Friday Special Blend
Friday October 16th, 2020 with Chris White and Sheila White
Hour 1: Protest songs.
Hour 2: Allan Shiff talks about his motives for donating $1.5 million to help establish the Royal Ontario Museum's Climate Change Project and the position of 'Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change'.
Hour 1: Protest songs: Songs that encourage us to support Indigenous rights, protect the environment and work against racism.
Hour 2: Allan Shiff talks about growing up in the village of Agincourt, Ontario... and his reasons for donating $1.5 million recently to help establish the Royal Ontario Museum's Climate Change Project and the position of 'Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change'.
| *** Hour 1 *** |
| Protest songs that encourage us all to support Indigenous rights, protect the environment and work against racism. |
| Protest Song Molly Johnson - Meaning To Tell Ya 
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| I Pity the Country Willie Dunn - Akwesasne Notes
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| * Support Indigenous Rights * |
| Stand Up Taboo and friends - . |
| Hard Times in Babylon Eliza Gilkyson - Hard Times in Babylon |
| Here Comes the Change Kesha - . |
| What About Me? Richie Havens - Bread & Roses |
| *Protect the Environment * |
| Room for Less Alise Marlane - Room For Less
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| Parkette Bob Snider - Caterwaul & Doggerel
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| Horses Dala - Everyone Is Someone
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| *Work Against Racism* |
| Lives in the Balance Jackson Browne - Bread & Roses |
| Rising Down Kaia Kater - Nine Pin
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| William Andrew Chris White - Inner Voice
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| The Times They Are a-Changin' Finest Kind - Silks & Spices |
| Six Feet Closer To You Rebecca Campbell and The Bubbles - .
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| Twisted Britches Sonny Aiken - Lost, Lonesome Cowboy
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| *** Hour 2 *** |
| Allan Shiff talks about his motives for donating $1.5 million to help establish the Royal Ontario Museum's Climate Change Project and a new staff position: the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change. The purpose of the project is to motivate people across Canada to become informed about urgent climate change issues and demand action from lawmakers, policy makers and politicians. For more information, see https://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/royal-ontario-museum-announces-allan-and-helaine-shiff-curatorship. Allan also chats with Chris and Sheila White about his experiences growing up in Agincourt, Ontario when it was a village, the dramatic changes that have happened over the years, and the 130-year old farmhouse at 33 Murray Avenue that his parents sold to their parents long ago! |
| Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell - Miles of Aisles
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| For photos, descriptions and historical information about the farmhouse at 33 Murray Avenue in Agincourt where Allan, Sheila and Chris lived at different times, see the excellent heritage designation report written by Sheila at https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2019/cc/bgrd/backgroundfile-123802.pdf |
| Parkette Bob Snider - Caterwaul & Doggerel
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| Who's Gonna Stand Up? Neil Young - .
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| Lost, Lonesome Cowboy Sonny Aiken - Lost, Lonesome Cowboy
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| Morning Light Jeffery Straker - Before the Sun Rises
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| Long Monday Kennedy Road - .
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| Subterranean Homesick Blues Sneezy Waters - A Letter Home
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9:00 AM, October 16th, 2020