"What if?" Radio Archive 3. September 2025 - July 2026 Current Shows
Welcome!
"What If?" airs every other Sunday at Noon Pacific and repeats Mondays 6pm pacific on Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia.Hosted by volunteers Lori Barkley and Stephenie Hendricks.
We explore the intersections of environment, justice, health, and "What If" we can work to change our world to be healthier and more just.
Nelson & Environs – 93.5 FM
Crawford Bay & North Kootenay Lake – 96.5 FM
New Denver & Silverton – 107.5 FM
Slocan Valley & Castlegar – 101.5 FM
Live on the web at https://www.kootenaycoopradio.com
Show ideas, Comments: whatifradio93.5@gmail.com
Received Honorable Mention in the Breaking Boundaries category for the 2023 National Community Radio Association’s annual Campus and Community Radio Broadcast Awards. For previous episodes, check out, please visit our our Archives Archive 1 April 2021 - July 2024Archive 2 August 2024 - August 2025 Current Shows We work entirely as volunteers, so keeping this website up to date can be challenging. If you here a show and can't find it here, you can email stephinnelson@gmail.com for more info.
We explore the intersections of environment, justice, health, and "What If" we can work to change our world to be healthier and more just.
Nelson & Environs – 93.5 FM
Crawford Bay & North Kootenay Lake – 96.5 FM
New Denver & Silverton – 107.5 FM
Slocan Valley & Castlegar – 101.5 FM
Live on the web at https://www.kootenaycoopradio.com
Show ideas, Comments: whatifradio93.5@gmail.com
Received Honorable Mention in the Breaking Boundaries category for the 2023 National Community Radio Association’s annual Campus and Community Radio Broadcast Awards. For previous episodes, check out, please visit our our Archives Archive 1 April 2021 - July 2024Archive 2 August 2024 - August 2025 Current Shows We work entirely as volunteers, so keeping this website up to date can be challenging. If you here a show and can't find it here, you can email stephinnelson@gmail.com for more info.
September 2025 - July 2026
July 19, 2026 Show Audio Steven Rai
Steven is researching the emergence of white supremacy groups in Canada, specifically in activity clubs and gyms.
July 5, 2026 Show Audio
Dr. James Singer
Dr. Singer, with the Castlegar Dental Centre, shares insights about how important our teeth are to our well being and for how others view us. He also shares some insights into dentistry and and affordability challenges.
June 21, 2026 Show Audio Russ Diabo
Indigenous Policy Analyst
Russ Diabo discusses the situation with federal and provincial policies that exclude Indigenous consultation and environmental protections.
June 7 , 2026 Show Audio
Swami Lalitananda became the president of Yasodhara Ashram in 2014 and carries forward the lineage in this tradition, whose leadership is passed through women.A student of Swami Radha’s since 1979, she served as her personal assistant and editor for eight years, which offered many opportunities for direct learning. Her development continued under the mentorship of Swami Radhananda, who initiated her into sanyas in 1996. She talks about the Ashram and mits programs to help people navigate challenges in the lives.
May 24, 2026 Show Audio Randy Janzen
Unarmed Civilian Protector
Randy discusses how Unarmed Civilian Protection is working in Palestine and elsewhere. The process aims to de-escalate violence and bring conflicts closer to peaceful outcomes. https://www.ucpip.org
May 10, 2028 Show Audio Alessandra Constatin
Make-up Artist, Esthetician
Alessandra discusses the various concepts of beauty, make-up for women and men, the tension between using makeup and concerns about objeectification of women and more. https://littledreamstudio.ca/, https://www.littledreammakeup.com/,
April 26, 2026 Show Audio Amy Bohigian
TV and Film Producer and Director
Kootenay Film and TV Producer Amy Bohigian discusses her work through Watershed Productions, including the film Only in Nelson and the sketch comedy web series Southern Interior. She also shares about working on projects for corporate and non-profit clients, and talked about her observations on queer representation in current media.
April 12, 2026 Show Audio Matt Simmons
Matt Simmons is a journalist covering Northern British Columbia, including the Indigenous led protests of the Trans Canada pipeline and LNG extraction impacting communities. While doing his work for the Narwhal, he was literally shadowed by CSIS and RCMP. He discussed Boom and Bust communities around resource extraction in Northern BC.
March 29, 2026 Show Audio Jessica Hewitt
Friends of Falls Creek Advocate
Residents of Bonnington, BC, are protesting the proposed logging of the Falls Creek watershed by BC Timber Sales. Jessica Hewitt is a resident and researcher who is working to preserve her watershed from logging.
March 15,2026 Show Audio Andre Gagnon
Professor at Concordia University
Dr. André Gagné is Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University. He has a conjoint PhD from l'Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and l'Université de Montréal, a M.A. and B.Th. from l'Université de Montréal. His teaching and scholarship focus on Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, Religion and Politics, Evangelicalism, and the Reception of the Bible. For more info: https://www.laboretfides.com/product-author/gagne-andre/
March 1, 2026 Show Audio Lori Barkley
Political Anthropologiest,
Co-host of What If?
What If? co-host Lori Barkley reveals her experiences as a teenager in the Paris modeling world with Claude Hadad and Jean-Luc Brunel - Jefferey Epstein's colleagues in global sex trafficking of young girls.
February 1, 2026 Part 1 Show Audio February 15, 2025 Part 2 Show Audio John Henry Harter
- Labour Historian and Researcher,
- Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University researcher John Henry Harter discusses how he went from school drop out to post secondary professor. He also talks about his research addressing how "affordability" has weakened under the dominance of oligarchs controlling the global economy. https. https://www.sfu.ca/labour/about/people/john-henry-harter.html
January 18, 2026 Show Audio Daniel Sims, PhD
UNBC Professor, Researcher
Dr. Sims' research on how hydroelectric dam projects destroyed Indigenous lands and cultures sheds light on how "green" hydroelectric power projects really are. More at his University of Northern British Coluymbia web page.
January 4, 2026 Show Audio Alex Hemingway
Economist, Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives
Alex Hemingway is Senior Economist,\ with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His research demonstrates that a wealth tax - 1% on anything over $20 million/year - could balance the Canadian economy. This originally aired in 2023 but is still astute today.
December 21, 2025 Show Audio Lori and Steph's Fave Conversations 2025
Maurice Patton and Mary Donovan
Survivors of Irish Industrial Schools
Lori chose our show on Irish Survivors of Industrial schools for her favourite conversation of 2025, when we heard Maurice Patton and Mary Donovan tell their stories of being taken away from their homes as children and abused in residential schools. Lori encountered them while on vacation in Dublin, noticing they were protesting on the street, on a hunger strike.
Mike Sugarman and Janice Wright
Journalists
Stephenie chose our conversation with Mike Sugerman and Janice Wright and their harrowing account of Mike's sudden paralysis at age 67. Their courage and innovation inspired us to air this encore discussion.
December 7, 2025 Show Audio Anand Pandian
Cultural Anthropologist
This is an encore presentation of Anand Pandian that originally aired in 2025. However Dr. Pandian's research and insights are even more profound now. Anand Pandian has written A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times, and Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, from Stanford University Press. He is President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaborative practice. More: https://anand.studio
November 23, 2025 Show Audio Kiffer Card
Behavioural Epidemiologist
Dr. Kiffer G. Card is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He received his training as a behavioural epidemiologist, social ecologist, and health services researcher from Brigham Young University (B.Sc.), Simon Fraser University (Ph.D.), and the University of Victoria (Post-doctoral Training). Dr. Card is the recipient of multiple highly prestigious awards, including The 2025 Blanche and Charlie Beckerman Public Health Innovation Scholar Award; The 2021 Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award, the 2020 CIHR-IHSPR Rising Star Award, The 2018 CTN Postdoctoral Award, The 2018 MSFHR Award, and The 2018 CIHR Health Systems Impact Fellowship. Over the past six years, Dr. Card’s work has been featured in more than 200 publications and over 100 presentations. Dr. Card's research program provides training to future scholars and raises awareness of key social reforms and policies that aim to help Canadian leaders build happier and healthier communities.
November 9, 2025 Show Audio Ari Chais
Unarmed Civilian Protector
Ari Chais is an American/Israeli of Jewish descent who works as an Unarmed Civilian Protector with Palestinians. https://nonviolentpeaceforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UCP_Course_Manual.pdf. Here's an article by Ari:
https://www.progressiveisrael.org/reflections-on-protective-presence/
October 26, 2025 Show Audio
Irish Industrial and Reformatory School Survivors on Hunger Strike
While on vacation in Dublin, Ireland, Lori Barkley came upon survivors of Irish Residential Schools on a hunger strike and brought two of their stories back to What If? Meet Maurice Patton O'Connell and Mary Donovan. They would like folks to sign their petition for increased health care and an extra 30 Euros/month in pension for these now elderly survivors of physical, mental, and sexual abuse as well as being farmed out to strangers as free labour. https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-ireland-s-industial-and-reformatory-school-survivors?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=qr_code&utm_campaign=petition_details&recruited_by_id=0d03fc60-97c2-11f0-b4a9-1da1be4ff01b
October 13, 2025 Show Audio Joe Karthein
Joe talks about ideas for reforming BC Forestry policies that would enhance economic benefits and help preserve Old Growth at the same time.
September 28, 2025 Show Audio
Rosemary Collard
Rosemary and Jessica discuss their research into resource extraction and environmental protection dilemmas, featured on their website Extinction Paradox.
September 14, 2025 Show Audio Brian DeShazor
Radio Producer, Historian for Pacifica Radio Archives
Brian DeShazor, one of the hosts for "This Way Out," the oldest syndicated news and interview radio programs focused on 2SLGBTQ+ issues talks about how his work as an Historian/archivist of some of the most important voices in human rights movements is documenting historic voices found nowhere else.He shares about his wort with "This Way Out," and how it feels to be a gay man in Los Angeles while Trump is sending National Guard to terrorize immigrants. "This Way Out" airs Mondays, 1:00pm on Kootenay Coop Radio.