Civically Speaking Podcast with Host, Lenore Swystun and Co-Host, Christina Cherneskey

About Civically Speaking Podcast with Host, Lenore Swystun and Co-Host, Christina Cherneskey

Civically speaking is a podcast that focuses on all things civic - focusing in on Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and wider political, geopolitical, and related issues facing us in a 21st-century word. Host, Lenore Swystun, a Registered Professional Planner, Sociologist, and Facilitator together with Communications Specialist and former Journalist, Christina Cherneskey, invites guests and guest panels to discuss all things current and topical. Civically Speaking episodes are self-produced and aired weekly on Saskatoon's community radio station cfcr.ca along with providing podcast versions and special videocast and podcast direct specials. Tune in, try it, and we promise you'll find yourself coming back for more. We talk planning, politics, people - civically speaking!

Publisher

Lenore Swystun, Host, Civically Speaking on Saskatoon's Community Radio Station, CFCR.ca 90.5 FM with co-host, Christina Cherneskey

Category

news · news · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Feb 2019

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

364 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   2026.10.20 Civically Speaking - The People Decided

   Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, In this week's episode, we explore Alberta's referendum, Danielle Smith's political future, and what it all means for Saskatchewan and Canadian unity. We then head west to examine the political shakeup in B.C.'s municipal elections and implications for the upcoming provincial election, before returning home to Saskatoon's downtown arena debate, the proposed referendum, and questions of cost and public accountability. Different political landscapes but it has m...

2. 

   13 Oct 2026

   2926.10.13 Civically Speaking PT 1 and 2 From Encampments to Re-Zoning to Data Centres to Referendums to Ukraine

   Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, Christina Cherneskey and I covered a fair bit of ground on this week's episode. We started close to home with the ongoing discussions around encampments in Saskatoon, development of Tiny Homes, then moved into the proposed rezoning of some 35 properties connected to the city's Bus Rapid Transit system and sharing about the opening of the new Coming Home Centre. From there, our conversation took us into the growing interest in data centres, nuclear reacto...

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   2026.10.06 Civically Speaking PT 1 and PT 2 Who Decides?

   Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, Who gets to decide? That question sits at the heart of this week’s episode and am starting right here at home in Saskatoon. Regrets from Christina, we'll aim to be back together next week. We dig into homelessness and the Avenue K encampment, the decision to change this year’s Point-in-Time homelessness count, and what happens when the people who are hardest to see are also the hardest to count. We look at housing, safety, neighbourhoods, protest, evidence and...

Who has been a guest on Civically Speaking Podcast with Host, Lenore Swystun and Co-Host, Christina Cherneskey

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Rachael Steinke
• Fred Reibin
• Phil Tank

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100

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Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0