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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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Dec 4, 2012 | 25:00In the Field Presenting ourselves online and as victims of scarring injuries Part 2 AudioIn the Field Presenting ourselves online and as victims of scarring injuries Part 2 Dec 4, 2012 | 25:00In this part David Gutnick has some odd experiences reaching out the operators of a shadowy essay mill and after a flurry of e-mails he's left wondering whether he's writing a robot, or even a highly intelligent dog. A two women talk about what it's like to survive and then live with severely scarring injuries from when they were kids. They say they were shaped, but not defined by the trauma that they lived through.
Nov 27, 2012 | 27:30In the Field Grace under pressure and the unique way Danes tackle dementia Part 1 AudioIn the Field Grace under pressure and the unique way Danes tackle dementia Part 1 Nov 27, 2012 | 27:30There's a lot of talk about the growing problem of dementia in Canada. For the most part, those who have it are shut away and held under tight supervision. But not in Denmark. Dementia patients are free to travel, keep up on their hobbies and stay as independent as possible for as long as possible.
Nov 27, 2012 | 25:00In the Field Grace under pressure for the endangered, the dispossessed and grieving Part 2 AudioIn the Field Grace under pressure for the endangered, the dispossessed and grieving Part 2 Nov 27, 2012 | 25:00A look this week at Hemingway-eque grace under pressure. There's the graceful welcome by an immigration officer to a young Canadian man fleeing danger in Syria. The physically disabled Toronto women learning to defends themselves at their Wen-Do class. And the man in Yellowknife who is building his way out grief after losing his wife of 52 years.
Nov 20, 2012 | 25:00In the Field The uplift episode on beautiful music, laughter and crazy love Part 1 AudioIn the Field The uplift episode on beautiful music, laughter and crazy love Part 1 Nov 20, 2012 | 25:00Uplifting tales to tide us over the dark days of later November. There's the story of a Thunder Bay man with cerebral palsy who finds the world's most beautiful classical music makes life in a wheelchair more meaningful. Why doctors find laughter really is the best medicine. And how the revelation of one woman's big secret to her new boyfriend only deepened their love.
Nov 20, 2012 | 27:30In the Field The uplift episode contd. on hope against all odds and whales Part 2 AudioIn the Field The uplift episode contd. on hope against all odds and whales Part 2 Nov 20, 2012 | 27:30Erin Kapela and her very brave friend Lee-Anne Peters at a birthday party. Lee-Anne is dying from a terminal disease, but is cheerfully determined to seize the days left to her by working down her bucket list, including having an enormous bash when she turned 27 recently. And also in this episode, getting up close and personal with humpback whales off the coast of Alaska.
Nov 13, 2012 | 25:00In the Field Timing is everything at Christmastime and for hippies Part 2 AudioIn the Field Timing is everything at Christmastime and for hippies Part 2 Nov 13, 2012 | 25:00A looking at timing and how it can govern the course of our lives. Retailers deciding on earlier and earlier starts for their Christmas sales campaigns are increasing premature holiday stress on us all. And group of superannuated hippies decide the time is right for a nostalgic return to their old commune deep in the countryside of rural Nova Scotia.
Nov 13, 2012 | 27:30In the Field Timing is everything for plane crash survivors and a 90 year business Part 1 AudioIn the Field Timing is everything for plane crash survivors and a 90 year business Part 1 Nov 13, 2012 | 27:30Survivors of a horrific plane crash in northern Alberta reflect on a time 30 years ago when a series of seemingly minor decisions ended up saving their lives -- and ending those of their unfortunate fellow passengers. A Copps has been be a shoe selling institution in B.C. for nearly a century. But after a lot of "sole searching" the head of the family-run business has decided to hang 'em up.
Nov 5, 2012 | 27:30In the Field War and Remembrance of the 20th Century Part 2 AudioIn the Field War and Remembrance of the 20th Century Part 2 Nov 5, 2012 | 27:30The second part of our program on war and remembrance looks back on the experiences of World Wars I and II. In The Field remembers the catastrophic sinking of a civilian ferry off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942. The boys of the Regina Rifle Regiment who fought through D-Day and beyond. And how the civil rights of loyal Canadians were abused in both world wars.
Nov 5, 2012 | 25:00In the Field War and Remembrance of Afghanistan Part 1 AudioIn the Field War and Remembrance of Afghanistan Part 1 Nov 5, 2012 | 25:00On this episode of In The Field, Remembrance Day week in Canada is seen in the light of our experience in Afghanistan. A documentary by veteran CBC journalist Rick MacInnes-Rae features a moving interview with a Canadian soldier just days after he was critically wounded on an Afghan battlefield. And the story of Suzanne Steele, Canada's official war poet in Afghanistan.
Oct 30, 2012 | 25:00In the Field Great institutions we should all pay attention to Part 2 AudioIn the Field Great institutions we should all pay attention to Part 2 Oct 30, 2012 | 25:00On this episode, how we organize institutions. Organization gives us meaning and structure and allows us to do things, like create an innovative new institution, a retirement home run by the residents, who happen to be a band of militant French feminists. And a short documentary on one of our great institutions, the Canadian Girl Guides.
Oct 30, 2012 | 27:30In the Field Great institutions we should pay attention to, or not Part 1 AudioIn the Field Great institutions we should pay attention to, or not Part 1 Oct 30, 2012 | 27:30On this episode on organization we also look at how a degree of disorganization denies needed health care to those looking after family members with multiple physical and mental handicaps. On a brighter note, another documentary finds out why great organization has given Regina a ground-breaking new school.
Oct 23, 2012 | 25:00In the Field Canadian beauty is about good hair, Yukon and music Part 1 AudioIn the Field Canadian beauty is about good hair, Yukon and music Part 1 Oct 23, 2012 | 25:00In this episode of In The Field we explore concepts about beauty, including an entire community in Toronto dedicated to hair care, a Kenyan-Canadian who've discovered la dolce vitae in the tiny community of Old Crow, Yukon, and one of Canada's most beautiful singers.
Oct 23, 2012 | 27:30In the Field Canadian beauty is about Raylene Rankin's singing Part 2 AudioIn the Field Canadian beauty is about Raylene Rankin's singing Part 2 Oct 23, 2012 | 27:30In the second of a two part exploration of Canadian beauty, In The Field showcases a feature documentary on the late Raylene Rankin. Before here 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.
Oct 16, 2012 | 27:30In the Field Didn't See That Coming Part 2 AudioIn the Field Didn't See That Coming Part 2 Oct 16, 2012 | 27:30In Part Two of our show on shock and surprise, few incidents were more shocking in Canada in the early 1970s than the Kingston Prison riot. More than 500 inmates took charge of the prison, grabbed several guards as hostages and started to tear their building apart. The authorities reacted by calling in the army and by preparing themselves for the worst possible outcome. Cool heads on both sides gradually brought this crisis under control, but not without deaths and injuries. Survivors look back more than 40 years after one of the most searing events in the history of Canadian penitentiaries.
Oct 16, 2012 | 25:00In the Field Didn't See That Coming Part 1 AudioIn the Field Didn't See That Coming Part 1 Oct 16, 2012 | 25:00In this episode of the show we hear stories that evoke shock and surprise. In Part One we hear the amazing news that Newfoundland is gradually sinking into the North Atlantic – and how Newfoundlanders are taking this in their stride. Then there’s Kelly Hofer who shocked his friends and family by giving up his traditional life on a Manitoba Hutterite colony to move to Calgary to pursue a dream to become a big city photographer. Residents of the island of Haida Gwaii just off B.C.’s coast are surprised and saddened to see enormous amounts of Japanese tsunami debris wash up on their shores. A girl in Ottawa is attracting attention by befriending Walter the crow and … a student at the University of Saskatchewan is promoting greater levels of on campus blasphemy as an exercise in free speech