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Special snack of news, music, happenings around town, topic-of-the-day, historical moment, interviews, and whatever is on our mind?
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Unpack your lunch and pack your mind! Join us Monday through Friday at noon for this hour-long round-up with a rotating cast!
Or feel like having Lunch for Dinner? Then check out the sometimes-podcast version of the show.
Josh Bravener, frontman of the Fredericton staple The Hypochondriacs, stopped by CHSR on April 5, 2025 for a chat about the band’s upcoming shows, highlights from the past couple of years, and what’s on the horizon for 2025. Upcoming Dates: April 7th: The Cap w/ Devon Cuddy (solo) April 17th: FHS (The Hypos) April 25th:
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My guests today are John Heinstein and Peter Hicks, core members of the band Sleepy Driver (among other projects).
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My guest today was Tara Pyfrom, author of memoir The Ocean in Our Blood. Tara joined me today to give insight into the category 5 hurricane that hit The Bahamas in 2019, Hurricane Dorian. During our interview Tara discusses her experience with environmental immigration, PTSD, her and her family’s mental health journeys and the effects
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For the last play of the season, Theatre UNB is staging a production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. Joining me is John Ball (director; professor & acting Chair of the Department of English at UNB), Shannon Munn (actor: “Mrs. Cheveley”) and James Gwathmey (actor: “Sir Robert Chiltern”).
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Hosts Fernanda Sanchez and Caleb Desjardins look at the upcoming federal election through the lens of young people suffering from information and disinformation overload.
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My guest today is Greg Davies, a painter, art historian, educator and administrator. His collection Chronos is part of the 2025 UNB Art Centre World Water Day showing, running from March 7 to May 2.
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On the STU Lunchbox this week, hosts Willem Haines-Lacey and Rachael Ilupeju explore how young Canadians are reacting to American threats to our sovereignty.
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On February 19, candidates for positions on the UNB Fredericton Student Union partook in a debate/Q&A moderated in part by CHSR’s own Mark Kilfoil.
Here is a recording of the discussion, with edits only to remove irrelevant matter (our trivia contests).
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On the STU Lunchbox this week, hosts Sarah Desmond and Willem Haines-Lacey bring you Open Mic. They introduce you to some of the up-and-coming songwriters of Fredericton — and those songwriters will introduce you to the stories behind the songs.
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My guests today are Nate Murchison and Paul Hayes of local band Nate & The Busy Boys, and Katie Hamill, a CHSR staff member working on organizing local events. They join me to talk about the origins and enthusiasm of Nate & The Busy Boys, as well as the upcoming Setting The Stage concert and mentorship opportunity.
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My guest today is Brigadier-General Mark Parsons, Commander of the 5th Canadian Division of the Canadian Army, in charge of operations and activities throughout Atlantic Canada.
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Our guest today was Ingrid Hansen, a voice actress and puppeteer, currently on tour through Canada with her very own Puppet shows.
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My guest today is Thomas Hodd, the Saint John playwright behind an upcoming Theatre NB production of O’Brien.
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My guests today are Len Falkenstein (Director of Drama at UNB, Grand Poobah of Theatre in Fredericton), Abhi/Naga Abhinav Sujal Kamireddy (“Mustard”) and Maham Raza (“Thai”).
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My guest today is Charlotte Toner, a BScEM (Bachelor’s in Science, Environment Management) wildlife conservation honour’s student who’s senior research project is looking at the behavioural patterns of a species at risk, a grassland bird called the bobolink.
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Our guest today was Timothy Li, the Vice President of the Chinese Cultural Association of New Brunswick (CCANB). He joined me today to discuss more about CCANB and the association’s upcoming Lunar New Year Gala.
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My guests today are Deeniti Saha and Samu Shawesh, two organizers of the Girls STEM Up group and the upcoming supporting conference in February.
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My guests today are Spencer Swaine, Daniel Hartinger, Julien Kitson, Patrick Stephen, members of the band GIZMO.
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My guests today were Carla Bonnell and Rick Barlett, creators and members of New Brunswick band, Engage.
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My guests today are Corinski Nowlan (Herbert The Cow Productions), Scott Shannon (Nasty Shadows Theatre Company) and Ryan Griffith (Next Folding Theatre Company), here to celebrate 25th anniversaries for two of the companies with a triptych of plays in a production called The 25th Wall.
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Our guest today was Hugh Kennedy, the director of the UNB Concert Band. Hugh joined me to give us details about the band and discuss the band’s upcoming Holiday Concert.
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Our guest today was Jamie Kitts, a Co-managing Editor at Qwerty Magazine at the University of New Brunswick.
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My guest today is Jeremy Gorman, the playwright of “Doommates” and “Pass The Glove”, two of the seven plays being featured in the upcoming presentation by Theatre UNB called “From The Vaults: Comedy Gold from Notable Acts”.
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My guests today are Len Falkenstein (Director; head of UNB Drama; grand poobah of theatre in Fredericton), Maham Raza (Actor) and Shannon Munn (Actor), all part of the upcoming Theatre UNB presentation called From the Vaults: Comedy Gold from Notable Acts.
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My guest today is Cassandra LeBlanc, the Executive Director of the Fredericton Community Kitchens, a local non-profit organization that has been serving necessary meals for free to the public in need for decades.
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