Local Matters is a weekly spoken word program focusing on interviews with interesting community members, information on upcoming events and discussions around our community issues. This collective program combines the efforts of many volunteers who contribute program content and production.
This initiative is made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada.
This program is currently active and being produced on a regular basis (weekly). Catch Local Matters on Peach City Radio at the following dates & times:
Tuesdays @ 1800h
Saturdays @ 0900h
New episodes of this program are regularly posted to this archive Fridays @ 0600h.
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Latest Episode
Episode 127
- Penticton Rocks - Meadowlark Nature Festival Posted: March 28, 2025 - 60 minutes
Nora interviews Shauna Sprules, coordinator for the Meadowlark nature Festival about this year's event. She also plays an pre-recorded episode from programmer Evan Samoyloff from his segment Seeing Into My Eyes.
Tatyana is a oib member who is a rising film star, featured in many movies
Episode 124 - Let Go - The Divine Inner Child Posted: March 14, 2025 - 60 minutes
Follow up to the Divine Feminine and Masculine, this show continues the discussion of how mindsets are changing in our world.
Episode 123 - Autistic Small Talk Posted: March 11, 2025 - 60 minutes
Vince and Vanessa have a quick chat about masking, identity-first language, and institutionalized prejudice and bigotry against Autistic people within research that is not led by us. Things get dark. And then they get even darker. But at the very end you hear us laughing a lot while we semi-chaotically attempt to end the episode.
Episode 122 - Local Matters on Local Matters Posted: February 28, 2025 - 60 minutes
Nora invites Aggie and Kyler to come talk about the Local Matters collective and the experience of being on the radio
Rez Matters: Gerry & Sarah chat with Kasp: motivational speaker, facilitator, comedian, MC, and hip hop artist; about his music, sobriety, and positive message to Indigenous communities.
Autistic Small Talk: In their first episode, Vince and Vanessa briefly talk about the Double Empathy Problem, the Social Model of Disability, Autistic representation and Autistic spaces. They discuss the importance of Autistic researchers, and talk through some examples of what accommodation can look like, while sharing stories of their personal experiences within these topics. Warning: Somewhere in the middle, with hardly any apology, Vanessa does try to explain a joke.
Episode 118 - Divine Masculine Energy Posted: February 14, 2025 - 60 minutes
Kyler, Vanessa and Jennifer discuss the concept of divine masculine energy as a follow up to the episode on divine female energy that ran in the Under The Pink Triangle segment of Local Matters in January.
