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WINNIPEG IS THE TRUE HEART OF CANADIAN MUSIC: THE WEAKERTHANS

by Jayson Stewart and Kris Dickson

Toronto may be the brain of the Canadian music industry but there is no denying that Winnipeg is its heart. Joining ‘peggers Neil Young, The Guess Who and Chantal Kreviazuk, post-punk indie rock pop band The Weakerthans have been racking up awards and fan accolades for almost fifteen years.

In 2005, Chart Magazine listed The Weakerthans Left and Leaving as one of th

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MOTHER MOTHER: CANADIAN BAND DEFIES LABEL
by Jayson Stewart and Madeline Lemire of Spartan Youth Radio


Indie rock is as easy a musical genre to define as asking a beachcomber to describe the basic shape of driftwood. It is varied and ever-changing but Spartan Youth Radio reporter Madeline Lemire tried her best when speaking to Ryan Guldemond, vocalist and guitarist for the Vancouver-based band Mother Mother, who are making waves across Canada.
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Christmas came early for the students and staff of Espanola High School on Friday, December… Continue

Canada's best known and respected author, Margaret Atwood, wrote about Spartan Youth Radio in her Globe and Mail blog! Check it out!

I particularly like the quote commending our reporter Madeline Lemire (left in the picture) on a job well done: "My interviewer was a credit to radio. She did a fine job of it: well-prepared, poised, and a million times friendlier than my firs… Continue

This week we received two emails from Russian fans of Spartan Youth Radio. Oleg Denisenko, from Novosibirskaya Oblast and Velriy Sidoric from Sankt-Peterburg wrote looking for more information on Spartan Youth Radio as well as an autograph from our "leaders of radio station." Oleg wrote that "during [the] internet epoch...there are no borders for music, dialogue [or] information [in the world]. When I have spare time, I listen to your remarkable radio station."



From one northern snow-… Continue