October 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * US Election: Howard Dean. The former Presidential hopeful and Democratic National Committee Chair shares his thoughts on Obama and Romney.*...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | Categories: Features |
For many Americans the list of things to get done before Tuesday's presidential vote has grown and changed dramatically since Hurricane Sandy. Despite the storm,...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Canada's Navigable Waters Act offers a series of environmental protections to every lake that's big enough to float a boat. That is a lot of...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | Categories: Features |
A new perspective on anything is exciting. But when it's a fresh look at one of the oldest ruses in the book - the Trojan...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Lakes and Creeks. When Ottawa cuts the number of protected lakes from thousands to 97 a reporter with an atlas...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | Categories: Features |
This evening, the winner of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize will be announced, and on this day of celebrating the best of Canadian literature, it...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Tonight, the five finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize will gather at a gala dinner in Toronto. But only one will leave with the fifty-thousand...
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Monday, October 29, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Hurricane Sandy. Becky Duer lives at the Best Of Life Park seniors building in Atlantic City, and refuses to leave.*...
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Monday, October 29, 2012 | Categories: Features |
The source of Mali's troubles in the north stem from the group al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which has been setting off international alarm bells....
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Monday, October 29, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Pat Sutherland is opening up a whole new chapter in Canadian history. The Memorial University archaeologist and longtime curator at the Museum of Civilisation has...
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Monday, October 29, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Toumani Diabaté. Tinariwen. Ali Farka Touré. Amadou and Mariam. Theses are just a few of the giants of Mali's music scene on the world stage....
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Friday, October 26, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Viking Researcher. An archaeologist discovers a Norse camp high in the Canadian Arctic but finds herself cut off from finding...
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Friday, October 26, 2012 | Categories: Features |
On Monday, a public hearing is scheduled to begin on Shell Canada's planned expansion of its Jackpine oilsands mine in northern Alberta. A joint federal...
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Friday, October 26, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Toronto Police have announced they've undertaken a formal investigation into a complaint registered by members of Canada's Roma community against broadcaster Ezra Levant earlier this...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * New Pakistan Threat. We hear from a Pakistani teen and her father, advocates for girls' education, who have recieved Taliban...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 | Categories: Features |
For political commentator Ann Coulter, being offensive is pretty much a career description. The most recent of countless examples came on Monday night, in response...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is now in a women's prison colony hundreds of kilometres from Moscow. Her bandmate, Maria Alyokhina, is on her way...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Coulter "Retard" Tweet. Ann Coulter calls President Obama a "retard", and gets a compassion lesson from a Special Olympian with...
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Some Turkish parents took their children to class this fall only to discover that their secular schools had been converted to Islamic ones over the...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | Categories: Features |
A present from the past. A ten-year-old boy from Ireland finds a message in a bottle sent by two twelve-year-old girls from Montreal, who are...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | Categories: Features |
He won't be dancing with himself.When Michael Henrichsen celebrates his 26th birthday this Friday, he'll be surrounded by about 1800 friends. And one special guest: '80s rocker...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Auditor General. Michael Ferguson says Canadian Forces veterans are being forced to fight through red tape in their quest for...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Most of us have done it - put our ethics in check and snagged a souvenir after a particularly memorable stay at a terrific hotel...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Elvis Afanasenko has just won his fourth world bolving championship up in Somerset, England. Now, it's possible that a small percentage of you may not...
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Monday, October 22, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights include:Part One:*George McGovern Obituary. American journalist Chris Hedges remembers the late senator and presidential candidate.*Italian Earthquake Trial: Seven geologists are sentenced to six years...
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Monday, October 22, 2012 | Categories: Features |
They have been waiting for well over three hundred years. And now, members of the Francis Xavier Mission in Kahnawake, Quebec will finally get their...
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Monday, October 22, 2012 | Categories: Features |
For Canadian, John Graham, thirteen tense days in October, 1962, begat an interesting opportunity.Mr. Graham was one of several Canadian diplomats, based in Havana, who...
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Friday, October 19, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Windsor-Detroit Bridge: NDP. Windsor MP Brian Masse says a new bridge to Detroit needs a proper environmental assessment. * Zumba...
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Friday, October 19, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Tonight, an exhibit entitled "nude men" opened at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria. It's a look at the portrayal of nude men in art...
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Friday, October 19, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Molly is a dog - a Teacup Chihuahua to be precise. The average weight of an adult female of this breed is somewhere in the...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Haida Geoengineering. The federal government claims the geo-engineers who dumped a hundred tonnes of iron dust into the Pacific broke...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012 | Categories: |
What happened in Honduras and what will happen to the beautiful game in Canada? Those are questions a lot of soccor fans are asking after...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012 | Categories: Features |
A different kind of exercise. A prostitution scandal involving a Zumba fitness instructor and more than one hundred local men rocks the small town...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Libya Deaths. Human Rights Watch paints a disturbing picture of what happened just after Moammar Gadhafi was captured. * Belfast...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Critics say the controversial dumping of tonnes of iron sulfate off the coast of Haida Gwaii contravenes at least three international moratoria on dumping and...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | Categories: Features |
The science behind geo-engineering as, at best, uncertain. Geo-engineering, of course, is the attempt to manipulate the environment manually in an attempt to reduce or...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Shauna Singh Baldwin's new novel, "The Selector of Souls", is set in India, where millions of girls go missing every year -- and millions of...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Dalton McGuinty. Two Liberal heavyweights - PEI Premier Robert Ghiz, and political strategist Warren Kinsella - reflect on the Ontario...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Categories: Features |
On Saturday, XL gave its entire workforce -- about two thousand people -- lay-off notices.Several hundred workers will return to the meat processing plant today,...
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Monday, October 15, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Part One:* Geo-engineering Violation. An illegal iron dumping project off the west coast has caused a dangerous plankton bloom. * XL: Brooks Mayor. Martin Shields...
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Monday, October 15, 2012 | Categories: Features |
One Calgary mother was so fed up with her messy children that she went on strike: she refused to pick up after anyone for six...
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Monday, October 15, 2012 | Categories: Features |
It was the size of an orange and oozing with something that looked like blood. Yet, Gino Covacci still bent down and picked it up...
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Friday, October 12, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Obit: Sealand Prince. Roy Bates, who claimed an old British Navy Fort as his own sovereign island called Sealand, has...
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Friday, October 12, 2012 | Categories: Features |
One hundred and sixty girls marched on the Constitutional High Court of Kenya to demand protection from a police force they say is failing them....
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Thursday, October 11, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Huawei: Shields. A former Nortel investigator blames Ottawa for failing to act when he warned them Chinese spies were plundering...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Malala Yousafzai is recovering at a hospital in Peshawar, after a complicated surgery to remove a bullet from her head. The fourteen-year-old Pakistani activist was...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Malala's Cousin. Malala Yousafzai's family says she is recovering, and they will not back down. But unfortunately, neither will the...
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An animated Mountie becomes a straw man in an American election ad attacking "socialized" medicine and the Democratic candidates who love it - just one...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | Categories: |
For an offensive tackle, a sack on your QB is about as bad as it gets. Worse when your quarterback is knocked out. But...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | Categories: Features |
The Britishisms are coming!Whenever it is felt that Queen's English is under threat by Yankee slang, a hue and cry is lifted that echoes across...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Pakistan Girl Shot. The Taliban attempts to assassinate a 14-year-old activist in the Swat Valley for speaking out for schools...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Malala Yousafzai is a fourteen-year-old Pakistani girl - an outspoken advocate for girl's education.. Earlier today, in Swat, Taliban assassins shot her. This is a...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Lionel Asbo is a terrible man -- one of author Martin Amis's worst villains. He's also the star of Mr. Amis's latest novel, "Lionel Asbo:...
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Monday, October 8, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Huawei Report. A former Canadian spy wonders why our government is happy to have a Chinese telecom company doing business here. *...
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Monday, October 8, 2012 | Categories: Features |
For a loyal and substantial following, the movie "First Blood" is a classic. Nowhere is it more popular than in the town of...
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Friday, October 5, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Tonight: All was not fair and square on the oval. American speedskater Simon Cho admits to tampering with a Canadian competitor's skates -- and tonight,...
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Friday, October 5, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Some people like to show their political leanings with a bumper sticker, a straw boater, or maybe a button with the name of their favourite...
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Friday, October 5, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Fried Chicken with a side of pop. Culture, that is. For over 25 years Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods has been serving up healthy doses...
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Thursday, October 4, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Tape: Saskatchewan Butcher. A Regina butcher who relied on XL Foods for his beef supply is now running low on...
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Thursday, October 4, 2012 | Categories: Features |
In March of this year, Carol was in Sarajevo for our special coverage of the anniversary of the start of the Bosnian War. During that...
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Thursday, October 4, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Looks like it's curtains for a Phoenix house built by Frank Lloyd Wright for his son. The current owner aims to knock it down and...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Bosnia Museum Closes. After 125 years, two World Wars and the Bosnian War -- the National Museum of Bosnia and...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Melissa Weeks has been charged with attempted murder -- for allegedly trying to poison her husband of just two weeks, Fred Weeks. Ms. Weeks is...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Assistant biology professor at University of Alberta, Tom Terzin has had an amazing eBay experience. For a price somewhere around $6000, Profession Terzin is now the...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Alberta Beef Union. Meat is pulled from store shelves, and the food inspectors' union says Ottawa is not giving enough...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | Categories: Features |
Omar Khadr's back in Canada, but still behind bars. His former cellmate, Moazzam Begg, calls that an injustice. He's been advocating for Mr. Khadr since...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | Categories: Features |
They were known as the Beltway Sniper attacks. It's been a decade since snipers terrorized the area around D.C. for three weeks. Ten people...
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Monday, October 1, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Omar Khadr Returns. Reaction from Moazzam Begg, Khadr's former cell mate, and Sgt. Layne Morris, who witnessed the Afghanistan fight...
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Monday, October 1, 2012 | Categories: Features |
One look at the pictures, and the scientists behind the Curiosity rover understood they'd received the best evidence so far that there may have been...
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Monday, October 1, 2012 | Categories: Features |
And, no, it's not Indiana Jones. Researchers have been analyzing a statue of the Buddhist god, Vaiśravana, unearthed by German archeologists in Tibet, and have...
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