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Do you (or someone you know) have a 200-300 word story about you and CKUA that you’d like to share with us? Please let us know by writing us. We’d love to feature it! What do such stories look like?
Well, here’s one by Roy Forbes, who celebrates the 15th anniversary of his CKUA show, Roy’s Record Room
, on Sunday April 11, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM (MT).
I first came to CKUA in the fall of 1973, a 23-year-old folkie, in Edmonton for a gig at the Hovel coffeehouse.
Holger Petersen had invited me to tape one of his now-legendary
A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1971
Pender Street in Chinatown in 1972, which was now part of a designated historic area. Item # CVA 780-447. Photo courtesy of Vancouver Archives.
In 1971, Greenpeace was making waves, there was a riot in Gastown and the CBC started filming a very popular series on the Sunshine Coast.
By Chuck Davis,
1971 census figures for Metropolitan Vancouver
The 1971 census showed the metropolitan Vancouver population had topped the million mark for the first time. One remarkable finding of that census was that Delta’s population had more than tripled in 10 years.
Bowen Island 350
Delta 45,860 (1961 pop. 14,597)
Langley City 4,680
Maple Ridge 24,480
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Do you (or someone you know) have a 200-300 word story about you and CKUA that you’d like to share with us? Please let us know by writing us. We’d love to feature it! What do such stories look like?
Well, here’s one by our esteemed Natch’ Blues host, Holger Petersen!
My CKUA story begins back in 1968 when I started the two-year Radio and Television Arts course at NAIT.
I already had a passion for music and had been collecting records and following bands since my early teens. The British Invasion-influenced R&B and blues groups opened my world. That music pointed me in the direction of electric blues and eventually to all regional styles of blues and roots music. Happily, it’s an endless pursuit.
6 January 2021 - Cirrus Initiative
Considerations behind the largest and most complex undertaking of its kind in Africa’s history.
In collaboration with academia, Cirrus is a private sector led initiative bringing together academia and industry for the establishment of a world class artificial intelligence (AI) research and application capability for Africa. Although launched in 2019, work on Cirrus started several years earlier which included laying the ground work for Wits University to host the Cirrus infrastructure.
History
Cirrus was conceived over a decade ago but work on the first formal proposal started in 2017. At the time, Dr Dean Barrett, who works at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), was seeking a way to apply machine learning to the vast amount of data they were producing.
6 January 2021 - Cirrus Initiative
Considerations behind the largest and most complex undertaking of its kind in Africa’s history.
In collaboration with academia, Cirrus is a private sector led initiative bringing together academia and industry for the establishment of a world class artificial intelligence (AI) research and application capability for Africa. Although launched in 2019, work on Cirrus started several years earlier which included laying the ground work for Wits University to host the Cirrus infrastructure.
History
Cirrus was conceived over a decade ago but work on the first formal proposal started in 2017. At the time, Dr Dean Barrett, who works at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), was seeking a way to apply machine learning to the vast amount of data they were producing.