March 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * Ralph Klein Obit. Ralph Klein, who dominated Alberta's politics for more than a decade, dies at the age of 70.*...
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Friday, March 29, 2013 | Categories: Features |
It's the fifth-most popular website on the planet, and the go-to source for facts for hundreds of millions of people every day. And since 2007,...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories: Features |
The intelligence file on Tommy Douglas will remain secret, even though he's been dead for 27 years. The Supreme Court has refused to hear an...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Every year around this time,artists create dioramas using the marshmallow chicks and bunnies known as "Peeps". And for the past 7 years, the Washington Post...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories: Features |
194 countries, and the European Union, agree it's an important convention. One country doesn't. Canada has become the first and only country in the world...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * UN Drought Convention. Canada becomes the first and only country to leave the Convention to Combat Desertification.* Labrador Resettlement. The...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Categories: Features |
By the end of the week, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy will cease to exist. The hundreds of documents previously...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include:Part One:*North Dakota Abortion. The State's governor approves the toughest abortion restrictions in the country. *Scottish Wind Farm. A plan for offshore turbines goes ahead...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Watch the video "May in Syria" on your phone or tablet. Two years of violence. 70,000 people dead. A million forced from their homes...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | Categories: Features |
In the southern United States, they take their barbecue seriously. You might even say it's a religion. And there was a collective groan across America...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include:Part One:* NFLD Budget. Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are in for some belt-tightening, thanks to lower-than-expected oil prices.* Rob Ford Intoxicated? The mayor of Canada's...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Categories: Features |
On Sunday, London's Mayor, Boris Johnson, appeared on the BBC program "The Andrew Marr Show". He was interviewed by guest host Eddie Mair. From...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Categories: Features |
There has been a lot of press recently regarding the alleged 'muzzling' of government scientists and employees of Libraries and Archives Canada.Now, it seems that...
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Monday, March 25, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: *Levant Apology. Sun News VP on Ezra Levant's disparaging on-air comments about Roma people. *Algae Lab Winner. A seventeen-year-old Colorado...
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Monday, March 25, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Last fall, we told you about a Toronto police investigation based on complaints made against broadcaster Ezra Levant -- concerning comments he made on his...
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Monday, March 25, 2013 | Categories: Features |
It may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover. But judging a book by its title? Well, that's a whole 'nother...
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Friday, March 22, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One:*Experimental Lakes: Founder David Schindler urges Ottawa to spare the research facility. *Oddest Book Prize: Cooking With Poo vs Living With Crazy...
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Friday, March 22, 2013 | Categories: Features |
As we've discussed on the program this week, federal funding for the Experimental Lakes Area in northern Ontario will be cut off at the end...
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Friday, March 22, 2013 | Categories: Features |
These days when the residents of Brandon, Manitoba look out their windows, they might just see something unusual: a woman in a bathing suit and...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One:*Budget Day: NDP Finance Critic Peggy Nash.*Manitoba Grandmother: Finding fame, underdressed, on a cold bike frame. Part Two:*CBSA Raids Complaint: Border Services'...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Canadians aren't the only researchers trying to save the Experimental Lakes Area. This week we've told you about the closure of the ELA in northern...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One:*Experimental Lakes: The president of the world's freshwater scientists damns the shut-down. *Picklesfest: London's cup runneth over for a dead World Cup trophy-saving...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | Categories: Features |
The Westboro Baptist Church is located in Topeka, Kansas. Under the leadership of Fred Phelps, the church is known primarily for picketing funerals, with messages...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Library and Archives Canada has put a new code of conduct in place to regulate the potential "high risk" behaviour of its employees. The agency...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Last night on the program, we told you about the impending closure of the Experimental Lakes Area, or ELA. The ELA is a world-renowned research...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One:*Iraq Anniversary: A report from Baghdad, 10 years after "Shock and Awe". *Apostrophe Ban Reverse: A UK council reconsiders its repunctuation. Part Two:*Experimental...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Categories: Features |
The Enviromental Law Centre at the University of Victoria has presented a 128-page report - documenting what they call the 'muzzling' of government scientists -...
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Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Fifty years is a long career in any field. Especially when you work with your twin sister. So Louise and Martine Fokkens are calling it...
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Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One:* Cyprus Crisis: Nicosia bailout bank levy has a resident economic historian looking to make a withdrawal.* Retiring Prostitutes: 2 Amsterdam twins...
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Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories: Features |
The Prime Minister has lost a cabinet minister -- and Reg Bowers has been given the blame. During the last election, Mr. Bowers was the...
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Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include:Part One:* US Missiles - North Korea. An analyst reacts to a US plan to bolster its missile defenses in Alaska* Titanic Violin. We...
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Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Last Thursday night, for the second time in a year, a brawl broke out in one of the exclusive watering holes at the British House...
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Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Mark Mihal and his three friends were just out enjoying a round of golf. But instead of sinking a 'hole-in-one' -- Mr. Mihal ended up...
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Friday, March 15, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Yesterday, Peter Penashue resigned from Cabinet and the House of Commons, acknowledging that ineligible donations had been made to his campaign, but blaming them on...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include:Part One:* Penashue Resigns. The embattled Minister and MP steps down over election irregularities - but vows to run again.* Sinkhole Golfer. A golf...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Jessica Green is a microbiologist and the director of the Biology and the Built Environment Lab at the University of Oregon. And in a new...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * New Pope. We have reaction to the election of Francis I from Italy and Argentina. * Thumper Biscuit. A scientist...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was chosen as the head of the Catholic Church this afternoon. He is now Pope Francis I, the...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories: Features |
On Monday, we spoke with Maria Kadoglou, one of ten thousand people who marched last week to protest a Canadian gold mine project in Greece's...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Imagine a road trip from coast to coast to COAST.It's not possible yet -- but it will be soon. The Northwest Territories has approved...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include:Part One:* Greece Mine Follow. A Canadian mining company in Greece responds to complaints raised by thousands of protesters.* Stonehenge Study. Research suggests Stonehenge...
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Monday, March 11, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Picklesfest, to be held on March 20th in South London, will commemorate one of history's most important soccer super sleuths, the late Pickles the Dog....
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Monday, March 11, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One:*NWT Devolution: Premier Bob McLeod defends his deal to have Ottawa devolve more power to the territory. *Sequestration Yellowstone: Washington's budget imbroglio...
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Monday, March 11, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Yesterday, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora - or CITES - voted to protect three endangered species of...
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Monday, March 11, 2013 | Categories: Features |
On its website, the University of Michigan-based Undocumented Migration Project describes itself as "a long-term anthropological study of undocumented migration between Mexico and the United...
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Friday, March 8, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Louise Marchand , the woman at the center of Quebec's "Pastagate", stepped down Friday from her post at the Office Québecois de la Langue Francaise....
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Friday, March 8, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: *SCC : Métis Decision. A historic ruling against the Canadian government settles a 140-year-old land dispute. *Language Cop Quits. A restaurateur...
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Friday, March 8, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Legendary CBC personality Max Ferguson died yesterday. Mr. Ferguson he was 89. For 52 years, Max Ferguson charmed Canadians with his wit and bang-on impersonations,...
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 | Categories: Features |
If you're a regular cyclist in a Canadian city, this story may make you a tiny bit envious. Or unbelievably, unbearably envious. Yesterday, Boris Johnson,...
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: *Prison Report. Canada's Correctional Investigator says Aboriginals are overrepresented in federal prisons. *Stompin' Tom Obituary. Musician Corb Lund remembers the Canadian...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | Categories: Features |
A dramatic 9-1-1 call from a retirement home in Bakersfield, California, concerning an 87-year-old woman who collapsed, is garnering all sorts of reaction and calls...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: *911 CPR Folo. After hearing a tragic 911 call from a California retirement home, a state lawmaker is investigating. *Florida Sinkhole....
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Early in the new year, it was confirmed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would not attend his inauguration ceremony, set for January 10th. The National...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Last Tuesday, an 87-year-old woman lost consciousness at an assisted living facility in Bakersfield, California, where she lived. Someone called 911, but staff at the...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: *Arctic Passage. A geographer says by mid-century a shipping lane from Europe to Asia will cut through the North Pole. *Grunting...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | Categories: Features |
People the world over are offering up their services to the Cincinnati Zoo, just to hang out with a five-week-old baby gorilla named Gladys. Gladys...
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Monday, March 4, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Some years ago, Forrest Fenn was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The Santa Fe, New Mexico- based antiquities dealer decided that he would like to bequeath...
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Monday, March 4, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: *Joe Oliver: The Natural Resource Minister heads to the US to pitch the Keystone XL pipeline.*Treasure Hunt: The man who has...
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Monday, March 4, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring debuted in Paris a century ago this spring -- a performance that famously provoked yelling, booing and fighting in the...
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Monday, March 4, 2013 | Categories: |
If you want to join the search for Forrest Fenn's treasure chest, you'll need his poem of clues. Find that here: http://www.oldsantafetradingco.com/the-thrill-resource-page....
Monday, March 4, 2013 | Categories: Features |
From the time of the Puritans until now, there has never been a true separation of church and state. That's what historian Andrew Preston found...
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Friday, March 1, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Carl Blake is an Iowa pig farmer who has bred the pig first bred for King Wilhelm I of Wurttemberg, Germany, in the 1820s. It...
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Friday, March 1, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Highlights Include: Part One: * SA Taxi Death Arrest. South Africans respond to the horrific video of a man who died after being dragged behind...
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Friday, March 1, 2013 | Categories: Features |
Carl Blake is an Iowa pig farmer who has re-bred the pig first bred for King Wilhelm I of Wurttemberg, Germany, in the 1820s. It...
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