Category: Bob Jonkman

DONATE at https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/donate/ I created the audio track of this radio promo for…

DONATE at https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/donate/

I created the audio track of this radio promo for the 2025 Spring Fundraiser for Waterloo Region’s best Community Radio Station.

Radio Days

My mother appeared on the legendary CKNX Radio Station (home of the CKNX Barn Dance) in Wingham, Ontario before she’d even met my dad. A shared love of country music got my parents together, and they became the “Pine River Sweethearts.”

My father hosted his own country & western music radio show on a (or maybe the) local radio station in Kitchener-Waterloo (which is now part of Waterloo Region).

CKMS Radio Waterloo

is a CRTC regulated Community Broadcaster, located at 102.7 on the FM dial, broadcasting over the airwaves in Waterloo Region, Ontario. Many of the shows generate podcasts or videos for the ⁨station’s @RadioWaterloo⁩ Youtube Channel. In the 21st century it can also be streamed anywhere in the world online at https://radiowaterloo.ca/

Ordinarily a donation of $24 buys you a year long CKMS membership, which comes with a certificate to host your own broadcast radio show., which is why I’ve included the photo of my family performing on Dad’s. The reason I’ve included the black and white photo of my Dad, Lynn Russwurm, with my brother Lance Russwurm, and mother, Laura Gaede Russwurm, performing on Dad’s show is because my promo centers around this opportunity, which cost just $20 during the week long fundraising campaign.

Although the fundraiser is over, the non-profit volunteer driven CKMS can always use any donation you care to make. (And if you mention this video, you might still be able to get the reduced rate!)

DONATE at https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/donate/

Picture Track

To turn it into a video, I added various photos I’ve taken at CKMS over the years, beginning with the Agriculture show, where host Jeff Stager interviewed my husband Bob Jonkman, when he was a candidate for the Green Party of Canada in 2015. These were photographed at the previous CKMS location in Waterloo (next door to Ethel’s Lounge). In his post-politics life, Bob began volunteering at CKMS, and now involved in some show work, as well as providing technical support.

Photo Credits

Appearing in the video:

• Jeff Stager (CKMS “The Agriculture Show:)
• Bob Jonkman (GPC 2015, GPO 2018, CKMS show host)
• Michael Harris (2015 Ontario Progressive Conservative Party MP)
• David Weber (Green Party of Ontario, 2018)
• Lynn Russwurm
• Lance Russwurm
• Laura Gaede Russwurm
• Ethan Russell (Green Party of Canada, 2025)
• Maya Bozorgzad (New Democratic Party, 2025)
• Darren Bondy (Maya’s campaign manager)

With the exception of my b&w Russwurm family radio station photo and the two

Sound Credits:

I had a lot of fun putting this together, and would like to thank all the creators who shared their sound work under sharable free culture licenses at Freesound.

pistol_riccochet.ogg by Diboz
https://freesound.org/s/213925/
License: Creative Commons 0

[ MPooman ] Horse Sounds (SE515) (High Quality) by MPooman
https://freesound.org/s/681727/
License: Creative Commons 0

CGC-castanets by suonisordi
https://freesound.org/s/737094/
License: Creative Commons 0

Because I used only the 1st musical phrase (a fraction of a second) from the following piece by LittleAlienXXX (credited below) I believe it would constitute a "fair use,” and would not require attribution under copyright law. Regardless, as a free culture advocate, if at all possible I always provide attribution, even of public domain works.

The_good_the_bad_&_the_ugly_02.wav by LittleAlienXXX
https://freesound.org/s/369402/
License: Attribution 3.0

I also used my own recording of wild birdsong in the morning in my own back yard… which I’m planning to upload to Freesound shortly, along with a few other sound files. (Licenced CC0, of course!)

DONATE at https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/donate/

DONATE at https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/donate/ I created the audio track of this radio promo for…

DONATE at https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/donate/

I created the audio track of this radio promo for the 2025 Spring Fundraiser for Waterloo Region’s best Community Radio Station.

Radio Days

My mother appeared on the legendary CKNX Radio Station (home of the CKNX Barn Dance) in Wingham, Ontario before she’d even met my dad. A shared love of country music got my parents together, and they became the “Pine River Sweethearts.”

My father hosted his own country & western music radio show on a (or maybe the) local radio station in Kitchener-Waterloo (which is now part of Waterloo Region).

CKMS Radio Waterloo

is a CRTC regulated Community Broadcaster, located at 102.7 on the FM dial, broadcasting over the airwaves in Waterloo Region, Ontario. Many of the shows generate podcasts or videos for the ⁨station’s @RadioWaterloo⁩ Youtube Channel. In the 21st century it can also be streamed anywhere in the world online at https://radiowaterloo.ca/

Ordinarily a donation of $24 buys you a year long CKMS membership, which comes with a certificate to host your own broadcast radio show., which is why I’ve included the photo of my family performing on Dad’s. The reason I’ve included the black and white photo of my Dad, Lynn Russwurm, with my brother Lance Russwurm, and mother, Laura Gaede Russwurm, performing on Dad’s show is because my promo centers around this opportunity, which cost just $20 during the week long fundraising campaign.

Although the fundraiser is over, the non-profit volunteer driven CKMS can always use any donation you care to make. (And if you mention this video, you might still be able to get the reduced rate!)

DONATE at https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/donate/

Picture Track

To turn it into a video, I added various photos I’ve taken at CKMS over the years, beginning with the Agriculture show, where host Jeff Stager interviewed my husband Bob Jonkman, when he was a candidate for the Green Party of Canada in 2015. These were photographed at the previous CKMS location in Waterloo (next door to Ethel’s Lounge). In his post-politics life, Bob began volunteering at CKMS, and now involved in some show work, as well as providing technical support.

Photo Credits

Appearing in the video:

• Jeff Stager (CKMS “The Agriculture Show:)
• Bob Jonkman (GPC 2015, GPO 2018, CKMS show host)
• Michael Harris (2015 Ontario Progressive Conservative Party MP)
• David Weber (Green Party of Ontario, 2018)
• Lynn Russwurm
• Lance Russwurm
• Laura Gaede Russwurm
• Ethan Russell (Green Party of Canada, 2025)
• Maya Bozorgzad (New Democratic Party, 2025)
• Darren Bondy (Maya’s campaign manager)

With the exception of my b&w Russwurm family radio station photo and the two

Sound Credits:

I had a lot of fun putting this together, and would like to thank all the creators who shared their sound work under sharable free culture licenses at Freesound.

pistol_riccochet.ogg by Diboz
https://freesound.org/s/213925/
License: Creative Commons 0

[ MPooman ] Horse Sounds (SE515) (High Quality) by MPooman
https://freesound.org/s/681727/
License: Creative Commons 0

CGC-castanets by suonisordi
https://freesound.org/s/737094/
License: Creative Commons 0

Because I used only the 1st musical phrase (a fraction of a second) from the following piece by LittleAlienXXX (credited below) I believe it would constitute a "fair use,” and would not require attribution under copyright law. Regardless, as a free culture advocate, if at all possible I always provide attribution, even of public domain works.

The_good_the_bad_&_the_ugly_02.wav by LittleAlienXXX
https://freesound.org/s/369402/
License: Attribution 3.0

I also used my own recording of wild birdsong in the morning in my own back yard… which I’m planning to upload to Freesound shortly, along with a few other sound files. (Licenced CC0, of course!)

DONATE at https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/donate/

The Importance Of Filling The Entire Ballot in Ranked Voting | Bob Jonkman The article provides a…

The Importance Of Filling The Entire Ballot in Ranked Voting | Bob Jonkman


The article provides a detailed example of how ranked ballot voting works when electing a party leader to delight electoral system nerds. All the rest of us need do is read the opening summary and the conclusion at the end.

I love this video.  I love this guy… the guy in the hat…



I love this video. 

I love this guy… the guy in the hat is my husband Bob Jonkman, the 2019 Green Party of Canada Candidate in Brantford—Brant, Ontario.  As Canada uses an archaic Winner-Take-All voting system (similar to the US, UK and Australia) he didn’t win.  This time.  

I love this song.  It was a tiny tune created by my favorite contemporary musician, the talented Josh Woodward.  Everything Josh creates is released with a Creative Commons Attribution license.  This video is likewise CC-By.

What this means is that any Green Party can use it.  Free of charge.  

Liner Notes:

For those of you who aren’t up on the Canadian Greens, I’ll give you a little background. 

The video is bookended by the GPC’s awesome leader, Elizabeth May.  She’s been the leader for 13 years, and the fact our Green Party is doing as well as it is has a lot to do with that.  

• Our Green Party’s “Green New Deal” was called “Mission: Possible,” and the opening line is something she said at the Kitchener GPC campaign launch. 
• The minnows are swimming in Cypress Lake, at a favorite camping spot, in  Bruce Peninsula National Park near Tobermory.
• The Tree planting footage was recorded in the spring in Paris, Ontario.  
• The CC-By temperature visualization was created by Antti Lipponen from data provided by Berkeley Earth/Robert Rohde http://berkeleyearth.org/
• The sign waving was in Brantford.
• The footage of Bob talking to people was at the Brant Greens booth at the Paris Fair.  In the background, some of our volunteers are helping kids make their own buttons, a bit of gratis outreach we make as part of our community involvement. 
• The Circle Dance was at a Rise for Climate event in Waterloo
• Bob joined Cambridge candidate Michele Braniff and friends at the Cambridge for for the first “Green Wave” segment
• for “the mountains” I used a clip of Paul Manly, recorded at the 2016 GPC Special General Meeting, before he became the second elected Canadian Green, now the re-elected Member of Parliament for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith Electoral District
• for “to the seaway” I used footage of the second elected PEI Greens MLA, Hannah Bell, speaking at the 2018 Green Party of Ontario convention in Guelph (alongside PEI Greens leader Peter Bevan-Baker)
• The second “Green Wave” begins with GPO leader Mike Schreiner  “mainstreeting” in Kitchener with the 2018 provincial election with the five Waterloo Region Greens candidates (Bob Jonkman, Michele Braniff, David Weber, Stacey Danckert and Zdravko Gunjevic) …
• … then cuts to Milton candidate Eleanor Hayward and friends at Elizabeth May’s “Community Matters” town hall in Guelph
• Guelph candidate Steve Dyck speaking to the crowd at the 2019 Platform Release in Guelph
• “Together” takes us back in Kitchener, where southern Ontario GPC Green Candidates Steve Dyck, Michele Braniff, David Weber, Kristin Wright,
Collan Simmons, Stephanie Goertz, Bob Jonkman and Nicholas Wendler join GPC leader Elizabeth May and GPO leader Mike Schreiner in support of the Mike Morrice campaign launch
• Elizabeth May’s back again, tying it all up at the end with a punch line that was part of her answer to a question posed by the youngest Green Party member at the “Community Matters” event in Guelph

VOTE YOUR VALUESFull Disclosure: Bob Jonkman, the 2019 Green…


Laurel & Bob


Bob and our son, Willem (circa 1993)

VOTE YOUR VALUES

Full Disclosure: Bob Jonkman, the 2019 Green Party of Canada Candidate for  Brantford–Brant is my husband.  

I fully support Bob’s campaign (which is why my own projects are languishing until this election is over) because I believe we need Bob in Parliament.  

I can tell you Bob is perhaps the smartest most ethical man I’ve ever known.  If Bob is elected, I believe we will get electoral reform to Proportional Representation.  This is so important because it will make it possible for Canada to begin to actually solve our problems, rather than dance political rings around them as the big parties do.  We need to restore and improve our universal healthcare (and reverse the privatization!).  We need a government that understands the importance of transparent governance and personal privacy.  A government that understands modern technology.  And a government that will restore and honour our Charter Rights.  We all need votes that count.   And most important: we need to get to work on Climate Change now.  Canada can be a climate leader but to be that we need to elect the right politicians. 

This is why I think it’s so important to elect Bob.  

So I will be posting more about Bob through the remaining days of the election.

If you want to see real change in Ottawa, if you want fair voting and real Climate Action that doesn’t include additional fossil fuel pipelines and Fracking, if you want human equity and actual reconciliation, if you live in Brantford–Brant, please consider casting your vote for Bob.  If you’re a Canadian who doesn’t live in Brantford–Brant you can still support Bob with a donation here:  
https://bobjonkman.ca/donate/

And don’t forget to check out the candidates in your riding and
vote for what you want!

The 2019 Canadian Election is on!  Check out Bob Jonkman’s…





















The 2019 Canadian Election is on!  

Check out Bob Jonkman’s appearance on the 
Rogers Local Campaign Brantford–Brant Debate!

This is a very different election than we are accustomed to.  Although 2019 is not going to be our first federal election under Proportional Representation as indicated by the #ERRE committee, because it is shaping up to be a minority government, if we elect enough Green MPs, it could actually be the last election under First Past The Post if Canadians vote for what we want.     

As your Green Party MP, Bob will represent Brantford–Brant in Parliament. He won’t just deliver his party’s edicts to the riding.  

One Green MP can make a real difference; with enough Green MPs sitting in Parliament, Canada will take real climate action.

Vote Your Values!

Come join the Brant Greens for drinks and a barbeque!Saturday…



Come join the Brant Greens for drinks and a barbeque!

Saturday October 12th
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Steel Wheel Brewery
105 Powerline Road, Brantford, Ontario Canada

BBQ with local organic beef burgs and beyond meat burgs, potato salad, and some munchies. And of course, the full Steel Wheel selection of local craft brew to go with it! Enjoyable evening of local food, good fun, and generous fundraising.

This is also a fundraiser for the Bob Jonkman federal election campaign!

RSVP https://vote.greenparty.ca/rsvp/eve_6d867eb82

Bob Jonkman at the Paris Fair 2019I’m caught up in…



Bob Jonkman at the Paris Fair 2019

I’m caught up in politics… this is my husband, Bob Jonkman, the Green Party candidate for Brantford-Brant, Ontario, in the upcoming 2019 federal election. 

I’m of the opinion that we really need to leave the world a better place than we found it, for our kids, and their kids, and their kids… but if we keep on as we’ve been, we’ll bequeath them a Mad Max dystopia.  Fortunately, the Green Party has a plan:

MISSION POSSIBLE
https://www.greenparty.ca/en/mission-possible