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U RADIO ON AIR
Digital Ethnocultural Radio station focused on diverse communities of Canada presented by U Multicultural.
Featured Show
Election season is in full swing in Manitoba. Advanced Polling is open until September 30, with voting day for Manitoba’s 43rd general provincial election on October 3. But who are the people who may be running the province for the next four years? We invited all of Manitoba’s political parties to U Radio to find out.
Janine Gibson is the leader of the Green Party of Manitoba and the candidate for the Wolseley area.
Swahili Na WaSwahili
This podcast series Swahili Na Waswahili (Swahili and Swahili Speakers) features voices from Winnipeg’s growing Swahili community.
Find out what’s happening in Winnipeg’s Swahili community on U Radio!
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Baraka Mulimbwa has built a flourishing commercial and post-construction cleaning company across Winnipeg and Ottawa. Mulimbwa only had a little when he moved to Canada, but he took the knowledge he gained working at a big-box retail store to build his own company and find success.
Host Christiane Dunia finds out more on Swahili Na Waswahili.
U Talk
UMulticultural has been positioned as a broadcaster and media platform focused on diverse communities. The idea of implementing the web-based radio station for the ethnocultural communities of Manitoba and Canada is another unique component of the media platform. U Radio is the digital hub, where diverse communities can share their voices, music, and stories.
U Talk is a Talk Show hosted by Ryan Funk, highlighting the culture of native-born and new Canadians and their communities.
“Everyone has a story to tell. Those who moved to Canada have a wealth of knowledge and experiences that I and many others may never have. This radio show allows people to learn from personal experiences, struggles, backgrounds, and cultures of communities that may not have their voices heard.” – Ryan Funk
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U Talk S2E143: Afro Fall
Winnipeg has a vibrant Black and African community. However, despite how quickly this community grows, events and festivals celebrating Black and African heritage and culture still need to catch up. Afro Falls is looking to change that.
This Sunday, September 24, the South-End community is gathering for music, food, and fun at the St. Norbert Arts Centre.
U Talk S2E142: Culture Days Morden
At the end of September, Canadians come together to celebrate culture and art for Culture Days. A great example of these celebrations is the community of Morden, MB, which is growing economically and in the diversity of the people who call it home.
A lot is going on for the week-long festival, and to find out more, we connected with the Executive Director of the Pembina Hills Arts Council.
U Talk S2E141: Pimootayaowin Creators Circle
Stories are a journey, and to continue to provide a space for the journey of art and a place for Indigenous stories and creators to thrive, the Pimootayowin Creators Circle was created. Let’s meet with some playwrights in this year’s program to learn more about the creative process and the significance of opportunities for Indigenous storytellers.
U Talk S2E140: Reel Pride Winnipeg
In 2018/19, Manitoba’s film and television production amounted to $251 million, only slightly falling off in 2019/20. The industry is growing, and we’re seeing amazing features being created by Manitobans right here.
Film festivals honour the people’s creativity here, and Reel Pride Winnipeg is no exception. One of Canada’s oldest 2SLGBTQIA + film festivals, Reel Pride explores the depths of the human condition and celebrates the diversity and expression of the queer community.
U Talk S2E139: Rainbow Resource Centre
In the past few years, many within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community have seen a startling trend of animosity towards trans and other gender-diverse folks.
Ashley Smith, Director of Advocacy at Rainbow Resource Centre, joins us on U Talk to discuss the challenges and fears the 2SLGBTQIA+ community faces, the construction of Place of Pride in Winnipeg, and the resources available through their services and programs.
Radio des Petits Hiboux
Do you want to learn more about the French language? Have you ever wondered how many rivets were used on the Eiffel Tower in Paris?
Join others as they learn more about the world and learn French along the way in Radio des Petit Hiboux, a French educational program for all ages.
Learn with us on U Radio!
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For the first episode of Radio des Petit Hiboux, learn about France, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Manitoba Francophone community with Alisa and Dawna Hales-Massé!
We Stand Together
Mabel Horton
Mabel Horton is from Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation. Horton shares her experiences with residential schools so that newcomers to this country can learn how many Indigenous peoples were treated at these schools.
Vivan Ketchum
Vivian Ketchum, a writer and photographer, tells her stories and what reconciliation means from the Indigenous perspective. The residential school system took a tremendous toll on Ketchum, costing her much of her language and the beginnings of her story.
Brian Waboose
It’s been a long journey for Anishinaabe artist Brian Waboose. Experiencing abuse within the residential school system and feeling lost, art helped Waboose find a path in life. After his son tragically passed away, art helped him again.
Deborah Hayward
Deborah Hayward is from Haisla Nation, known as Kitamaat Village. One day when she returned from school, her mother packed her bag, telling her she was going to Port Alberni residential school. Hayward would attend residential school for two years, or as Hayward refers to it, genocidal prison.
Flora Northwest
Flora Northwest lives in Treaty 6 territory, the land of the Plains Cree. When she was five, she attended day school at a church only about a mile and a half from where she lived. When she turned six, she was sent to Ermineskin residential school.
Henry Pitawanakwat
Henry Pitawanakwat has a unique perspective on residential schools. Although he did not attend, his mother did, and he witnessed the effects it had on her as he grew up.
Martina Osawamick
Taken at the age of 5, Martina Osawamick would remain in the residential school system until 12. She could not recall most of her memories of that time for many years, having repressed those experiences.
Rosemary Wakegijig
Rosemary is from Wikwemikong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island and attended Spanish residential school when she was 8. When she first arrived, she knew no English besides yes or no. Wakegijig worked as a teacher for over 40 years, and even in retirement, she teaches others in her community as an elder. She believes in letting things in the past go and living each day as a new beginning.
Elder Betty Ross
Rosemary is from Wikwemikong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island and attended Spanish residential school when she was 8. When she first arrived, she knew no English besides yes or no. Wakegijig worked as a teacher for over 40 years, and even in retirement, she teaches others in her community as an elder. She believes in letting things in the past go and living each day as a new beginning.
Geraldine "Gramma" Shingoose
Geraldine “Gramma” Shingoose is a residential school survivor who attended Muscowequan residential school from 1962 to 1971. Gramma Shingoose shares her story with schools and universities, highlighting her cherished memories of before Muscowequan residential school, her life during school, and its impacts on her life once she left.
Opinion: Ukraine Crisis
With tensions between Russia and Ukraine high, members of the Ukrainian Canadian community express their thoughts on this ever-evolving situation.
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Thursday, February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin invaded the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Ukrainians watch in horror as their friends, family, and culture are ruthlessly attacked.
Many Ukrainian-Canadians are doing what they can to support the brave Ukrainians fighting to preserve their way of life. Yevgeniya Tatarenko and many community members have created Help Ukraine: Morden, an organization collecting resources and supplies and shipping them to Ukraine.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/helpukrmorden/
This interview was conducted on April 07, 2022.
Bohdana Kornelyuk immigrated to Canada four years ago to study, pursuing a master’s degree. Bohdana now works in Canada.
With her family still living in Ukraine, she’s had restless nights as the invasion from Russia continues. She now speaks out with thousands of other Ukrainian Canadians for the world’s leaders to aid her home country.
This interview was conducted on February 25, 2022.
Dr. Orest Cap and his brother Alexander share their thoughts and messages from family and friends as Moscow attacks the sovereign borders of Ukraine.
Dr. Cap is a professor emeritus from the University of Manitoba and holds a Ph.D. in technical-vocational education, and Alexander the Principal at Holy Cross School. Both have friends and family in Ukraine, some in the eastern region.
This interview was conducted on February 24, 2022.
Valerii Pasko is a Ukrainian community member in Winnipeg, Manitoba, who immigrated to Canada 11 years ago. An active member of his community, Pasko is a co-publisher of the Ukrainian Winnipeg Magazine.
Pasko’s parents still live in Ukraine and keep him updated with the situation transpiring on the country’s border.
This interview was conducted on January 29, 2022.
As diplomatic measures are taken between NATO nations and Putin, the people of Ukraine wait in uncertainty about what the future will bring.
A retired professor from the Saint Andrews College at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Roman Yereniuk, discusses the history of Ukraine. Its declaration of independence in 1991, and his thoughts on the current crisis the country is facing.
This interview was conducted on January 27, 2022.
Dr. Orest Cap is a professors emeritus from the University of Manitoba and holds a Ph.D. in technical-vocational education. Dr. Cap has been published in various national and international journals and has been involved in several research initiatives with Ukraine.
Dr. Cap breaks down how the current crisis in Ukraine has affected its people and the international community.
This interview was conducted on January 26, 2022.
You asked us, We have answers for you.
Manitoba doctors are answering your controversial questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and immunization. Through the Protect MB Community Outreach and Incentive Grant, U Multicultural has developed Doc Talk Manitoba.
This series of interviews with doctors of diverse backgrounds will provide statistics, scientific data and facts, which educate about the COVID-19 immunization process.
Episodes
Doc Talk Manitoba Host Jyoti Kalsi sits down with Chief Occupational Medical Officer, Workplace Safety and Health Dr. Denise Koh about the workplace and the COVID-19 vaccination.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Dr. Amilla Heendeniya is an Infectious Disease Physician and does clinical work, seeing patients with infectious diseases, COVID-19 being one of them. Dr. Heendeniya has been involved with COVID-19 clinical work since the beginning of the pandemic in Manitoba.
He sits down with Doc Talk MB host Jyoti Kalsi to discuss the myths and facts surrounding the COVID-19 vaccination.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Dr. Jared Bullard is the Section Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba and Associate Medical Director of Cadham Provincial Laboratory. Dr. Bullard works primarily out of the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg. Dr. Bullard talks about COVID-19 and children.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Dr. Eddsel Martinez was born and raised in El Salvador. He and his family immigrated to Canada in the early 1990s and has called Winnipeg his home since. Always drawn to children, he worked as a camp counsellor throughout several summers of his adolescence which cemented his desire for a career working with children.
Dr. Martinez talks about the start of school and fall and how it has and will affect children during the pandemic.
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Doc Talk Manitoba Host Jyoti Kalsi sits down with Infectious Disease Physician Dr. Amila Heendeniya to answer your questions around COVID-19 concerning side effects and allergens.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Doc Talk Manitoba Host Jyoti Kalsi sits down with Chief Occupational Medical Officer, Workplace Safety and Health Dr. Denise Koh vaccinations for immigrants and foreign workers.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Dr. Jared Bullard shares his thoughts on what still needs to be done to ensure schools are at low risk of spreading COVID-19.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Dr. Denise Koh discusses the benefits of getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Dr. Martinez tackles vaccine rates for more than 12 years old for eligible patients, the hesitation parents had and have, and COVID-19 vaccinations for younger children.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.
Dr. Amilla Heendeniya is an Infectious Disease Physician and works at three acute hospitals in Winnipeg. Dr. Heendeniya discusses how COVID-19 has affected us so far, and what we can potentially expect with future waves.
Doc Talk MB: https://u-channel.ca/doc-talk-manitoba/
In partnership with Doctors Manitoba and Alt Hotel, and supported by Protect MB Community Outreach.