Lister Sinclair News Today

Canadian broadcaster and actor Lister Sinclair once told me an interesting story about a visit he paid to Hungary in 1945 just at the end of the Second World War while on an assignment with the Canadian Military. In a small village, an old lady, probably in her 80s, came up to Lister and showed him an interesting piece of paper, which was given to her own Grandmother. As a child this grandmother lived in a village that happened to be frequented by Ludwig van Beethoven while on a holiday in the...

85 years!! Incredible. This radio station has been home to renowned broadcasters like Pierre Berton, Lister Sinclair, Wallie Oppal, and Narduwar the Human Serviette! Its amazing to think that I have been on the air at CiTR for almost half those years (1985 to 2023, thats 38 of the 85!) Some tunes dating back to 1937, as well as interviews and songs and tunes from some of my favourite moments at CiTR, including several from Jericho Beach Park when we aired the show from the Vancouver Folk Music F...

By Alan Success is a strange phenomenon. Take the case of my birthplace. This spring it is building a million-and-a-half-dollar classical theatre that Montreal or Toronto might well envy. Yet four years ago it was just another railroad town, a farming centre, conservative and obscure. When anyone asked me where 1 was born 1 told them. "Stratford, in southwestern Ontario, about a hundred miles from Toronto." Then Tom Patterson, a business-paper editor who was also born there, talked Stratford in...

THE HIGH PRIEST OF POP CULTURE For years Canadian Professor Marshall McLuhan has been preaching his theories of mass communications — but hardly anybody understood him. Now, suddenly, he’s becoming the hottest intellectual fad since Zen Buddhism July 3 1965 ALEXANDER ROSS THE HIGH PRIEST OF POP CULTURE ALEXANDER ROSS July 3 1965...