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Q | Feb 28, 2013
Giorgi Gogia, from Human Rights Watch, on how a novel about a friendship between two Azerbaijani men and their Armenian neighbours made the author a target in his own country. Legendary Canadian comedian Martin Short on his life, career and unique role promoting Canadian talent. Writer Peter Frase on defending rude service.
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The Current | Feb 28, 2013
Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the target of a police tip-line urging other drivers to call in to report any seemingly erratic or dangerous elderly driver. Simple public safety in action? Or age discrimination?
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Mainstreet NS | Mar 1, 2013
A team led by our oceans guy, Boris Worm, has found that about 100 million sharks die every year, and the biggest preventable culprit is fishing. He explains the significance of his finding.
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And the Winner Is | Feb 26, 2013
As a boy in pre-war Austria, Georg Tintner played the piano, sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and composed his own music. By the time World War Two broke out, he was also a conductor. But Georg Tintner was a conductor with Jewish roots. And so, after the Anschluss in 1938, he was fired. By 1942, Mr. Tintner made his way to New Zealand, and for the better part of the next forty-five years of his life, he served as a conductor across New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. But in 1987, he moved to Halifax, where he would leave his mark as the conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia. He died in Halifax on October 2, 1999.
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Tapestry | Feb 22, 2013
We take a look at how doubt and skepticism can be essential ingredients to faith. Mary meets Rabbi Rami Shapiro - a rabbi who says he isn't religious, but rather a curious, holy rascal. She also talks to Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic Magazine. He's held his own against Deepak Chopra in a go round on consciousness and quantum physics.
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Feb 26, 2013 | 54:00In the Field In The Field February 26 2013 AudioIn the Field In The Field February 26 2013 Feb 26, 2013 | 54:00This week in In The Field, in honour of this year's Canada Reads winner, Lisa Moore's "February," we dig into the archives and replay Marie Wadden's documentary on the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, called "Still Sinking; Remembering the Ocean Ranger Disaster." The documentary originally aired on The Current on the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Ocean Ranger and features excerpts of February read by author Lisa Moore. Mary Wiens introduces us to Katie from Burlington and Dhruva from Hyderabad, who met in Toronto and got married in India on February 14th. Zac Markan meets some urban mushers from Halifax, who use dog sledding to keep their pooches en sante. And we hear Karin Wells' visit to a barbershop in Vancouver that has raised about $200,000 for charities across the city over the past several years.
5.In Thunder Bay, the airport is selling off its furniture. JOsh Lynn checked it out.
Feb 19, 2013 | 53:59In the Field In The Field Feb 19, 2013 AudioIn the Field In The Field Feb 19, 2013 Feb 19, 2013 | 53:59This week on In The Field, some dedicated Tragically Hip fans. Fly-around-the-world-to-see-them-dedicated fans. We'll also hear about a theatre production in Montreal bringing the classic South African novel "Waiting For The Barbarians" to the stage. And we'll meet the volunteer who help French-speaking visually impaired people to read, a wolf pack on the wide open spaces of Washington State and the man who built Ottawa's skinniest house.
Feb 12, 2013 | 53:59In the Field In The Field February 12, 2013 AudioIn the Field In The Field February 12, 2013 Feb 12, 2013 | 53:59This week on In The Field, we'll hear about the inaugural production from Halifax's Charles Taylor Theatre Company, the city's first professional black theatre company, we'll get a tour of the Quartier Francais of St Boniface in Winnipeg and we visit Mamisarvik, an Inuit-specific centres for the treatment of trauma and addiction in Ottawa.
Feb 5, 2013 | 54:00In the Field In The Field February 5, 2013 AudioIn the Field In The Field February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 | 54:00This week on In The Field, Vancouver freelancer Eileen Power tries to restore a family heirloom to its former glory, or at least get it in tune. And former Accordion Idol Justin Martin takes his button accordion to an elementary school in Sheshatshiu Labrador.
And Karin Wells takes us to El Salvador, where there is a lot of opposition to a Vancouver junior mining company's attempt to open a gold mine.
Jan 29, 2013 | 53:59In the Field In The Field January 29, 2013 AudioIn the Field In The Field January 29, 2013 Jan 29, 2013 | 53:59This week on In The Field, we'll head south of the border ... to a gym in Connecticut where a hijab-wearing personal trainer teaches more than physical fitness. We will also follow an Ottawa architect to Washington DC's Gallaudet University, where he is building bridges...by tearing down walls. We also meet one resident of a Regina apartment building built to help female addicts get back on track, and a university student whose own condition, Treacher Collins Syndrome, prompted his area of study.
But let's begin closer to home, in Toronto, with medical story that you will not want to miss.
Jan 22, 2013 | 54:00In the Field January 22, 2013 AudioIn the Field January 22, 2013 Jan 22, 2013 | 54:00This week on In The Field we revisit a trip David made to Haiti three years ago just after the 2010 earthquake, and a day he spent in one of the makeshift tent camps. We also meet a man who offers up free prayers in Kelowna and we head to Winnipeg to say goodbye to the Paddlewheel restaurant and go backstage to meet the costume designer for a local production of Gone With the Wind.
Jan 15, 2013 | 53:59In the Field From Africa to Edmonton in 54 minutes AudioIn the Field From Africa to Edmonton in 54 minutes Jan 15, 2013 | 53:59This week on In The Field we travel from the Nile Basin in Eastern Africa to a skating rink in Quebec ... and from hockey fights to civil war. We'll meet some icy entrepreneurs in an Edmonton schoolyard... and we'll buy a ticket pour le cinema in Quebec's Laurentians.
Jan 8, 2013 | 54:00In the Field To our good health in 2013 episode AudioIn the Field To our good health in 2013 episode Jan 8, 2013 | 54:00As we all try begin the New Year on a healthy footing, the show looks at stories involving disease and nutrition, including, a series of documentaries on how a community-centred group is effectively fighting AIDS/HIV in Cape Breton ... yet fears for its future, why seniors and the poor face hardship over the loss of a chain of department store lunch counters, why Newfoundlanders are so passionate about their bologna and why a store that sells nothing but olive oil and vinegar is thriving in Moose Jaw.
Jan 1, 2013 | 54:00In the Field The season's best, our Raylene Rankin tribute episode AudioIn the Field The season's best, our Raylene Rankin tribute episode Jan 1, 2013 | 54:00Today's special encore holiday episode features a documentary on the late Raylene Rankin. Before her untimely death in the autumn of 2012 Rankin secured her place in the Canadian pop music pantheon with her gorgeous performances of hits like All The Diamonds and Rise Again. In interviews recorded just months before her death, Rankin talks frankly about her career, her family and her hopes and fears for the future.
Dec 30, 2012 | 53:53In the Field The season's best, our Denmark as the Promised Land episode AudioIn the Field The season's best, our Denmark as the Promised Land episode Dec 30, 2012 | 53:53Today's special encore holiday episode features a documentary by The Sunday Edition's Karin Wells. "Gatekeepers To A Promised Land" looks at Denmark and how having the toughest immigration laws in the world affects workers there. Some Danes have a hard time accepting the changing face of their society as more and more foreign workers arrive to do that country's least desirable jobs. A political backlash has meant that in some cases the families of these new Danes are being broken up and, in others, badly needed foreign laborers are being discouraged from coming in the first place.
Dec 18, 2012 | 27:30In the Field Christmas comes to the makers of isty-bitsy, teen weeny furniture AudioIn the Field Christmas comes to the makers of isty-bitsy, teen weeny furniture Dec 18, 2012 | 27:30It puts Santa's Workshop to shame. A documentary on a group of miniaturists who got together this autumn in Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia. What's a miniaturist? They're hobbyists who delight in making tiny, perfect replicas of furniture and other household objects. But the inhabitants of Camp Mini Ha Ha also gather for a kind of informal group therapy.
Dec 18, 2012 | 25:00In the Field Christmas comes to Thunder Bay, Calgary and charitable gift givers AudioIn the Field Christmas comes to Thunder Bay, Calgary and charitable gift givers Dec 18, 2012 | 25:00The holidays on In The Field as a couple of facebook friends help out families in Thunder Bay who've lost all their decorations, as Torontonians debate giving a charitable donation in someone else's name (instead of actual gifts), as Prairie folks agonize over whether or not to send Christmas cards and as a nice Jewish girl in Calgary tries to decide whether or not to put up a tree and lights this year.
Dec 11, 2012 | 25:00In the Field Our history together in retailing and elders' online gaming Part 2 AudioIn the Field Our history together in retailing and elders' online gaming Part 2 Dec 11, 2012 | 25:00A Haitian proverb says, "With hands together ... the weight is not heavy." And that certainly applies to a small community in upstate New York where people replaced a failed retail business and fended off a huge multinational corporation by starting their own community department store. And a 67-year-old in Regina working friends to achieve collective online gaming glory.
Dec 11, 2012 | 27:30In the Field Our history together with one person fighting violence against women Part 1 AudioIn the Field Our history together with one person fighting violence against women Part 1 Dec 11, 2012 | 27:30Young Angel Wolfe could have retreated into grief when she discovered her mother's remains were among those discovered on the Pickton farm outside Vancouver. Instead, Angel decided to follow a better path by speaking out and organizing people to better protect other women against violence. And she believe she is getting the full support of her mum from the great beyond..
Dec 4, 2012 | 27:30In the Field Presenting ourselves to bullies and to the world as Elvis Part 1 AudioIn the Field Presenting ourselves to bullies and to the world as Elvis Part 1 Dec 4, 2012 | 27:30Frank Faulk asks whether it's better to strike back at someone bullying you, or to show some restraint. The answer may supply you as Frank talks to victims and the bullies themselves. And a visit with Thunder Bay's foremost Elvis, impersonator, who, uh, thank you very much, is taking care of business.
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