DJ Toxic is Spartan Youth Radio's resident techno artist and was also the co-voice of Spartan Youth Radio on CBC Radio's "Spark".   Here, in his first show, DJ Toxic shares music from three techno artists, including himself.

HOST: DJ Toxic
SOUND EDITOR: DJ Toxic
AVATAR: Mister Stew using creative commons images from Ventura Mendoza.
MUSIC provided with permission from the Podsafe Music Network featuring 2FB, Alter der Ruine and DJ Toxic.

Surf music is much more than Jan and Dean or the Beachboys...it's a genre of music that lets loose, has a sense of humour and riffs off a lot of pop culture references.

Spartan Youth Radio's Mister Stew takes you on a journey from Denver to Finland, from Tennessee to Britain to bring you some hot beach music.

Pop out a lawn chair, open up a lemonade, take off your shoes and sit back for five incredible surf tunes. If you close your eyes tight you might even think you're driving an opentopped muscle car down an oceanside highway in California.

REPORTER: Mister Stew
SOUND EDITOR: Mister Stew
AVATAR: Mister Stew using creative commons images
MUSIC provided with permission from the Podsafe Music Network featuring Ronnie and His Twanging Little Fellow, Mercury Radio Theater, LtMeat, Get Three Coffins Ready and Antique Curtains.

Music is the lifeblood of youth.  What you listen to and how you listen to it helps to define who you are and where you might be heading.  It's a universal language that can be enjoyed as entertainment or it can have a deeper, more emotional impact. 

Spartan Youth Radio's Madeline Lemire investigates the impact of music on the minds and hearts of Northern Ontario teens

REPORTER: Madeline Lemire 
SOUND EDITOR: Madeline Lemire 
AVATAR: Mr. Stewart
MUSIC provided with permission from the Podsafe Music Network.

 

The White Ribbon Campaign is the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women. In over fifty-five countries, campaigns are led by both men and women, even though the focus is on educating men and boys. In some countries it is a general public education effort focused on ending violence against women.

Listen to five students and their public service announcements promoting this campaign.

WRITING/HOST/VOICEOVER: Rachel McLean, Jesse Dubreuil, Madeline Lemire, Michael Morrissette and Calyssa St. Onge. 
SOUND EDITOR: Rachel McLean, Jesse Dubreuil, Madeline Lemire, Michale Morrissette and Calyssa St. Onge. 
AVATAR: Mr. Stewart
MUSIC provided with permission from the Podsafe Music Network

 

Hallowe'en is a big thing in Northern Ontario and teens and their teachers still dress up to scare, shock and entertain each other.  Listen in as Caitlyn asks Spartans what they were dressed as on Hallowe'en.

WRITING/HOST/VOICEOVER: Kris Dickson and Caitlyn Dougon
SOUND EDITOR: Kris Dickson
AVATAR: Mr. Stewart
MUSIC provided with permission from the Podsafe Music Network featuring "The Late 80s Post Apocalyptic Hallowe'en Party" by Al Phlipp and the Woo Team

FEATURED BAND: Al Phlipp and the Woo Team.  Started in the 80s doing humorous music and parodies on consumer Casio keyboards, this Tennessee band now does mainly instrumental music, often with heavy use of samples from their own library of 80s music and improv comedy. The band has no label, never has, but just keeps making music.

 

As music gets more and more heavily produced, there's a growing group of artists who are experimenting with technology from the primitive early days of gaming.  8-bit can refer to a style of electornic inspired by the sound of old computer consoles from the 8 bit era of video games.  This music will often reflect sounds from technology that is seen as primitive or "outdated" such as the Game Boy, Atari and Activision systems and home made synthesizers.

DJ Anonymity (I hope I spelled that correctly) brings you some incredible retro-inspired music with new twists.  Take a time trip back to the 80s with FRESH CARTRIDGE, the first in a series called 8 BIT CHIPPER CHANNEL.

WRITING/HOST/VOICEOVER: DJ Anonymity
SOUND EDITOR: DJ Anonymity
AVATAR: Mister Jayson Stewart
MUSIC provided with permission: "Conas de Miho" by Jijies Allemente, "The 8-Bit Touch" by Reverand Protocal,, "My Game Girl" by Skylabrinth, "Stoptime Rag" by Kashioboy and "You Make Society Cry" by Oxygenstar.  Thanks to 8bitcollective.com for the music.

 

 

Jessi read the short story "Mirror Image" by Lena Coakley as part of her grade 11 University English course.  The story follows Alice, a teenage girl who dies but whose brain is transplanted into another body.  This realistic science fiction story warns us of the dangers that can arise when vanity meets medical science. 

This is Jessi's response.

WRITER/VOICEOVER: Jessi Burk
SOUND EDITOR: Jessi Burk
MUSIC: Jessi Burk
AVATAR: Jessi Burk and Mister Stewart

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Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.

When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

REVIEWER/VOICEOVER: Kyera Landry
EDITOR/PRODUCER/AVATAR: Mister Stewart
MUSIC: Donated by DJ Toxic aka Brad Bourcier

Gary Duquette brings you his take on Ubisoft's first person shooter, Haze.  Haze was one of the most highly anticipated and hyped Playstation 3 games of the first half of 2008 and Gary tells you what he liked and didn't like about the game.

REVIEWER/WRITER/VOICEOVER: Gary Duquette

PRODUCER: Mister Stewart

SOUND EDITING: Mister Stewart

AVATAR: Mister Stewart using Creative Commons material.

MUSIC courtesy of songstowearpantsto.com

That's My Opinion is a regular feature of Spartan Youth Radio where teens share their thoughts on important issues. 

Jewel asks poignant questions about acceptance, beauty and the extreme lengths people take to look gorgeous. 

HOST: Jewel Sanftenberg
EDITOR: Mr. Jayson Stewart
AVATAR: Mr. Jayson Stewart using creative commons material
MUSIC: Courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network and featuring "Never Met An Opinion" by Ric Seaberg and "Beautiful" by Adrienne Pierce.

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Sports reporter Nathan Phillips goes on the road the with Espanola Junior Boys Volleyball team.  Here's a video montage of the rivetting action.

Reporter: Nathan Phillips

Camera: Nathan Phillips

Video Editor: Nathan Phillips

Producer: Mr. Jayson Stewart

Music courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network, featuring "1 Electric Guitar" by 2006 PlasticSoul,  a professional musician from Tokyo, Japan.

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Wade and Robear hit the roads around Espanola High School to talk to staff and students during the 2008 Terry Fox Run. 

VOICEOVERS: Wade Owl and Robear Assinewe
EDITOR: Wade Owl and Robear Assinewe
MUSIC: Mean Gene Kelton and the Die Hards "Running From the Law" courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network

All content, except for music, is Creative Commons with the request that spartanyouthradio.com be credited.

Ty Dubois knows what he likes.  Take a listen to find out what he's listening to lately.

Kris and Jessi report on sensational motivational speaker, teacher and comedian Allan Johnson, who visited Espanola High School in October 2008. Take a listen, laugh a little and take some great ideas away with you.

Sports reporter Nathan Phillips interviews team mates to discover what makes this team tick and what they need to take the team even further. Music: "Attendere Prego" by 1 Shot 1 Kill, a punk band from Italy.

any friends, and has been pulled out of school after school to travel to some new exciting place with her military parents. But this time, Megan is putting her foot down. Which is why her parents are on their way to South Korea, while she is headed for Boston, and the McGowan family.

The McGowan family consists of two parents, and seven boys - no daughters. And while Megan remembers all of the boys as being uber brats, she never expected them to grow into total hotties. Total hotties whom she's sharing a bathroom with. But Megan never realized that infiltrating a family of guys would lead her to find out so many strange quirks about all of them. And leave her crushing on more than one.

Now Megan has to try and fight her romantic feelings, communicate with Miller - one of the boys who happens to have Asperger's Syndrome, a type of Autism - and survive the McGowan household. Otherwise, she'll be headed to South Korea, where she'll have to wear a uniform to school."

 

The 1980s return with a vengeance, forever linking Spartan Youth Radio with the birth of MTV!

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The two groups of students at Espanola High School just couldn't stand being near each other. Tempers flair when they are forced to all be in the same class together...and then in counselling. What happens when someone defects to "the other side?"

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Mmmm g'day ya'll! Welcome to another episode of the Comic Gourmet. This time, we're hitchin' a ride to Southern Georgia where Chef Duke Clement shares with us his gourmet NACHO OCTODOG. Enjoy. Really...please try to enjoy.

Last semester, Mr. Stewart's Communication Technology class was asked to produce audioscapes. Audiscapes are field recording of a natural or urban environment. Anthony Hamelin is joined by Willy and Aaron as they hike the rocks behind Webbwood, Ontario.