeg. 

Hear about Meat Magazine, Backstage Passes to Life, and how CKUW-FM wouldn't have existed as a station without the NCRA. 

For more Voices, including programmers, volunteers, listeners, and staff, follow this link to the Voices of Communtiy Radio page. 

To support the work of the NCRA, please donate through our Friends of Community Radio program here.  

This week we turn the mic on ourselves!

NCRA staff members Shelley and Penny stepped into our sophisticated recording booth (read: we took our recorder into the abandoned office across the hall and hid under a sweater to muffle the echo) to try and explain how it came to be that we love c/c radio so much and why we believe the NCRA is vital to campus and community radio in Canada.

There is talk about first days, Mudhoney, and recording shows off the radio to mail to friends.

For more Voices, including station programmers, staff, volunteers, and NCRA project leaders, follow this link. To learn more about the Friends program, follow this link.   

This week we hear from our brand new Board President Brian Cleveland and our disAbilities Handbook founder and Co-Editor, Board Member Stephane Bertrand!