The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)
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CBC Radio's The Current is a meeting place of perspectives with a fresh take on issues that affect Canadians today.
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25/05/12: 419: Nigerian e-mail scams | If you've never received an email from a Nigerian prince asking for a small loan -- then you probably don't have a computer. There are lots of people who wish they never had a computer after the Nigerian scammers got through with them. We talk to the author of a new book on this scam that turns out goes back decades. And find out why something so obviously too good to be true still sucks people in. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25/05/12: Climbing Mount Everest Safely | The first European ever to stand on the slopes of Everest would die there. And the mountain has killed hundreds of people since George Mallory. As a Canadian loses her life, we hash out what's being done to make Mount Everest more safe and whether it's time to curb climbers' enthusiasm. Some wonder if Everest's reputation isn't enough to discourage climbers, then perhaps the government of Nepal should. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25/05/12: What does it take to get fired at the RCMP? | What's it take to get fired at the RCMP? That's what some people are asking, after a new case of sexual harassment surfaced this week. A staff sergeant, propositioning female employees, drinking and having sex with them at work...his punishment? We talk to a Mountie with 20 years' experience who quit, after her own nightmare of sexual harassment. And says - time and again - the Mounties don't get their man. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24/05/12: Egypt Votes | They may live in the shadows of the oldest of civilizations but they are experiencing the newest of democracies and for Egyptians in day two of the first round of voting in Presidential election, there is no denying the thrill of electoral choice. Still ... it is tempered by the reality that 20 to 40 percent of the economy is controlled by the military, some of the new president's powers will be undefined and the choices aren't good enough for everyone. Today, we hear from Egyptians looking for promise at the polls. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24/05/12: Unworthy Creature: Aruna Papp | Hers is a story of growing up in what she calls an Honour Culture where girls are valued less than boys ... where they can be punished for making the wrong choices or be compliant enough to punish themselves. Aruna Papp says the Honour Culture she experienced in India followed her to Canada. We hear her story and her belief that many South Asian - Canadian women still face what she escaped. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24/05/12: Checking - In | Today on Checking - In, students out of the classroom and sex in the museum. We check in with our listeners thoughts on what's appropriate when it comes to some of the stories of the week. And we're back on the story of the anonymous ability to spread false information online. Last week, we had the story of the teenager wanting to anonymously sue her identity-protected Facebook tormentor. This week, journalist Stevie Cameron recounts the anonymous efforts to fabricate her story with a false Wiki profile. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Montreal reaction to the 100th day student protest (Montreal Special) | We started our special in Montreal to look at the evolution and direction of the Quebec student protest movement and we check in to Montreal's reactions, the morning after a massive student protest on Tuesday night to mark the 100th day of student protests. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The unintended consequences of the Quebec protests (Montreal Special) | The student protest is hardly a black and white issue-- unless you're the AnarchoPanda. Since the protest's early days, a philosophy professor dressed in a giant panda suit has walked with the marchers. He joins us to explain. And we have more on Quebec's restless students and what life has been like in Montreal over the past one-hundred days of protest. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The political fallout of the Quebec student protests (Montreal Special) | Quebec's Premier may not be popular in general -- but his specific handling of the student protests seemed to have the support of a majority of Quebeckers. Still, some wonder if he's overplayed his hand with new legislation so tough it looks destined for a charter challenge. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22/05/12: Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes | Kamal Al-Solaylee and his siblings were born into a world of rapid change, their mother a shepherdess, their father a businessman. His was a life of privilege in Yemen cut short of confronting his homosexuality even as an older brother embraced strict Islamic values and sisters donned the hijab. Today, we bring you the story of one's family's journey ... one that mirrors the changes and challenges of a wider Middle East. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22/05/12: Quebec Protest Resolution: Mediators | It has worked on everything from Northern Ireland to Oka ... brokered deals between intractable rivals to try to keep the peace. A hundred days into a standoff in Quebec, is it time for Mediation between the students and the government? And how might that happen? Today, we go to the experts on how one might confront and diffuse an escalating confrontation. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22/05/12: Digesting Diamonds | An alleged diamond thief with the intestinal fortitude to hang onto the evidence finally well .. released it in Windsor this past weekend. Of course, follow the news and you'll know that ingesting the evidence is nothing new - from gems ... to memory chips ... to drugs. But the practice of Digesting Diamonds is even more common at actual diamond mines with organized crime on one end and increasingly sophisticated mine security at the other. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21/05/12: Ottawa Sex Exhibit Controversy | Well, finally. Something too sexy for Ottawa. And wouldn't you know it. It's in a museum. And paid for by taxpayers. A truly Canadian controversy. The exhibit entitled "Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition", won't be telling all, after all, because it's been declared just too graphic for some to see. We tell you why and hear from both sides of the divide over what's appropriate to tell our kids, and when. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21/05/12: The Tale of Two Nazanins: Nazanin Afshin-Jam | The high-flying world of international pageants introduced a Canadian beauty queen to the world's movers and shakers. But when she heard about a 17-year-old girl on death row in an Iran, she drew on all her contacts and took on a state that executes minors, with an outcome that's changed both their lives. Meet Nazanin Afshin-Jam. And a different kind of beauty. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21/05/12: Changes to the fair-trade movement | The world of fair trade farming just got a little more fair for some. Maybe not for others. After all, how do you ensure the integrity of a movement set up to protect the little guy, if you suddenly turn around and invite the big guys in too? That's led to a split in the fair trade ranks that we explore. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18/05/12: Quebec Protest Vote | They've been talking through the night in Quebec's National Assembly debating legislation to crack down on student protestors, opposed to tuition hikes. We hear the latest on just what's unfolding for students and the economy and hear why some are giving Premier Jean Charest's move to shut the protests down a failing grade. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18/05/12: Cold Case: Confession to Murder | 19 years ago today, 15 year old Christine Harron went missing from Hanover, Ontario. Despite a confession, no one has been charged with her murder. Investigative documentary reporter David Ridgen has an exclusive report. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18/05/12: United Breaks Guitars: Dave Caroll | Seems everyone's who's taken a trip by plane has a story to tell about bad customer service. Well, when United Airlines broke Dave Carroll's guitar - and wouldn't compensate him - he wrote a song, threw it on YouTube and watched it take off. Millions of downloads later, Dave Carroll's got a new book out - and he joins us to talk about how one person can make corporations treat customers better. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17/05/12: Checking - In | We're Checking-In on reaction to the stories we've covered in the last week ... From a harrowing chronicle of life in a North Korean prison camp ... to the protocols of motherhood .. to the ongoing strains of the Great Animal Orchestra ..we're sorting through email, voicemail, tweets and yes .. Chirps. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17/05/12: Snakehead Fish Invasion | You'd be forgiven for thinking the Snakehead fish is a Hollywood Horror invention, it prefers swamps and stagnant water. It is a fish that can slither along on land for a bit and with its big mouth and sharp teeth well ... you might want to put the puppy in the house. Snakeheads worried federal officials enough to commission a report on how to keep them away which is why a possible - not even confirmed - sighting of a Snakehead in the wild has the authorities in Burnaby a bit concerned. Today, we're on the trail of an invasive species to avoid. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17/05/12: Facebook Defamation Case | Canada prides itself on a transparent justice system , its courts open to the public. Which is why a Halifax case awaiting a Supreme Court decision is such a lightening rod. At issue .. is the question of whether a teenage girl can sue anonymously for defamation over a case of cyber-bullying on Facebook, even while keeping the actual words written about her also secret. It is a case that has civil libertarians intervening worried about the message this would send. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/05/12: The Animal Orchestra: Bernie Krause | Some people can find harmony in the wonders of the wild. Bernie Krause's fascination with sounds in the wild has inspired him to record soundscapes where the wind, the trees and the beasts create their own soundscapes, literally find their own bandwidths for what becomes The Great Animal Orchestra ….a veritable symphony that has influenced what we call music. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/05/12: Employment Insurance: No such thing as a bad job | Is a bad job better than no job? How far would you travel, where would you move to get work? And since workers pay into Employment Insurance, should they have any qualms about accepting EI payments while they search for, wait for ... the right job? Who decides how many times you draw on EI? Who draws the line on what employment is acceptable and what job is not worth pursuing? As Ottawa prepares to tighten eligibility for Employment Insurance, we're debating work everyone needs and jobs many don't want. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/05/12: Simon Fraser University Men's Centre | There's controversy brewing at BC's Simon Fraser University. The Student Union has earmarked tens-of-thousands of dollars for a Men's centre to offer a safe space for men to discuss issues. The Women's Centre response was curt - suggesting the Men's Centre already exists everywhere else. But the man who runs one of the few Men's Centres in the country says it is time to acknowledge that men need shelter and space to confront everything from spousal abuse to mental health. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15/05/12: Difficulties North Korean refugees face in Canada | The tweets and emails kept popping up yesterday in reaction to the compelling story of Shin Dong Hyuk, his harrowing life and his escape from North Korea's Camp 14. One of the reasons his story is so jarring is that few North Koreans ever talk about the life from which they manage to escape, the fear of retribution keeps them silent even here in Canada. Today, we hear from a North Korean man who managed to come to Canada and the Canadian from South Korea who helps others like him adapt to a life away from the oppressive control of North Korea's unflinching leaders. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15/05/12: Public trading of Facebook shares | It Changed the Game by making the medium social but will all those Likes translate into investor Love for Facebook? As the Social Media juggernaut prepares for an Initial Public Offering Friday, there is speculation that a publicly-traded Facebook could be Bigger than Boeing and more bountiful than the big banks combined. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15/05/12: ExxonMobil and American Power: Steve Coll | The joke in the polished halls of Exxon Mobil is that its P.R. strategy is to say "no comment" in 50 languages. It is said to have a system of secrecy akin to an intelligence agency. After four years of journalistic digging, Steve Coll documents the inner workings of one of the most profitable and powerful corporations in the world, one that he says has affected wider foreign policy to the fight over climate change. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14/05/12: Health Care for Refugee Claimants | Canada is well-known for offering protection to refugee claimants. It's less anxious to offer the same people health care if they get sick. It's the reason doctors occupied federal offices last week. We hear from doctors and a former refugee claimant about a federal change that will restrict health care for refugee claimants and we hear from the Minister responsible. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14/05/12: Escape from Camp 14: Shin Dong-hyuk | If you check the news from the weekend, you'll notice that North Korea is back in the headlines as its neighbours China, Japan, South Korea fret over its nuclear program. Its prison camps rarely get attention when leaders of other nations confront the North Korean leadership. The story of the Prison Camps is a hard one to tell which makes the story we bring you today all the more extraordinary. The story of Shin Dong Hyuk. * Note this podcast includes Pt 1 and 2 of today's program * | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11/05/12: Scrap Metal Theft | One explanation why drug addicts are called junkies is that early in the last century, addicts often stole scrap metal to support their habit. But in the 21st century, scrap metal is far too valuable to leave to addicts. We find out what's driving the trade in stolen metal and what's being done to stop crooks from ripping the wiring from the walls. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11/05/12: Post-Poned Pardon | The federal government's new crime bill changes how long it takes to apply for a pardon. We hear from a Nova Scotia man who says he did the crime but he's done the time and now he wants a clean slate. And why Ottawa says...not so fast. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11/05/12: Motherhood and Feminism | Just in time for the celebration on Sunday -- the war on Moms. Author Elisabeth Badinter says motherhood chips away at women's hard-fought feminist gains. We find out what she thinks is wrong with 21st century moms, and why many other women find her message so uninspiring. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10/05/12: Mechanical mosquitos repelling vandalism | It is called The Mosquito and like the insect it emits a high-pitched discomforting whine, except the only people who can hear it are aged 13 to 25. And it's especially popular, because a Mosquito's special sound repels vandals ... adolescent vandals after hours. But the B.C. Civil Liberties Association sees an infringement of rights saying the device targets all children. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10/05/12: The Crisis of Zionism: Peter Beinart | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has significantly expanded his power on Tuesday with a larger and broader coalition, immune to the threats of any single faction. The move gives him more political freedom on contentious issues but it may not address a parallel politics playing out in the United States, what author Peter Beinart calls The Crisis of Zionism. He argues young, North American Jews are increasingly disturbed by Israel's hard line politics in the West Bank and unwilling to support it. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10/05/12: Checking - In | Last week's tale of the Swedish director who fought the fruit bosses in court in Big Boys Gone Bananas struck a chord with a Canadian whose documentary on Guatemalans expelled from the land for a Canadian mining project was discredited by a Canadian Ambassador. Like the first director, Steven Schnoor went to court. We hear from him when we Check-In on your reaction to the stories we've been covering. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/05/12: Brain-Wasting: Neurodegenerative Diseases | Today we're talking health and science of a different kind … In a lab in the U.K., researchers believe they've unlocked the mystery around the mechanism that kills neurons in the brain. It is research related to Mad Cow disease or Kreutzfeld Jacob disease but what they're learning could eventually affect how we treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzeimer's or Parkinson's. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/05/12: National Mental Health Strategy | A new report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada hopes to persuade Ottawa to take a lead role on mental health care. It says, each year, one out of five Canadians experience mental illness -- with a 50 billion dollar cost to the economy. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/05/12: Green Evangelists | The U.S. evangelical group behind a series called "Resisting the Green Dragon" considers the environmental also evangelical American Christians whose churches committed to environmental action just last month. We look into what that growing rift means in a country where the evangelical vote can shift policy. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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08/05/12: City of Vancouver rejects plan to expand pipeline | You know the controversy over proposals for the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Gateway Pipeline but Kinder Morgan's B.C. pipeline is already pulsing with Alberta crude where it is shipped from Vancouver's Burrard Inlet. Now, the company wants to twin that pipeline and ship out more oil and Vancouver's Green city council is seeing red. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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08/05/12: Inuit Leader: Mary SImon | Canada's north has been transformed in the past decades. As the leader of more than 50 thousand Inuit, Mary Simon knows how much it's transformed the people. She's stepping down from her position as president of the largest Inuit organization. She joins us with her thoughts on what's next for the people of the north. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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08/05/12: Warrior Nation: Noah Richler | Today on the anniversary of VE Day, what do we talk about when we talk about war? Noah Richler argues the Harper government and militarists have turned Canada into a Warrior Nation, one where battles are bolstered and a long history of peacekeeping is ignored, pushed away and even discredited. Was a change inevitable in a post 9-11 world or is something else at play? | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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07/05/12: Quebec Student Protests as Game Changer? | Quebec students forced the Charest government into a compromise on the incendiary issue of tuition hikes and one of their leaders is insisting their motivation went beyond tuition to wider economic policies across the province. Today, our project Game Changer asks if that 12-week effort has implications beyond the classroom. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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07/05/12: Whither the Eurozone | Europe today is reacting to two big elections, one in France ... ousting Nikola Sarkozy in favour of Socialist Francois Hollande and the the other in Greece, where the far Left and the Neo-Nazi right take on greater importance in a fractured vote. Today, we're asking what this means to the future of the Eurozone. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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07/05/12: Laws and Mores: The legal battles of Dr. Morgentaler | It was a fight in Quebec that polarized Canadians when Dr. Henry Morgentaler stood trial for performing an abortion. As MPs confront a private members bill on defining when a fetus becomes a person, we go back to the court fights of the 70s and the role Henry Morgentaler played in influencing the practices around abortion that continue to create debate today. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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04/05/12: Picasso's Women | Pablo Picasso was arguably the greatest painter of the twentieth century. He was also known to have said that there are two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats and he treated his many female muses as both. We talk about how that is reflected in his art which is on display at a special exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. And we talk to a woman who was one of many paramours. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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04/05/12: Chinese Politics and Bo Xilai Intrigue | China is undergoing an upheaval in leadership that some people suggest will be as influential as the suppression following Tiananmen Square. We hear from people inside and outside the country to try and understand what's behind the latest leadership struggle and its significance. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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04/05/12: Who Decides End of Life? - The Rasouli Case | Hassan Rasouli went in to a Toronto hospital for brain surgery a year and a half ago, contracted an infection and has been in a coma ever since. His doctors wanted to take him off life support. The Rasouli family said no, believing there were signs of possible recovery. But medical professionals feel they should have the final say in end-of-life decisions. Who's life is it? | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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03/05/12: Was there a secret Canadian banking bailout? | Back in 2008, we watched as U.S. neighbourhoods emptied the fallout of a sub-prime mortgage crisis that would bring Billions in Bailouts and see the death of more than 400 banks. Now, a new report from a respected Canadian think tank that says our Canadian banks got a secret bailout and suggests that Canadians were misled has economists, bankers and finance officials seeing red. They say it is simply ... not true. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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03/05/12: Execution Reporter: Michael Graczyk | Over the last 28 years, Associated Press reporter Micheal Graczyk has made the trek to tiny Huntsville Texas, home to co-eds, convicts and those on death row. And hundreds of times, Michael Graczyk has stood in the death chamber and watched, listened and taken notes at a state execution. Today, as the fate of a Canadian on death row in Montana continues to play out, we're asking Michael Graczyk about the insights he's gained in the one state that executes more people than any other. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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03/05/12: Checking - In | The last days of Osama bin Laden, the last days of Kingston prison and the first year of the Conservative majority government; coming up, our listeners check in on the timely stories of the week. And we hear from Naser Al Raas who has been out of a Bahrain prison since February but he's only been free to come home to Canada this week. He shares his harrowing story. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/05/12: Harper's Milestone Majority: One Year In | He's been Prime Minister for more than Six years but he's had a Majority government for precisely One year. And it is this past year where Stephen Harper has had the political freedom to implement change on everything from environmental controls to crime and punishment to economic development to civil service cuts. Today, we devote our first hour to that discussion, a retrospective on the first year of Conservative majority rule under Prime Minister Harper. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/05/12: Big Boys Gone Bananas: Fredrik Gertten | Fredrik Gertten comes from Sweden and makes documentaries that focus on the struggles of the vulnerable. But when he made a documentary about a workers lawsuit brought against fruit giant Dole, he ran into his own lawsuit and a public relations effort to discredit him. Fredrik Gertten filed his own lawsuit and kept his cameras rolling, we hear from the director of Big Boys Gone Bananas. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/05/12: Harper's Milestone Majority: One Year In (Pt 2) | We continue our conversation of the one year anniversary of the Harper majority government and look at how exactly the Harper majority has left its mark. We hear how crime, federalism and the environment have changed in Stephen Harper's Canada. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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01/05/12: Manhunt: The Ten Year search for Bin Laden | *** This is an extended podcast *** One of the very few journalists to have ever interviewed Bin Laden or seen the inside of the Pakistan compound where he lived and hid for six years, takes us through those final moments ... from Bin Laden's last words to the painstaking intelligence work that still left the Obama administration at odds over whether to even okay the mission. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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01/05/12: Philosopher King: Charles Taylor | Our project Game Changer focuses on Charles Taylor. We speak with the Canadian, the philosopher and public intellectual so admired that last month scholars from three continents gathered in Montreal to talk about his prolific and provoking contributions to society. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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01/05/12: Changes to the Fisheries Act | The budget bill before parliament has a great many tentacles affecting everything from oil and gas exploration to environmental assessment to fish. One outspoken critic, a former Progressive Conservative fisheries minister calls it a return to the Dark Ages. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30/04/12: Staking claims in Space | It looks like a dog bone and takes up as much space as New Brunswick. They call it Kleopatra with a K and it is one of an estimated 15-hundred near-Earth asteroids, ripe for mineral exploration and extraction. Kleopatra, which is all metal, would be worth untold wealth if you could get there and start mining. And in the wake of the Google gang's plan to back a company called Planetary Resources to mine asteroids for precious metals and water, there are lost of questions about what you can own and what you can bring-on-home-and-sell when it comes to space. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30/04/12: Sudan's border in a state of emergency | The newest country on this planet is South Sudan, created by referendum amid much excitement just last year. But all weekend, Sudan's military was bombing South Sudan sites on orders of a president indicted for war crimes. But the new country's rebels and its new military aren't blameless and the civilians are - once again - caught in the middle. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30/04/12: Alberta Highway 63 | It is the road that leads to the riches of the oilsands but it is increasingly paved in misery. Highway 63 links Fort McMurray to Edmonton and has a reputation as one of the most dangerous stretches of road in Alberta and arguably the country. That narrow ribbon of road and it is narrow has been the scene of many horrific head-on collisions, the latest this past Friday. And an increasingly angry and growing group of Albertans is asking why such accidents keep happening. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27/04/12: Young Quebec Student Strikes | Some have taken to calling it "The Quebec Spring". But these student protests are not pushing for democratic rights or against a ruthless dictator. They're about money ... specifically tuition fees. Quebec has the lowest fees in the country but a government plan to raise them has sparked student strikes at universities, colleges and CEGEP's across the province ... jeopardizing the entire school year and for some, whether or not they get into university. We hear about a court victory for one student allowing her to return to class and why fellow students consider her a scab with school books. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27/04/12: Mountain Pine Beetle's wreck environmental peace | Could explosions at B.C. Sawmills lead to an environmental firestorm? The forests of British Columbia have been ravaged in recent years by an infestation of Pine Beetles. The trees they've killed have been harvested by lumber companies and processed at various mills. But now that supply of wood is running out and unless more is found, the owners of 2 mills destroyed by fire, including on this week, likely won't be rebuilt. A leaked report suggests that to save those mills and the jobs that go with them, some new wood could come from protected areas and that's where the debate begins. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27/04/12: The Kingston Pen as tourism trap | Kingston Penitentiary is older than the country itself but the time has come to lock it down for good. What to do with Canada's famous crowbar hotel? Raze it to the ground, turn it into Condo's or how about a museum? The tour may short but the memories will last from 25 to life. We talk about the past of Kingston Pen with a former warden and it's future with the city's business development boss. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26/04/12: Checking - In | Friday host of The Current, Tom Harrington joins guest host Anthony Germain to help share your reaction to a number of stories on the show. From Omar Khadr to Hong Kong Chinese being overwhelmed by their mainland cousins. We also hear about misbehaving nuns the Vatican is trying to control. Then we visit Labrador City.... The mining boom there in what Newfoundlanders call 'The Big Land' is making it one of the most expensive places in Canada to find a place to live. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26/04/12: Premier of Nfld and Labrador, Kathy Dunderdale | Canada has more female premiers now than at any point in the country's history. Kathy Dunderdale is Newfoundland and Labrador's first female premier, and the country's fourth "leading lady" - joining women premiers in Alberta, British Columbia and Nunavut. Kathy Dunderdale knows about hard times growing up in rural Newfoundland in a family of eleven kids. She explains how she plans to manage the province's new and unprecedented prosperity. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26/04/12: Liberia '77: Investigating Liberia through photos | The West African country hopes to remain peaceful after a long-awaited War Crimes verdict. A Vancouver man -- with fond childhood memories-- is trying to help Liberia re-discover its history through pictures. Jeff Topham and his brother Andrew filmed a documentary there about the destruction of film during a civil war that killed a quarter-of-a-million people. It's a very personal journey that uses old family photos as a starting point for investigating just what happened to his family's friends. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25/04/12: Environmental Emergency Cuts | The Federal conservatives are re-shaping how the environment department will respond to catastrophes such as oil-spills. From the Atlantic coast, all the way to Vancouver --and points in between-- emergency response personnel are being slashed in half, the rest are being relocated to Quebec. Critics say Ottawa is abandoning its environmental responsibility. We hear from some of them, as well as from Environment Minister Peter Kent, who says these cost savings will have no impact on the nation's ability to cope with an oil spill disaster. | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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245/04/12: The remarkable legal career of Kim Motley | Meet Kim Motley, a former American beauty pageant winner who is facing the ugly side of Afghanistan's justice system. She is the only foreign lawyer litigating in the troubled country ... taking on gut-wrenching Human Rights cases, while ignoring death threats and advice from authorities that she should leave the country. | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25/04/12: The paucity of predictive power in polling | For Alberta voters this week, the bloom came off the Wildrose party and left pollsters blushing the deepest shade of red, in a province that remained PC blue. Poll after poll predicted a wildrose victory in Alberta.... political journalists gobbled up the misleading data, some boldly wrote about the end of a dynasty So how did the science of public opinion get it so wrong? | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24/04/12: Is it the end of seal hunting in Nfld? | Newfoundland and Labrador enjoys a new kind of prosperity thanks to oil, but what about oil that comes from seals? Not to mention the pelts, the blubber and other products from that plentiful mammal? Vilified around the world, and propped up by meagre government support, the seal hunt is barely alive. A journalist and a Member of Parliament found themselves getting clubbed for merely asking the question: Is it time to kill-off the seal hunt? | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24/04/12: Saving our cities from cars | Taras Gresco is the author of a thought-provoking book entitled Strap-hanger. He argues, bikes and efficient public transit are the benchmarks by which cities will be judged in the future. Gridlock and road rage are the norm in the dozens of cities around that world that Taras Gresco visited.... From Tokyo to Toronto, he argues we all need to kick our addiction to the automobile. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24/04/12: Post-Alberta Election | Alison Redford gets elected premier with a strong majority for the progressive conservatives... the Wild Rose Party's dreams of power fizzle into the reality of the opposition benches and, for a change in Alberta, that opposition will come from the right. We analyze last night's election results in Canada's most prosperous province. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23/04/12: Tension between Mainland Chinese flocking to Hong Kong | In the 19th century, western governments talked about the 'yellow peril. Nowadays, citizens in the former British colony say they are tired of the hoards of mainland Chinese who are flooding into Hong Kong. They compare their mainland cousins to swarms of locusts devouring everything in their path ... Beijing isn't impressed. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23/04/12: Gulf Fish Deformities | Two years after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, fishermen say their lives haven't returned to normal. The impact of the BP oil spill is continuing to devastate the fishermen of the Gulf because not only are the stock down but the seafood itself is very sick. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23/04/12: The fate of Sandy Pond and fight for all ponds | And today, a story from Newfoundland that has ramifications for lakes and ponds right across the country. A massive nickel-mining operation intends to use a body of water called Sandy Pond as a dump, for its toxic tailings. That's thanks to a loop hole in federal legislation --not to mention the encouragement of the provincial government. But not without a fight for all of pond-kind. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20/04/12: Fertility Sex Selection Services | A controversial U.S. Ad in an Indo-Canadian newspaper in Vancouver has sparked discussion around a cultural secret. The notion that certain ethnic communities in Canada are seeking services that would allow them to choose the sex of their baby ... so that they can favour having a boy instead of a girl. Today, we discuss these sex selection services, the cultural bias in some communities against girls and the legality of these decisions. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20/04/12: Sport Team Names and Cultural Sensitivity | What's in a name? When it comes to the use of aboriginal nicknames for sports teams, it can be a stadium full of emotions. We look into the battle at a Saskatchewan High School over the name and mascot of their teams - pitting student against student, school board against alumni. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4/20 - Canada's Cannabis Culture | The world is going to pot. Today is 4-20, a global protest against marijuana laws when millions are expected to light up. Today, we walkabout in the counter culture including a side trip to something called the Cannabis cup. And we talk to the author of a book about the highs in the heart of dankness and hear about Canada's growing reputation for some of the world's best weed. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19/04/12: Omar Khadr's anticipated return to Canada | The application's in the right office, the U.S. is ready to spring for the plane and it appears to be just a matter of time before Omar Khadr returns to Canada. But after a decade in U.S. military custody, most of it at Gitmo, the notorious detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, the ability of Omar Khadr to integrate into a maximum security prison and eventually into Canadian society is an open question. | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19/04/12: Checking - In | It barely made the news but last January a B.C. man was attacked and later died in Guatemala on business. His daughter believes he was targeted because of his work with the labour movement. We follow up on stories of the week and revisit the ongoing political tensions in Guatemala in the death of Jorge Enrique Torres. | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19/04/12: Documentary: The Art of War | Due to music rights issues with downloadable content, we can not make this documentary available as a podcast. However, you can listen to the documentary on our website through streamed audio, cbc.ca/thecurrent. Sorry for any inconvenience. | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18/04/12: Is Dr. Jim Yong Kim right for the job? | He's a practicing physician, a medical anthropologist and a visionary on world health issues. But he's No Economist. Which is precisely why critics don't want Jim Yong Kim running the World Bank. Is it also precisely why supporters do want Jim Yong Kim running the World Bank. Today, a lesson in how the very things that can work in your favour are the very things than can work against you. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18/04/12: Unwanted Acquitted Rwandans | They sit in a safe house, a small group of men, each once accused of unspeakable atrocities, each now acquitted by an International Tribunal and each with nowhere to go. No country wants them and that appears to include Canada. As the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda prepares to end its work, the legacy of the genocide lives on in uncomfortable questions about the meaning of justice, the verdicts of a court and the persistence of memory. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18/04/12: Sponsoring for the London 2012 Olympics | The Olympic motto may be Faster, Higher, Stronger but this summer in London, games organizers have pledged they'll also be greener. Now, a coalition of human rights and environmental groups is protesting the sponsorships of Dow, BP and Rio Tinto arguing their so-called sustainability is mere greenwashing and that the Olympics are more concerned about getting out of the red. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17/04/12: Tracking The Charter of Rights - Part 1 and 2 | As Game-Changers go, they don't get much bigger or more controversial. Thirty years ago, with the flourish of signatures we got our Canadian Constitution complete with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Thirty years later, we've got equality rights for women, same-sex marriage rights, free-expression rights and laws from prostitution to Sunday shopping have been struck down. Today, we hear from some whose backroom determination and front-line persistence gave us the Charter. And we have a debate over whether taking it to the courts has harmed or usurped our political system. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17/04/12: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots | As a girl Deborah Feldman was not allowed to read. She'd hide books under her mattress in a spirit of defiance against the restrictive life in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York. Deborah Feldman would walk away from her closed community. And now, the forbidden book is her own - a memoir that gives a glimpse into the world of the Hasidic Satmar community with detail that is fascinating for outsiders and scandalous for those she left behind. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/04/12: The embattled career of Minister Peter MacKay | Peter MacKay, the Minister of National Defence was front and centre yesterday in a ceremony marking the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic and an announcement to spend 8-million-dollars more on Search and Rescue in Canada. All of this after more than a week where the minister himself has appeared in need of rescue over the costs of the F-35 and a personal Defence strategy. | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/04/12: The death of cash by way of digital currency | For the better part of a week, the idea of paying-as-you-go has been dominated by the buzz over the MintChip, the Canadian Mint's project to find the best digital currency to replace cash. The currencies of a number of countries are already ahead of us but their critics are thinking ahead too and raising fears of everything from surveillance and lack of privacy, to a new form of electronic warfare. Today, we're calculating the reality of a fully Cashless Society. | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/04/12: Granito: How To Nail A Dictator | It began as a film to document, the plight of the indigenous people of Guatemala in the midst of a brutal counter-insurgency campaign. Thirty years later, it is a documentary that offers evidence on celluloid in bid to put Efrain Rios Mont on trial for genocide, the former General and Guatemalan President who has just lost his bid for amnesty in his own country. Filmmaker Pamela Yates weighs in on How to Nail A Dictator. | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13/04/12: The Wildrose Party - Back to the Klein Days | Is change blooming in the wildrose country? Albertans go to the polls a week from Monday but last night's leader's debate may go a long way in helping voters decide who they'll choose on the 23rd. After more than 4 decades in office, the progressive conservative dynasty is in jeopardy, threatened by the upstart wildrose party that won only 7 percent of the vote in the last election. Today, we assess the debate and the potential for a seismic political shift in the West. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13/04/12: Thieves of Bay Street: Bruce Livesey | Are we immune from a Wall Street style meltdown? A controversial book raises doubts that our banking and financial system is somehow morally superior and more secure than our American neighbours. It suggests that not only are Canada's Captains of the money industry capable of corruption, the system does little to protect you from them. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13/04/12: Anti-biotics in Livestock | This is your chicken. This is your chicken on drugs. Any questions? There are plenty actually around the longtime use of anti-biotics in animals to make them grow faster and resistant to disease. The unintended side effect has been to make us immune to these same drugs when it comes to treating illness while creating super bacteria that are resistant to the same anti-biotics that we reply on to protect ourselves. The U.S. government is now moving to limit their use in the commercial food chain but what are we doing north of the border? | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12/04/12: Alberta Premier Alison Redford | It is a race Alberta politics hasn't seen for a generation as the Progressive Conservative dynasty that has swallowed so many seats in so many campaigns is confronted by the Wildrose, a party only a few years old and positioned to the right of the ruling party's politics. With just over a week to go before the provincial election, the polls are promising suspense, the pundits are predicting upset and the politicians are pounding the pavement taking no vote for granted. Today, we hear from Alison Redford as she tries to hold on to her newly-minted premiership. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12/04/12: A Thousand Farewells: Nahlah Ayed | All eyes are on Syria, its dictator feeling the international pressure to back down, its people still vulnerable in an uprising that they have stubbornly refused to abandon. And if there is someone who can understand the tension from all sides in the middle east on this day, it is our own Nahlah Ayed, a CBC reporter who spent half of her childhood living in a refugee camp and the last decade documenting conflicts and uprisings. Nahlah Ayed shares her insights and her personal journey .through a changing Middle East. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12/04/12: Thursday's Checking - In | She's donated her eggs, she's been a surrogate and is ready to do it again. After yesterday's debate on laws that prohibit paying for such things, we check in on another aspect of this story. Plus we hear from our listeners on strip searches, the l Titanic and reproductive technologies. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11/04/12: F-35 Fighter Jets | You can follow the money but the real stealth in those fighter jets is how so many Canadian industries need them to flourish. Buried in the story of the cost of F-35 fighter jets is how we got this far and the intricate web of development and business that has already been spun into the procurement of these planes. Controversies and accusations aside, there may be no turning back. Today, we're asking if the fighter jet procurement is simply too big to fail. | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11/04/12: The heritage of Timbuktu in jeopardy | The first European travelers to reach Timbuktu thought they'd find streets lined with gold. Instead, they found a city made of mud rising out of the Sahara. Timbuktu has always been legendary-home to a centuries-old mud mosque and hundreds-of-thousands of ancient manuscripts. But the mythic city is now in turmoil, its North African desert sands swirling in a geopolitical mix of Mali's armed independence movement and Islamic radicals. History itself, hangs in the balance. | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11/04/12: The Future of Assisted Human Reproduction | It was one of the "Quiet Cuts" of the federal budget, the agency to enforce Canada's reproductive technology laws will be gone within months. In the meantime, some laws are being strictly enforced and others are so confusing, some looking for surrogates don't know where to turn. Today, a debate on the direction our reproductive technology laws are taking this country. Is it ethical to restrict use of technology or immoral to deny access? | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10/04/12: Quebec student protests against tuition hikes | The longest student strike in Quebec history just moved into another day in the protest against tuition increases. Some university students in Quebec are weary of the weeks of protest and say it's time to return to class. | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10/04/12: Police Strip Searches | Proponents of The Strip Search say they turn up contraband and dangerous weapons and are necessary for safety of inmates, police and the public. Opponents call them humiliating, manipulative and mostly unnecessary. Canada's highest court prohibits them as a routine police practice but tens-of-thousands of people are strip-searched on arrest. Now, an attempt for a class-action suit is underway by those who say police are taking too much leeway despite our laws. | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10/04/12: The Fat Years: Chan Koonchung | Something odd is afoot in Beijing. The most troublesome bits of Chinese history have disappeared from the bookstores. The month of February has been scrubbed from the memories of the masses. And everyone is incredibly happy thanks to the right drugs in the water supply. And if that sounds like fiction, it is. That's the plot of a novel that is one of the most popular in China today but also one that no one would publish. Instead, it is available only online. | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/04/12: Gambling with the future of Ontario horse racing | The Ontario government has decided to end a funding arrangement that pumped millions of dollars into the industry through slot machines at the province's racetracks. By reining in that deal, the tens of thousands who work as grooms, trainers, jockeys and even breeders say many of their jobs as well as the sport's huge international reputation is in jeopardy. | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/04/12: The Boy with the Past (Documentary Repeat) | We're reprising our documentary about the teenaged father who gave up twins to adoption and has been shut out of their lives ever since. Sad proof that making the right decision doesn't always lead to a happy ending. We revisit past mistakes and the toll they take with this story. | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/04/12: Titanic Anniversary - Titanic Band | Today, we explore one of the Titanic's most moving stories - the band that played on deck as the great ship went down almost a century ago. We hear from the grandson of one of the band members whose story speaks to the heroism aboard the ship that night and the unfairness that went on in the days and months after the disaster. *** This podcast has been updated *** | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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06/04/12: The Glorious Art of Peace | It's often said that nations and their people are shaped by war. Indeed it's conflict that dominates the news and colors our world view. Whether it's the brutal violence that's tearing at the heart of Syria or the grinding and still deadly warfare in Afghanistan or the so-called war on terror. Our guest suggests we should turn the tables and instead think about peace and it's rich history and how it shapes us. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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06/04/12: The Unfinished Journey of Rabbi Simes | Rabbi Yehuda Simes of Ottawa was paralyzed after a terrible highway accident. Last year at Passover, we spoke to him about his process of healing and went with him for his first visit to the Jewish school where he teaches. Well, this year, Rabbi Simes is back teaching on a limited basis. We speak to him about passover, what he expects this year and what it is like to be back in front of his students. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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05/04/12: CBC Cuts: Kirstine Stewart | From the 1980s to the 1990s and now into the 2010s, successive federal governments have snipped, clipped and sliced the CBC's taxpayer-funded allowance. Now with the Harper government's decision to cut the Public Broadcaster by another 10-percent, the corporation's executives have identified what's going and what's changing from layoffs in the hundreds to ads on the radio. Today we talk to the Vice-President of CBC's English Services. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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05/04/12: Thursday's Checking - In | From the Siege of Sarajevo, to changes in Old Age Security, to the price at the pump and qualifying for Miss Universe, we're checking in for reaction and updates on stories we brought you over the past week. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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05/04/12: Saskatchewan's Dry Strip Clubs | Saskatchewan has a decades-old law with sobering consequences. If you're offering Soft Porn, you can't sell Hard Liquor. Nude dancing - strip-tease even wet-t-shirt contests are all prohibited in any establishment that sells alcohol. Now, dancers, bar owners and those fighting for civil liberties are organizing to try to change a law they call bad for business and simply irrational. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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04/04/12: Aung San Suu Kyi's win in Burma By-Elections | The delight at Aung San Suu Kyi's election on Sunday in Burma reached all the way across the globe and into the hearts of Canada's Burmese community where so many know first hand the cost of political struggles. But that euphoria isn't naïve, after all Ms. Suu Kyi's party is in a minority. So is what's happening there merely symbolic or suitably significant? | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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04/04/12: Environmental Assessment Changes | Ottawa's new budget will impose time limits on environmental assessments for energy and industrial projects and force review to be either federal or provincial but not both. You want to bet that's a point of debate between environmentalists and industry supporters but others wonder if the focus on environmental assessment leaves us ignoring environmental governance. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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04/04/12: Liza Mundy: The Richer Sex | Statistics show 40-percent of working wives in the U.S. and an estimated 30-percent in Canada earn more than their male partners, a shift that is projected to continue and change the so-called rules from dating to mating job hunts. Decades after the rise of the feminist movement those tracking equality see role reversals in every neighbourhood and predict that while men may like the freedom for new choices, not all women will be so welcoming. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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03/04/12: General Jovan Divjak (Bosnia Special) | General Jovan Divjak was second in command of the Bosnian army. He speaks with us about fighting for a city under siege. And at 44 months it was the longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare. Retired Bosnia army General Jovan Divjak created Education Builds Bosnia-Hercegovina, a non-governmental organization that began during the siege of Sarajevo to help children victimized by the war and now offers scholarships and help to many young Bosnians in need. | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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03/04/12: Sarajevo - Then and Now (Bosnia Special) | Today Sarajevo has been rebuilt and the sounds are the sounds of any city once-burned-out buildings now shimmer with new glass facades but the pattern of holes caused by sprays of schrapnels often still visible under the plaster patchwork of other buildings. Anna Maria shares her many memories of her time reporting in Bosnia and talks to Aida Alibalic, her former translator in the summer of 1993 to share her memories and what it's like to live in Sarajevo now. And meet Kenan Hedic, a third generation coppersman who's living off the spoils of war. He takes spent shell casings from heavy artillery and turns them into art. | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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03/04/12: Documentary: Born of War (Bosnia Special) | Bosnia became known for the systematic rape of women. Thousands were victimized. No one knows how many took their resulting pregnancies to term or how many kept the children to whom they gave birth. Few women in Bosnia Herzegovina have ever spoken about raising children conceived because of the brutality of that war. We found two who would …. both Bosnian Muslims. Today, a documentary sharing their stories of unimaginable atrocities, produced by The Current's Lara O'Brien and translated by Sabina Niksic. | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/04/12: What's to blame for high gas prices? | In the U.S., they are fretting over the possibility of gas prices .. rising to as much as 5-dollars a gallon. In Canada most of us are already there. U.S. lawmakers insist speculators-run-amok are behind rising North American gas prices. Today, we're looking at the cause of gas price hikes. | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/04/12: Raising eligibility for Old Age Security | The federal government's plan to raise the age of eligibility for Old Age Security is supposed to save Billions. Will it? And who will it Cost? A Provincial Premier, a Statistical expert and an expert on risk sharpen their pencils and their arguments on today's program. | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/04/12: Katherine Boo: Behind the Beautiful Forevers | If you really want to know how the world economy is affecting people maybe you should head to the tin shacks and fetid alley of a Mumbai slum where the work ethic is exceptional, the work load is staggering and the world view is humbling. Acclaimed American writer Katherine Boo takes us into the lives of the people of Annawadi. For three years, she tracked some of the world's most marginalized people and she'll share what she learned. | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30/03/12: Budget Dissection | This morning we dissect the new budget and check in with the government's Minister of State for Finance, and two critics from the other side of the House. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30/03/12: Budget, innovation and the government | Jim Flaherty said earlier in the week that this was going to be a budget focused on spurring innovation. We hear from some innovative thinkers to discuss whether he's done that. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30/03/12: Jousting Revival | There's not much entertaining about the middle ages... the wars, the plagues, the smells. But one medieval sport seems to be enjoying a renaissance. Today, we hear all about competitive jousting and speak with a competitive jouster, a modern Canadian knight who hosts a new reality show featuring mighty men on mighty steeds with mighty long lances. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29/03/12: Thursday's Checking - In | Some surgeries can turn you into a beauty queen, others instantly disqualify you from beauty pageants. Our listeners check in on some of the ironies of the week, many think it's ridiculous to blame fashion for fury. | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29/03/12: Online hoax ends in teen death | A Nova Scotian mother believes a long and elaborate hoax on an online dating service contributed to her teenage son's death. | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29/03/12: Participatory Budget | Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will deliver the federal budget later today. What would happen if your plans were actually included in Flaherty's? There is a growing movement called participatory budgeting where the citizens actually do decide where to spend and what to cut. | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28/03/12: Canadian veterans privacy violation | Another former Canadian soldier joins the list of veterans who say their personal medical records were inappropriately accessed by government officials. The Current's Howard Goldenthal tells us how the privacy scandal involving Canadian veterans continues today. | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28/03/12: Math equations that changed the world | There is a story behind every equation and the very best of those equations have helped us to understand and shape our world. Ian Stewart has just written a book about 17 equations that he says changed the world. | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28/03/12: Of Mothers and Merchants - Commercial Surrogacy | Driven by an overwhelming desire to have a baby... a Canadian woman hires a surrogate in India. A business transaction that would be illegal in this country - commercial surrogacy in India is an ever expanding and increasingly controversial industry. Sound labour market or modern slavery? Listen to the documentary, "Of Mothers and Merchants". | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27/03/12: India Drug Patent | India's generic drug industry produces inexpensive drugs for the world, cutting into drug company profits. But an Indian Supreme Court ruling on patents this week could make it a lot more expensive for a lot more people to stay healthy. And this could have a dramatic impact on the cost of treating AIDS and cancer patients in the developing world. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27/03/12: Prerequisites for Beauty Pageants | Some people say transgender women should be allowed to compete in beauty pageants because this would better reflect modern life, but others say rules are rules and need not be changed, and there are other niche pageants where transgender people can compete. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27/03/12: Paul Wells: The Harper Decade | It's an open debate how much Stephen Harper may have changed Canada. But can you imagine raising the GST, or reviving the long form census? We speak with Paul Wells, the political Editor of Macleans Magazine about how the Prime Minister's slow and steady approach transforms the country. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26/03/12: Aboriginal business proposals in the oilsands | Many Albertans are cashing in on the wealth of the oilsands so the rejection of a First Nations proposal to do a little bitumen refining is causing really hard feelings. Today, we're looking at why some first nations people in Alberta are claiming the province is freezing them out of the oilsands and the wealth generated there. | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26/03/12: New NDP leader, new way forward ? | The federal NDP may have a new leader in Thomas Mulcair, but the race has exposed divisions on what strategies the party should pursue to win the support it needs to form a government. Today, we wanted to take a look at the way forward for the Official Opposition. | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26/03/12: Justice for Trayvon Martin | If Trayvon Martin really did attack George Zimmerman, he did it armed with an iced tea and a bag of Skittles. Martin is dead and his killing has tens of thousands of Americans demanding justice for the high school student. One of those Americans lives in the White House. | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23/03/12: Toulouse shooting and the French election | France has been gripped by horror this week. The gruesome shooting of three children and a teacher was followed by a tense and ultimately deadly standoff. The Toulouse killer said he wanted to bring France to its knees. He came nowhere near reaching that goal. But his crimes may bring voters to the ballot box dragging anger and fear. With elections just weeks away, explosive issues dominate the French presidential campaign. Today we explore the new political landscape. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23/03/12: Preppers | When the end comes, will you be ready? The preppers will be. Many people believe governments and societies aren't ready for a serious emergency, let alone a catastrophe. If your neighbour has powdered milk in his pantry, a battery powered chainsaw in his cellar, and rather a lot of gold jewellery... you may know a prepper. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23/03/12: SNAP vs The Roman Catholic Church | Many people who were abused in the Catholic Church found friends and support in a group known as the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests...or SNAP. But the network now says it is fighting to survive as it defends itself against legal attacks by the Church. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22/03/12: Is celebrity activism helping or hurting Sudan? | The crisis in Sudan may be obscure to many outsiders. But movie star George Clooney is determined that the desperate plight of tens of thousands of people won't be ignored. We take a look at exactly what's happening in Sudan - and South Sudan - and whether celebrity activism is making things any better. | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22/03/12: NDP Leadership Convention Strategy | Members of the NDP will gather this weekend in the shadow of Jack Layton to pick a new leader. We'll look at what the delegates are thinking and some of the strategies that could be at play. | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22/03/12: Thursday's Checking - In | A new book suggests the French have superior child-raising skills, but some of our listeners suggest -- they don't. And Canada gets a slap for the way it treats vulnerable seniors. We check in with you, and hear your thoughts on some of the stories we've been covering this week. | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21/03/12: Fanshawe college student rioters in London, Ont | Eight students at London's Fanshawe College have been suspended from campus because they broke the college's code of conduct. But should Universities and colleges take disciplinary action against off-campus behaviour? Some say students are already subject to the criminal justice system but others say it is important to send a message that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21/03/12: Jane's Journey: A documentary about Jane Goodall | Today, Jane Goodall is one of the world's most respected animal scientists. And one of the best-known scientists of any kind. Among her groundbreaking discoveries was the fact that humans are not the only animals with the capacity to make and use tools. She's also become an extremely active conservationist and humanitarian. A new documentary about Jane Goodall has just been released and she joins us to talk about her remarkable life and work. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21/03/12: Delays opening Cactus safe injection site | Many people believed Vancouver's efforts to provide a safe injection site for addicts was a trend for other cities to follow. But roadblocks and controversy have stalled plans to open another safe injection site in Montreal. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20/03/12: How civilians are using drones | If you think unmanned drones are only used in war, or to chase after terrorists, you are wrong. We'll tell you how drone technology is being used in our skies, with unmanned flying machines carrying cameras starring down from above. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20/03/12: Graham James Case: Greg Gilhooly | Greg Gilhooly's name isn't on any of the court documents. He didn't have an opportunity to read a victim impact statement into the public record. But he believes he may have been Graham James first victim, back in Winnipeg in the late 70s, when James was coaching a local midget team. We'll hear his story, and hear why Greg Gilhooly never got to tell it in court. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20/03/12: The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg | You likely think it's a good habit to brush your teeth after every meal. Certainly the toothpaste companies do -- that's why they invented the habit for us. We'll look at how habits are exhibited, excised and exploited. It's anything but routine. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19/03/12: Predator drones as Game Changers | In warfare, death from the sky is almost as old as the Zeppelin. But the Predator drones may have brought something new to violent conflict. It's been ten years since the unmanned vehicles were first put to use as weapons in Afghanistan. Today, we hear how they've turned backyards into battlefields. | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19/03/12: Canada's Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney | When Canada's Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, talks about transformational change, he's not engaging in hyperbole. Kenney has either introduced or is planning to introduce a long list of changes that will fundamentally alter immigration policy from fast-tracking the system for skilled newcomers, to changes to the appeal process for refugees, to eliminating the automatic granting of citizenship on babies born in this country. Since so much of the story of this country has been written by newcomers, these changes could also fundamentally change the narrative of Canada. Jason Kenney joins us today to discuss his plans. | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19/03/12: Reconciliation in the Anglican Church of Canada | James Ferry was told 20 years ago that he did not belong as a priest in the Anglican church. This past weekend at Holy Trinity in Toronto, he returned to a warm welcome. It's a story of remarkable reconciliation. | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/03/12: Death Penalty Debate | Not since 1962 has Canada exacted the death sentence on anyone. But when a high profile and disturbing murder case makes headlines, the dormant debate over capital punishment gets people once again talking. Today we talk Canada and capital punishment. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/03/12: Vandana Shiva (Feature Interview) | Her influence has taken root in India and is growing around the world. She's fighting for farmers, the seeds they plant and the food we eat. Today, we speak with environmental activist Vandana Shiva. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16/03/12: Bringing Up Bebe | The author of a new book on parenting, Pamela Druckerman, explains why the she thinks the French succeed at raising children who are well behaved, sleep through the night and don't whine about their meals. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15/03/12: International Criminal Court Track Record | Well it did take a decade and piles of money for the International Criminal Court to get a conviction. And now the Congolese warlord who destroyed the lives of so many children forcing them to be child soldiers or sex slaves will be locked away. But of course others like him still operate. So is this a blow to impunity? Or just an anomaly that underlines ... most of them get-away? Today, we're asking just how much justice we get with the ICC. | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15/03/12: Has Dutch Disease infected the Canadian economy? | If you lived through the last back-and-forth between a booming Alberta and the East then you'll know why Ontario's Premier set something off with his comment preferring a lower dollar benefitting Ontario then growing oil economy in the West. An Economic report suggests Ontario's Premier is merely recognizing Dutch Disease characterized by an oil boom and a manufacturing slump. Is that the diagnosis? Or is this a case of economic hypochondria? And what can we learn by taking the pulse of other countries with oil in their veins? | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15/03/12: Thursday's Checking - In | We've been emailed, voice mailed, tweeted and told off. After another week of covering everything from dwindling drug supplies to Gen Y shortcomings to Republicans turning back time on women's rights. We check in with our listeners for their thoughts on the stories of the week. | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14/03/12: Drug Supply Shortages in Canada | It sounds like a scenario right out of a war zone with doctors scrambling for medication, hospitals running out of cancer drugs, antibiotics, anesthetics and painkillers. And yet it is playing out in Canada, a drug shortage so severe that some doctors are canceling surgeries. And medical professionals say it should not be happening here. Today, we're examining a system of drug supply that critics say is inadequate and dangerous. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14/03/12: NDP Leadership Hopeful, Martin Singh | He's a reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces, a small business owner and an investment consultant with an MBA. He is not an elected politician but Martin Singh is running for the leadership of the NDP, a party he says has the best track record on the economy. Today, we continue our conversations with party candidates as Martin Singh outlines his political ideas. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14/03/12: Climate Activist, Michael Mann | The average author might have been delighted at the idea that reviews were already popping up for a book not yet published. But for Michael Mann, the excoriating e-views haven't been so welcome. Michael Mann is a leading climate scientist and a lightening rod for those who believe Climate Change is anything from a plot to a lie. From harassing phone calls to angry emails to death threats, he's paying a price to pursue his science. Today we speak with Michael Mann on the chill over Climate Change. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13/03/12: National Research Council changes driven by business needs | You can set your clock by it but the Conservative government thinks the National Research Council is locked in time. It wants the NRC to focus more on research that will grow business. Critics say that could stifle creativity and innovation and ultimately hurt business. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13/03/12: The Decline of People Skills and Workforce Shortage | Canadians face a conundrum. Lots of people are unemployed and yet a labour shortage looms. And the upcoming workers - the Gen Ys aren't impressing the bosses. Coddled, courted, entitled and without boundaries, employers complain they lack basic social skills. And the fear is that One generations' awkwardness will affect an entire nation's economy. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13/03/12: Cyber Warfare: The Electric Fog of War | As wars go it was brief and ultimately forgettable unless you were a military strategist. Four years ago, Russia and Georgia fought over South Ossetia in a battle that would become a Game Changer because in that war, a cyber attack was part of the arsenal. Fast forward to today's conflict zones and the potential for cyber warfare escapes no one in the military. Our project Game Changer continues to explore the potential for cyber warfare and Canada's preparedness for e-battle. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12/03/12: Waneek Horn-Miller on improving native health | Waneek Horn-Miller came of age in the political turmoil of Oka and went on to become one of the few Aboriginal Canadians in Olympic competition. She's now trying to Change the Game for other First Nations people through health and wellness. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12/03/12: From Malware to Warfare: The Stuxnet Virus | As viruses go there has been none more stealthy or sophisticated. The Stuxnet virus wormed its way into untold numbers of computers around the world back in the summer of 2010. But it was after only one thing - the centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. Our project Game Changer examines the power of Stuxnet to turn Malware into Warfare. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12/03/12: Afghan Civilian Slayings | The news reports say he was methodical stalking from home to home in rural Afghanistan, killing 16 civilians, most of them children. A U.S. Army Sgt is now in custody but his killing spree has released a range of emotions in a war-weary country already outraged at actions by other U.S. soldiers. Today, we're looking at the potential fallout of yesterday's civilian massacre in Afghanistan's Panjwai district, at a time of growing civilian impatience and fragile efforts at peace plans. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/03/12: Internet Activism: Ricken Patel and Samantha Nutt | The world is a-Twitter about the upsurge of activism at the click of a button. Online movements doing the work of journalists, governments and traditional aid groups. They've gotten cameras and medical supplies into Syria. Healthy journalists in and wounded and dead ones out. But not without risk and injury. Today we talk to the founder of Avaaz.org. And can the latest online cause to go viral, Kony 2012, really help catch the world's most wanted man? | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/03/12: Miguel Quintana on Fukushima | Miguel Quintana talks about the realities, fears and complexities of life in the contaminated zone in Fukushima... through the eyes of one farmer who stayed behind, and another who's left. A year on, many Japanese Farmers are worried about their soil, and the crops that spring from it. | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09/03/12: Nuclear Power After Fukushima | A year ago a single country was rocked by triple disasters in a single day. The first anniversary of Japan's 3/11 is this Sunday. The massive earthquake, and the mammoth tsunami that followed claimed more than 22,000 lives. But it was the ensuing nuclear disaster, the largest since Chernobyl, that had the entire world worried. And nerves over nuclear still persist. Was the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant a game changer for the nuclear industry? | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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08/03/12: The Republican Female Vote | What better day than International Women's Day to take a look at the tenor of the discussion as U.S. Republican Presidential candidates trip over themselves to woo religious and social-conservative voters. Their critics even inside the party say they are doing it at the expense of hard-fought rights for women. And a new poll suggests that every time the top Republican candidates weigh in on abortion, contraception, women's health and working moms they hand the female vote to the Democrats. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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08/03/12: Inuit Identity (Documentary) | The Inuit lay claim to one of Canada's oldest cultures in the country's newest territory Nunavut, home to Canada's youngest population. And the Inuit youth of Nunavut are on exciting territory, uncharted landscape. Theirs is an ice-age culture that has swung into the digital age within a matter of decades. The 8th Fire Project takes us to Nunavut. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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08/03/12: Thursday's Checking-In | After hearing about the Mothers of Fukushima yesterday with their fears that their children are being exposed to radiation from Japan's nuclear meltdown last year, we're ready to put their concerns to Japan's Ambassador to Canada. We hear from him as we take a look at feedback and your point of view on everything from teacher strikes to Mormon baptisms. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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07/03/12: NDP Leadership Contender: Niki Ashton | She may be one of the youngest woman in parliament and she's not the newest but Niki Ashton's message is all about "NEW Politics" .. from reaching out to young people, to what she calls bold ideas on health, justice and rural communities. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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07/03/12: Mothers of Fukushima against nuclear power | The women have taken to the streets. The parents are running the protests. Across Japan, the fallout from the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown is not solely Radioactive - it is Pro-active. Japan's social movements once confined to the sidelines are front and center as the one year anniversary of a deadly disaster nears. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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07/03/12: The winter that wasn't for birds | You call that winter? The chickadees and robins are quite comfy in Edmonton and a whole bunch of birds have forsaken their migration to stay in Ontario. Across North America, citizen scientists are capturing anecdotal evidence on migratory birds who are returning north earlier or who simply haven't left this year. Climate Change? Global Wierding? Despite that Newfoundland storm, we're tracking the winter that's more like a wimper. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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06/03/12: CSIS guidelines on sharing info involving torture | A new government directive to CSIS details the guidelines on sharing and using information that is a result of ... or could cause torture. The government calls it necessary for national security. A wary opposition calls it unprecedented in Canadian history. But no one sees it quite like a man who has actually been tortured unjustly in the name of Canadian security. | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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06/03/12: Eating Food on the Subway | People show up on the subway munching all sorts of stuff. And they leave lots of it behind. And that says a New York Senator, is what brings on the rats. If you Feed 'Em … you will Breed 'Em ... according to those working to ban food on New York subways. This isn't the first time some New Yorkers are getting all crummy about the consumption of food in public. Is this a bit of class warfare on wheels? | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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06/03/12: Robert Amsterdam on Vladimir Putin's Russia | As observers from the EU, the U.S., the OSCE and fifteen-thousand assorted and angry Moscovites questioned the veracity of Vladimir Putin's victory in Sunday's Russian elections. A Canadian man was watching from way over here. His own battles go back to the days of the first round of the Putin Presidency and the oil baron he couldn't save from Putin's prison. Robert Amsterdam ponders another period of a Putin Presidency. | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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05/03/12: Public perception of teachers during labour disputes | What is it about teachers? Their on-the-job performance, their pay, their benefits are polarizing to the parental public. And no more so than right now with BC teachers beginning a strike today and Ontario teachers already in disagreement with their government. | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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05/03/12: NDP Leadership Hopeful: Nathan Cullen | He points out he's the only NDP leadership candidate who's already defeated a Tory MP to get elected. Nathan Cullen is also the only one calling for cooperation with the Liberals in ridings held by Conservatives. And as a BC MP, he's also got his own ideas on pipelines, resources and energy. | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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05/03/12: Sex-Change Treatment for Kids | As a mother she remembers the day it all changed, a shopping trip for shoes for her four year old son, Nick. Her son told her he felt like a little girl. They don't call their now-eight year old Nick anymore, not after that conversation. The authors of a report in the medical journal Pediactrics say an increasing number of pre-adolescent children are vocal about their confusion over gender identity. And that's spurred a debate over when doctors might consider the use of puberty blocking and/or sex changing hormones. Today, we share one child's story and the wider dilemma on hormones. | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/03/12: Saving Face: Dr. Mohammad Jawad | The perpetrators are often husbands or jilted suitors who commit a hideous act that leaves their victims disfigured and devastated. We'll meet the plastic surgeon who's featured in an Oscar-winning Canadian documentary about Acid attacks in Pakistan. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/03/12: Hunger Strikes: The return of the silent protest | It's long been used as a weapon in the fights for freedom and independence. A tactic that's counted by the day. And it appears the hunger strike is seeing a resurgence as a tool or protest. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02/03/12: Elections Canada under scrutiny | Today, we'll talk to the man who was at the helm for many years about investigating alleged wrong-doing. Canada's former chief electoral officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley believes if the robo-calls really deprived people of their vote in the last federal election, whoever is behind it could face prison. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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01/03/12: Re-Evaluating Mandatory Minimums | Back in the 80s, Eric Sterling was instrumental in the drafting of U.S. legislation for mandatory minimum sentences. Twenty-five years later, he feels responsible for a law that he believes lead to a great deal of injustice. He's joined two dozen former judges, special agents, police, narcotics investigators and other criminal justice professionals who have signed a letter imploring the Harper government not to follow the same path. We'll hear from him and from the Canadian who's been pivotal in creating our pending mandatory minimum law. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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01/03/12: Investigating Robo-Calling | Ahhh ... Robo-call again. Newt used them against Mitt, one U.S. state campaign tried to suppress Black votes with them. Across the continent politicians, unions, pollsters and charities use them, often because they are efficient or cheaper than print or tv ads. To critics, they undermine democracy, to proponents they're just another tool. And others say Elections Canada has all the teeth it needs, if it wants to bite on this issue. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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01/03/12: Thursday's Checking-In | Last November Cindy Blackstock outlined the government documents that showed she was being monitored by federal bureaucrats, tracking her speaking engagements and conference attendance. She is behind a lawsuit charging Ottawa discriminates against First Nations children. Cindy Blackstock joins us again with more information on the government monitoring and a fight for Aboriginal rights at the UN. Plus, misleading robots and baptizing the dead, our listeners try to make sense of the stories of the week. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29/02/12: The Hands of Fate (Documentary) | In the summer of 2009, Sarah Jones was a pediatric surgeon hanging out with her family at their home in the country when an accident severed three of her fingers and part of her thumb. So how does a person whose work brings such a sense of purpose confront the consequences of one random moment? | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29/02/12: Domesticating Wild Animals | Young Pipp was seemingly alone in the world until Kate came along. Pipp was a fawn - now a deer and Kate is a dog - a great dane. And while many wildlife experts are critical of encouraging wildlife into a domestic realm, new research suggests some from the wild side are finding a little domestic bliss all on their own. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29/02/12: Robo-Calling: Is this a scandal that will stick? | Like a Robo-call relentlessly pushing the next bit of information into yet another household, the outrage and questions over the Conservative's alleged election tactics keep on coming down the line. Yesterday, Opposition MPs seized on the story of a disposable cellphone, linked to a local conservative campaign and the calling company. Is this a controversy that will change the Game for Stephen Harper's Conservative government? Or is it a fight from which the public will disconnect? | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28/02/12: Mormons baptizing Holocaust victims | In the Mormon religion, the Baptism by proxy of a dead relative is considered a spiritually fulfilling pursuit. But the North American Jewish community is increasingly distressed by the Baptism of Jews killed in the Holocaust. They've baptized Anne Frank as many as ten times. And the very alive Eli Wiesel is on their list. Now he's appealing to that powerful political Mormon, Mitt Romney to stop what some say is nothing short of forced conversion. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28/02/12: Robo-calls: Voters misled during Federal Election | It is a tangled story with seemingly multiple threads. Opposition politicians are charging voter suppression and election fraud in their allegations that the Conservatives used Robo-calls and live phone canvassing to mislead voters. Today, one of those who made some of the phone calls admits she thought something was amiss with what she was doing. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28/02/12: NDP Leadership Hopeful: Peggy Nash | She began as a booking agent for Air Canada, joined the union and eventually rose to the highest ranks of the labour movement. Peggy Nash would negotiate some the Canadian Auto Workers most significant agreements. Now she's in the race for the leadership of the NDP. Our conversation with NDP candidates continues with Peggy Nash. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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