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Bits & Bytes
A quick and varied sampling of audio:
Guest-based and host-based, quick snippets and long-form conversation, but all meaningful radio.


Over the course of the pandemic, my show gave out THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of dollars to those in need. Not money from the network or the station, but from listeners who called in and wanted to help strangers in need. Listeners who didn't just call in from the local area, but from across Canada and around the world. 

This sense of connection is cultivated, nurtured, and steadily grown on my show for three key reasons:

I find real stories, consequently the connection people feel towards them turns them into news.

I give people a voice - something that is desperately lacking and becoming more and more destroyed in Canada's media landscape. And by giving people a voice, I have proven this build audiences, their connection, and intensity of engagement.  

And people get to feel as though they are part of something bigger than they are - which is also one of the key points that lead to the often elusive "viral" quality people try to attain. 

This 73-year-old blind man called the show to say he’s lonely, so I invited him in-studio, then the story went viral - worldwide.

I invited NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on my show to take on a subject no one in Canada addressed until we made national headlines with this: how people with disabilities have been abandoned during the pandemic. They are choosing to die, because the government has afforded them quality of death; not quality of life. 

Kevin Hines jumped off the Golden Gate bridge - AND LIVED. Now he's helping save lives from suicide.

Selene is mom who has faced more challenges than most people. For Mother's Day her son wanted to get her a ride in a Corvette. But couldn't make it happen. So I surprised them with this red puppy ...

Before spending $129 million on revitalizing a tourist attraction in the Nation's Capital, the government should help the homeless sleeping on its streets - unless it plans on using those millions to buy a big rug. You know, to sweep the homeless under ...

Doris is 96. Her husband Carl is 100. They are BOTH World War II veterans - and have been married for 75 YEARS.

So I ask Doris, "What's your favourite song?" And Carl proceeds to SERENADE her with their love song. LIVE. ON-AIR!

This, my friends ... is love.

<AUDIO ON!!!> pic.twitter.com/IwfDG0h1kY

— dahlia kurtz (@DahliaKurtz) November 7, 2020

This Ontario senior died of isolation in Long-Term Care - not from COVID-19.

A new study gave a $7500 lump-sum to homeless ppl. They got housed, remained housed, SAVED money, AND saved taxpayers BIGGER MONEY.

I'd rather give money to a homeless person than a politician. 'Cuz it's politicians who are MAKING people homeless the way they spend YOUR money: pic.twitter.com/YEpQAT4buM

— dahlia kurtz (@DahliaKurtz) October 17, 2020

My dear friend Alex is 96. A Normandy hero. He told me he's sad he can't visit students with his story...COVID.

So I assembled some students to SURPRISE him with questions live on-air.

Alex said they made his year. But really he made theirs.

IN FULL: https://t.co/EEdM3fdtIX pic.twitter.com/lrrMWaePNs

— dahlia kurtz (@DahliaKurtz) November 8, 2020

CEO Dan Price Took A Million-Dollar Pay Cut, Set A Minimum $70K Salary For Employees - And Revealed A Better Way To Do Business

This Winnipeg hotel is FREE to people fleeing domestic abuse.

The owner tells me he's losing money BUT says all hotels should be doing this. REGARDLESS of the pandemic.

"You just have to give a damn about what you're doing."

Let's challenge ALL hotels EVERYWHERE to do this. pic.twitter.com/OAuPBEDiiJ

— dahlia kurtz (@DahliaKurtz) November 21, 2020

A MESSAGE FOR BULLIES: When you mess with a 13-year-old, the community REWARDS the very person you try to destroy.

Despite their own struggles, #Ottawa businesses and community members banded together to make some of Dynamite Girl's dreams come true.

The moment I told her: pic.twitter.com/Zpt7JhzWij

— dahlia kurtz (@DahliaKurtz) November 14, 2020
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