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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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Jul 20, 2011 | 27:28The Late Show Bryce Keller - Episode 4 AudioThe Late Show Bryce Keller - Episode 4 Jul 20, 2011 | 27:28Bryce Keller wanted to be a solider. His parents were concerned, but accepting as their son felt it was a calling. Even in his childhood in Regina, Saskatchewan, Bryce was described as a natural born leader. Someone you could always depend on. But it was in the last few moments of his life that defined the person he had become. It was August 3rd, 2006 - in one of the bloodiest days of fighting for Canadians in the Afghanistan War, Bryce Keller went above and beyond the call of duty. The young man's heroic actions saved the lives of many on that fateful day.
Jul 13, 2011 | 27:29The Late Show Chava Rosenfarb - Episode 3 AudioThe Late Show Chava Rosenfarb - Episode 3 Jul 13, 2011 | 27:29Chava Rosenfarb wrote her first poem when she was eight years old, in her hometown of Lodz, Poland. She developed her literary voice in the Lodz Ghetto during the Second World War. Later in the Nazi concentration camps, she continued to write poetry in her native Yiddish, scribbling the words on the ceiling above her bunk bed with a stub of a pencil. Chava managed to survive Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. After the war, she moved to Montreal. Yet even as she raised her family and built a new life, she was compelled to relive her old one, to bear witness to the Holocaust and its effect on her beloved Lodz and its Jewish residents. Her life, her art, were dedicated not just to preserving those memories and the people who were lost, but to preserving Yiddish, the language of that lost era.
Jul 6, 2011 | 27:29The Late Show Captain David Trask - Episode 2 AudioThe Late Show Captain David Trask - Episode 2 Jul 6, 2011 | 27:29David Trask was born on land but lived most of his life on the waters off the coast of Nova Scotia. A respected dragger captain, he would often return from fishing trips, his boat brimming with the bounty of the sea.
Jun 29, 2011 | 27:28The Late Show Remembering Nathalia Petrovna Buchan - Episode 1 AudioThe Late Show Remembering Nathalia Petrovna Buchan - Episode 1 Jun 29, 2011 | 27:28The Bolshevik Revolution? Been there. Japanese prisoner of war camp? Done that. The Viet Nam war? Nathalia Petrovna Buchan helped start it. Tall tales, you say? Think again.
Nathalia passed away not so long ago in Victoria, having reached the century mark in her remarkable life. But before she came to the relative quiet of Canada, Nathalia was in Asia, living through many of the dramatic events that shaped the 20th century. Nathalia was no adventurer though. All she ever wanted was a stable and comfortable family life. Instead, bullets and bombs constantly followed her, testing her courage and her religious faith.
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