Features: June 2011 Archives

Friday June 24, 2011

G-20 Bill Blair (Extended Version)

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A seventy-page document from Toronto's Chief of Police could be summed up as follows: "We messed up." 
The report is a post mortem of policing at last year's G20 summit. And to be fair, yesterday's report does point out that the police did a couple of big things right: there was never a breach of security at G20 summit sites in Toronto, and the safety of VIPs was not compromised. But there's also a stark admission that officers were overwhelmed by events.
We reached Chief Bill Blair in Toronto.

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Friday June 17, 2011

Botswana Ambassador (extended version)

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The Bushmen of the Kalahari don't exactly have a high profile on the international stage, but, like aboriginal people in many other parts of the world, they have claims against their government - claims of abuse, forced resettlement and the basic denial of human rights. In this case, it's about the government of Botswana, a country that many view as a beacon of democracy in Africa.

Monday night on As It Happens, we heard from Roy Sesana, a Bushman of the Kalahari. He's been waging a long legal battle for the rights of his people. The courts of Botswana have ruled in favour of the First People of the Kalahari, also known as the Basarwa, but Mr. Sesana says the government is not respecting those rulings.

Tebelelo Seretse is Botswana's Ambassador to the United States. We reached her in Washington.

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• December 2011
  • Thu., 15 – Hummingbird Mystery Solved
     
  • Thu., 1 – A Whale of an Accent
     
• November 2011
  • Thu., 24 – Ann Patchett - Parnassus Books
     
  • Tue., 22 – Return to Tahrir
     
  • Wed., 16 – Featured Audio: New "Marcel the Shell" Video
     
• October 2011
  • Mon., 10 – Jim Thomson responds to Don Cherry
     
  • Fri., 7 – Swede meets weed
     
• September 2011
  • Wed., 28 – Mount Allison Memorial Library
     
  • Wed., 21 – Africville Heritage Trust
     
  • Wed., 21 – Canadian Air and Space Museum Closure
     
  • Tue., 20 – Omnibus Crime Bill: The View from Victim's Services 9/19/2011
     
  • Thu., 15 – Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz
     
• August 2011
  • Thu., 25 – Interview With Nurse Karen Graham In Tripoli
     
• July 2011
  • Fri., 29 – Ireland Church Abuse (extended version)
     
  • Fri., 1 – Afghanistan Archive Feature
     
• June 2011
  • Fri., 24 – G-20 Bill Blair (Extended Version)
     
  • Fri., 17 – Botswana Ambassador (extended version)
     
• March 2011
  • Fri., 25 – For the Record: Photocopier Transcript - An "As it Happens" Dramatization
     
• February 2011
  • Wed., 23 – Gene Sharp on Non-Violent Revolution
     
• January 2011
  • Wed., 19 – Word of the Day: "Bicimaquina"
     
  • Thu., 13 – Sarah Palin's "Blood Libel" Video - full response by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
     
• December 2010
  • Fri., 24 – Al Maitland Reads Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd"
     
• October 2010
  • Fri., 29 – As It Happens interview with Rob Ford, Toronto's Mayor Elect
     
• July 2010
  • Wed., 14 – Vermontasaurus
     
• October 2009
  • Wed., 21 – Brian Jungen
     
  • Wed., 14 – World's Hottest Curry
     
  • Thu., 8 – Pothole Art
     
• June 2009
  • Mon., 22 – Fastest Hummingbird
     
  • Mon., 1 – Iran's Election Crisis
     
• April 2009
  • Thu., 30 – Inside Hana's Suitcase - the story about Hana and George Brady
     
  • Tue., 21 – Farmer brings Nazi-bred cows back to Britain after 2,000 years
     
• March 2001
  • Thu., 29 – AIH pays respect to the man behind our theme song