CHSR 97.9fm - Campus/Community radio in Fredericton, NB

Interview: Looking For Michael Keetch

If you know or find anything that might lead to the discovery of Michael Keetch, please contact the RCMP. My guest today is Anita Fougere, whose brother, Michael Keetch, went missing over a year ago. Clues have been found, but they lead to more questions than answers. Anita joins me to talk about her brother

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CHSR News – December 4th, 2024 – Premier Holt Announces Dates For Nurse Retention Payments, CUPE Yet To Agree

Nurses in New Brunswick have a date on when they will receive their promised 10,000$ retention bonuses from the Holt government.

It was announced that 9,950 retention payments will be sent out on December 19th, with the hopes that they will be received by Dec.31st or shortly into the new year.

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CHSR News – November 15th, 2024 – NB Lung Tackling Province Radon Concerns For Lung Month

NB Lung President and CEO Melanie Langille says organizations like hers have been increasing awareness over the last 10 to 15 years, and as a part of their initiatives for this month will be drawing for two 1000$ grants from those who purchase testing kits through NB Lung by the end of November, whose results test for high levels. 

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The Fredericton Frequency – November 12th – 15th, 2024

This weeks episode features stories on the swearing on a locally made Tik Tok series making waves at Silverwave, a new non-motorized boat launch and preventative measures to radon exposure.

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CHSR News – November 8th, 2024 – Premier Holt Scraps Restriction On Surgical Abortions

In just under a week in office, Premier Susan Holt has repealed the stipulation in New Brunswick’s medical services payment act that prevents coverage for surgical abortions performed outside hospitals.

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CHSR News – October 15th, 2024 – STU Psychology Professor The First To Receive NSERC Research Grant In School History

Last week, Dr. Doris Chow became the first professor from St. Thomas University to receive the NSERC Discovery Grant to fund her research on multi-sensory perception. The psychology professor has spent the last ten years studying how our senses play off one another and how that can be used to enhance practices in areas like

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CHSR News – October 7th, 2024 – New Brunswick Provincial Candidates Discuss Arts Sector

Provincial candidates gathered this weekend at Fredericton’s Charlotte Street Arts Centre for a forum to discuss how their parties will help improve issues in the provinces arts sector, hosted by the Fredericton Arts Alliance. Fredericton Grand Lake NDP candidate Arthur Taylor, Fredericton North Green Party candidate Anthea Plummer and Fredericton North Liberal Candidate Luke Randall

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CHSR News – October 2nd, 2024 – Fredericton Public Library Suffers Extensive Vandalism

Fredericton Police have launched an investigation into an incident of vandalism at Fredericton’s downtown public library that has forced the space to temporarily close. Members of the Fredericton Police Force and the City Of Fredericton’s Community Safety Services Unit arrived on the scene Monday morning to find a smashed window, flooded bathrooms, discharged fire extinguishers

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CHSR News – September 20th, 2024 – 12 Neighbours Expanding Neighbourhood

One of Fredericton’s most forward-thinking housing projects is looking for community members to join its neighborhood. In the over two years since their first move-ins in early 2022, which came to fruition after the previous two years of construction, they have delivered and expanded on their mission to create a context where people can use

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CHSR News – September 10th, 2024 – New Fredericton Police Chief Gary Forward

CHSR’s broadcast journalist Johnny James was at the latest Fredericton city council meeting last night speaking with newly sworn-in police chief Gary Forward about how he will apply his extensive leadership experience to his new role, his outlook on community policing and addressing the recruitment issues within the Fredericton Police Force. Podcast: Play in new

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!earshot 20 for the week of 2019-02-19

Counting down the Top 20 albums from the national Top 50 found on Earshot-online.com for the week ending February 19, 2019, this week compiled by 24 campus/community radio stations across Canada.

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Mornings Are Hard // 2018-11-20

Mornings suck. But mornings suck a little bit less with Bondo weekdays @8am on CHSR 97.9FM! Each morning she’ll roll out of bed to chat about music and other nonsense while pulling CD’s from CHSR’s library and her personal collection to spin on-air. Like local? Pop? And of course Rock & Roll? She’s got ya covered.
Engaging in witty banter with herself, this isn’t just another morning radio show…

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The Lunchbox Interviews: Frances Adair McKenzie (Artist) & Thomas Morgan Jones (TNB; Watching Glory Die)

My guests today were Frances Adair McKenzie, the new Artist-In-Residence at Connexion ARC and Thomas Morgan Jones from TNB talking about the new staging of Watching Glory Die. Music today by Steph Copeland, Gypsophilia and Ora Cogan.

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(Epic) Episode 70: Neuw, Neuw, News!

Hunky hunky Acqua Man, Pew pew pew, Mocking Jeff Goldbloom, and Will Smith’s regrets. Hosts Marc Cabot (@MarcCabot) Nuchtchas (@Nuchtchas, nimlas.org) The Clockwork Doctor (@The_Clock_Doc) Adam Williams (@Dr4physics) Music BA Johnston –  Bad Cat Sitter http://www.bajohnston.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/people/Ba-Johnston/501406593 http://www.myspace.com/bajohnston https://twitter.com/bajohnston https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=B.A.+Johnston&aq=f The Stanfields – The Bloody Dotted Line  http://thestanfields.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/thestanfields https://twitter.com/thestanfields https://www.youtube.com/user/thestanfieldsband Molly Thomason – Buttons

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Fredericton Music Scene Weekend Update 2014-03-07

Listen in to hear what was happening in the Fredericton local music scene the weekend on March 14th to March 16th. Sleepy Driver announce they’ll have new music soon Anniversary of Jayde Hunter’s death XWA Brain Bash at The Playhouse The Waking Night announce first show in 4 months Maiden Names now on Instagram (maiden_names)

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