Welcome to the Campus Beat podcast hosted by Dinah Jansen. In this series, we highlight campus news stories and enjoy conversations with Queen's University community members to discuss news, issues, events, services and initiatives that are of interest to Queen's students, faculty staff and alumni.
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Hello and welcome to another special edition of CFRC’s Campus Beat where we reach off Queen’s University campus in Kingston, Ontario and all the way down the 401 corridor to chat with Dr. Bonnie Stewart at the University of Windsor about early understandings of Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act and what may lie ahead. Dr. Stewart is a longtime educator and digital researcher whose work in participatory learning has spanned all eras of the web. As an Associate Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning in the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Education, Bonnie explores the implicat
Hello and welcome to another special episode of Campus Beat. In this edition, we are chatting with Queen’s University Rector Niki Boytchuk-Hale and each of the 2026 Agnes Benedickson Tricolour Award winners. The Tricolour Award and induction into the Tricolour Society is the highest tribute that can be paid to a Queen’s University student for distinguished service, leadership, character, and community impact during their time at Queen’s. On February 19th, Rector Boytchuk-Hale announced this year’s Tricolour award recipients recognizing their outstanding contributions and enduring impact on the
Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. It’s Elections and Referenda time at Queen’s University with all manner of student candidates, student clubs, Queen’s University services and a few community organizations currently campaigning for office or for student fees across the AMS and SGPS memberships. In this episode, the CFRC team got together to read the campaign materials provided by various groups seeking student fees through the SGPS referendum. Unfortunately, we did not hear back from everyone given the short timeline of release of information from the SGPS about appr
Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. Elections and referenda campaign time is now underway for candidates and clubs under the Society of Graduate and Professional Students! In this episode, we are chatting with SGPS Executive Candidates about their campaigns. SGPS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place on January 29th and 30th. Watch your Queen’s Emails for ballots and visit sgps.ca for more information about candidates, groups and the elections process. And now without further ado, we’ll dive into our interviews with SGPS Executive
Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. Elections and referenda campaign time is still very much underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society through January 27th! In this episode, we are featuring coverage of the AMS All Candidates’ Debate which occurred on Friday January 23rd on the second floor of the new JDUC and also via live stream facilitated by the AMS Media Centre on Youtube. AMS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place over three days on January 28th, 29th and 30th. Watch your Queen’s Emails for ballots and vi
Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. Amidst all the snow this January, it’s a very busy time on Queen’s campus! Elections and referenda campaign time is still very much underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society through January 27th! In this episode, we are featuring coverage of the 16 campus groups and student clubs on the ballot for student fees during the upcoming AMS referendum. Due to the timing with which CFRC received information about what groups were going to referendum from the AMS Elections team this January, only one club was able to conn
Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. We hope the day finds you warm and dry amidst all the snow and cold winter weather here at Queen’s University! And of course, its busy busy busy as Elections and referenda campaign time is now underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society right up through January 27th! In this short episode, we are chatting with a few AMS Executive Candidates about their campaigns. AMS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place over three days on January 28th, 29th and 30th. Watch your Queen’s Emails
In this episode, we read statements available to us for campus and community groups on the ballot for the AMS Fall 2025 referendum. Students can learn more about the referendum by visiting myams.org, your student government website, and follow the AMS on instagram @queens_ams.
In this special episode of Campus Beat, host Dinah Jansensits down with 5 of the 6 2025 Queen’s University Distinguished Service Award Recipients. Inaugurated by the University Council in 1974, the Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals who have made the University a better place through their extraordinary contributions. Queen’s faculty, staff, students, retirees, and members of University Council, the Queen’s Alumni Association, and the Board of Trustees are invited each year to nominate candidates for a Queen’s Distinguished Service Award. This years’ recipients include faculty,
Ring! Ring! Wanna see something super HOT before the summer? Queen’s Musical Theatre brought Heathers to Kingston! In this episode, CFRC’s Nathan Zhe chatted with QMT’s Vocal Director Ryan Killoran about QMT and their upcoming production hitting the Baby Grand April 10th-17th! Details below! Queen’s Musical Theatre is proud to announce “HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL” as our Winter 2025 Production. Book, Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy. Based on the film written by Daniel Waters, “HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL” was originally directed Off-Broadway by Andy Fickman and choreographed by Marg
In today’s extended episode, we feature conversations with four of the five MP Candidates for Kingston and the Islands who responded to our invitations for interviews about their campaigns. We chatted with Mark Gerretsen, incumbent MP for the Liberal Party seeking re-election, alongside Daria Juüdi-Hope, candidate for the NDP; Bryan Paterson, candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada, as well as Fintan Hartnett, candidate for the Kingston and Islands Green Party. We reached out on four separate occasions to the local People’s Party of Canada campaign team for Ronald Perry but received no
Quilt is Queen’s University’s undergraduate literary publication. It was established by members of the English Department Student Council in 2020, with the goal of providing writers across disciplines at Queen’s University a platform to share their brilliant work and to collaborate with those who might not share their same program of study, but do share a passion for the written word. Quilt strives to bridge the gap between creative and academic writing and foster a space where the intersection between formality and imagination can exist. In this CFRC takeover, the Quilt team chats about Quilt
In this Club Takeover special, we chat with Greg Hicks and Laura Bernier of the Queen’s Swing Dance Club. This club is a swing dance community active at Queen’s in Kingston ratified by the Alma Mater Society in 1999 and celebrating its jubilee this year. Each Monday, the group offers beginner lessons followed by social dancing at The Spire open to students and community members. Join the Queen’s Swing Dance Club in celebrating their Silver Jubilee On March 28th at St. Mark’s Lutherat at 6:45 PM for a blues dj-ed social dance. On Saturday the 29th, the club will be at St. George’s Great Hall at
Step into the ever-evolving world of the Internet—where reality blurs between a show and a podcast! For this special club takeover, we welcomed Iulia Rus, Assistant Director of the DAN School of Drama and Music’s Winter 2025 Major Love and Information, along with Charlie Hensel, who plays “Z” in the production. Recorded in the cozy CFRC studio, our conversation delves into the creative process behind this unique show, currently running at the Studio Theatre in the Isabel Bader Centre from March 5–16. Join us as we go behind the scenes, exploring the stories of the dedicated drama students brin
Coming up in this special Queen’s Club Takeover of CFRC’s Campus Beat airwaves, we’re chatting with folks from the group Let’s Get Revved Up. The Let’s Get Revved Up club was formed in 2023 with the mission of raising funds and awareness for the Revved Up program. Revved Up is a not-for-profit organization at Queen’s that supports physical activity opportunities for individuals living with physical and developmental disabilities. In light of recent and ongoing budget cuts to the program, the team’s ultimate goal is to work towards improving the functioning of Revved Up. They are also running a
Hello and welcome to another episode of Campus Beat! In this installment, we’re thrilled to sit down with Queen’s University Rector Niki Boytchuk-Hale, along with this year’s Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award winners: Hannah Burrows, Ore Maxwell, and Zaid Kasim. The Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award (ABTA)—named in honor of Dr. Agnes Benidickson, Queen’s University Chancellor from 1980 to 1996—is the highest honor a Queen’s student can receive. It recognizes exceptional leadership, character, community impact, and distinguished service during their time at Queen’s. Induction into the Tricolour
In this special edition of Campus Beat, we’re pleased to welcome members of the Queen’s Royal Canadian Moon Patrol Team, a design team of multidisciplinary engineering students at Queen’s University getting ready to compete in NASA’s 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge in Huntville, Alabama this spring. We chatted with team members about their group and its formation, the competition and the work each are doing individually and together as a team to be ready for Alabama. We get many insights about the collaborative work engineering students undertake on campus where they can mobilize their
Hello again and welcome everyone to another special edition of Campus Beat airing on CFRC 101.9 FM, streaming at cfrc.ca and on your favorite mobile apps like iheartradio. You can find CFRC on instagram at @cfrcmusic, I’m Dinah Jansen and with me is Abyaz Karim, a Masters student in International Business who has recently joined our news team as the Campus News Reporter, alongside our dedicated AMS student volunteer Jaya Kumar, and Jesse Bell, CFRC’s Local Journalism Initiative Producer and Program Coordinator. Coming up in this episode as part of Campus Beat’s special coverage of AMS and SGPS
Welcome to Campus Beat broad and podcasting from CFRC 101.9 FM. In this episode, host Dinah Jansen alongisde Abyaz Karim, Jaya Kumar, and Jesse Bell present conversations with and read statements from clubs and groups seeking to establish, increase, or continue mandatory or optional fees during the SGPS referendum that takes place January 29th and 30th. All students are reminded that voting occurs online via simply voting and that the AMS and SGPS will send ballots out at 12:01 in the morning on January 29th. You can learn more about elections processes for both our student governments by visi
Hello again and welcome everyone to this special edition of CFRC 101.9 FM’s Campus Beat with host, Dinah Jansen who is joined by Abyaz Karim, a Masters student in International Business who has recently joined the CFRC news team as the Campus News Reporter, alongside one of the station’s dedicated AMS student volunteers, Jaya Kumar. Coming up, we’re pleased to present conversations we held with each of the Candidates running for SGPS Executive Offices in addition to statements our team has read on behalf of those who could not join us in time for broadcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from or
Hello again and welcome everyone to this special edition of Campus Beat. Coming up in this episode, we’re pleased to present conversations we held with each of the Candidates running for AMS Executive Offices including Presidential Candidates Jana Amer and Nico Brasset Duque, candidates for Vice President University Affairs, Dreyden George and Alyssa Perisa, and the candidate for Vice President Operations, Elena Nurzynski. Let’s jump into our conversation now with AMS Presidential Candidate Jana Amer. While you’re here, check out our coverage of the AMS All Candidates Debate which took place o
Welcome to CFRC’s Campus Beat and our coverage of AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coming up on January 29th and 30th. In this installment of our special broadcast and podcasts, we have the available recording furnished to us by the AMS of the January 23rd AMS 2025 All Candidates’ Debate, a historic event as it is the first un-slated election of Executives where candidates now run as individuals, not as slated teams of three. Unfortunately, technical issues encountered by the AMS technical team on the ground in Goodes Commons led to recording issues leading to the loss of introductory rema
In this special installment of Campus Beat, we continue with our special AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coverage presenting footage from the January 22nd 2025 Society of Graduate and Professional Students All Candidates Debate which occurred virtually with an almost historic number of candidates running for SGPS office. Video of the debate is available on the SGPS website at SGPS.ca. The debate was also broadcast on CFRC 101.9 FM/CFRC.ca on Sunday January 26th 2025. SGPS Deputy Speaker Eileen O’Brien facilitated the January 22nd All-Candidates debate as moderator. Following Ms. O’Brien’s
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Nicolas Lamp of the Faculty of Law to discuss breaking news from the United States concerning announcements from the incoming Donald Trump administration that the new President intends to impose 25% tariffs on goods from both Canada and Mexico heading into the US. To learn more about the issues and potential impacts of this proposed policy for Canadians and Canadian industry, we caught up with Lamp, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law cross appointed with the School of Policy Studies, and also serves as the Director of the Annual Queen’s Institute on
Hello and welcome to this special podcast featuring the Installation of Shelagh Rogers, 16th Chancellor of Queen’s University held at Grant Hall on November 11th 2024. Chancellor Rogers was installed at the first ceremony of the Fall 2024 Convocation period. The event was live streamed on the Queen’s University website and broadcast on CFRC 101. 9 FM and CFRC.ca from 2:30-4 PM. In addition to the official installation ceremony, this special episode also includes remarks by Honorary Degree Recipient Kent Monkman and the conferral of degrees in the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Aff
