With David swamped with work and Ian plagued with who-knows-what, Louanne is left to her own devices for a full hour.
The result is a discussion of Arthur's goings-on over the past week which threatens to turn into a symposium on continental philosophy.
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Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University’s Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca. You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
We wade into the thick of the recent GE Peterborough debate with this Ian-less endeavour.
This week, we chat about our TikTok again, Peterborough City Council drafting questionably legal motions, and One Piece powerscaling. Whatever that means.
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Radio Free Arthur now broadcasts live on Tuesday mornings @ 10 am through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University’s Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca. You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
After two weeks of mistrials, we humbly bring you the first salvageable episode of the new Radio Free Arthur. Volume 60 brings new Editors, new staff, and yet Arthur stays the same. Funny how that works.
This week, we chat about our new staff in abstraction, David's Thanksgiving escapades, and how #sicknasty it would be to live in isolation in a big stupid tower.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Tuesday mornings @ 10 am through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University’s Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
In the second instalment of "Arthur Movie Night Film Club On Cinema at the Cinema," we congregate at Ian's r/MaleLivingSpace house and watch Scooby Doo Camp Scare, one of many illustrious Scooby Doo direct-to-video films.
The film follows Scooby and the Mystery Inc. gang as they spend an enthralling summer at Camp Little Moose, Fred's childhood summer camp, as camp counsellors. Plans change, however, when the camp is terrorised by monsters of local legend and the Mystery Inc. gang has a mystery on their hands. Who knew!
We chat about oversized sandwiches, horror movies, and Ian's downplayed Mario Kart skills.
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You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
In the first instalment of "Arthur Movie Night Film Club On Cinema at the Cinema," we congregate and watch our first pick 1999 Cool Cymru club classic Human Traffic.
The film follows five friends and one of their many drug-fuelled weekends around Cardiff. A glimpse into the disaffected "chemical generation," Human Traffic explores alienation, dance and rave culture, and the grey area within the United Kingdom in the 1990s.
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Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
The time has come: the last Radio Free Arthur episode with your beloved co-hosts has arrived.
Through two seasons of this show and the immense privilege of bringing you a slice of Arthur every week on the airwaves, all good things truly must come to an end.
Abbigale and Evan had hoped to end this show on a more somber and hopeful note. That is until the mayor of Peterborough, Jeff Leal, dropped a racial slur during a guest lecture at Trent University.
The news, so they say, stops for no one.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
Pokemon go to the polls (again).
A Federal election has been called, marking a whole month since we last went to the polls.
This time is different, though. This time there is more singing.
Co-hosts Abbigale Kernya and Evan Robins track the social media trends of each party and lament about "identity politics" coming to the conclusion that a lot of you are just plain weird.
Also, Abbigale brings up a certain Swedish hockey player again so things are pretty much the same on her end.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
Who up yoinking beers?
Our new Prime Minister for one, that's for sure! Co-hosts Abbigale Kernya and Evan Robins talk shop this episode about the dire #darkwoke state of the world, and how Donald Trump is as funny as he is, you know, completely evil.
As Mark Carney offers a new hope for this country one beer at a time, the girls ask themselves how we got here and how the hell do we get off.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
TWO WOMEN WITH GLASSES TALK BOOKS:
Dragons, lesbians, lesbian dragons? Co-editors Abbigale Kernya and Evan Robins talk shop about their upcoming March book club pick: The Priory of the Orange Tree.
Arthur doesn't have the greatest track record for book club picks that are unanimously received. Abbigale mainly chose this front-runner for "a book club about dragons" to explain the bragging rights about finishing a book larger than her head.
At least this fantasy book isn't a complete rip off of Welsh culture.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
The girls are back in the studio with one thing on their mind: has the city gone #darkwoke?
Is trad wifery in? Will Peterborough officially migrate to Bluesky.Social instead of X (The Everything App)? Will students ever stop moaning about convocation? (co-editor Abbigale Kernya is graduating, so she gets to weigh in here)
Find out the answers in this week's episode and also prospective baby names because it's been a bit of a slow news week.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
Kept you waiting, huh?
At long last RFA returns from a pre-recorded hiatus to send off the Ontario Provincial Election with an hour's worth of sketch comedy bits and serious political insight.
It's like CBC's "The House" with less Ian Hanomansing but the same amount of boomers mad at us.
Speaking of Anchormen, the girls are joined again this week by patented women's space invader David King, to discuss the misinformation pervading discussions of students' electoral eligibilty, as well as a supremely studpid scandal about where exactly Trent students will walk across the stage.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
Following a six-hour city council meeting for the ages, the editors invite man of many hats, Arthur hate reader, business manager, policy wonk, and professional "Just Some Guy," Rob Hailman to talk about Monday night's budget-related debate, and coun. Alex Bierk and Keith Riel's Notice of Motion to establish a second emergency shelter space in Peterborough.
Along the way they discussArthur's recent spate of awards recognition for a subject of perennial fun-poking on this podcast, and pickleball (for separate, but not wholly unrelated reasons).
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
Abbigale, editor most known perhaps for her famous disregard for movies, sits down with her Letterboxd owning co-editor to discuss the one thing that is on everyone's minds: The Oscars.
Most notably, the one film a singular nomination away from Academy history, Emilia Pérez.
Neither of them have seen it. They both do not like musicals and have heard that one song one too many times. So, you know, are qualified to speak on why it probably shouldn't have gotten thirteen nominations.
Also the state of the world, too. With an American election recently passed and one imminent here in Ontario, the girls take you on a road trip to talk municipal shop, including recent #SAVETHECANAL uhhh, fixation? sweeping the 'Boro.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
With Abby away for this week's RFA, a recurring lore character finally steps into the fore.
Evan sits down with Arthur Staff writer and class clown Ian Vansegbrook to Ianterview him about his work ethic, work ethics, and beliefs regarding the transformative nature of labour.
Along the way the meeting of the minds is derailed by the death of David Lynch, which prompts our intrepid internauts to descend into the depths of Chan boards, film criticism, and Metal Gear Solid lore.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
The girls are back on the airwaves after a restful, and tipsy holiday break.
Abbigale recently discovered a knack for crocheting, and her co-host in arms Evan relives the joys of "rotting."
For the first official episode marking the new year, your editors bring you topical news like the recent intent to resign from Trudeau, an update from Peterborough's municipal housing plan, and why Nosferatu (2024) should have been hornier.
New year, same commie rag.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Thursdays @ 3PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
The girls return to Studio A for one final ride across the airwaves with appropriately climactic news for this last Wednesday afternoon: the Otonabee River Man has been identified.
It's a big news week, as a matter of fact, as since the entry of Radio Free Arthur a CEO has been shot, a suspect identified, and the public at large lost their minds over this ripped Italian-American Bi-chad.
What, if anything, does this say about society? Does working at a grocery for a minimum wage really suck that much? Our haggard hostesses may not have all the answers, but that sure won't stop them from talking.
Until next year, then.
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Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
This episode, the editors welcome the event that signals crying students, raging seasonal depression, and a flood of Instagram stories: Spotify Wrapped.
Abbigale, as to be rather expected, has a relatively tame lineup that is mostly unchanged in several years, apart from hit Canadian band of the 2010's making a resurgence in her lineup.
She also streamed "Casual" by Chappel Roan 77 times.
Evan, on the other hand, had a more, uh, flavourful lineup.
Tune in to find out what cancelled band made her top 5 and why Spotify Wrapped is, well, kind of horrible.
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Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
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It's slow goings in the settled dust of the Budget month, but nonetheless we continue to go on the air.
This week Abby and Evan discuss houseplants, petty theft, the Only Cafe, and the 67th Annual Recording Academy Awards.
Also, staff writers Kiki Paterson and Ian Vansegbrook introduce themselves after two-ish months of radio silence, and Evan talks about a book she read from BookTok.
All in a week's work, innit?
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 1PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.
Attention listeners of Radio Free Arthur: we, the editors of Arthur, are proud to announce that we have single-handedly solved the 2025 Draft Budget.
Every cut you personally disagreed with has been reversed, and everything you thought was a waste of money has been axed.
Speaking of wastes of money, friend of the show Taylor Swift is in Toronto. We don't have tickets and are not at all bitter.
While we may not have an eras tour to call our own, what we do have is a night of glitz and glamour in the form of our Annual General Meeting, TONIGHT at 5:00 PM in the John.
Be there or be a conscientious objector!
In other matters, Evan turns the subject of her ire to Large Language Models and AI, and the City's decision to spend $20,000 on Microsoft CoPilot.
Speaking of things which are allegedly products of systemic plagiarism, our City Hall Bingo is the talk of the town!
Finally, Evan speaks to today's status as Trans Day of Remembrance in what could be characterized as "a jarring shift in tone" for this comedic current affairs program.
As we like to say, "It's been a week."
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 1PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
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Breaking news out of The Borough this week: Hundreds of protestors showed up at City Hall to contest the 2025 Draft Budget, which could see funding to arts and social services cut to accommodate council's will of a strict 5% tax increase.
Co-editor Evan Robins hailed from City Hall for several hours, documenting the protest and lengthy meeting (which started late). Camera in one hand, Monster in the other: locking the fuck in.
Across the city, Abbigale bumped Phoebe Bridger's Christmas rotation and vanilla protein shakes while she paginated the new issue of this very rag.
Equally as thrilling, some would say.
This episode is a culmination of the lack of sleep and budget brain your editors have endured. The laugh, they sigh, they correct misinformation, they talk about what is new at Arthur (allegedly).
If you noticed this episode is two days late, mind your business.
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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 1PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca
Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at editors@trentarthur.ca. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.
You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.