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04/10/2026

Don't be afraid - be very afraid...

Trevor A. Bailey thinks it might be about time to put aside old grudges and learn to work together. In the world today, vampires and lycanthropes might be an easier pill to swallow than that one, but that’s why stories are so important. Isabella Castellanos is the beginning of a planned series exp...

04/06/2026

You are sure to learn something new about Canada's largest city when you take this Great Lakes Odyssey tour with interpretive guides Duke Redbird, Brian Puppa and Danny Marks... and much more.

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio) s5.e11 . GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour - Tkaronto To Toronto On Lake Ontario there is a bay where trees stood in the waters and gave fruit to schooling fishes and gathering peoples and it was called Tkaronto and its spir...

04/03/2026

The Human Challenge podcast with Vanessa Ferlaino is now on The Borderline network.

Watch : youtube.com/watch As we mark National Indigenous Languages Day on Turtle Island, Shirley Horn shares her residential school story, growing up in not one, but two residential schools. She would return years later to Shingwauk Hall after it became a university to pursue her education, become f...

03/28/2026

Saturday night GLO time at 8 pm ET on radio.wcmu.org and also on the radio dial if you happen to be in the WCMU-NPR network region... that's 98.3 FM in the Sault and area.

s5.e10. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour - In Quest of the Great Lakes Algorithm

The artificial intelligence complex and the age of the algorithm is giving rise to super data centers being built around the Great Lakes and in so doing are presenting new challenges to the water and environment.

Peter White & Joel Syrette, musicians, relate a military intelligence operation where Garden River First Nation natives and WWII volunteers, used their Ojibwe language in radio code to assist the allied effort.

Helena Volzer, Senior Source Water Policy Manager at the Alliance For The Great Lakes, executes policy analysis, advocacy, and project implementation under the Agriculture and Water Restoration sections of the Alliance’s strategy.

Robert Cooper, actor and poet, reads the prologue from '2072: The Forgetting', a work of fiction by writer Thomas E. Leonard imagining a resilient future of the Great Lakes basin overrun by artificial intelligence.

Dr. Duke Redbird, Elder of Saugeen Ojibway Nation on Lake Huron, whose legacy of outstanding contribution to culture, literature, and human rights, stretches far beyond his work in Canada.

Featured Music: Broken Social Scene. Peter White & Joel Syrette. Minuscule. Collective Order.
Music beds: Jeremy Young & Jesse Perlstein.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Artwork: Elephant In The Room by Casey McGlynn

03/21/2026

GLO time Saturday night. 8 PM. Online go to radio.wcmu.org or dial in at 98.3 FM in the Sault area of the WCMU-NPR network.

s5.e9. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour - A Theory Of Water

What might it mean to truly listen to the water that surrounds and inhabits us so as to coexist with and alongside it and to discover, understand, and foster relationships among all beings and life forces?

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, acclaimed Nishnaabeg writer, academic, musician and poet, takes a revolutionary look at that most elemental force, water, and suggests a powerful path for the future.

Dave Bidini, leader of The Rheostatics on The Great Lakes Suite album, featuring impressive collaborators that harnessed their artistic talents to sonically mirror the power, history, and mystery of the five greats.

Joanie McGuffin, explorer, author, and a voice for the landscapes that we know and love, particularly the Lake Superior watershed, is on a mission to "inspire people to re-connect with the natural world".

Featured Music: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Rheostatics.
Music beds: John Hewitt & The New Americans. Rusty McCarthy. Rheostatics. lowfrequencyOSCILLATOR.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Photo by Adriano - Biinaagami World View