All You Need is a Wall - 14
By Linda Besner
Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. (more)
All You Need is a Wall (of Noise)
By Chris Trimmer
A personal account of Hendrick’s adjustment to a hearing impairment, causing him to navigate a world of unwanted sound, is arranged with interviews of two friends recounting a noisy concert experience to help create a perception of what it’s like to live behind a wall of noise. (more)
The Best of Ideas: Petula Clark
By Glenn Gould
Many people know of pianist Glenn Gould's unique and somewhat maverick contributions to the classical music world. (more)
Who Is Vern Nash?
By Thelon Oeming & Steve Wadhams
The day Thelon Oeming moved into an apartment in a working class area of Toronto, he saw a hunched-back man shouting to himself in the middle of the street. (more)
Sel: Trois Façons (Salt: Three Ways)
By Kelly Jones
No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine. (more)
All You Need is a Wall (in Plato's Cave)
By Sarah Boothroyd
A riff on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, in which humans are presented as prisoners who spend their entire lives staring at a cave wall, mistaking the shadows they see there for the totality of existence. (more)
The Sweet Pursuit
By Alex Kress
It's only human to crave more than the bare essentials in life, but for these vinyl collectors the hunt has become pure addiction. (more)
I Didn't Know That (about hotel housekeepers)
By Mieke Anderson
Learning the A, B, C’s of housekeeping. (more)
I Didn't Know That (Eyeborgs Really Exist)
By Britt Wray
A Canadian filmmaker who lost his eye replaces his prosthetic with a bionic camera-eye so he can shoot documentary video from his pupil. (more)
Chain of Missing Links - 34
By Neil Sandell
A contagion of phone messages add up to an empty office. (more)
Fire Engine Red
By Veronica Simmonds
This is a story about getting to know your neighbour, when your neighbour is a sound. (more)
All You Need is a Wall - 16
By Frances Willick
In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex. (more)
A Voice of Warning
By Trisha Wilson & Anne Penman
A heroin overdose left Jade Bell blind, mute and unable to care for himself. Now Bell tours high schools in British Columbia, where his computerized “voice” speaks a loud warning to thousands of students. (more)
Radio Across Time Zones
By Julie Shapiro, Edwin Brys, Torey Malatia, Robyn Ravlich & Steve Wadhams
Radio transmissions are heard all over the world, from the largest urban centers to the smallest mountain villages. But what defines radio from a particular place, and what makes it different than radio from elsewhere? (more)
In So Many Words
By Teresa Goff
Stephen Goff's life changed dramatically after a stroke left him with aphasia. Previously an outspoken father and salesman, the condition reduced his vocabulary to just a few words. (more)
My Life So Far
By Teresa Goff, Lindsay Michael & Neil Sandell
The village of Alert Bay, on Canada’s Pacific coast, is a study in paradox for the teens growing up there. They have a rich aboriginal culture, but live in grinding poverty. (more)
Between Friends
By Jody Porter & Neil Sandell
Between Friends is the story of one woman’s coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father. (more)
Muriel's Message
By Mira Burt-Wintonick
Memories of a much beloved grandmother resurface when a box of unlabeled audio cassettes is discovered in the basement. (more)
Chain of Missing Links - 22
By Jessica Grosman
A series of archived Craigslist Missed Connections email messages are recorded and re-recorded and with each sent message the message deteriorates. (more)
