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Nov 15, 2006

Natasha Ivisic converted to Islam when she married a Muslim.
But she struggled with what it means to be a muslim woman.
For example - should she or should she not wear the veil?
And how much does that decision matter?
She explores that question in a new documentary called I Wear The Veil.
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Nov 14, 2006

The legendary French director Costa-Gavras was in Montreal for the Cinemania film festival.
He stopped by our studio for a chat with Dave.
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Nov 6, 2009
David Sax is a deli fanatic who traveled to delicatessens around the world to research his book "Save The Deli"
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Nov 7, 2009
Ted Barris has been interviewing war veterans for about 30 years.
He's written many books about their stories.
And in his most recent one - he opens up about why he's so passionate about this topic.
It's called Breaking The Silence.
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Breast cancer has the pink ribbon, and prostate cancer has...the moustache?
Find out why thousands of men will be growing moustaches throughout the month of November.
Even our own Dave Bronstetter is getting involved (pictures are on the way!)
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Oct 31, 2009
Dulcinea Langfelder is a Montreal performance artist. For years, she's played the part of a wheelchair-bound alzheimers' patient - who hasn't lost her zest for life. The play is called Victoria. Langfelder tells Dave Bronstetter how Victoria has changed her life.
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Oct 25, 2009



Who knew that among us, right her in Montreal, lived someone who shared blood with a vampire?  The prince of vampires no less: Dracula.
Ok Dacre Stoker is not related to the fanged one exactly. He's the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, the creator of Dracula. Close enough.
Dacre was born here. Now lives in South-Carolina. And is co-author of sequel to Bram Stoker's "Dracula" called "Dracula: Undead"...
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Oct 24, 2009

This past summer we interviewed Herman Leonard. Leonard is photographer known fro his iconic shots of jazz musicians. If you have an image of jazz in your head, Leonard probably shot the photo you're thinking of. In June he attended the Montreal Jazz festival and shot some more. He was recently back in town for the opening of an exhibition of his photos. We couldn't resist sitting down with him one more time...
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Oct 18, 2009



It was a trip full of up up ups and downs.
Last may Manuel Pizarro and Andre Rossin-Arthiat attempted to scale Mount Everest.
The climb was mounted in concert with and to benefit the Quebec Lung Association.
In the end only Pizarro made it to the top.
The two Montreal friends recently launched a documentary based on their trip...
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Margaret Trudeau practically grew up in the public eye.
She was often judged harshly but what people didn't know is that she was suffering from bi-polar disorder
Trudeau has since written a book about her ordeal and has become an in-demand speaker on the subject of mental health.
This weekend she'll be taking part in the inaugaural Montreal Walks for Mental Health Event.
She's its honorary chairperson...
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Oct 17, 2009

The Shortlist is out. The runup up to the 2009 Governor General Literary awards.
Sina Queyras made the list. She's a Montreal poet.
Her latest bookof verse is called "Expressway". It's what got her the nod...
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November 9 marks the fall of the Berlin Wall.
To celebrate the 20th anniversarry of this historic event Montreal's Geothe has been organizing a slew of film screenings and special programs.
This past week the Geothe invited Andreas Dresen to take part in the activities.
Dresen is a film director. His films include "Policewoman" and "Whiskey and Vodka". He was born in the East in 1963 and is one of the few filmmakers from the GDR who had success after reunification...
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Oct 11, 2009



The documentary is called "Taqwacore: Birth of Punk Islam".
It's about muslim youth in America using punk music and punk attitude as their own counterculture.
Apparently punk and islam are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Omar Majeed is a Montrealer. He's also the director of Taqwacore...
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He's made zombies his life.
George Romero waltzed with zombies from his first film "Night of the Living Dead", though to "Dawn of the Dead", "Day of the Dead" and his most recent zombie film "Survival of the Dead".
You might call these films trash, but Romero has always made his zombies smart.
His films are imbued with a social and political conscience. The gore? Well that just makes them seem more visceral.
Romero arrived in Montreal on Friday to receive a lifetime acheivement award from the festival of New Cinema...
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Oct 10, 2009



The film "Cairo Time" is about a Canadian woman who finds unexpected love in Cairo.
For the city. For a man.
East and west come together.
Rubba Nadda wrote and directed the film...
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Oct 4, 2009



Fifty years ago a doctor from Quebec, Lucille Teasdale, and her husband Piero Corti, an Italian physician, founded a small hospital with only 30 beds in Gulu, northern Uganda. The Lacor Hospital is now truly an African success story. It has managed to survive the civil war, the AIDS epidemic and the terrible and lethal Ebola epidemic. It's ironic but it's in peacetime that the hospital is facing it's most severe challenges: loss of funding.
Dr Dominique Corti is only daughter of Lucille Teasdale and Piero Corti...
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Oct 3, 2009



Lee Firelds never hit it big as a soul and R&B singer.
He was no Smokey or James Brown.
In the 60 and 70s he cut a few choice singles. They're considered collector's items now.
But a few years ago people started to catch on.
Young musicians, Brookly hipster types, wanted to work with him.
So today Lee Fields is playing shows. Doing his thing again.
He performed as part of Montreal's Pop Montreal festival. We spoke to him earlier on the phone....
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Dave says goodbye to his old friend Stuart Robertson:

The very first phone-in I did on Radio Noon was with Stuart more than 25 years ago. I didn't have to work much, thank God. I just gave the time and the phone numbers every now and then and got out of the way. Everybody wanted to talk with Stuart, as it should have been. The last time we worked together was on a Radio Noon phone-in just a few months ago. Boy, did we have fun. Gardening is such a calming pursuit that inspires such passion in people. After talking with Stuart you could hear the relief in every listener's voice. They got the word from the Man that their garden was going to be OK. Life was going to be OK. We'll miss you dear boy.
(Listen to Dave's last on-air chat with Stuart on AIAW, which originally aired Dec. 1, 2007)

Sept 27, 2009

Since the days of her protest song "Universal Soldier" Buffy Sainte-Marie has been speaking her mind and advancing the case of native rights and culture.
This past year she came out with a new album, Running to the Drum, and she's set to take the stage in Montreal next Friday...
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Sept 26, 2009
Fintan O'Toole has been a keen observer of Ireland for over two decades.
He's published widely and worked both as a journalist and critic.
He was in Montreal to talk about the state of post-boom Ireland...
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Aug 29, 2009
She was brought up in suburban Longueil.
But she's become one of the biggest movie stars to come out of Quebec.
I last talked to her after her breakout role in the Barbarian Invasions.
She's been living in France.
But she's back in Montreal for the World Film Festival.
She has two new movies.
Korkoro (or Freedom) about gypsies surving during the second world war.
And Mere et Filles, in which she stars with Catherine Deneuve.
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July 5, 2009

If you have an image of jazz in your head it's probably derived from a photo taken by Herman Leonard.
Leonard snapped some the most iconic jazz photos from 40 through the 50s and into the 60s.
He's had quite a life. Years in Paris and Ibiza. Working with Marlon Brando.
More recently spending a stretch of time in New Orleans. Only relocating to the the west coast after Katrina.
Herman Leonard was in Montreal for the Jazz fest.
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June 14, 2009
You might know his byline from the pages of The New Yorker and the New York Review of books. Daniel Mendelsohn is a writer, a critic and a classicist. His most recent project is personal. It involved trying to figure out what happened to some of his own family members who were killed in the Holocaust. He was in town in April at Blue Met to talk about his book, " The Lost: A Search for Sis of Six Million".
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June 13, 2009
Margaret Sekaggyia is a special rapporteur on the situation human rights defenders for the Human Rights Council. We talked to her about growing up in Uganda, becoming a lawyer and about why she does the work she does.
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May 30, 2009
Okay here's the made-in-Quebec movie fairytale.
Xavier Dolan is 17. He drops out of Cegep. An out of work ex-child actor he decides to write a film script.
For the the fun of it. An actor friend read it and said he should make a movie out of it.
None of the funding agencies want anything to do with the project. So at 19 he goes at it alone.
Movie gets made. It's called "J'ai tue ma mere" About a teenager, played by Dolan himself, and his tempestuous relationship with his mom.
The movie ends up going to Cannes. Wins a couple of prizes.
And all the sudden Xavier Dolan is a crowned prince of the local movie biz. He's 20.
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May 24, 2009
Robert Polidori is best known as a staff photographer of "The New Yorker" magazine.
But he's an art photographer. His photos focus on the remnants of disaster, buildings empty and destroyed. His recent subjects have included Cuba and New Orleans in the wake of Katrina.
Polidori was born in Montreal but moved to New York at age ten and has lived in Europe.
He's presently being honoured with a retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
We're including the complete version of our wide-ranging conversation with the eccentric photographer.
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May 23, 2009

For just under three decades Bill Haugland sat in the anchor chair on CFCF 12's nightly news.
In Montreal he's so associated with the job that it's easy to forget he also worked as a reporter for a decade for that. When Hauglan retired in 2006, it was the end of an era.
He's back now, though, with a book. It's called "Mobile 9", a political thriller about the turbulent late 60s in Quebec.
We spoke to Haugland at length about this long career in the news...
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February 15, 2009

Azar Nafisi beame the public face of a very private Iran with her book "Reading Lolita in Tehran".
That memoir told of her journey through the Islamic Revolution. Literature became her last provison.
She has a new memoir. The book is called "Things I have been Silent About". Again she weaves the personal with the political. But this time Nafisi is even more confessional. She tells about her troubled relationship with her parents. About finding herself and the values that would guide her.
In a two-part interview, we talked with her about the past, the present, family, politics and the power of literature.
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February 8, 2009
Next week is the bicentary of Charles Darwin's Birth. As such we thought it appropriate to catch up with one of Evolution's staunchest defenders, Brian Alters. Alters is the director of the Evolution Education Research Centre at McGill University.
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February 7, 2009

Jenn Grant is young singer-songwriter from the east coast who's been getting a lot of attention.
Her latest album is called "Echoes" and it's full of quirky, poetic and original songs.
Instead of a regular interview, we asked her to play a game of word association with us.
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February 1, 2009

Remember Robert Flaherty's movie "Nanook of the North"?
That film made the the Inuit famous around the world.
What's much less known, is that some of Flaherty's relations ended up being relocated to the near the arctic circle. This was the 50s and the Canadian government wanted to assert its sovereignty over the region.
Martha Flaherty is Robert Flaherty's granddaughter. She remembers the relocation as a kind of icy hell.
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January 31, 2009

Nicola Cavendish was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire County, England, but grew up in rural BC.
As an actress, she's graced many a stage. This week she takes on a role she first did 20 years ago -- Shirley Valentine. We talked to her about coming to Canada, the road that lead her to acting and the enduring appeal of that Valenetine woman.
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January 25, 2009
Eduardo Bruera, M.D., was the keynote speaker at McGill's annual Pain Day this past Thursday.
Bruera is one of the most respected names in the field of palliative care. He's spent the greater part of his career trying to improve the crucial relationship between doctor, patient and family of the patient. He wants to ease the pain. You could say Bruera has a calling.
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January 24, 2009
Ethel Bruneau should be a national treasure. But A this point she's just a municipal tresure.
Bruneau came to Montreal as a tap dancer in the 50s with Cab Calloway's band. You could almost say she brought tap with her. Since then she has been teaching tap to kids, keeping hoofing alive, and becoming a kind of living legend in the process.
On Friday Bruneau was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Prize at the Black Theatre Workshop's Vison Gala.
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January 18, 2009
Charles Cobb Jr was on the front lines of the fight for civil rights. The Brown university professor was involved in the voter registration movement in the early 60s. He gives us his thoughts on racism in America on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration.
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January 17, 2009

South Africa playwright Yael Farber calls Montreal home. She was brought up in Johnnesburg when Aperhteid was in its last violent death throes. That experience is the focus of her Theatre work, including the 2003 play, "Molora", which adaptw greek tragedy to South Africa during the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions.
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January 11, 2009
Maria Balinska is the author of "The Bagel:  The Surprising History of a Modest Bread ". Balisnska has studied the bagel. She's also eaten them around the world. We spoke to her about the illustrious bagel and how Montreal's version stands up.
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With the the seige of Gaza in fullswing, we called up Jason Shawa in Gaza City.
Shawa's mother is American, his father is Gazan and he's been living in Gaza for nearly 40 years.
He's a small businessman who's spent much of the last two weeks holed up in his apartment watching the bombs fall.
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January 10, 2009

This past Thursday Alain Brunet was named one of the top researchers in Quebec by "Sciences" magazine.
It's just the latest recognition for a man who has devoted over 15 years of his life to understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. For Brunet, a physcologist, research is key but clinical work is just as important. He does both.
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January 4, 2009

Michael Rudder was one of the Canadians shot during the attacks in Mumbai this past November. Rudder, a noted actor and long-time practitioner of meditation, has been recovering in his Montreal home. That's where we called him. (listen: 14:21)

January 3, 2009

From one of the world's great geopolitical analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world's powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival. Our interview with "Climate Wars" author Gwynne Dyer.
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