The Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre is a

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group in

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Regent Park Regent Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario built in the late 1940s as a public housing project managed by Toronto Community Housing. It sits on what used to be a significant part of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood and i ...

neighbourhood.Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre thrives
''Sway'', September 30, 2011. Launched in 1990 in conjunction with Toronto's

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and the

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, the group offers

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training programs for youth in the neighbourhood, including programs in television and radio production, photography, magazine publishing, new media and social marketing. The group's radio stream originally produced a weekly radio series, ''Catch da Flava'', which was podcasted and aired on Toronto radio station

CKLN-FM CKLN-FM was a community radio station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1983 to 2011, CKLN Radio Inc. was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a campus-community FM radio station affiliated with Ry ...

. After CKLN's broadcasting license was revoked by the

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in 2011, the station moved its operations to Regent Park Focus,"CKLN will move to online broadcasting"
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'', August 4, 2011. briefly becoming an

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service before ceasing operations permanently in December.CKLN Radio Inc is dissolving but your favourite shows and hosts are moving to Radio Regent"
, ckln.fm website, December 20, 2011 Regent Park Focus subsequently launched a successor service, Radio Regent, in January 2012.

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Radio Regent
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