Surrey Talk Radio is an independent media organization that will engage with the local community to provide news, public affairs, and address issues of concern in the City of Surrey. It is our intention to build and strengthen community throughout the city, actively engaging our listeners through high quality community webradio programming that is informative, entertaining, helpful, and service oriented. Surrey Talk Radio is a grass-roots, non-funded, volunteer organization and we hope to exist on donations given by listeners who believe in our cause, which is explained as follows:

Surrey Talk Radio offers live, interactive, internet webcast shows to a target audience of 55 years and older residents of the City of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Its objective is to be the local webradio station that serves the needs of these residents. The station declares itself to be generally apolitical where Federal, Provincial and Municipal politics are concerned, but reserves the right to be critical of any of these governments in our shows and editorial opinions if we deem it to be in the best interests of our listeners and the station.

It is Surrey Talk Radio’s intention to become the VOICE OF SURREY. We will be the home of Truth-Talk and critical thinking on any subject that might be of concern to listeners. We aim to offer opportunities for people to share their experiences, their concerns, and their perspectives with their neighbours. Programming is designed to address the needs of persons not fully served by other media, and is intended to support healthy, informed and vibrant discussions. We will evaluate together with our audience whatever issue is important to them in today’s trying and often non-caring, living environment. It is also our intention to build and strengthen our community of Surrey.

Surrey Talk Radio is the idea and sole property of Ivan Scott (me) and the editorial direction and content of the station devolves to me. I will host each broadcast day’s two-hour show and I will cover issues such as politics, economy, safety, infrastructure, development, homelessness, drug problems, health care, etc., generally as they affect the City of Surrey. Investigation will be in a hard-ball type style, putting studio guests in the studio hot-seat with listener phone-in capability for questions to these guests.

I am a Canadian citizen, who immigrated from South Africa with my wife Merle and two children in 1994 and I have been a resident of Surrey for the last 19 years. I am a Civil Engineer by profession and have successfully constructed dams, bridges, and one massive thermal power station, as well as many other large infrastructural projects. Before taking retirement at the end of 2018, I was Vice President (Operations) of Lafarge Construction Materials in British Columbia.

In 2019, I started the KEEP THE RCMP IN SURREY CAMPAIGN (KTRIS) and together with Merle and thousands of KTRIS supporters and volunteers fought mayor McCallum for the next four years, finally achieving our goal by helping the Surrey Connect team win the council in the 2022 October municipal election. I got to appreciate the influencing power of media (both regular and social) during the KTRIS campaign, and Surrey Talk Radio is my next activist community project.