Canadian Voices Season 4
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Canadian Voices, now in its fourth season, offers lectures by thought-provoking and action-inspiring Canadians in a series of weekly one hour programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. Season 4 features recent lectures by Canadian authors, artists, academics, and activists including Gabor Mate, Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey Simpson, Mary Gordon and Hamida Ghafour, among others. More information, and an archive of the first three seasons at www.canadianvoices.org.
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Season 4 #15: Heather-jane Robertson: What the Right Does Right and Murray Dobbin: Framing the Medicare Issue | The first half of this edition of Canadian Voices features author, educator and activist Heather-jane Robertson, who speaks on "What the Right has done right, and what the Left can learn ". The second half features Murray Dobbin, Vancouver-based journalist and activist , who speaks on "Framing the Medicare issue: Fighting to Win" . These lectures were recorded at the Parkland Institute's annual fall conference, in Edmonton, Alberta , in November, 2008. They are set upon the backdrop of one of the conference's themes, strategic frame analysis, a social science research method used to analyze how people understand situations and activities. The title of this year's conference was “ The Moral of The Story: Art, Culture, Media and Politics.” More information on the Institute at ualberta.ca/parkland. | 5/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #14: Maher Arar: Fragile Rights | This edition of Canadian Voices features Maher Arar, a wireless technology consultant. He was born in Syria and came to Canada with his family at the age of 17. He became a Canadian citizen in 1991. In 2002, while in transit in New York’s JFK airport when returning home from a vacation, Arar was detained by US officials and interrogated about alleged links to al-Qaeda. Twelve days later, he was chained, shackled and flown to Syria, where he was held in a tiny cell for ten months and ten days before he was moved to a better cell in a different prison. In Syria, he was beaten, tortured and forced to make a false confession. In this talk, Mr. Arar speaks about the fragility of our rights, the dangers of allowing deeper integration with the US to trump human rights, and the need for meaningful oversight of CSIS and the RCMP if we are to restore Canada's tarnished reputation for promoting human rights both at home and around the globe. | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #13 : Clive Doucet: Urban Meltdown-- How Cities Malfunction | <!-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } H1 { margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; page-break-after: auto } H1.western { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif } H1.cjk { font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode" } H1.ctl { font-family: "Tahoma" } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This edition of Canadian Voices features urban activist, author and Ottawa City Councillor Clive Doucet, speaking on themes from his 2007 book: Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change, and Politics as Usual, published by New Society Publishers. <!-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } H1 { margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; page-break-after: auto } H1.western { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif } H1.cjk { font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode" } H1.ctl { font-family: "Tahoma" } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> The Writers' trust of Canada, which nominated Doucet's book for its 2008 prize for political writing, describes Urban meltdown as An insider’s perspective into how explosive urban growth is accelerating global warming, and why political action seems paralyzed.The talk was recorded in January, 2008, in Vancouver, BC, and originally aired on the Brownbagger, on CFRO, Vancouver Co-op Radio. | 4/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #12: Chris Turner: The Geography of Hope | <!-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } H1 { margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; page-break-after: auto } H1.western { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif } H1.cjk { font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode" } H1.ctl { font-family: "Tahoma" } --> This edition of Canadian Voices features Chris Turner, journalist and author of the national bestseller 'The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need'. He speaks on themes from this 2007 book. Concerned about the unpromising future his newborn daughter might face, the Calgary-based journalist and author spent a year touring the world looking for the ecological innovators who are trying to make our world a more livable place While investigating issues like energy consumption, alternative housing, and the commitment involved in living a greener lifestyle, he takes the reader on a journey that stretches from Colorado to India. He spoke at an event sponsored by Selkirk College's Mir Centre for Peace in Nelson, BC, in February, 2009. | 4/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #10: Michael Ableman: Feeding the Future | This edition of Canadian Voices features farmer, photographer and author Michael Ableman, speaking on themes, and telling stories, from his most recent book, Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It. Michael Ableman currently farms at the Foxglove Farm, a 120 acre farm on Saltspring island, British Columbia, where he is developing the Centre for Art, Ecology and Agriculture. His experience as a practitioner of sustainable agriculture and a proponent of regional food systems for almost 30 years informs his talk and the stories about farmers he recounts. | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #8: Beverley Jacobs: Stolen Sisters | This edition of Canadian Voices features Beverley Jacobs,president of the Native Women's Association of Canada, presenting the 2004 Amnesty International report Stolen Sisters, on Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada. In March 2004, the Native Women’s Association of Canada and the ecumenical social justice network KAIROS launched the Sisters in Spirit campaign to draw attention to the high levels of violence faced by Indigenous women in Canada, especially the largely unacknowledged pattern of racialized sexualized violence faced by Indigenous women in Canadian cities. Later that year, Amnesty International issued the report Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to discrimination and violence against Indigenous Women in Canada. The report had three central themes: · The role of racism and discrimination in fuelling acts of extreme brutality targeted against Indigenous women. · How historic and continuing marginalization and impoverishment of Indigenous women has pushed many Indigenous women into unsafe environments · The failure of the Canadian government and society to respond adequately to the frequency and seriousness of this violence, including by ensuring consistent, thorough investigation into reports of missing Indigenous women. Beverley Jacobs was the lead researcher and consultant to Amnesty Inrternational on this report, and delivered the findings in this talk at St Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in October, 2004. The talk was recorded by Pierrre Loiselle of Praxis Media. | 3/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #7: Andrew Cohen: The Unfinished Canadian | This edition of Canadian Voices features Andrew Cohen, author and journalist, speaking on themes from his 2007 book, The Unfinished Canadian: the People We Are. The talk was originally broadcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas programme in November, 2007. Taking from his book, the Carleton University journalism professor asks why Canada is so reluctant to understand and commemorate her accomplishments, and so content to forget her past. He ponders questions of national character, and delves into our past and present in search of our defining national characteristics. He argues that we are the product of many different forces, including our political culture of moderation and ambiguity, and that we have a lack of memory with regards to our history. Cohen breaks down Canada’s identity into different facets – The Unconscious Canadian who knows nothing of history; the American Canadian, who holds onto great myths of national differences; the Casual Canadian, who is flippant about the responsibilities of citizenship; and the Capital Canadian, who is indifferent about Canada’s lacklustre capital city. In this lecture Cohen argues that our mythology, our jealousy, our complacency, our apathy, our amnesia, and our moderation are all part of the unbearable lightness of being Canadian. | 2/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #6: Margaret Visser: The Gift of Thanks | This edition of Canadian Voices features cultural historian Margaret Visser, speaking on themes from her 2008 book, "The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence, and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual". The talk was originally broadcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas programme in December, 2008. In the Gift of Thanks, Margaret Visser takes her cues from linguistics, the classics, and anthropology, to investigate the way gratitude manifests itself across cultures, from tipping waiters in restaurants, to standing in silence on Remembrance Day. Her inquiry into all aspects of gratefulness ranges from the unusual determination with which parents teach their children to thank, to the difference between speaking the words and feeling them, to the way different cultures handle the complex matter of giving, receiving, and returning favours and presents. In this talk, gratitude is revealed as a key to understanding many aspects of everyday behaviour. | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #5: Norman Doidge: The Brain That Changes Itself | This edition of Canadian Voices features Dr. Norman Doidge, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author, delivering the keynote address at a University of Toronto interdisciplinary symposium on "Altered States of Mind" in 2008. The talk focuses on themes from his recent book, The Brain that Changes Itself. The New York Times reviewed Dr. Doidge's best-selling book by saying that, “The power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff...with implications for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history.” This lecture was first broadcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas programme,on September 6, 2008. For more information on that series, visit tvo.org/bigideas. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #4: Megan Boler: Media Tactics and Interventions, Digital Dissent and Satire | This edition of Canadian Voices features Megan Boler, author , activist, and Professor of theory and policy studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto. This talk, in which Ms. Boler ponders questions surrounding evolving media's impact on culture, was the keynote address at the Parkland Institute's 2008 Fall Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, in November, 2008. | 2/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #3: Jeffrey Simpson: Hot Air: Fixing Canada's Climate Change Catastrophe | This edition of Canadian Voices features Jeffrey Simpson, Ottawa-based journalist and author, and the Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist. He speaks on themes from his recent book, Hot Air, co-authored by Nic Rivers and Mark Jaccard, who was featured in the second season of this programme. The title of his talk is “ Hot Air: Fixing Canada's Climate Change Catastrophe”. | 1/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #2: Hamida Ghafour: The Sleeping Buddha and Marina Nemat: Prisoner of Tehran | This edition of Canadian Voices features 2 speakers. The first is Toronto author and journalist Hamida Ghafour, who discusses themes from her book, The Sleeping Buddha. When Hamida Ghafour returned to her family homeland of Afghanistan in 2003 to report for the London Daily Telegraph, she found a place utterly changed from the world that her parents raised her to believe in. She witnessed the reconstruction efforts and the day to day struggles of the Afghani people, while coming to terms with her own identity and family history. The talk offers a uniquely Canadian perspective on the West’s efforts to re-shape Afghanistan. The second talk is by author Marina Nemat, whose book, Prisoner of Tehran,chronicles her arrest under false accusations, and subsequent torture at the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran. These recordings were originally broadcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas programme in June, 2008, more information on this programme at www.tvo.org/bigideas. | 1/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 4 #1: Gabor Mate: Addictions and the Biology of Loss: What Happens When Attachments Are Impaired? | This edition of Canadian Voices, the first programme in our fourth season, features Vancouver author and physician Gabor Mate. He speaks on the roots of addiction, from his perspective as a staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and resource centre for the people of Vancouver, BC's Downtown Eastside. Many of his patients suffer from mental illness, drug addiction and HIV, or all three. More information at www.canadianvoices.org | 1/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #15: Darin Barney: One Nation Under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic | This edition of Canadian Voices, the final programme of Season 3, features Darin Barney, professor of Communication Studies at McGill University where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Communication and Media Studies.. Mr. Barney delivered the 2007 Hart House Lecture at the University of Toronto. His talk is entitled One Nation Under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic The talk was first broadcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas, in May, 2007. More information at tvo.org/bigideas. | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3: #14: Martin Van Den Borre: Cooperation and Survival: The Fair Trade Revolution | This edition of Canadian Voices features Martin Van Den Borre, Co-Director of Ottawa-'s La Siembra Worker Co-op. He speaks on “ Cooperation and Survival: The Fair Trade Revolution?, at an event co-presented by Canadian Voices and the Upper Columbia Co-op Council, in Nelson, BC, in April, 2008. La Siembra Worker Co-op produces the award winning cocoa camino line of organic fair trade cocoa , chocolate, and sugar products, and has been a pioneer in North American Fair Trade Certification. The Co-op's mission is to offer goods that improve the livelihoods of family farmers and the well-being of communities at home and abroad. Founded in 1999, La Siembra has chosen to identify with its producer partners by adopting the same democratic, participatory and transparent model that they follow in their own co-operatives in the South. Mr. Van den Borre discusses how cooperatives in both the North and the South are supporting a shift in international trade practices, toward fair trade, and away from the conventional free trade system, which is characterized by poor working conditions including low pay, overwork, pesticide exposure, and child labour; and by trade regulations that are biased against small southern farmers. | 5/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3: #13: Minelle Mahtani: How Race is Performed Among Mixed Race Women; Ariel Garten: The Neuroscience of Conflict | This edition of Canadian Voices features 2 talks from Salon Voltaire ( www.salon-voltaire.com), an intellectual entertainment series held at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel. The first half of the programme features Minelle Mahtani,an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. In her lecture, "Tricking the Border Guards: How Race is Performed Among Mixed Race Women",The second half of the programme features Ariel Garten, psychotherapist, artist and author,who discusses The neuroscience of conflict; understanding dissent in the brain. They spoke on May 16, 2007, and were first broadcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas ( www.tvo.org/bigideas) in November, 2007. | 4/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3: #12: Michael Geist: Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble with Copyright | This edition of Canadian Voices features Michael Geist, a University of Ottawa Law School professor , a champion of copyright reform, and an internationally renowned expert on law and the internet . Dr. Geist delivered the 2006 Hart House Lecture at the University of Toronto. His talk is entitled Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble with Copyright. A recording of this talk was made available by TV Ontario's Big Ideas programme, on which it was first broadcast on May 27, 2006.More information tvo.org/bigideas. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeason 3 #11: Carl Honore : In Praise of Slowness; Mark Kingwell: Boredom, Philiosophy, and the Meaning of Life | This edition of Canadian Voices features 2 talks from Canadians who incorporate the concept of our growing cult speed into their work and thoughts. The first half of the programme features author Carl Honore, who speaks in Praise of Slowness: Changing the Cult of Speed, which is the title of his most recent book. He spoke as part of ,Cambridge Forum, a weekly public radio show recorded live in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May, 2005. The talk was made available through the WGBH Forum Network in Boston, which features live and archived webcasts of free public lectures in partnership with Boston's leading cultural and educational organizations. They are online at www.wbgh.org/forum. The second half of the programme features author and philospher Mark Kingwell. speaking on Boredom, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Life, at an event produced by the Necessary Voices Society in Vancouver, in November, 2003, more information on this society at www.necessaryvoices.org. | 4/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeason 3 #10: Maude Barlow:The Inconvenient Truth about the Commodification of Water | This edition of Canadian Voices features Maude Barlow, author, activist and the national chairperson of The Council of Canadians, a progressive citizens’ advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. Maude Barlow was featured in the first season of Canadian Voices, discussing Canada-U.S. Integration. In this edition, She speaks on “The Inconvenient Truth About the Commodification of Water?, in a talk presented by Selkirk College in Castlegar, BC. | 3/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #9: Chantal Hebert:Canada in the Post Unity Era: How Quebec is ( once again ) Redesigning the Canadian Political Lands | This edition of Canadian Voices features Chantale Hebert, Toronto Star national affairs columnist , and one of Canada's most perceptive commentators on Canadian politics. She speaks on Canada in the Post Unity Era: How Quebec is ( once again ) Redesigning the Canadian Political Landscape , in her delivery of the 2007 Dalton Camp lecture at St Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Hébert penned her first book, French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec , as both a post-mortem of the Canadian federation that died on January 23, 2006, the night of the last federal election, as well as an examination of our changing political future, one that involves living with Quebec rather than just wooing it. On that election night, Chantal Hebert explains that she stood in a Calgary convention hall with 2,000 cheering Alberta Conservatives, watching as their party captured 10 seats in her native Quebec. Before the confetti had stopped falling, she realized that she could be witnessing the start of a major political realignment. Hébert is one of a new breed of Canadian journalists. A francophone, she works in English as a national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star and as a commentator on CBC Television. With one foot in each of the two solitudes, she has developed a unique ability to explain the intricacies of Quebec's political arena for an English-speaking audience. She spoke in November, 2007 | 3/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSeason 3 #8: Stephen Lewis: Human Rights, Social Justice and Cultures of Peace | This edition of Canadian Voices features Stephen Lewis, human rights activist, author, and former diplomat and politician speaking on Human Rights, Social Justice, and Cultures of Peace, in celebration of the grand opening of the Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College in Castelgar, BC, in September, 2007 | 3/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #7: Linda McQuaig: Holding The Bully's Coat | This edition of Canadian Voices features Linda McQuaig, author and political columnist, speaking on themes from her recent book, Holding The Bully's Coat published by Doubleday Canada. Linda McQuaig was featured in the first season of this programme in 2006, and her new book and subsequent speaking tour convinced us at Canadian Voices that her new words deserve a further listening. She spoke in Vancouver, BC in May, 2007. | 2/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #6: Tzeporah Berman: Who Will Repair It? | This edition of Canadian Voices features Tzeporah Berman, a noted environmentalist at the forefront of forest protection. She spoke at an event sponsored by the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, in celebration of the Jewish Holiday Tu B'Shevat, the "new year for the trees". Ms. Berman relates how her beliefs have shaped her environmental activism, and encourages anyone interested in exploring the growing environmental movement within her/his faith community to find inspiration in her words. She spoke at the Jewish Community Centre in Vancouver, BC on January 27, 2008. | 2/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #5: Paul Kennedy: Why Ideas Matter | This edition of Canadian Voices features Paul Kennedy, host and producer of the popular CBC Radio program Ideas, speaking on Why Ideas Matter, as part of the UBC Okanagan Distinguished Speaker Series, in October, 2007, in Kelowna, BC. From the visual ideas put forward by Leonardo Da Vinci, musical thoughts created by Beethoven, and the pornography of Machiavelli, Paul Kennedy discusses the importance of ideas in the fields of Philosophy, Art and Politics, through the lens of his work as documentarist and radio producer. | 2/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #4: Paul Watson: Saving Our Oceans | This edition of Canadian Voices features Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Society and a controversial figure in the environmental movement. Paul Watson has been denounced by many as a misanthrope and an ecoterrorist. He believes that government is a body that overseas the mass destruction of human and non-human life, that they sell the licences to over-fish, to clear-cut, to hunt, to drain swamps and to destroy wetlands. He finds fault in those aiming for “sustainable? living, and has been arrested in Canada, Norway and Holland for his efforts to halt fishing and hunting of maritime animals. Paul Watson, however, has never been convicted. He defends his actions as falling within International Law, and Sea Shepherd’s right to enforce maritime regulations against illegal whalers and sealers. He spoke on September 15, 2005 in Edmonton , Alberta. | 1/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #3: David Divine: Racial Diversity--North America's Strength or Weakness? | This edition of Canadian Voices features David Divine, The James R. Johnson Chair in Black Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He Speaks on " Racial Diversity: North America's Strength or Weakness?". The talk was recorded on February 6, 2007, at a public lecture in Halifax. | 1/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #2: Michael Byers: Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For? | This edition of Canadian Voices features Michael Byers, author, professor and commentator, speaking on themes from his recent book “Intent for a Nation?, in July 2007, in Vancouver, at a lecture produced by the Necessary Voices Society. Intent for a Nation, the title of which is followed by: “ A relentlessly optimistic manifesto for Canada’s role in the world?, has been called a compelling call to arms to reinvigorate our vision of Canada’s place in the world, from one of the best of our new generation of public intellectuals. The book plays against Lament for A Nation, the influential 1965 work of political philosophy by George Grant, which paints Canada as a country already lost to the forces of Americanization. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 3 #1: Naomi Klein: Becoming Shock Resistant: Confronting the Rise of Disaster Capitalism | This first episode of Season 3 of Canadian Voices features Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, author, and syndicated columnist, speaking on the research behind her recent book, The Shock Doctrine:the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in British Columbia's 10th Anniversary Fundraiser, in February, 2007 in Vancouver. | 1/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #16: Guy Dauncey: Sustainable Energy Solutions at the End of The Age of Oil | This edition of Canadian Voices features Guy Dauncey. a Victoria, BC-based author, environmental consultant, and President of the BC Sustainable Energy Association, speaking on Sustainable Energy Solutions at the End of The Age of Oil. Called the province’s “optimistic environmentalist?, his talk was part of a symposium called Climate Change: Exploring Regional Solutions presented by the West Kootenay EcoSociety, held in Nelson , BC on April 23, 2007. | 5/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #15: Adrienne Clarkson: A Society of Difference | This edition of Canadian Voices features Adrienne Clarkson, a leading figure in Canada's cultural life. Madame Clarkson has had a distinguished career in broadcasting, journalism, the arts and public service, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992. Upon her appointment as Governor General in 1999, she became Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada. Adrienne Clarkson delivered the 2007 LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture in Vancouver in March, 2007, and spoke on " A Society of Difference". The lecture was recorded by CBC's Ideas. | 5/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #14: Steven Staples: Missile Defence: Round One | This edition of Canadian Voices features Steven Staples, veteran political organizer, author, and President of the Rideau Institute, a public policy research and advocacy group based in Ottawa. He speaks on themes from his recent book, Missile Defense: Round One. He spoke at the Vancouver Public Library as part of the Necessary Voices Lecture Series, on November 10. 2006. The talk was recorded by Thomas Hicks of the Necessary Voices Society. | 5/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #13: Mark Jaccard: Fossil Fuels: Friend or Foe? | This edition of Canadian Voices features Mark Jaccard, a professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, and an economist focusing on sustainable energy systems. He spoke as part of the 2007 Vancouver Institute Lecture Series in Februray, 2007. | 4/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #12: Melanie Mark: Survivor, Leader, Activist: A Journey of a Nisga'a Warrior Princess | This edition features Melanie Mark, Vancouver aboriginal youth activist, and winner of the 2006 YWCA Young Women of Distinction award, speaking on her Journey as a Nisga�¢����a Warrior Princess. Melanie Mark is from the Nisga'a Nation. Growing up in a disadvantaged environment, Melanie has made it her work to be an advocate for at-risk Native youth. She is the former president of the Urban Native Youth Association, and Chair of the organizations $47 million capital campaign for the development of a Native Youth Centre designed to serve as a cornerstone for the Native community on the east side of Vancouver. The Urban Native Youth Association has been working with all three levels of government to raise the funds needed to make this centre a reality. As of the date of this talk, the Association had raised almost $6 million, including securing the land needed to build this 65,000 sq ft Centre. | 4/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #11: Zool Suleman/ Jason Gratl: Racial Profiling | This edition of Canadian Voices features Zool Suleman, Immigration Lawyer and anti racial-profiling activist, and Jason Gratl, Chair of the BC Civil Liberites Association, speaking on the issue of Racial profiling in Canada. In the Post 9-11 world, racial profiling has come to the forefront as a tool to aid government in creating a more secure society. In the Canadian context, where government denies that racial profiling occurs and where affected communities insist that racial profiling occurs, what are the relevant issues for consideration? Zool Suleman and Jason Gratl spoke at a Canadian Voices produced Lecture at the Vancouver Public Library on March 7, 2007. | 4/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #10: Stephen Legault: The Tao of Activism and Leadership | This edition of Canadian Voices features Stephen Legault, author and activist, speaking on the Tao of Activism and Leadership; themes from his recent book, Carry Tiger to Mountain. Activists are motivated to effect change for a number of reasons, not the least of which is often anger, even rage. Anger at injustice, destruction, lies, irresponsibility, greed, short sightedness, the list could go on and on. Stephen Legault maintains that the reason we're angry at something is because we love something else, and In Carry Tiger to Mountain, he writes about how activists need to replace their vocabulary of conflict – that of a struggle, a fight, or a clash, -- with one of compassion.He believes that activists can learn from the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, to prevent the mistakes that he perceives activists keep making. Specifically, he advises his readers to trade their anger and fear for love and compassion, their egos for selflessness, and their fixation on complexity for simplicity.He spoke as part of the Necessary Voices Lecture series in Vancouver, BC on June 7, 2006. | 3/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #9: Sheila Watt-Cloutier: The Arctic Environment, Climate Change, and Human Rights | Sheila Watt -Cloutier is a climate change activist, outgoing Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, and nominee for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. She spoke on The Right To Be Cold: The Arctic Environment, Climate Change, and Human Rights, in March, 2006, in a lecture sponsored by the Wilderness Institute at the University of Montana, in Missoula, Montana. Sheila Watt Cloutier has made it her life's work to preserve the environment and advocate for the people of the circumpolar region. Born in the tiny community of Kuujjuaq in Northern Quebec, Ms. Watt-Cloutier was raised traditionally on the land for ten years, before attending school in Churchill, Manitoba. She currently makes her home in Iqaluit, in Nunavut. In her capacity as President of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, from 1995-2002, and her election as International Chair in 2002, she was successful in persuading states to sign a global agreement to ban the generation and use of persistent organic pollutants, such as DDT and the PCBs that contaminate the Arctic food chain. | 3/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #8: John Ralston Saul: Democracy, Citizenship and Sovereignty | John Ralston Saul, author, essayist and philosopher, spoke at the Parkland Institute’s Tenth Annual Conference, on November 17, 2006 in Edmonton, Alberta. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he is also Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France. His 14 honorary degrees range from McGill and the University of Ottawa, to Herzen State Pedagogical University in St Petersburg, Russia. He speaks on Democracy, Citizenship and Sovereignty. | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #7: Thomas Homer-Dixon: The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization | Thomas Homer-Dixon, Political Scientist, Author and Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, speaks about themes from his recent book: The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilisation. | 3/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #6: Mary-Wynne Ashford: Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War. | Mary-Wynne Ashford, Physician, Academic, and Activist in the Prevention of Violence and War, speaks about her recent book, Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War. The book unveils some startling facts that come from War and Peace in the 21st Century, a research report of the Human Security Centre at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Ashford discusses these facts as context for her hopeful, and practical solution-driven analysis. The book documents successful non-violent interventions that have prevented or resolved armed conflict, and offers solutions involving everything from empowering women, boycotting nuclear weapons manufacturers, and getting out of the arms trade, to addressing the needs of the poor and countering hate propaganda. Dr. Ashford spoke at the Vancouver Public Library in October, 2006 | 2/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #5: Wade Davis: Death and Life in the Ethnosphere | Wade Davis, anthropologist, botanical explorer, and author recounts his explorations in ethnobotany as described in his most recent book, Light at the Edge of the World. The talk was presented as part of the University of Alberta's Revolutionary Speakers' Series, and was recorded in Februray, 2006 in Edmonton, Alberta. | 2/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #4: Joy Kogawa: Musings on a Writer's Life | Joy Kogawa, poet and novelist, is the author of the award-winning novel Obasan, which chronicles her Japanese-Canadian family's forced relocation from the West Coast during World War Two. She spoke at the Kootenay Book Weekend in Nelson, BC in September, 2006. | 2/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #3: Buzz Hargrove: The State of the Union Movement in Canada | Basil "Buzz" Hargrove, National President of the Canadian Auto Workers Union, spoke on the State of the Union Movement in Canada for the Queen's School of Policy Studies' Industrial Relations Centre Don Wood Lecture in March, 2006. | 2/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 #2: Severn Cullis-Suzuki: How Do We Want to Change the World? | Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Vancouver-based environmental and social justice youth activist, spoke as part of the Revolutionary Speakers' Series at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in October, 2006, on the topic "How Do We Want to Change the World?". | 1/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeason 2 #1: Bruce Mau: The Future of Environmental Design | Bruce Mau, Toronto-based designer, author and curator, speaks on the Future of Environmental Design. | 1/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMatthew Elrod: Canada's Drug Policy: Impacts on Civil Liberties | Canadian Voices, Human Rights is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by Canadian speakers on Human Rights issues, and was funded by t he Human Rights Program at Heritage Canada. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This episode features Matt Elrod, a Victoria, BC-based drug policy activist. Matt provides a brief history of what he explains as the racist origins of drug prohibition, and discusses the modern day impact of the "War on Drugs" on the civil liberties of both drug users and abstainers alike. | 6/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJeffrey Sommers: Housing, Health and Income Security: Human Rights in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | Canadian Voices, Human Rights is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by Canadian speakers on Human Rights issues, and was funded by t he Human Rights Program at Heritage Canada. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This episode features urban geographer and community researcher Jeffrey Sommers, discussing historical changes to Vancouver's downtown eastside, and their effects on the lives of the area's residents. | 6/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanShari Graydon: Children's Rights and Media Potential: We Can Do Better | Canadian Voices, Human Rights is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by Canadian speakers on Human Rights issues, and was funded by t he Human Rights Program at Heritage Canada. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This episode features Shari Graydon, Ottawa-based author and media literacy activist discussing how current commercial media practices trample the rights of children. | 5/23/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMurray Mollard: Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act and Domestic Human Rights Since 9/11 | Canadian Voices, Human Rights is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by Canadian speakers on Human Rights issues, and was funded by t he Human Rights Program at Heritage Canada. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This episode features Murray Mollard, Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberites Association, discussing issues surrounding Canada's Anti- Terrorism Act. | 5/15/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHeather Menzies: No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This episode features Toronto author Heather Menzies discussing themes from her recent book, No Time: Stress and The Crisis of Modern Life. | 5/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andre Carrell: Back To Basics | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This episode features Salmo, BC-based author and lecturer Andre Carrell, speaking on Democracy: Back to Basics. | 5/1/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMike Hudema: Creative Resistance | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This episode features Edmonton activist Mike Hudema, author of An Action a Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away, speaking about creative forms of resistance. | 4/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPercy Schmeiser: Genetic Contamination and its Effects on Family Farms | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and other programme downloads, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This edition of Canadian Voices features Percy Schmeiser, farmer and seed-saver from Bruno, Saskatchewan, speaking of his struggles against agrichemical corporation Monsanto, and issues of patent law and genetically modified organisms. | 4/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRomeo Dallaire: Child Soldiers in Africa | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and to downlaod the entire first season, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This edition of Canadian Voices features Retired Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire, Special Adviser to the Canadian International Development Agency and to the Minister of International Cooperation on War-Affected Children, speaking on Child Soldiers in Africa, and their role as an instrument of War. | 4/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMatt Hern: Deschooling, Democratic Education and Social Change | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This edition of Canadian Voices features Matt Hern, Vancouver educator,author,parent and community organizer, discussing education and social change. | 4/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMarlene Schiwy: Journal Writing and Simple Living | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This edition of Canadian Voices features Marlene Schiwy, Vancouver author and teacher, exploring the intricate relationship between simple living and Journal writing. | 3/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDavid Suzuki: The Future of Biotechnology | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org.This edition features David Suzuki, Vancouver-based geneticist, academic and broadcaster, speaking on the topic of the Future of Biotechnology. | 3/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taiaiake Alfred: Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. In this episode, Taiaiake Alfred, scholar and journalist, addresses issues raised in his most recent book, Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom. | 3/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jane Jacobs: An Evening With Jane Jacobs | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. In this edition, Jane Jacobs, world renowned urban theorist and author most recently of Dark Age Ahead, discusses themes form her new book and has a conversation with Vancouver housing and community activist Jim Green, on her views on municipal taxes and housing density, urban planning and zoning. | 3/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIrshad Manji: Confessions of a Muslim Dissident: Why I Fight for Women, Jews, Gays...and Allah. | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. In this edition, Toronto author, journalist and public intellectual Irshad Manji speaks on themes from her recent book, The Trouble With Islam: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith. | 2/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Linda McQuaig: It's The Crude, Dude: War Big Oil, and The Fight for The Planet | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. In this edition, Linda McQuaig, a Toronto author and Journalist, discusses themes from her recent book It’s the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil, and the fight for the Planet. | 2/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Victor Chan: The Dalai Lama and Mind Science | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. In this edition, Bowen Island, BC author and professor Victor Chan discusses the latest advances from a two-decades-long collaboration between the Dalai Lama and neuro-scientists. | 2/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMaude Barlow: Canada-U.S. Integration: Implications and Consequences | Canadian Voices is a series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Stephen Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and other programme downloads, visit www.canadianvoices.org. This edition of Canadian Voices features Maude Barlow, author most recently of Too Close for Comfort, Canada's Future within Fortress North America, and chairperson of the Council of Canadians, explores themes from her new book, and discusses the implications of deep integration with the United States. | 2/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanStephen Lewis: The AIDS Pandemic in Africa | Canadian Voices is a 20-part series of one hour radio programmes produced by Kootenay Coop Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. It features lectures by thought-provoking Canadians, including Jane Jacobs, Romeo Dallaire, Irshad Manji, and Victor Chan. For details and a podcast schedule, visit www.canadianvoices.org. In this edition, Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and former Canadian Ambassador to the UN, speaks about the AIDS pandemic in Africa. | 1/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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