A Christmas Carol: Redux
“A Christmas Carol: Redux” gives a 21st century, dark comedic spin to the Charles Dickens classic. Set in the present day, with a crumbling economy and skyrocketing unemployment, cheapskate Scrooge refuses to share his wealth with those less fortunate. Join our narrator, Russell Thomas, as he recounts this classic Christmas tale with visits by The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future (all while he battles his own ghost: The Ghost of Recent Divorce).
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And The Winner Is...February 3, 2010 - Dispatches – Gee’s Bend, The Crossing
Gee's Bend - The Crossing, is the story of how two Alabama communities - one black, one white - trying to reconcile 35 years after segregation and the civil rights movement drove them apart.
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And The Winner Is...January 27, 2010 - In So Many Words
Steve Goff is one of more than 100,000 people in Canada who have aphasia. And yet the general public knows very little or nothing about it. Steve wants to change this. And although his words are broken, his message is clear.
This week's podcast features award-winning documentary "In So Many Words." It was produced for The Sunday Edition by Teresa Goff, Steve's daughter.
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And The Winner Is...January 20, 2010 - Cursed by Riches: How Can a Country So Rich Be So Poor?
The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country rich with natural resources. Diamonds, petroleum, gold... And yet, it's a country plagued by civil war and disease. Millions of Congolese have been killed in battle, slaughtered by war lords, or have died from Cholera and HIV/AIDS. So, how can a country so rich be so poor? This week on And the Winner Is... podcast David McLauchlin's award-winning documentary, "Cursed by Riches"
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As It Happens for Tuesday, February 9 * SCOC: Injection Site * FNUC Funding Cut * Brown Electoral Reform * Script: Philippines Karaoke Killings * Real Estate Association* FTR: Grain Elevator Burns * Quebec Asbestos Exports
Shooting down shooting up. The federal government announces it's going all the way to the Supreme Court, in an effort to close Vancouver's safe injection site. The realty of the situation. Canada's Competition Bureau says it's time the national Real Estate Association gets real. And, the current intuition: students will be out tuition. After its federal and provincial funding is pulled, it looks like school's nearly out for the First Nations University of Canada.
As It Happens for Monday, February 8, 2010 * Haiti: Women & Rape * FTR: Liberia Haiti Concert * Charles Taylor Winner * Ukraine Election * Tea Party Colorado Springs * Aging Genes * Combat Christians
Aftershocks. Nearly a month after the earthquake in Haiti, the women who survived face an increased threat of violence.
"Boy In The Moon"'s place in the sun. Ian Brown wins the Charles Taylor Prize for telling the story of his son Walker -- who can't tell his own story.
Residents of Colorado Springs throw everything into uncertainty, by collectively agreeing not to pay their taxes.
And...British scientists look to genetics to find out why some people seem to age faster than others.
As It Happens for Friday, February 5, 2010 * N. Ireland Deal * Buy American * iMussolini * Australian Fire Anniversary * World Debt * Talkback * Bee face recognition
My goodness, McGuinness. There's a new power-sharing deal for Northern Ireland -- and Martin McGuinness explains how it will work.
Into the jaws of debt. An economist tells us about the high stakes of the G-7 finance summit --and we're all arrears.
The dealing is mutual. We'll talk to International Trade Minister Peter Van Loan about an agreement to ease those controversial "Buy America" restrictions.
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As It Happens for Thursday, February 4, 2010 * Chilcot: Hans Blix * Armando Ianucci * TB: Vaccines * Haiti: Child Trafficking * Liberals and Women * Conservatives and Women * Scary Pheasant * Quolls and Cane Toads *
We've got the whole Hans and his world. Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix would have a lot to tell the U.K.'s Iraq Inquiry -- but he tells us instead.
Comedy equals tragedy plus Armando Ianucci. The Oscar-nominated Scottish writer-director of the political satire "In The Loop" shares his view of the inquiry so far.
Women and children first. Examining why -- and how -- the Prime Minister intends to put maternal and child health at the top of the G-8 agenda
As It Happens for Wednesday, February 3 * Baby Doc Funds * Villanueva Inquest Update * Instrument Theft * Autism/MMR Follow * Nova Scotia Spending * Kraft Cadbury Takeover * Script: No Vegas Spending
Swiss miss. Switzerland's Supreme Court reluctantly rules that "Baby Doc" Duvalier can claim millions of dollars -- but its government vows to block the transaction. Shoot first -- answer questions later. The police officer who killed eighteen-year-old Fredy Villanueva appears at a coroner's inquest in Montreal. And...stolen basses. Halifax musicians are especially high-strung when a wave of instrument thefts leaves performers out of a jam.
As It Happens for Tuesday, February 2, 2010 * Claire Short * Danny Williams Surgery * Edith Josie Correction * Christopher Plummer * Saudi Girl Captive * Don't Ask Don't Tell * Lost Man Booker Prize Email * Museum Superbowl Bet * Exploding Cigarette * Australian Fire anniversary
Short, not sweet. Today, Britain's former international development secretary gave scathing testimony at the Iraq Inquiry -- and tonight, Clare Short answers our inquiries.
No longer keeping their stories straight. American military bigwigs decide that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is on its way out -- which means American soldiers will be, too
As It Happens for Monday, Feb 1, 2010 * Haiti orphans * Iraq bombing * Edith Josie Obit * Lost Man Booker Prize * Dog Mauling * Togo Soccer Ban * Toilet Paper Shredder * Proposition 8 Trial
The island of lost children. A group of American Baptists is arrested in Haiti -- and accused of trying to smuggle children out of the country.
The dogs of horror. A Saskatchewan community demands action after a ten-year-old boy is mauled by roaming animals.
A pilgrimage cut brutally short. A suicide bomber kills more than forty people on a religious journey in Baghdad.
As It Happens for Friday, January 29 * SCOC: Khadr Ruling * FTR: Chilcot Blair 1&2 * Obit Tuskegee Airman * Expensive Politeness * Prop 8 Trial * Antigonish Bishop * Teen Suicide Prevention * Italian Transgendered Prisons * TB/Email: Homeopathic Protest * Global Sunblock
Nowhere man. The Supreme Court overturns a lower court decision, and leaves Omar Khadr's fate in the hands of the Canadian government. Much ado about "I do". In a trial that could have repercussions across the U.S., two couples challenge California's ban on same-sex marriage. The sins of the humans shall be visited upon the sun. Sure, we've goofed up the atmosphere -- but we'll fix it by applying a planet-wide layer of sunblock.
As It Happens for Thursday, January 28 *Obit J.D. Salinger *Afghan Conference *FTR: Gallagher Funeral *Moving a Saint *Chilcot: Pre-Blair *Homeopathy Protest *Sharpsichord *Sri Lanka Election Folo
"Rye" observations. Adam Gopnik pays tribute to the late J.D. Salinger -- the incredible vanishing author of The Catcher In The Rye. The Blair essentials. Britain's inquiry into the Iraq War prepares for its highest-profile guest: former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Softening a militant stance. A growing consensus that success in Afghanistan may mean negotiating with the Taliban.
As It Happens for Tuesday, January 27 * Toyota Recall * FTR: Holocaust Memorial * Sri Lanka Pres Election * Taxi/Bus Payback * Haiti Field Nurse * Angus on Piracy * Metal Religion * DA: Apple Tablet
The healing and the hurt. A nurse from Newfoundland recounts his wrenching experience tending to those wounded in the earthquake in Haiti. General discontent. Sri Lanka's former army chief finds his hotel surrounded by military troops after he contests his loss in the country's presidential election. Remember the Black Sabbath and keep it holy. British head-bangers devote themselves to getting heavy metal recognized as an official religion.
Gently Down the Stream - Episode 11
Hank flirts with the combination of caffeine and Sudafed to fuel the karaoke and the graffitti.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 12
Is it Hank’s secret life or Mary’s winter blahs that lead to a big fight?
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 13
Hank gets a handy man’s tour of the new house.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 14
Hank enjoys life as a “single man” since Mary’s in Vancouver at the opening of her gallery show.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 15
The Duke closes down, Phil ignores him, and Hank gets drunk and goes on a spree of vandalism.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 6
Hank and Phil get together at Rebecca's, where Phil is spending a lot of time.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 7
Hank can't bring himself to actually get up and sing karaoke, as much as he wants to.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 8
Almost by accident, Hank applies for a job.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 9
Hank starts his job amid the karaoke hopefuls at the Gladstone.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 10
Hank accidentally mixes cold medicine and caffeine.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 1
Meet Hank Roberts, a 37-year old urban male with lots of education and no employment, in Ray Robertson's witty novel Gently Down the Stream.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 2
Hank can't bring himself to be friendly to Rebecca, his best friend's girlfriend.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 3
Hank takes us through a day in the life of his colourful Parkdale neighbourhood.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 4
Hank and Mary visit Hank's parents in Chatham.
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Gently Down the Stream - Episode 5
Hank sees what his life could be when he visits his best friend from High School.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 25
As the Iran/Iraq war continues, Marina and Andre try to make a new life.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 24
Marina and Andre risk everything to marry.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 23
Marina is freed, but has never been so alone. How will she reclaim her life?
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 22
Even though it seems impossible, Marina loses even more.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 21
Marina has a crisis of faith.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 20
Marina grows closer to Ali and his family.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 19
Marina and Ali have moved back to Evin for safety, but Marina still has to live in a cell.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 18
Marina makes dinner for Ali’s family.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 17
Marina marries Ali.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 16
Marina says goodbye to her whole life.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 15
Ali presses his suit for Marina’s hand in marriage.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 14
Marina finds the parallels with her grandmother’s life in revolutionary Russia.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 13
Ali makes Marina an impossible offer.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 12
Marina remembers how she became an “enemy of Islam”.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 11
Marina finds out for sure that Ali is protecting her in prison.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 10
Marina relives the time of the revolution and learns the fate of Arash.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 9
Even in prison there is a routine and Marina wonders why Ali saved her from execution for a life sentence in here.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 8
Marina and Arash negotiate a relationship in the shadow of the revolution.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 7
Marina meets Arash. Is this love?
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 6
Marina is moved to Building 246.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 5
Marina finds refuge from a psychologically abusive childhood.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 4
Marina is rescued from the firing squad.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 3
Marina experiences death for the first time.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 2
Marina faces the reality of Evin Prison – torture and pain.
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Prisoner of Tehran episode 1
Marina Nemat is unable to sleep until she writes the story of her imprisonment, at 16, in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
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Alligator episode 16
Frank is both pursuer and pursued: he's after Colleen because he needs to get his money back from her, while gangster Valentin is trying to track him down.
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Alligator episode 17
Colleen drops in unannounced at Loyola's alligator reserve in Louisiana.
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Alligator episode 18
Hot dog vendor Frank becomes the victim in a horrific set-up.
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Alligator episode 19
Valentin returns to the burning house when he sees Frank escaping.
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Alligator episode 20
Everyone tries to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.
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Alligator episode 14
Hot dog vendor Frank rescues Colleen from danger at a wet T-shirt contest.
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Alligator episode 15
Frank's waterbed is violently slashed by the gangster Valentin.
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Alligator episode 11
Colleen comes face-to-face with Mr. Duffy, a forest developer, who vows to make her pay for vandalizing his machinery.
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Alligator episode 12
Madeleine suffers a heart attack but continues to fight for her film.
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Alligator episode 6
Things start to heat up in the already complicated lives of our St. John’s inhabitants as Valentin, a Russian thug, enters the picture.
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Alligator episode 8
A couple of the characters get involved in shady dealings.
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Alligator episode 7
Frank’s last days with his dying mother are marked by her fervent wish for him to go to college.
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Alligator episode 9
Frank, out for a drink, sees seductive Colleen at a bar.
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Alligator episode 10
Colleen is on the run after vandalizing logging equipment.
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Alligator episode 1
The novel begins when 17-year-old Colleen visits her filmmaker aunt, Madeleine.
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Alligator episode 2
We meet Frank, who shies away from danger though he is dragged into it nonetheless.
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Alligator episode 3
Colleen is caught destroying forest machinery in a bid to preserve the endangered pine marten.
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Alligator episode 5
Beverly tries to deal with her daughter Colleen's vandalism but feels her own life is unravelling.
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Alligator episode 4
Madeleine is desperate to finish her epic film in the face of a life-threatening illness.
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The Outlander episode 22
Mary is captured and heading away from the mining town of Frank.
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The Outlander episode 21
Mary slowly comes back to life.
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The Outlander episode 23
Mary is captured and heading away from the mining town of Frank.
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The Outlander episode 24
Mary is in jail, hungry and alone.
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The Outlander episode 25
In the last chapter of the book and right away we find Mary in jail, trying to escape.
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The Outlander episode 16
The Widow divulges the secret she has been carrying.
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The Outlander episode 17
McKeckern, the town druggist, gives Mary a surprise gift.
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The Outlander episode 18
Mary wakes up sick.
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The Outlander episode 19
Mary goes shopping for a horse.
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The Outlander episode 20
After an avalanche, the Widow wakes up alone in the forest.
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The Outlander episode 11
Mary's risky move of going into town seems to be paying off.
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The Outlander episode 12
Mary is making herself right at home.
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The Outlander episode 13
She begins to remember the tragedy and the betrayal that brought her to where she is now.
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The Outlander episode 14
Mary goes to church and is shocked by the sermon.
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The Outlander episode 15
Mary attends a soirée with the Reverend and meets a surprise guest.
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The Outlander episode 6
On the verge of starvation, Mary finds a dead deer and eats for the first time in many days. Sated, she falls asleep. That is how William Moreland finds her.
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The Outlander episode 7
Mary wonders, can she can trust William with her secret?
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The Outlander episode 9
After so much heartbreak and hardship on her journey, Mary makes a new friend.
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The Outlander episode 8
William promised Mary he wouldn't leave her. But this morning, Mary wakes up to find him gone.
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The Outlander episode 10
After a rest, Mary and Henry leave the camp. He is taking her to the nearest town.
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The Outlander episode 2
We learn more about 19-year-old Mary, and the two vengeful brothers on her trail.
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The Outlander episode 3
The widow finds a haven in the Bird Lady's house -- but is she really safe?
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The Outlander episode 1
The Outlander begins as a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one step ahead of her pursuers.
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The Outlander episode 4
The widow steals a horse and rides away from the Bird Lady's house.
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The Outlander episode 5
After days in the mountains, the widow is suffering the physical and mental effects of starvation.
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Rollback episode 23
The robot Gunter makes a sacrifice.
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Rollback episode 21
Don must decide whether he can commit the rest of his new life to doing something significant.
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Rollback episode 22
How to get one of the world’s richest men to give up control.
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Rollback episode 25
The family visits Expo ’67 – that’s 2067.
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Rollback episode 24
Don asks Lenore to be his partner in a one-of-a-kind family.
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Rollback episode 16
The consequences of honesty both dismay and delight.
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Rollback episode 17
Inter-species relationships may be easier than those between humans.
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Rollback episode 18
What is the human cost of outliving everyone who knows you?
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Rollback episode 19
It’s his birthday and Don has to choose between Sarah and Lenore.
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Rollback episode 20
Sarah succeeds in decoding the message from Sigma Draconis.
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Rollback episode 13
What if the aliens on Sigma Draconis have the same moral issues we do?
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Rollback episode 11
Don lets the lovely Lenore believe he's actually his own grandson.
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Rollback episode 12
Don (25-year-old body, 87-year-old consciousness) finds himself on a date with Lenore.
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Rollback episode 14
Can Don stop himself from sneaking out to date Lenore?
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Rollback episode 15
For the first time in decades, Don contemplates the future.
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Rollback episode 6
What can Don do, now that his rollback is working and Sarah's is not?
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Rollback episode 8
Don discovers there are all kinds of repercussions to being 25 again.
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Rollback episode 7
Flashback to the receipt of the first alien message in 2009 and Sarah's triumph in decoding it.
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Rollback episode 9
After more than 20 years of retirement, Don goes out looking for a job in the only place he can imagine working.
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Rollback episode 10
Moral dilemmas aren't just theory as Don finds out when he goes out in his new 25-year-old body.
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Rollback episode 4
If Sarah and Don can be rejuvenated, Sarah will be able to maintain a dialogue with Sigma Draconis.
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Rollback episode 1
A second radio transmission comes from Sigma Draconis and Sarah, who decoded the first one more than 40 years ago, is now 87.
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Rollback episode 2
The encoding of the alien transmission is unlike the first one, and no one has a clue how to decipher it.
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Rollback episode 3
Billionaire Cody McGavin offers Sarah and Don a radical solution.
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Rollback episode 5
Sarah and Don undergo the rejuvenation, or "rollback."
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The Last Crossing ep twenty 01-09-09
Charles finally discovers what Custis Straw has been trying to tell him.
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The Last Crossing ep nineteen 31-08-09
Charles and Simon are reunited with startling results.
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The Last Crossing ep eighteen 25-08-09
Charles meets someone who knows what happened to Simon.
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The Last Crossing ep seventeen 24-08-09
Addington Gaunt meets his grizzly bear.
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The Last Crossing ep sixteen 23-08-09
Charles and Lucy try to go to a ball at Fort Edmonton.
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The Last Crossing ep fifteen 18-08-09
The expedition splits in two.
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The Last Crossing ep fourteen 17-08-09
Lucy catches up to the Kelsos.
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The Last Crossing ep thirteen 16-08-09
The search party comes across a clue to Simon’s wherabouts.
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The Last Crossing ep twelve 11-08-09
Charles fears he is responsible for pushing Simon into missionary life.
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The Last Crossing ep eleven 10-08-09
The sandhills stir up fresh ghosts for the search party.
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The Last Crossing ep ten 09-08-09
Custis and Dooley join the search party.
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The Last Crossing ep nine 04-08-09
The search party finds a clue.
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The Last Crossing ep eight 03-08-09
Charles and Lucy form an unexpected alliance.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:23]
The Last Crossing ep seven 02-08-09
Custis Straw decides to trail the search party.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:28]
The Last Crossing ep six 28-07-09
Charles finally meets Jerry Potts.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:25]
The Last Crossing ep five 27-07-09
Custis meets Charles Gaunt.
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[mp3 file: runs 15:40]
The Last Crossing ep four 26-07-09
Custis lends a helping hand while Lucy plots revenge.
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[mp3 file: runs 15:23]
The Last Crossing ep three 21-07-09
In Fort Benton two new characters join the story.
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[mp3 file: runs 15:59]
The Last Crossing ep two 20-07-09
Brother Addington has a hidden agenda.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:48]
The Last Crossing ep one 19-07-09
Two englishmen travel to America in the 1870s to find their missing brother.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:02]
Open Arms ep fifteen 14-07-09
The trip back to Saskatoon is full of surprises.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:42]
Open Arms ep fourteen 13-07-09
Back on the road Bess and grandmother head for the top of the world.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:33]
Open Arms ep thirteen 12-07-09
Bess is a little surprised to find the new age spa actually works.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:36]
Open Arms ep twelve 06-07-09
One step behind Isabelle, the two women follow a lead to Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:18]
Open Arms ep eleven 05-07-09
Bess and her grandmother follow a tip to Calgary.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:30]
Open Arms ep ten 29-06-09
Bess and her grandmother head up north.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:24]
Open Arms ep nine 28-06-09
Bess' past comes back to haunt her.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:37]
Open Arms ep eight 22-06-09
Bess and Irene’s mothers arrive and so do the twins.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:27]
Open Arms ep seven 21-06-09
Doreen is livid when she hears Patrick’s ex-wives are coming to help with the birth.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:32]
Open Arms ep six 15-06-09
Her father is missing and Bessie is left with his pregnant girlfriend. Should she run home or stay and help?
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[mp3 file: runs 17:19]
Open Arms ep five 14-06-09
The two sisters are left alone with their father's most recent wife - who is about to give birth at any moment.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:00]
Open Arms ep four 08-06-09
Bessie and her sister head off to visit their absent-minded father.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:34]
Open Arms ep three 07-06-09
Bessie's plans for her mother's love life go awry.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:44]
Open Arms ep two 02-06-09
Bessie has her own ideas about who her mother should be dating.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:01]
Open Arms ep one 01-06-09
A teenager runs away to find her former rock star mother.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:03]
Memory Book ep fifteen 25-05-09
Benny finally meets his client.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:54]
Memory Book ep fourteen 24-05-09
Benny calls all participants in the case to his hospital room.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:52]
Memory Book ep thirteen 23-05-09
Finally Benny gets a clue as to what happened at Barbarian’s restaurant.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:16]
Memory Book ep twelve 19-05-09
Benny’s suspicions start to bear fruit.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:56]
Memory Book ep eleven 18-05-09
Benny does some sleuthing outside the hospital.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:59]
Memory Book ep ten 17-05-09
A second person goes missing and the lies just keep growing.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:17]
Memory Book ep nine 16-05-09
Benny gets a confusing visit from a friend of his missing client.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:33]
Memory Book ep eight 12-05-09
Benny’s car turns up at a restaurant but nobody knows who was driving.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:11]
Memory Book ep seven 11-05-09
A break in at the office has Benny wondering who to trust.
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[mp3 file: runs 15:44]
Memory Book ep six 10-05-09
Benny follows up a clue in the name Rose.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:04]
Memory Book ep five 09-05-09
Benny can't leave hospital so Anna digs up what's known about the case.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:05]
Memory Book ep four 05-05-09
Benny gets a visit from a mysterious stranger.
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[mp3 file: runs 15:54]
Memory Book ep three 04-05-09
The police arrive to see what he remembers and so does an old friend.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:29]
Memory Book ep two 03-05-09
Stuck in hospital with a faulty memory, Benny tries to find out why he was in the city in the first place.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:07]
Memory Book ep one 02-05-09
Benny Cooperman wakes up in hospital with no idea where he is or why.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:31]
Chokecherry ep five 29-04-09
Janet Wright reads the story of a minister's wife hard pressed to measure up to her predecessors, in the final chapter of CHOKECHERRY.
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[mp3 file: runs 15:12]
Chokecherry ep four 28-04-09
The Bishop is coming and disaster awaits in episode four of Chokecherry.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:34]
Chokecherry ep three 22-04-09
Janet Wright tells the story of a town full of inventive characters in Chokecherry.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:00]
Chokecherry ep two 15-04-09
More trials and tribulations of being a minister's wife with Janet Wright reading CHOKECHERRY.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:45]
Chokecherry ep one 07-04-09
Janet Wright narrates the joys and frustrations of life with a man of the cloth in Norma Hawkins whimsical novel CHOKECHERRY.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:29]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-nine 01-04-09
Aminata reaches an uneasy agreement with one trader.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:23]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-eight 01-04-09
Aminata discovers that only slavers know the routes inland.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:55]
The Book of Negroes ep thirty 01-04-09
Aminata speaks to British Parliament about the slave trade.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:09]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-six 31-03-09
Black loyalists try to stop local slavers in Freetown.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:50]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-seven 31-03-09
Aminata looks for someone to take her inland to her childhood village.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:44]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-four 30-03-09
The British offer a chance for Black Loyalists to relocate to Sierre Leone.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:22]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-five 30-03-09
Aminata and the others begin the construction of Freetown.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:13]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-three 29-03-09
Tension mounts between the white community and Birchtown.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:22]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-two 28-03-09
In Nova Scotia Aminata discovers Daddy Moses and Birchtown.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:53]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty-one 27-03-09
Aminata worries about getting away from New York with Chekura.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:45]
The Book of Negroes ep sixteen 25-03-09
A small pox epidemic takes the lives of many close to Aminata.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:33]
The Book of Negroes episode seventeen 25-03-09
A church choir transports Aminata back to her time aboard ship.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:09]
The Book of Negroes ep eighteen 25-03-09
Aminata tastes freedom for the first time.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:22]
The Book of Negroes ep nineteen 25-03-09
Aminata settles in Canvas Town as resident teacher and baby catcher.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:44]
The Book of Negroes ep twenty 25-03-09
Aminata is given the job of recording all the black loyalists in The Book of Negroes.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:04]
The Book of Negroes ep fifteen 23-03-09
Aminata arrives in Charlestown and a new stage of her life.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:33]
The Book of Negroes ep fourteen 22-03-09
Aminata marries against the wishes of the plantation owner.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:43]
The Book of Negroes ep thirteen 21-03-09
Aminata is reunited with Chekura.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:10]
The Book of Negroes ep twelve 20-03-09
Aminata learns how to make dye.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:37]
The Book of Negroes ep eleven 20-03-09
Aminata and Foomba end up at an indigo plantation.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:48]
The Book of Negroes ep six 18-03-09
Aminata becomes a translator for the ship's physician and a spy for the men belowdecks.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:16]
The Book of Negroes ep eight 18-03-09
The slaves revolt.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:54]
The Book of Negroes ep nine 18-03-09
The survivors are landed on another island.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:09]
The Book of Negroes ep ten 18-03-09
Aminata attends her first slave market.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:57]
The Book of Negroes ep seven 18-03-09
A leader emerges among the slaves.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:58]
The Book of Negroes ep five 16-03-09
The new slaves meet both kindness and cruelty on the long march.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:43]
The Book of Negroes ep four 15-03-09
Aminata struggles to separate friend from foe.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:58]
The Book of Negroes ep three 14-03-09
Aminata is captured.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:48]
The Book of Negroes ep two 13-03-09
Aminata remembers happier times as a child in West Africa.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:34]
The Book of Negroes ep. one 12-03-09
Aminata Diallo begins a story that spans almost one hundred years and three continents.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:26]
The Book Club: Canada Reads 2010 Michel Vezina
Montreal based writer, publisher and cultural commentator, Michel Vezina, tells us why the novel Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner is the best choice for Canada Reads.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:10]
The Book Club: Canada Reads 2010 Simi Sara
Vancouver's tv and radio personality, Simi Sara, talks to CBC Producer Rosie Fernandez about the upcoming debates, her love of reading, and how she manages her large personal book collection.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:40]
The Book Club: Canada Reads 2010 Douglas Coupland
Canada Read's Rosie Fernandez holds a quirky Q&A with Douglas Coupland about having his book, Generation X, nominated for Canada Reads.
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[mp3 file: runs 6:22]
Canada Reads for Friday, March 6th
Day Five: Three books are left in the running as the show opens, but first one and then another will be voted off. The winner of Canada Reads is revealed by the end of the show. Join host Jian Ghomeshi and the five celebrity panelists for the exciting conclusion of this week-long fight over fiction.
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[mp3 file: runs 29:25]
Canada Reads for Thursday, March 5th
Day Four: Another title is removed from competition, leaving three books in the running for Canada Reads.
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[mp3 file: runs 30:26]
Canada Reads for Wednesday, March 4th
Day Three: Host Jian Ghomeshi reveals the first book voted off as the Canada Reads debates continue.
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[mp3 file: runs 29:25]
Canada Reads for Tuesday, March 3rd
Day Two: The battle heats up as the panelists get ready to vote off one of the five books.
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[mp3 file: runs 29:27]
Canada Reads for Monday, March 2nd
Day One: Join host Jian Ghomeshi and the five Canada Reads Panelists in the first debate of the week.
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[mp3 file: runs 29:32]
Canada Reads Preview for Friday, February 27th - Interview with Jen Sookfong Lee
A feature interview with Canada Reads Panelist Jen Sookfong Lee. She's an author and radio personality from Vancouver. Jen was featured in Knopf Canada's New Faces of Fiction campaign with her first novel, The End of East. Jen Sookfong Lee is defending Fruit by Brian Francis.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:11]
Canada Reads Preview for Thursday, February 26th - Interview with Anne-Marie Withenshaw
A feature interview with Canada Reads Panelist Anne-Marie Withenshaw. She's an award winning radio and television broadcaster from Montreal. Anne-Marie Withenshaw is defending The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay and translated by Sheila Fischman.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:49]
Canada Reads Preview for Wednesday, February 25th - Interview with Nicholas Campbell
Today's feature interview is with Canada Reads Panelist Nicholas Campbell. He's an award winning actor and filmmaker. This veteran of the stage and screen knows good writing and isn't afraid to speak his mind. Nicholas Campbell is defending The Outlander by Gil Adamson.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:52]
Canada Reads Preview for Tuesday, February 24th - Interview with Sarah Slean
On today's podcast, Canada Reads Panelist Sarah Slean. An accomplished singer-songwriter, she has released two books of poetry and six albums. Sarah Slean is defending Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards.
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[mp3 file: runs 11:37]
Canada Reads Preview for Monday, February 23rd - Interview with Avi Lewis
Today's feature interview is with Canada Reads Panelist Avi Lewis. He has hosted shows such as Counterspin on CBC Newsworld, and is currently hosting Inside USA on the Al-Jazeera English network. He is defending The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.
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[mp3 file: runs 18:10]
Hourly News - 2010/02/09 22:00 EST
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[mp3 file: runs 4:30]
The World at Six - 2010/02/09 21:00 EST
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[mp3 file: runs 28:30]
World Report - 2010/02/09
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[mp3 file: runs 10:00]
The World this Weekend Sunday February 7 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 30:34]
The World this Weekend Saturday February 6 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 29:32]
The World this Weekend Sunday Janurary 31 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 30:33]
The World this Weekend Saturday January 30 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 29:29]
The World this Weekend Sunday January 24 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 30:31]
The World this Weekend Saturday January 23 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 29:34]
The World This Weekend January 17 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 30:38]
The World this Weekend January 16 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 29:32]
The World This Weekend January 10 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 30:31]
The World This Weekend January 9 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 29:32]
The World This Weekend January 3rd, 2010
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[mp3 file: runs 30:51]
C'est la vie, 07/02/10 - Singer and actor, Chloé Sainte-Marie
Singer and actor Chloé Sainte-Marie devoted years of her life to caring for her partner, Gilles Carle. The celebrated Quebec filmmaker died last year from complications related to Parkinson's disease. Now, Chloé is performing again. But the memory of Gilles is never far. Meet Chloé Sainte-Marie on C'est la vie.
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[mp3 file: runs 20:51]
C'est la vie, 31/01/10 - Haiti's contribution to Quebec
For half a century Haitians have been fleeing their homeland. And a good many of those Haitians have chosen to live in Quebec, largely because of the French language. What has been a braindrain for Haiti, has been a remarkable gain for the province.
This week C'est la vie looks at the important role Haitians have played in Quebec.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:50]
C'est la vie, 24/01/10 - Arrivals - Part III
This month C'est la vie brings you stories from the international arrivals gate at Montreal's Trudeau airport. It's a series called "Arrivals".
This week, hear the story of one very lucky little boy.
Malcolm arrived in Montreal at the end of last year.
He was adopted from Haiti, just months before the earthquake.
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[mp3 file: runs 25:40]
C'est la vie, 17/01/10 - Arrivals - Part II
This month C'est la vie brings you stories from the international arrivals gate at Montreal's Trudeau airport. It's a series called "Arrivals". In part two we meet a couple returning from Vietnam, with their new baby boy.
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[mp3 file: runs 24:35]
"The Future is Yours!" Feb 4, 2010
Venture into the future with Jane Testar. You'll fly past new achievements in technology from the "ipad" to text messaging your University essays, to the devastating affects the television show "Lost" can have on family members. Oh, and there's something about an Elephant in there somewhere too. To infinity and slightly before!!!
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[mp3 file: runs 26:17]
"Flying Through the Sky So Fancy Free" January 28 2010
We're flying through the air this week with lady astronauts, airport body scanners with Patrick Ledwell, Simon Cowell flying coop (The coop being American Idol) and airborne tofu desserts.
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[mp3 file: runs 13:53]
Young versus Old
Good OLD Mike O'Brien goes toe to toe with that young whippersnapper, Jane Testar. Dr. Phil takes on Canada's ever expanding waistlines, Patrick Ledwell teaches us a thing or two about electronic multi-tasking, we open the Comedy Vault and release Jacquie Loewen's sweet music and Jane makes some funny voices. It's a hip crackin' good time!
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[mp3 file: runs 15:57]
"He used to be popular" Jan 14, 2010
This week's podcast is a repeat pulled from a vastly different period of history. One year ago. When Barack Obama could do no wrong. Sigh.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:52]
"The Final.... Final Countdown," Jan. 7 2010
Yes, there's just one year left in this first decade of the new millennium. Despite what everyone else says. And we kick if off with comedian Ron James' solution for what ails the nation. Patrick Ledwell defends regifting (when you care enough to resend the very best) and we revisit last year's parliamentary p---ing match.
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[mp3 file: runs 11:01]
"365 and out" Dec. 31 2009
12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days...Jane Testar wraps up the year. First, she has to wake up Mike.
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[mp3 file: runs 5:30]
"Fat Santa" Dec. 24, 2009
We're not saying he's not real. We're just saying he's really in need of some lifestyle changes. Patrick Ledwell explains the dangers of grandma's candy, and we try to market a warmer world.
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[mp3 file: runs 9:51]
"Sheep" Dec. 17, 2009
Back from New Zealand, our regular host describes the oddities of that island nation. Jane Testar and Dean Jenkinson offer their advice for gift-shoppers, and one young comedian describes his most embarrassing job interview. And Jane applies a lobster claw to her face.
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[mp3 file: runs 14:52]
"Climate Schmimate" Dec. 10, 2009
Is the planet getting warmer? Dammit, I'm a comic, not a scientist! Guest host Dean Jenkinson looks at the Copenhagen climate change summit, and other things he doesn't understand. With contributions from unrepentant CO2 generators Jacqueline Loewen and Al Rae.
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[mp3 file: runs 12:03]
"Buying and selling" Dec. 3, 2009
This week we're all about the art of the purchase, whether it's a Christmas gift, or a country. There's laughs about selling the increasingly bankrupt Dubai, and selling Sherlock Holmes as an action adventurer, of all things. It's just not the done thing, Watson. And we're buying into the idea that the Romantic comedy is ruining our lives, while offering you a buyer's guide to this year's hot Xmas toys. That and many more happy returns of the day.
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[mp3 file: runs 19:03]
"Perceptions" Nov. 26, 2009
This week we're all about perception. One person's self-aggrandizing, arrogant diva is another's Governor General. And one guy's "play" is another's "yeesh, what are you up to Dad?" So, sit back, plug in and get ready to enter the doors of perception. Cue freaky music.
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[mp3 file: runs 12:36]
"Navel Grazing" Nov. 19, 2009
This week, we look inward, at the media in general, and CBC in particular. Are we overhyping the H1N1 story, and missing out on a lot of great television projects? Is Jane Testar too picky? Why can't Patrick Ledwell sleep at night? And what's with all the questions?
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[mp3 file: runs 17:08]
"The Anniversarians" Nov. 12, 2009
Today's show is an historian's dream. We salute some important dates in recent times. Barack Obama was elected one year ago, the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, and Big Bird debuted 40 years ago. And we have something to say about all those events. Back in the modern day, we drop by for the latest Royal Visit, as Camilla charms the locals while an aghast Prince Charles looks on.
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[mp3 file: runs 15:21]
Hallowieners "Nov. 5, 2009"
We've got a scary piece on sexy Halloween costumes, a sexy piece on the H1N1 vaccine lineups, and a funny piece on our scary environment. The host is ambushed in the studio, not unlike our Parliamentarians who were ambushed by all those climate-change protestors. And we find out if news anchors really talk that way when they're just conversing.
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[mp3 file: runs 18:09]
"The Podcast: Mock II" October 29, 2009
Following in the steps of CBC Newsworld, we're ushering in sweeping changes. Really. We bought a new broom. We look at how global warming will be reported in the future, how Stephen Harper celebrated Halloween in the past, and how Diane Flacks has changed her language since becoming a mom. And we tried to find humour in an already hilarious true story: the Colonel Sanders impersonator who breached United Nations security.
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"GravitAss" Oct. 22 2009
This week's show features the lighter-than-air comedy of the Heene family. Margaret Atwood brings her usual light-hearted approach to the world of fashion, and the randy young residents of a west coast ski resort get down.We explain how a 20-year veteran of TV comedy decided to bare all for Playboy. Patrick Ledwell gets red in the face over Facebook.
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"Kids These Days!" Oct. 15, 2009
Kids these days do the darndest things. Like writing and performing an hilarious one-hour radio special about Thanksgiving. The kids are Hot Thespian Action, and we've got excerpts from their new CBC Radio special. Then we find out you can travel to the farthest corners of space...and still not get away from clowns. Canada's Olympic athletes find a germophobic saviour, and we revisit a bedtime tale from the 2008 campaign trail.
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Testar Talks Turkey
Jane Testar serves up a table full of reality television, gluten-free comedy from Patrick Ledwell, a devilish treat and opens the Comedy Vault to celebrate avoiding another election. For desert, some shameless self promotion. You'll gobble it up! The CBC ban on thanksgiving puns has not yet come into effect.
Turkey turkey, gobble gobble.
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"Utterly Nutty" Oct. 1, 2009
... or perhaps "Unusual Nincompoops". For one day last week, "U.N." stood for anything but "United Nations," aad we were there in the green room, as two foreign orators prepared to make their speeches. We also found a preview of Sarah Palin's new book, and a tape of Elections Canada's new ad explaining how seriously we should take these election rumours. Diana Frances returns to the factory explain why all the good men are taken.
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Checkup hr.1 Feb.7/10
On Cross Country Checkup: customer service.
From navigating automated phone systems to deciphering the fine print, some customers feel they're the last thing companies think about. Ask a Toyota owner.
What do you think? Is customer service a thing of the past?
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Checkup hr.2 Feb.7/10
On Cross Country Checkup: customer service.
From navigating automated phone systems to deciphering the fine print, some customers feel they're the last thing companies think about. Ask a Toyota owner.
What do you think? Is customer service a thing of the past?
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09/02/10: Pt 1 - Olympics & Civil Liberties
American activists say they are being stopped at the border and prevented from coming into Canada in the lead-up to the Vancouver Olympics. Some say that's an inappropriate crack-down on civil liberties. But others say civil liberties will have to be curtailed in order to maintain security and safety during the games.
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09/02/10: Pt 2 - War Zone E.R.
Canadian Major Marc Dauphin describes himself as "impulsive, aggressive, brash and brazen." And he says those are good things if you want run a hospital emergency room in a war zone. Listen to the documentary from the Role Three Multinational Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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09/02/10: Pt 3 - Kahnawake Evictions
The band council for the Kahnawake First Nation has handed out eviction notices to 24 non-natives who live on the reserve. The Grand Chief says it's about preserving Mohawk blood-lines. And that has sparked a fierce debate about who gets to define a community and how
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08/02/10: Pt 1 - Maternal & Child Health
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to make global maternal health a focus of the G8 Summit in Canada later this year. But critics say he should begin at home since two major studies published last week showed that there are serious short-comings in maternal health in Canada's aboriginal communities, especially in the north.
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08/02/10: Pt 2 - Squamish, B.C. & the Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics is set to open on Friday. Hopes are high in Vancouver and Whistler. But Squamish, a town exactly half-way in between those two sites is feeling jilted. A story of Olympic-sized hopes and the reality that follows.
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08/02/10: Pt 3 - Charter Cities
Paul Romer has a bold idea that he thinks will improve the lot of poor people all over the world. He wants give them some place better to live ... some place he calls Charter Cities
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05/02/10: Pt 1 - Toyota Recall
Toyota has recalled 2.5 million vehicles in North America. And it has been hit by more than 100 un-related complaints. We get the latest on the situation in Canada.
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05/02/10: Pt 2 - In His Bones
Meet Denny Simon, a 67-year-old man from Calgary who gets his kicks from one of the most peculiar winter sports around riding the skeleton. Listen to Dominic Girard's, "In His Bones".
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05/02/10: Pt 3 - Narco-Corrido
Narco-Corrido is a musical genre that celebrates the lives of Mexican drug dealers. It has been around for decades. But now Mexico's ruling party wants to outlaw the songs and throw anyone who sings them in jail.
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04/02/10: Pt 1 - Wild Dogs
Later today, a funeral will be held for a 10-year-old boy who died after being mauled by dogs in northern Saskatchewan. The incident has sparked a wave of concern and criticism about the number of wild dogs across Canada's north.
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04/02/10: Pt 2 - Letters & Australian Senate
Letters - It's mail day. We hear your thoughts on the media's coverage of Haiti including our own story about the cruise ships that keep docking there despite the earthquake. Plus, we find out why Australian Senators are sometimes treated like rock stars and ask if there's a lesson there for Canada.
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04/02/10: Pt 3 - Accountability Act
Stephen Harper rode into office promising open, transparent and above all accountable government. Four years later, we're asking whether he's delivered it.
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03/02/10: Pt 1 - Disabled in Haiti
Many of the people who survived the earthquake have been left disabled. David Gutnick visits a charity called Healing Hands of Haiti, a group that provides artificial limbs for disabled Haitians.
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03/02/10: Pt 2 - Haiti Voodoo
We also look at the role that Voodoo, an age old system of beliefs, is playing in how Haitians cope with the aftermath and how they will rebuild their country.
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03/02/10: Pt 3 - Haiti Reconstruction
A small, but very powerful group of Haitians are going to be at the centre of the efforts to re-build their country. Some say they're the best-equipped people for the job. But others say their power is part of the country's problem.
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02/02/10: Pt 1 - HIV in Prisons
A new report from the HIV/AIDS Legal Network has found that the prevalence of HIV in Canadian prisons is between 10 and 20 times higher than the country as a whole. The group blames the rampant use of dirty needles among injection-drug users. It also recommends implementing needle exchange programs because right now, not a single Canadian prison permits the distribution of clean needles.
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02/02/10: Pt 2 - Parallel Justice Systems
Patrice Cormier was suspended for the season after he blind-sided an opponent with an elbow to the head. If he hadn't been playing hockey at the time, he might have been charged with assault. That's just one example of Canada's many parallel systems of justice. We assess how well they're working.
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02/02/10: Pt 3 - Nazila Fathi on Iran
Canadian-Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi talks about the moment she decided to flee Iran and how it helped her gain a new perspective on what's happening there.
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01/02/10: Pt 1 - Snow Science
Can technology control the whims of the delicate little snow crystal? On the snow-starved slopes of Vancouver's Cypress Mountain, dozens of snow guns continue to blast 24/7. We look at the obsession with creating the perfect, elusive Snowflake on an Olympic deadline.
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01/02/10: Pt 2 - The Value of Nothing
A conversation with Raj Patel about his new book "The Value of Nothing". In it, he argues that free markets are failing us and that as a result, the relationship between price and value has been broken.
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01/02/10: Pt 3 - Spirituality in Hospitals
The Fraser Health Region in British Columbia has laid off 14 spiritual care practitioners ... people who used to provide spiritual advice and support for patients who felt they needed it. That has sparked a debate over the role of spirituality in publicly funded hospitals.
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29/01/10: Pt 1 - SCOC Decision on Khadr
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that it is the Federal Government's decision to ask the U.S. for Omar Khadr's return to Canada. We talk to Omar Khadr's lawyer and consider the ramifications of the decision.
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29/01/10: Pt 2 - Rich Dad Workshops
The book Rich Dad, Poor Dad is the cornerstone of Robert Kiyosaki's get-rich empire. But now a CBC investigation has raised serious questions about the workshops that carry his empire's name. We go inside one of those seminars.
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29/01/10: Pt 3 - Haiti Cruises
Amidst the devastation and desperation, cruise ships are still docking in Haiti. And you can bet that's sparked a debate.
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28/01/10: Pt 1 - Taliban Reconciliation
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says it's time to negotiate a reconciliation with the Taliban. So does the United Nations and General Stanley McCrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. But some say it's a flawed strategy that could set back the battle for women's rights and the separation of religion and state in Afghanistan.
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28/01/10: Pt 2 - Becoming the Story
There are plenty of examples of reporters in Haiti who have become activists when faced with the scope of the horror of what they're seeing. To some, that's a perfectly sensible and human response. But to others, it risks undermining the job they have been sent there to do.
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28/01/10: Pt 3 - Letters
It's mail day. We hear your thoughts on the stories we've been covering. And we hear from a lactation consultant about the challenges and the importance of breast-feeding babies in Haiti.
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27/01/10: Pt 1 - David Gutnick in Haiti
*** Extended Podcast ***
As aid continues to pour into Haiti, the CBC's David Gutnick takes us to one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince, where thousands of people are still in shock and the future is anything but clear.
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27/01/10: Pt 2 - Our Man in Tehran
The inside story of the Canadian diplomat who was at the centre of the Iran Hostage Crisis.
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27/01/10: Pt 3 - Sentencing Child Pornography
The story of two little-noticed court cases and why they might suggest a sea change in the pervasiveness and prosecution of child pornography.
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26/01/10: Pt 1 - Alberta School Board
Alberta's Education Minister has disbanded the Northland School Division's board of trustees.The Minister says the board's schools are failing their students. But critics say his response does nothing to address the underlying problems.
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26/01/10: Pt 2 - Jihadist Websites
What to do about websites preaching violence and religious extremism. Some say shut them down. Others say follow them a bit and see where they might lead.
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26/01/10: Pt 3 - Game Change
American political writer John Heilmann tells us some of his favourite Game-Changing stories from the last U.S. Presidential campaign.
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25/01/10: Pt 1 - Haiti
The Haitian earthquake has made it glaringly obvious that there are big differences between the two countries on the island of Hispaniola. Haiti is deforested, desperately poor and unstable, while the Dominican Republic is relatively prosperous, stable and well-run.
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25/01/10: Pt 2 - Proroguing Protests
Today would have been the first day back on the Hill for MP's ...that is if parliament weren't put on hold. The silence on the Hill inspired outcry across the country. We discuss whether the break is helping or hurting the Harper government.
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25/01/10: Pt 3 - Clara Hughes
Speed skater Clara Hughes reflects on her career as an Olympian, her love-hate relationship with ice and how athletes can make a difference even during times of disaster.
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22/01/10: Pt 1 - Haiti Adoption
A disaster like the Haitian earthquake has left so many children orphaned. We talk to the adoptive parents of a child still in Haiti who want the process sped up, along with another perspective that questions the wisdom of fast-tracking adoptions.
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22/01/10: Pt 2 - On the Edge
Due to copyright issues, this segment is not available as a podcast. However, you can listen online off our website at: www.cbc.ca/thecurrent. Click on Past Shows and the date.Sorry for the inconvenience.
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22/01/10: Pt 3 - Somalia Security
A look at the dangers of working in Somalia, where security has deteriorated dramatically with renewed fighting between Islamists and government forces.
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21/01/10: Pt 1 - Stephen Puddicombe in Haiti
CBC reporter Stephen Puddicombe brings a gripping account of the devastation in Haiti - a country he knows intimately from his many past assignments there - along with the compelling stories of Haitians personally affected by the earthquake and its aftermath.
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21/01/10: Pt 2 - Mounties Under Fire
An inside look at tensions within the RCMP between those pushing for change and those trying to preserve the status quo at a time when the force is trying to repair its reputation. RCMP Commissioner William Elliott responds.
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21/01/10: Pt 3 - Letters
It's mail day. We hear from you on on community response to disasters, a Canadian Fatwa and dolphins as non-human persons.
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20/01/10: Pt 1 - Tea Party Movement
In Boston, the Tea Party is back. The Current will look at the Tea Party movement that hopes to restore a more conservative vision of America to the Republican Party.
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20/01/10: Pt 2 - King of the Hill
Due to copyright issues, this segment is not available as a podcast. However, you can listen online off our website at: www.cbc.ca/thecurrent. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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20/01/10: Pt 3 - Rebuilding Haiti
A discussion of the role the United States should take in rebuilding Haiti, given the uneasy history between the two countries.
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19/01/10: Pt 1 - Haiti Security
In the wake of the devastating earthquake, security has become a primary concern in Haiti. But there is widespread disagreement about how to balance the needs for emergency relief, longer-term development and security.
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19/01/10: Pt 2 - Dolphins as Persons
New research suggests dolphins are more similar to humans than we thought ... so similar that there's a campaign to grant them "non-human person" status.
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19/01/10: Pt 3 - Disaster
Writer Rebecca Solnit on why terrible disasters can generate remarkable communities.
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18/01/10: Pt 1 - Haiti Relief
As the relief efforts continue in Haiti, pressure is growing on countries such as Canada and the U.S. -- countries with large Haitian populations -- to take in refugees. But it's unclear how those countries will respond and whether it will be enough.
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18/01/10: Pt 2 - Haiti Children & B.C. Drug Kingpin
In this podcast, an update on Save The Children's aid efforts in Haiti. And, we have the latest twist in the increasingly tangled drug crime saga known as "Operation Bladerunner."
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18/01/10: Pt 3 - Seniors & Nutrition
The United States has had a national policy on nutrition for seniors since the Nixon Administration. As for Canada? No such legislation. And some say that's to the detriment of Canadian seniors.
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15/01/10: Pt 1 - Haitian Refugees
As the relief efforts continue in Haiti, pressure is growing on countries such as Canada and the U.S. -- countries with large Haitian populations -- to take in refugees. We look at what Canada might do to help. And we hear from the first Canadian evacuee of Haiti arriving back home.
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15/01/10: Pt 2 - Poppies
A proposal to let Canadian farmers grow a specific strain of opium-free poppy. And why some farmers say it could earn about eight times as much income as wheat or barley.
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15/01/10: Pt 3 - Pope Pius XII
The Catholic Church is inching closer to Sainthood for Pope Pius XII. But there's that lingering matter about his record during World War Two and whether he really did all he could to help Jews escape the Nazis.
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14/01/10: Pt 1 - Haiti Update
We assess the aftermath of the worst earthquake in Haiti in 200 years.
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14/01/10: Pt 2 - Canadian Fatwa
After the failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound airplane, an Imam in Calgary decided to issue a Fatwa -- or religious ruling -- condemning the action. Other Imams rallied to his cause. But some say it sends a dangerous message.
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14/01/10: Pt 3 - Letters
It's mail day. We hear your thoughts on what you've been hearing on the program. Plus, we we find out what you've had to say about the evolution of women's studies, the value of Parliament and Weibo Ludwig.
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13/01/10: Pt 1 - Haiti Earthquake
We get an update on Haiti in the midst of the aftershocks as the seconds, the minutes ... the hours multiply with still so much uncertainty.
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13/01/10: Pt 2 - China's Economy
Throughout the entire global economic meltdown, China has been the lone bright light on the horizon. But now some say its bubble is about to burst too.
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13/01/10: Pt 3 - Anti-Gay Uganda
*** Warning: This segment may be offensive to some ***
Uganda is considering a harsh law that would ban homosexuality. And some say conservative American church groups are pushing them in that direction. We assess the global reach of American evangelicals.
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12/01/10: Pt 1 - Senate Reform
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has put Senate reform back on the agenda. We debate the merits of the proposals with elected Conservative Senator Bert Brown and Liberal Senator James Cowan.
*** Creative Commons music was used for this item. The song is called "Sock Hop" by Kevin MacLeod. ***
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12/01/10: Pt 2 - Yemen
Yemen has become a primary focus of the war on terror, ever since the failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound airplane was tied to an extremist group based there. We talk to Yemen's Ambassador to Canada about what Canada and other countries can do to keep Yemen from becoming a safe-haven for extremists.
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12/01/10: Pt 3 - Women's Studies
It's been 40 years since the first Women's Studies program was founded. But now, more and more of those programs are being re-named ... as "gender" or "equality" studies. We ask what's in a name?
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11/01/10: Pt 1 - Wiebo Ludwig
More than eight years after being released from serving 18 months in jail for charges related to sabotaging oil and gas infrastructure in Alberta, Wiebo Ludwig was arrested again on Friday and released on Saturday. Just another twist in the unlikey story that surrounds Wiebo Ludwig.
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11/01/10: Pt 2 - Goldbugs
For decades, gold has been one of the most reliable places to park your money when times got tough. But now some analysts say gold is nothing but a giant, glittering bubble ... just waiting to burst.
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11/01/10: Pt 3 - Meeting John
Much has been said and written about the sex trade industry and the women who work in it. But Johns -- the men who pay for sex -- have always been something of a mystery. Now, new research paints a picture of who the Johns are.
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08/01/10: Pt 1 - Neglecting Children
The incidences of abuse and neglect are on the rise across Canada and now it's more important than ever to make sure there are programs in place to prevent more kids will falling through the cracks.
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08/01/10: Pt 2 - Music & Kids
Conversations with celebrated children's singer, Raffi and hip-hop artist Cadence Weapon, about the importance of music in children's development.
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08/01/10: Pt 3 - Queen Rania & 1-Goal
A conversation with Her Majesty, Queen Rania of Jordan about her 1-Goal campaign, a bid to make education accessible to the 72 million children who don't have access to it now.
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01/01/10: New Year's Day Edition of The Current
In today's New Year's Day Edition of The Current we have packaged three memorable interviews from 2009. Enjoy and Happy New Year from The Current Staff!
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31/12/09: P1 - Proroguing Parliament
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will request that Parliament be prorogued until March 3rd. Opposition parties accuse him of trying to sideline the parliamentary inquiry into the Afghan detainee scandal. We'll dissect the politics behind the move.
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31/12/09: P2 - Cornum Interview
Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum is the new Director of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness with the United States Army. She's in charge of a new program meant to teach soldiers to re-think their reactions to the horrors of war.
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31/12/09: P3 - Iran Dissent
It has been a week of mayhem in the streets of Iran. Iran hasn't seen unrest like this since 1979, when the Islamic Revolution toppled the Shah of Iran. Mohsen Sazegara helped found Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. He joined us today to shed light on the matter.
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29/12/09: Pt 1 - More Racial Profiling?
Along with far more stringent security measures, a renewed debate over racial profiling seems poised to take off in the wake of Christmas Day's thwarted airliner bombing. We'll hear arguments in favour of more racial profiling to counter terror, along with cautions that it could lead to a climate of increased fear and intolerance.
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29/12/09: Pt 2 - Vitamin Eh
After the World Food Summit wrapped up last month without securing the 44-billion-dollars it needed for new agricultural development from the UN, Freelance journalist Paul Webster went to Uganda and discovered more about how cultural food biases and climate change complicate the fight against hunger.
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29/12/09: Pt 3 - Mad Child Interview
A revealing feature interview with Shane Bunting, aka Mad Child, of Canadian hip hop group Swollen Members, on overcoming addiction and the pitfalls of the trappings of music world success.
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28/12/09: Pt 1 - Year End Political Panel
We reconvened with our annual political panel to look ahead to what they think the top political stories of 2010 will be.
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28/12/09: Pt 2 - Salish Sea
We rebroadcast a documentary called "The Sound and The Sea" about a surprisingly contentious proposal to formally recognize a series of bodies of water between mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island as "The Salish Sea."
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28/12/09: Pt 3 - Wendy Babcock Interview
Wendy Babcock wants to change the legal system and how it deals with kids in government care because it didn't give her what she needed when she was a crown ward.
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24/12/09: Pt 1 - List Obsession
As the year and the decade draw to a close, lists are everywhere. We're asking why we love them so much and what the proliferation of lists says about us a culture.
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24/12/09: Pt 2 - Iran Protests
This week's demonstrations in Iran have shown that the opposition "Green Movement" is gaining political strength. But Ayatollah Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard aren't giving up power without a fight. We'll assess the strength of each side and look at where the battle is heading.
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24/12/09: Pt 3 - Beer and Braids Doc
Women have fought to legitimize their work as housewives, but now more men are assuming these roles and taking on the battle themselvs. As part of our Work in Progress series, The Current is taking a look at stay-at-home Dads.
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16/12/09: Pt 1: Climate Science
A conversation with James Hansen, Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA. He's widely regarded as the world's most influential climate scientist. And he says the deal that is likely to come out of the United Nations' Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen could actually be worse than no agreement at all.
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16/12/09: Pt 2 - In Memoriam (Documentary)
The story of a police officer's death and how it spurred one town to vow to take actio on a growing drug problem.
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16/12/09: Pt 3 - Coffee
New studies suggest that people who drink coffee are less likely to develop liver cancer and diabetes. But critics say that's still not enough to outweigh other health risks associated with copious amounts of coffee. We wade into that debate.
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11/12/09: Pt 1 - Misleading Parliament
All three opposition parties are calling for the resignation of Defence Minister Peter MacKay over his handling of the Afghan detainee issue. We get the latest news on the issue and look at the politics behind it.
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11/12/09: Pt 2 - Cold Case # 2
It's been thirteen years since Wayne Grevette was killed by a home-made bomb. And now his family is trying to solve a case that police couldn't. We have the second in our documentary series, Canadian Cold Cases.
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11/12/09: Pt 3 - The Faith Instinct
A conversation with Nicholas Wade about his new book, The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why it Endures. In it, he argues that religion is not simply a human construct and that it presents evolutionary advantages which have created a genetic predisposition in favour of faith.
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20/11/09: Pt 1 - Jim Prentice
A conversation with Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice about where the government stands on controlling greenhouse gas emissions going into the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen.
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20/11/09: Pt 2 - Afghan Detainees
A Canadian diplomat has testified that all of the Afghan detainees that Canadian forces handed over to Afghan authorities were likely tortured and that officials with the Canadian Forces, Foreign Affairs as well as an official in the Prime Minister's Office were warned about the situation.
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20/11/09: Pt 3 - 2012
In his new movie, 2012, Director Roland Emmerich chose to depict the destruction of Vatican City ... not Mecca. And yes, that's raised a few questions.
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11/04/09: Pt 1 - Gun Registry
We've spent two-billion-dollars on a gun registry. The very same registry the Tories will try to kill in a private members bill today. If we had another two-billion-dollars to spend to fight violent crime where would we put that money?
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11/04/09: Pt 2 - War in the Country (Part One)
The war in the country is a polemic on the destruction of the traditional family farm in rural Canada. The few remaining family farms now struggle to survive in the face of corporate backed factory farms, mining interests and tourist developments. At stake is the quality and sustainability of our food.
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11/04/09: Pt 3 - War in the Country (Part Two)
We continue our conversation with Thomas Pawlick, we visit with a new breed of family farmer and get a response from the organization that represents all Canadian farmers.
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07/10/09: Pt 1 - Stimulus Spending
The opposition Liberals have accused the government of bogging down the economic stimulus spending by trying to direct the money to places where it can get the most political benefit. The Government denies the allegation. Today, a brief history on pork-barrel politics. *** Due to music rights issues, some content has been altered ***
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07/10/09: Pt 2 - Iran Nuclear Program
Iranian officials have agreed to keep talking about their country's growing nuclear program. Some say that's progress. Others say it's a dangerous distraction.
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07/10/09: Pt 3 - Hugging
Everything you ever wanted to know about hugging. Why it feels good. Why it bugs some people and why it's so hard to agree on when and where it's appropriate. *** Due to music rights issues, some content has been altered ***
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02/10/09: Cultural Competence
Suaad Hagi Mohamud was stranded in Kenya largely because she couldn't answer a handful of basic questions. The officials at Canada's High Commission in Nairobi concluded she was not who she said she was. Three months later, a DNA test confirmed Ms. Mohamud's identity. And now the questions she couldn't answer have raised another, more fundamental one. What exactly are you supposed to know if you are Canadian?
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02/10/09: Egg on Mao
In the wake of the celebrations of the 60th Anniversary of communist rule in China, we talk to Lu Decheng. Twenty years ago, he and two friends threw paint-filled eggs at a portrait of Mao Zedong during the student protests in Tiananmen Square. He spent ten years in a Chinese jail, losing all contact with his first wife and daughter, before coming to Canada as a refugee.
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02/10/09: Frans de Waal
A conversation with renowned primatologist Frans de Waal about his new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society. In it, he argues that despite the ruthlessness we are capable of, humans are more predisposed to empathy than greed because empathy ensures the survival of our species.
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04/09/2009: Obama's Crashing Popularity
Phew, it is Friday, closing in on the last long weekend of summer 2009. In the U.S., President Barack Obama is no doubt happy to see the tail end of this summer. It's been brutal. His popularity is diving - critics are hammering him on healthcare; and America's war in Afghanistan; and the race card has reared its ugly head.
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28/08/09: West Coast Salmon
Stocks of Pacific Salmon have been dwindling for some time. This year is shaping up to be a disaster. Tension between native fishermen and commercial and sport fishermen was amped up over some recent violence and some people are advocating some pretty drastic measures to try to save what's left of it.
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27/08/09: Afghanistan Election
Today on the podcast, we talk to a group of Afghan journalists who are investigating and compiling complaints of fraud in the country's Presidential election.
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26/08/09: Language & Canada's Foreign Service
The Federal Government has removed phrases including "child soldier" and "humanitarian law" from Canada's Foreign Service vocabulary. Today on the podcast, we ask why and what it means in the context of Ottawa's decision to appeal a court ruling ordering the government to press for Omar Khadr's release from Guantanamo Bay.
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25/08/09: The Spiders of Allah
James Hider has spent years reporting from the Middle East. And for him, that's meant reconciling his atheist beliefs with a region where God and politics are often inseparable.
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24/08/09: Harper & Foreign Policy
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has had a busy summer on the world stage. Today on the podcast, we convene a panel of political watchers for their thoughts on his performances at home and abroad as well as what it means for Canada's place in the world.
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20/08/09: Afghanistan Elections & Satire
It's voting day in Afghanistan. A time for Afghans to exercise their still novel democratic rights. It's also a time for political satire. An update on the elections and a converstion with the the man responsible for Afghanistan's answer to the Daily Show.
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19/08/09: The Merchant of Death
Viktor Bout was known as the go-to man for rogue regimes and violent paramilitary groups in need of the tools of war. He's spent more than year in a Bangkok jail fighting extradition to the U.S. Now a Thai court says it will NOT extradite the former Soviet officer to the States to face trial. Does this mean the man dubbed the Merchant of Death will soon be back in business?
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18/08/09: False Confessions
Today on the Current podcast, force, farce and false confessions in Tehran. A hundred prisoners have gone on trial in Iran, accused of trying to topple the hardline Islamic regime. And, as in other instances of mass show trials, so-called 'voluntary' confessions are forming the case for the prosecution.
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17/08/09: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
Eight years ago, Erin Arvedlund was among the first reporters to ask questions about how Bernie Madoff was making his money. In the end, those questions helped uncover the biggest Ponzi scheme in American history.
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13/08/09: Out of Frame Documentary
Today on the podcast, the story of an iconic war photograph and what happened to the person who took it, and the soldier in it, after they left the battlefield.
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12/08/09: In Fed We Trust - David Wessel
Today on the podcast, author David Wessel takes us inside the U.S. Federal Reserve and explains just how close the world really came to a total economic meltdown.
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11/08/09: Alliston Aquifer & Site 41
Simcoe County in southwestern Ontario is planning to build a landfill over the Alliston Aquifer, which holds the purest water ever tested. But environmentalists, farmers, Native Canadians, cottagers and church groups have other ideas.
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10/08/09: "Empire of Illusion" - Chris Hedges
On today's podcast, author Chris Hedges explains why he thinks our celebrity obsessed culture is crumbling around us and threatening to take us all down with it.
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07/08/09: The Plains of Abraham
It has been two-hundred-and-fifty years since the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. And in some ways, it's still going on. We explore the recent controversy over this historic battle in today's podcast.
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06/08/09: Sex & Seniors Documentary
Today in the podcast, we follow a newly single septuagenarian as she re-enters the dating world and tries to catch up on a half-century of safe-sex practices.
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05/08/09: The Collapse of Lehman Brothers
It's been nearly a year since the collapse of investment giant Lehman Brothers. It was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Today on the podcast, we speak with the former Vice President of the company who watched it all unfold from the inside.
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04/08/09: HIV Treatment as Prevention
Antiretroviral drugs have changed the lives of millions of people living with HIV and AIDS. But according to Dr. Julio Montaner, they also help prevent new cases by reducing the spread of the disease.
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29/07/09: Canada's Role in Honduras
Canada has condemned the coup in Honduras but, for some critics, neither Ottawa's words nor its actions have been strong enough.
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28/07/09: Bashir Makhtal - Convicted
Bashir Makhtal is a Canadian citizen who has spent the last two and a half years in an Ethiopian prison. Yesterday, he was convicted of working with an armed separatist group. The verdict means he could face the death penalty after his sentencing next week. We take a closer look at the case in today's podcast.
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27/07/09: Our Modern Relationship with Garbage
About 24,000 civic workers walked off the job on June 22, including garbage collectors, water and sewer workers, and city-run daycare providers. But it's the issue of garbage -- how much of it we make and where we put it -- that has received the most attention.
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24/07/09: Lost Art of Lost
For more and more of us, the idea of hitting the road without packing a Global Positioning System - a GPS device - strikes fear in our hearts.That the spirit of adventure and discovery erodes when the GPS is there to tell you where to go. In today's podcast we explore whether getting lost is a lost art.
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23/07/09: AFN Elections
This morning Shawn Atleo became the new National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, but only after Perry Bellegarde conceded. Now, Shawn Atleo has a daunting to-do list. In today's podcast we explored these challenges ahead.
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22/07/09: The Kimberley Process
Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone: each of these countries produced what became known as blood diamonds, or conflict diamonds. Colourless, priceless gemstones stained by violence, they found their way into jewelry store cases all over the world. Last month, one of the founders of the Kimberley Process resigned, because he believes the process is failing.
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21/07/09: Mad Pride
July is officially Mad Pride month-- a series of events taking place all over the world to help people with mental health issues celebrate - and take pride - in who they are... "madness" and all. But while the movement has gained a lot of ground over the years, it still faces some resistance.
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20/07/09: Tanya's Trial
Documentary producer Sandy Bourque chronicled the days leading up to the court date of one Toronto sex worker. Her documentary is called, Tanya's Trial. It first aired on The Current in May. Warning: This Documentary deals with adult subject matter and contains very strong language.
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17/07/09: Facebook Privacy
Jennifer Stoddart outlined a number of ways that she says the ubiquitous social networking website breaches the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Jennifer Stoddart has been investigating Facebook for more than a year and so we explored the development of this issue in today's podcast.
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16/07/09: Anti-Gang Legislation
Canada's anti-gang legislation has had quite a workout this week. a jury in British Columbia acquitted four members of the Hells Angels, while there was a very different outcome in a courtroom in Toronto just days later.
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15/07/09: The Hurt Locker
Today on the podcast, a conversation with journalist, Mark Boal who wrote the screenplay for the new movie, "The Hurt Locker" about the soldiers in a U.S. Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal Squad, whose job it is to disable roadside bombs and other improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
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14/07/09: Moon Landing 40th Anniversary
It was 40 years ago that the crew of Apollo 11 landed on the moon and changed the course of history. Today on the podcast, we hear from the author of a new book about the mission's remarkable legacy.
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13/07/09: Six O'Clock in Alabama - Documentary
The UN says Alabama may be executing the innocent. While a convicted killer, Thomas Arthur faces execution in Atmore, Alabama, justice is at stake.
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10/07/09: Vancouver's Japantown
Vancouver's troubled downtown eastside used to be known as Japantown. That changed forever with the war-time internment of Japanese-Canadians. This weekend, the Emperor of Japan will visit the neighbourhood to pay tribute to its history. We examine that history and look at the impact the internment program had on the community.
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09/07/09: High on the Job
Vancouver is experiencing a construction boom in the lead-up to next year's Winter Olympics. And there are growing concerns about the number of construction workers getting high on the job.
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08/07/09: Cooking with Fire
Cooking with fire is what makes us human. Today on the Current podcast, a conversation with an anthropologist who says that what really separates us from the apes is that fact that we learned how to cook.
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07/07/09: Lung Cancer Screening
Lung cancer is the second-most common cancer in the world and the deadliest. It's also one of the only cancers without an effective screening test. Today on the Current podast, CBC Health Reporter brings us the story about a group of Canadian researchers who are trying to change that.
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06/07/09: Prairie Drought
Parts of the prairies have been hit hard by a severe drought. Today on the podcast, a conversation with the President of the National Farmers Union to find out what kind of government assistance he's looking for. And we also talk to a geographer who says the situation is likely to get even worse.
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03/07/09: Vampires & Pop Culture
From the best-seller lists to the big screen, vampires are back with a vengeance. But now they're younger, prettier and in some cases even downright nice. Today on the podcast, what the state of the undead says about the land of the living.
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02/07/09: CIA in Iran
The situation in Iran presents an enormous temptation for the CIA to intervene in the name of supporting a democratic uprising and unseating a regime hostile to the West. Today on the podcast, we look at the CIA's checkered past in Iran and assess the wisdom of calls for the CIA to get involved there again.
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01/07/09: The Average Canadian & Hockey
Why is Joe Canadian Joe Average? On the day we celebrate Canada, The Current ponders why the Tim Horton's Nation exalts the ordinary and throws cold water on big dreams, high ambitions and refined tastes.
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30/06/09: Dam Beavers & Infrastructure
Beavers are increasingly coming into conflict as beaver populations increase & human development sprawls into habitat. Today on the podcast, we look at the sometimes uneasy coexistence between Canadians and beavers - two kinds of control freaks bent on reshaping the landscape.
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29/06/09: Abdelrazik Returns to Canada
Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian who was stranded in Sudan for six years after being labelled an al-Qaeda suspect, returned home this weekend. But he's still on a United Nations no-fly list and the U.S. Government still says he's linked to terrorist activities. Today on the podcast, some insight into the allegations against him and why the U.S. Government is standing by them.
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26/06/09: Forced Blood Transfusion Court Ruling
Three years ago, a 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness was forced to have a blood transfusion she didn't want. Now the Supreme Court of Canada is weighing in with consequences for everyone.
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25/06/09: Honour Killings
A 23-year-old man from Ottawa has been convicted on two counts of first-degree-murder for killing his sister and her fiancé. He is the first person convicted of first degree murder for an honour killing in Canada. Some hope it will send a message that honour killings won't be treated lightly. But not everyone thinks it's helpful to label them that way.
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24/06/09: North Korean Defector - Sun Mu
Sun Mu spent years as a propaganda artist for the North Korean government. Then he defected and now he makes a living critiquing the regime he once served.
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23/06/09: Love + Prison Breaks
A Canadian psychologist is accused of helping a prison inmate escape. Police believe they became romantically involved. We share the latest on that story and find out why educated, professional women fall in love with convicts more often than many might think.
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22/06/09: Pride & Politics
Pride and politics. What began as an united response to a police crackdown has become a multi-million-dollar celebration that reflects the diverse - and sometimes discordant - politics of Canada's LGBT community.
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19/06/09: The Daddy Shift
When it comes to staying home to take care of the kids, women still outnumber men by a wide margin. Today on the podcast we meet a man who swears that's changing and that it will redefine families.
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18/06/09: Text Messaging Charges
At a U.S. Senate hearing this week, a Cdn computer scientist testified that an individual text message costs the wireless telecommunications industry no more than a third of a cent. That makes the average consumer mark-up nearly 5,000 per cent. We ask if that's just the free market at work, or a sign that better industry regulation is needed.
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17/06/09: Cruelty
After years of study, neuroscientist Kathleen Taylor has concluded that cruelty is a lot harder to define and a lot easier to engage in than most of us would like to think.
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16/06/09: Iran Election Protests
Today on the podcast, we talk to a wide range of Iranians and Iranian expatriates to get their thoughts on what happened with the elections over the weekend and what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election means for the future of the country and the region.
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15/09/09: Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower
When anti-corruption crusader John Githongo had to get out of Kenya in a hurry, he landed at Michela Wrong's flat in London, England. Now his story is part of her book. And her book is part of his fight.
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12/06/09: Slow Death by Rubber Duck
Put down the rubber ducky and step away from the shower curtain. The authors of "Slow Death by Rubber Duck" explain how the toxic pollutants in everyday household products may be hurting you.
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11/06/09: Youth & Politics
The fallout continues from the documents and recordings misplaced by Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt's former communications director. Most people agree its essential to get young people involved in the political process. But what are the perils of relying on people without much experience? And how do you balance those two things?
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10/06/09: Stranded in Sudan - Abdelrazik
Wafa Sahnine has spent six years waiting for her step-father to come home. But despite security investigations and a federal court ruling, Abousfian Abdelrazik is still stranded in Sudan. We hear from her and an update from Abousfian Abdelrazik's lawyer.
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09/06/09: Joe Schlesinger
Today on the Current podcast, a conversation with the CBC's Joe Schlesinger about a remarkable career and an extraordinary life.
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08/06/09: Polar Prom Documentary
Igloolik, Nunavut is one of the most isolated towns in Canada. The high school there held its first formal prom this year, thanks to some local ingenuity and the kindness of strangers hundreds of kilometres away.
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05/06/09: Lebanon Elections
Lebanon's national elections are on Sunday and it appears that an odd coalition between a one-time Christian militia and the militant Islamic group Hezbollah could push the son of a murdered Prime Minister out of power. And that's just the beginning of the intrigue.
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04/06/09: Hala Jaber Feature
Hala Jaber went to Iraq to cover the war as a journalist and then she found a story that made her put down her notepad and started re-writing her life.
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03/06/09: Documentary - The Laws Between Worlds
Today on the podcast, a documentary with the extraordinary story of Afghan women using the law to fight for their rights and of the female lawyers so determined to help them.
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02/06/09: Weaning Cities Off Cars
Author Jeb Brugmann says we can, should, and will probably have to start weaning ourselves off cars in the coming years. But how?
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01/06/09: Tiananmen Anniversary
It's been 20 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Chinese Government still won't acknowledge how many people were killed that day. But it has introduced the first human rights action plan in the country's history. Today on the Current podcast, we explore the disconnect.
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29/05/09: Che Guevara - Legacy of an Image
Che Gueverra's iconic image can be seen on t-shirts, banners and posters pretty much all over the world. But what exactly does that image convey, more than forty years after the death of the man himself.
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28/05/09: Armenian Golgotha - Balakian
Nearly a hundred years ago, Grigoris Balakian wrote a defining account of the Armenian Genocide. Now his great-great-nephew has translated it into English for the first time and it still makes for harrowing reading.
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27/05/09: Tanya's Trial - Documentary
Tanya is a drug-addicted prostitute who was forcibly confined and brutally assaulted. Wendy Leaver is the police detective who wants to bring Tanya's alleged attacker to justice. But that's not going to be easy for either of them.
*** Warning *** This podcast contains adult subject matter and contains strong language.
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26/05/09: The End of Overeating - David Kessler
The former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has spent the last seven years trying to figure out why food that is so bad for us can make us feel so good.
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25/05/09: Oil - Jeff Rubin
Jeff Rubin, the Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets tells us why he thinks the world is doomed to a series of recessions and recoveries unless we cut back on the amount of oil we use.
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22/05/09: Racism, Children & State
Today on the podcast, we talk to a mother in Winnipeg who is fighting to regain custody of her children. Child and Family Services took custody of the children just over a year ago and says it is trying to protect them from their parents allegedly racist beliefs and teachings. But some say the decision to take custody of the children goes too far.
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21/05/09: Death of a GM Salesman
Today on the Current podcast, with hundreds of General Motors dealerships getting letters instructing them to close, we look look at the economic impact as well as the lost art of selling cars.
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20/05/09: Mexico Water Shortage
It is one of the most populated cities in the world, and if things don't improve fast, Mexico City will become one of thirstiest. Throw in Swine Flu and you have city drowning in a sea of trouble.
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19/05/09: Does Power Corrupt?
Today on the Current podcast, we're asking about the innate character of those
who choose the political life in this modern world. Does Elected mean Entitled?
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18/05/09: Goldman Sachs
Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter David Cay Johnston has the story of Wall-Street banking giant Goldman Sachs ... its remarkable ability to survive in tough economic times and its curiously consistent ability to shape a nation's economic policy.
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15/05/09: Tamil-Canadian Protests
On-going protests by Tamil-Canadians have clogged the streets of Toronto and provoked angry reactions from people inconvenienced by them. We ask about the limits to our tolerance for political protests that get in the way of our daily lives and what that says about our values as a society.
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14/05/09: The Hubble and Science
For 19 years, The Hubble Space Telescope has expanded our understanding of the universe. Now it needs a Billion-dollar repair job. So we're asking, how do you put a value on research for research's sake?
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13/05/09: Drunkyard's Walk
Today on the Current podcast, meet a theoretical physicist who says the forces that govern our lives are about as predictable as the stumbling, haphazard path of a drunkard's walk.
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12/05/09: Obama & Gay Rights
Barack Obama says he supports gay rights. But saying isn't doing. And some rights groups are getting tired of waiting for the U.S. President to commit.
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11/05/09: Barefoot Running
Some ultra-runners advocate going barefoot or next to it. Which raises the question - Do we really need those fancy running shoes? Or has the marketing run away with the reality? Today's podcast debates the merits of running shoes.
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08/05/09: Naming Nurses with Addictions
On occasion, Manitoba's College of Registered Nurses will publish the names of nurses who have addictions. The College says it's in the interest of transparency and public safety. The nurses' union says it's unfair and counterproductive.
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07/05/09: Genetic Sexual Attraction
In June, Ontario's public adoption records will be unsealed, making it the fifth province to ease the way for reunions between birth families and adoptees. But there is a disconcerting consequence of such reunions. It's called Genetic Sexual Attraction - an instance in which a sexual relationship develops between biological relatives. The CBC's Aziza Sindhu shares the story of two families who have experienced GSA first-hand.
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06/05/09: Peacekeeping in the DRC
Over the years, the United Nations' Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been accused of being many things - too weak, too small, too ineffective. Now it stands accused of taking sides with a man the International Criminal Court says is a war criminal.
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04/05/09: "Swine" Flu and Health Workers
When we mere mortals come down with an infection that is not only new but contagious, someone has to look out for us and look after us. You know who they are: the doctors, nurses, frontline health professionals who, at a time of outbreak, put their own lives on hold for ours. They're at it again as we grapple with the flu formerly known as Swine.
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01/05/09: Sharing the Shelf Documentary
St. Pierre and Miquelon are two tiny islands off the south coast of Newfoundland. They're also French territories. And France is looking at leveraging that claim into a bigger stake in the continental shelf and whatever oil and gas resources might be buried there.
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30/04/09: Decriminalizing Drugs in Portugal
Eight years ago, Portugal had a devastating drug problem. But instead of declaring a war on drugs, the government decriminalized everything from marijuana to heroin and cocaine. Many call it a success and some say countries such as Canada should follow Portugal's example.
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29/04/09: 100 Days as President Obama
It's been 100 days since U.S. President Barack Obama was sworn into office. Today on the Current podcast, we take stock of what he's accomplished and what that suggests for the rest of his term.
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28/04/09: Ezra Levant on Human Rights
Three years ago, Ezra Levant had a run-in with the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission. It led him to a provocative conclusion that Canada's human rights commissions are undermining our democractic freedoms.
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27/04/09: Janis Karpinski & Abu Ghraib
Janis Karpinski paid a heavy price for Abu Ghraib. But now as more information comes out about the Bush administraion's policies on torture, Janis Karpinski says the wrong people were paying the price.
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24/04/09: Colin Thatcher Book
Colin Thatcher - a former member of the Saskatchewan legislature who was convicted of murdering his ex-wife - is set to publish a book about his trial. Victims' rights groups say he shouldn't be allowed to profit from his crime. But the publisher says even convicted murderers deserve the right to free speech.
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23/04/09: Tax Mistake - Irvin Leroux's Story
Irvin Leroux has spent more than ten years fighting the Canada Revenue Agency over its claim that he owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back-taxes and penalties. The agency now admits it was wrong. But Mr. Leroux's fight is far from over. Today on the Current podacst, we hear his story.
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22/04/09: Prescription Painkillers
In some parts of Canada, the abuse of prescription pain killers is topping heroin and cocaine addiction. Today on the Current podcast, we look at the rising numbers related to prescription opiates surpassing those illicit drugs.
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21/04/09: Durban 2
Canada and a number of other countries are boycotting a UN conference on racism. They say it's a pulpit for anti-semitism. But those attending argue there's much more at stake.
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20/04/09: Pirates in Troubled Waters
With pirates off the Somali coast continuing to capture ships and hostages, countries around the world debate not only how they'll tackle the problem, but how you prosecute a pirate at sea?
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17/04/09: Tamil Tigers
Sri Lanka's government forces have rebel Tamil Tigers backed into a corner. And Tamils around the world are speaking out.
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16/04/09: Afghan War: Morals and Military Fronts
Afghanistan: Cause for hope or a hopeless cause. From women’s rights, to culture, to security, we hear from two prominent women with their thoughts on this war. And two security experts on the counterintuitiveness of counterinsurgency.
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15/04/09: White Liberation of Paris
It was the day that saw the end of Nazi tyranny in Paris. But even as France celebrated, Black soldiers who fought their way through German lines, were prohibited by Allied command from freeing the City Of Lights.
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14/04/09: Wind Turbines
Wind power is touted as a clean, quiet, efficient source of renewable power. But some who live near wind farms allege the noise is actually making them sick.
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13/04/09: Rwanda - Allan Thompson
Today on the podcast, we mark the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide with a conversation with Allan Thompson, a former Toronto Star reporter who's now the Director of the Rwanda Initiative, a project that is trying to help rebuild the media sector in Rwanda.
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10/04/09: Vandana Shiva
Even in the midst of a global recession, India's economy is often described as a miracle. But not for the country's impoverished farmers. Vandana Shiva is a physicist who's trying to change that.
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09/04/09: Belfast Mayor - Tom Hartley
Today on the Current podcast, Anna Maria speaks with Tom Hartley, about his journey from outlawed Sinn Fein activist to the Mayor of Belfast.
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08/04/09: Counting the Homeless
Vancouver is re-defining the homeless. Toronto is getting ready to count them. And both cities are facing a fierce political debate over the consequences.
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07/04/09: Decriminalizing Incest
Across Europe, several countries have decriminalized incest. People who support the move say the state has no business legislating social mores. But others say that's exactly what our laws are for.
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06/04/09: Doctor Abu al-Aish
Today on the podcast, we talk to Doctor Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, a Palestinian doctor and peace activist. His daughters and a niece were killed in the Israeli military offensive in Gaza and he gave a grief-stricken interview on Israeli television. But despite all he has lost, his commitment to peace is unshaken.
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03/04/09: Afghan Women Law
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is facing a growing fury over his support for a law that many people say is turning back the clock on women's rights.
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02/04/09: Abousfian Abdelrazik
A Canadian man returns to his country of birth for a visit only to be arrested, interrogated, tortured even. Canadian security authorities later clear him of any suspicion and yet after six years he still can't come home.
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01/04/09: Radical Thrift - Judith Levine
The global economic crisis has a lot of people pinching pennies and looking for ways to cut corners. And it's spawned a movement that some people are calling "Radical Thrift."
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31/03/09: What Remains Doc
Today on the Current podcast, the man who used to be the only funeral director in the town of Mattawa, Ontario is facing 73 charges relating to improper burials. And now some families are wondering if the body they buried is really that of their loved one.
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30/03/09: British MP Galloway banned from Canada
The federal government has barred controversial British MP George Galloway from entering Canada. But that's not going to stop him from trying. He's filed a lawsuit challenging the ban. And today he plans to try to cross the Quebec-Vermont border.
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26/03/09: CEO Kidnappings
Luc Rousselet -- the director of 3M's operations in France -- walked into the company's factory in Pithiviers, about 100 kilometres south of Paris. He was there to negotiate severance payments for 110 employees. But the employees didn't like the terms he was offering. So they locked him in his office for two days. you'll hear more of this story in today's podcast.
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25/03/09: Twice Lost Documentary
Today on the Current podcast, a documentary about a brother and sister driven apart by forces neither of them fully understood until much later, when the brother was diagnosed with a fatal disease.
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24/03/09: Behavioural Economics - Dan Ariely
The author of "Predictably Irrational" explains how bonuses don't make us better workers and crooks like Bernie Madoff distract us from the small-time cheats that actually cost us more.
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23/03/2009: Rising HIV Rate in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan had one of the lowest rates of HIV infections in Canada. But now new numbers reveal it's double the national, per capita average. Today on the Current podcast, we look into why HIV is spreading with alarming frequency in Saskatchewan's cities.
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20/03/09: Water in Reserves & a Tour of the Don River
This week is the fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey and as part of our "Watershed" series we look at global water issues. Across Canada, there are about 100 First Nations under some kind of boil-water advisory. We'll take a tour of the water woes for Canada's First Nations and also look at the threat of urban sprawl on the Don River.
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19/03/2009: Khmer Rouge Survivor - Chandra Eang
Today on the Current podcast, we meet Chandra Eang. He survived four years in the killing fields of Cambodia. And now he's getting ready to go back to help provide food, shelter and clean drinking water for a country that is still suffering.
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18/03/2009: Straight A's at U of Ottawa
Today on the Current podcast, Denis Rancourt wanted to hand out straight A's to all his students at U of Ottawa. But the school wants to fire the physics professor, saying he's just not making the grade.
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17/03/2009: Death of the Record Biz
Today on the Current podast, we talk to Steve Knopper about his new book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" and why he thinks the music industry as we know it is dying because of its failure to respond to new technologies.
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16/03/2009: Twittering Politics
Today on the Current podcast, a look at how the social networking website Twitter is affecting our politics. Will it change the way we engage with our elected officials? Or is it just hype?
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13/03/2009: The Lords of Finance
The Great Depression was one of the worst chapters in the history of the 20th Century. Ever wonder how we got out of it? Today on the Current podcast, we'll hear the story of four men who helped drag the world back to fiscal solvency.
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12/03/09: Eurovision Politics
A simple pop song from Georgia with a campy disco beat and a cheesy sing-along chorus has sparked an international incident and according to Ivan Raykoff, it's not the first time. He's a professor of Music at The New School in New York City. He's also the co-editor of a collection of essays called "A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest." Ivan Raykoff is in New York City.
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11/03/2009: Osama bin Laden's Birthday
The most wanted man in the world turns fifty-two years old this week. Ever since the attacks of 9/11, Osama bin Laden's birthday has been greeted with a complicated mix of emotions. We speak to experts who have an interestig take on the issue.
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06/03/2009: Romeo Phillion
Today on the Current podcast, the Ontario Court of Appeal just granted Romeo Phillion a new trial in the 1967 murder of Ottawa firefighter Leopold Roy. We speak with Romeo Phillion, his sister Simonne and his lawyer James Lockyer about the years Romeo spent in custody and the verdict that overturned his murder conviction.
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05/03/2009: The Death of Local News
Canada's private broadcasters are making or proposing sweeping cuts to local news broadcasts. Today on the Current podcast, we assess the impact on small communities across the country and ask what obligation broadcasters - private and public - have to support local news.
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04/03/2009: Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis
Our oceans are in trouble from rising temperatures, overfishing and pollution. And if you think that doesn't matter to us dry-land types ... think again. Today on the Current podcast, we talk to Alanna Mitchell about her new book, "Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis".
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03/03/2009: Palestinian Politics
Today on a special edition of the Current in Jerusalem, we head to the West Bank to talk to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and former Deputy Prime Minister and local Hamas leader Nasser al-Shaer about re-building Gaza and how to bridge the divide between the Palestinian factions.
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02/03/2009: The Water that Binds: The Fukin Valley
After four years of drought, water is scarce in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Today in a Special Edition of the Current from Jerusalem, we'll have the story of people in two communities — one in Israel, the other in the West Bank — who are trying to work together to protect their shared water source in spite of the politics.
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27/02/2009: Art vs. Sensationalism
A controversial Austrian play about Josef Fritzl, the man alleged to have held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, is being met with angry protests and accusations of sensationalism. But others defend the play as an important commentary on how society handles cases like these.
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26/02/2009: Unembedded - Scott Taylor
Today on the Current podcast, we talk to Scott Taylor about his new memoir, "Unembedded: Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting," as well as his experiences covering conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq and why he thinks that journalists sometimes have to distance themselves from the military in order to get a full picture of the conflict they are covering.
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25/02/2009: Insects as Warriors
For decades, countries including Canada have been working on ways to use insects as instruments of war ... most often as a way to spread disease. Jeffrey Lockwood has documented that disturbing history in his new book, "Six Legged Soldiers".
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24/02/2009: Richard Florida - Recession Proof
Today on the Current Podcast, we talk to urban affairs thinker Richard Florida, about why he thinks a critical mass of talented people working in creative, knowledge-oriented fields is the best long-term defense against the recession.
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23/02/2009: Vancouver Gangs
Gang violence has been escalating in Vancouver. And the city's residents are fighting back. We'll talk to a businessman who has been targeted in the past and a woman whose son was killed in the crossfire.
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20/02/2009: Raw Milk Cheese Industry
Six months ago, raw milk cheese was a thriving business in Quebec. Then came a listeriosis outbreak and now the health of the industry is in question.
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19/02/2009: Terry Tamminen on Energy
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Ottawa today and speculation about what his New Energy for American plan might mean for the Alberta oil sands is running rampant. We'll talk to Terry Tamminen, an advisor to President Obama's transition team and a long time environmental advisor to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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18/02/2009: Oil Sands at a Tipping Point?
Have the Alberta oil sands hit a tipping point? The industry is being hammered by the global recession and a precipitous drop in the price of oil. U.S. President Barack Obama's energy policy is less forgiving of "dirty oil" than his predecessor. And the Catholic Bishop for Fort McMurray says the current incarnation of the oil sands are morally unjustifiable.
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17/02/2009: Al-Jazeera in Canada
Today on the Current podcast, we talk to Tony Burman, the Managing Director of Al Jazeera's English-language television network about his efforts to make the controversial network available in Canada.
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11/02/2009: Recession Good for your Health?
Can a recession improve your health? One expert says yes, since people are more likely to eat at home instead of downing fast food, walk more and spend less on booze. But not everyone is convinced.
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10/02/2009: Hockey and Fighting
Today on the podcast, we'll delve into the debate over fighting in hockey by looking at its often troubled role as an arbiter of Canadian masculinity.
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13/01/2009: Canada the Preseident-elects Policy
Across Canada, Barack Obama is posting approval ratings our own leaders can only dream of. In the run-up to the American Presidential Election, as many as 80 per cent of Canadians said they approved of Obama. But there are some Canadians who are withholding judgment until they see the fine print on the President-elect's policies ... especially on economic issues. We'll explore this issue further in this podcast.
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12/01/2009: Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is reaching a breaking point. And the aid workers trying to address the situation are finding it nearly impossible to do their job. You'll hear from people who can speak to both sides of the issue in this podcast.
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Dispatches February 4 2010, Kandahar Afghanistan, San Salvador El Salvador, Bulgaria, Buenos Aires Argentina, Cartagena Colombia,
This Week
The new confidence in Kandahar; Canadian commanders prepare to take the war to the Taliban.
The reverse remittance trap. Salvadorans find themselves sending remittances to relatives in the U.S.
Someone is stealing chariots and antiquities right out of the Bulgarian soil, and there's not much anyone can do about it.
A suitcase full of cash. A suspect singing like a canary. Did a foreign government try to buy Argentina's election?
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Dispatches January 28, 2010. Port au Prince, Washington, D.C. Nigeria, Moscow, London, Monrovia.
Haitians ask, where is their government in their time of need?
Vodka and the village of widows; Russia tries to stop the slow march towards alcoholism.
"How the internet has triggered libel tourism"
We hear from a victim of the Russian shell game known as "Raiding."
Also, an expert on the latest violence in Nigeria and how Liberians are getting their news on the blackboard.
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Dispatches January 21, 2010 Port au Prince Haiti, London, Manaus Brazil, Amazon, New York,
From the wreckage of Haiti a correspondent's-eye view of a pocket of undamaged optimism amid the ruins.
And it was an earthquake that caused the carnage, but we'll hear why one Canadian analyst says western foreign policy made it worse.
"Are we supposed to kill him or just burn down the house?" We're in the Amazon to document the lawless advance of development into the rain forest.
And a story of survival economics; could you survive on two dollars a day? You'll be surprised how many have to
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Dispatches January 14 2010, Sana'a Yemen, London, Beruit, Yankassa Sierra Leone, Montreal
We go inside Yemen to see why it's been such a good fit for the forces of al-Queda.
A look at the land-grab business. Agribusiness sees a global market for arable land, but the developing world might be selling off its future food security.
And, a story of lust from Lebanon. How Hezbollah is using sex as a means of recruitment and control.
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Dispatches January 7 2010, New York, Genova Italy, Ottawa, The Hague, Port-Au-Prince Haiti,
Inside North Korea; defectors tell stories of hunger and horror.
Italy's fascination with prime-time porn. Why TV there treats women like sex toys.
Some say you could raise billions to fight poverty and nobody would miss it. Hear why governments won't go for it.
In the Congo, paramilitaries stole an entire fifth grade and turned it into child soldiers. We revisit the courtroom and the man back on trial for it.
And a story of self help in Haiti which needs all the help it can get
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On Fire! (02/06/10)
Everyone loves a fire... until it goes bad. What's the real power of fire? This week, DNTO looks at how we use it... and how we cope when it turns on us.
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DNTO Fights Back! (01/30/10)
What's the best way to "fight back" when you feel passionate about something? This week, we'll find out how to use humour, music, or a Shih Tzu to win a fight.
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You and your pet: who's in charge? (01/23/10)
You may think you "own" a pet... but are we really in charge of our animal-human relationships? That's what we find out this week...
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The Motivating Power of Guilt (01/16/10)
Feeling guilty is a terrible thing. Or is it? As bad as it might feel, guilt also has the power to motivate us to do positive things. So this week, we look at guilt's power to drive us to action... and why it's so strong.
Radio 3's Grant Lawrence explains why he feels guilty whenever he sees R2D2. Michael Wex, author of How To Be a Mentsh will shed some light on cultural guilt. Plus
musician Jann Arden confesses what she feels guilty about.
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Feeling optimistic (?) (01/09/10)
What's so wrong with a half-empty glass, anyway? As we begin a new year, we ask if "optimism" is always the best approach.
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When did you get "lost in translation?" (01/02/10)
We're starting the new year by bringing the world closer together with our "lost in translation" show. When did language trip you up? We'll share some of the highlights from our show... and hear from DNTO listeners who've been "linguistically-challenged."
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What's your family ritual? (12/26/09)
This week, we hear about traditional (and not-so-traditional) family rituals... from grown-up Easter eggs hunts to walking the cat to wrestling Mom...
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Feeling homesick (12/19/09)
Will you be home for the holidays? If not, how do you fight homesickness? Find out this week on DNTO.
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The Peep Show
It's a peep show! We have an insatiable fascination with peeking into the lives of others. And whether it's on Facebook, through the family Christmas letter, or a not-so-secret diary, we often share our lives with others (sometimes to the point of "oversharing...."). So what's behind our fascination with the "peep show?" That's what we're out to discover this week...
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Why is sleep the busiest part of your day?
What's on DNTO: Dec. 5
Sleep isn't always as relaxing... or unproductive... as you might think. This week, we look at all the crazy things we're doing while we're asleep... or should be.
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The Art of Sell (11/28/09)
What are you selling... and how do you close the deal? This week, we look at that art... from selling cars to selling ideas to selling ourselves.
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Is all this playing around really working? (11/21/09)
This week, we look at the importance of "play," and ask if we're at our most productive while we're playing.
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Why is small talk such a big deal? (11/14/09)
So... how are you? Nice weather we're having, huh? Yep... everyone hates "small talk." But what if we told you small talk could SAVE YOUR LIFE? And what if we proved it? Sounds like a good idea for a podcast, doesn't it? Download to discover the wonders of talking small.
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Are you listening to me? (11/07/09)
Is listening a lost art? Listen carefully this week for professional listeners, the secret to "cocktail party listening," and more.
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You are so Scary! (10/31/09)
When did you scare the bejeebers out of someone else? This week, we're looking at what happens when you become the frightener.
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We quit! (10/24/09)
Quitters never win... except when they do. So this week, we're looking at the transformative power of quitting... for better or for worse.
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Repeats, reruns, repetitions and repeats (10/17/09)
Why do we love repetition? And why do we need it? This week (in an all-new episode), we look at the joys and trials of repeating things.
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Food Fight! (10/10/09)
From family blow-outs at the dinner table to office fights over lunches stolen from the fridge, there are lots of ways we fight over food. So just in time for Thanksgiving, we're looking into "food fights."
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Minding our P's and Q's (10/03/09)
Have we become less polite, more polite, or just different in our manners? And how can manners save your life? We'll find out this week, as we look at "etiquette." Tune in to hear from the man who good-mannered his way through a mugging, the ranting waiter, and more.
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What gets lost (and found) in translation? (09/26/09)
This week, we're looking into the perilous pitfalls of language, as well as the joys of linguistic diversity. Tune in to find out why Hidden Cameras frontman Joel Gibb loves the challenge of conversing in German, and to hear a new tune, live in studio. Plus, author Robert J. Sawyer on the translation from book to TV, and Nick Purdon looks at why parents and kids always seem to speak a different language.
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Can You Really Change Who You Are? (09/19/09)
Okay, so one of the goals in life is to try to accept yourself warts and all, right? But the the truth is, everyone has something they want to change about themselves.
So what happens when you attempt to radically alter who you are?
Coming up on the DNTO podcast,
New York Times writer Peggy Orenstein on why it's harder for 20-somethings to reinvent themselves these days.
Former hick-hopper now country crooner Ridley Bent performs a brand-new song.
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What didn't you learn in school today? (09/12/09)
You probably learned lots of great stuff in school. But there are also a lot of big, important things you didn't learn there. This week, we're looking at those life lessons - and how, for better or for worse, we learned them.
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January 15th: VLT Addiction and The Torch in Saskatchewan **FINAL EPISODE**
We start the final episode of the Edtior's Choice podcast with an interview from Newfoundland with Keith Piercey. He's the lead claimant in a class action suit against the Atlantic Lottery Corporation. Following his story, we'll head to Saskatchewan. The Olympic Torch passed through the province last weekend and CBC's Abby Schneider was there to speak with some of the thousands who came out to catch some of the spirit.
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January 14th: Badge of Pride and What Andrew Carnegie did for Sudbury
First up today, we'll hear about a documentary from The Passionate Eye entitled Badge of Pride. It's a new documentary that explores what it's like to be a gay police officer in Toronto, despite changing attitudes. After hearing about that, we'll hear from organist and Laurentian University music instructor Robert Hall. He's created an organ performance to honour American millionaire Andrew Carnagie's contributions to the congregations in the north.
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January 13th: Learn How to Achieve Heaven on Earth and Meet Dredger
How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth: that's the title of a new collection of essays that looks at
how to make the world a better place. It features
thoughts from the likes of Barack Obama, Warren Buffet,
Tony Blair and Prince Edward Islander Darlene MacInnis. She'll tell us about her essay. After that, we'll meet New Brunswick's wrestler-turned-actor Robert Maillet, who appeared in Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law.
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January 12th: Rowed Trip
Canadian adventure writers Colin and Julie Angus recently released a book entitled Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria by Oar. Those locations aren't random: Colin's family is from Scotland and one side of Julie's family hails from Syria. Host Sheryl MacKay of CBC British Columbia's North By Northwest asked the couple to tell us about their trip and their new book.
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January 11th: Deceptive Advertising on the Slopes and Doyle on Republic of Doyle
Mountain ski resorts across Canada can brag about their massive snowfalls all they want but can we really take any ski hill's marketing campaign at face value?Well, no, not according to a couple of economics professors at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. After hearing from one of them, we'll meet John Doyle, the Globe and Mail's television columnist. He shares his thoughts on a new CBC Television show, Republic of Doyle.
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January 8th: Order of Canada Appointee Murray Angus and The Doctors Behind Mission Africa Smiles
Murray Angus is one of the founders of The Nunavut Sivuniksavut Program, developed to teach young Inuit about land claims. We'll hear his reaction to being named to the Order of Canada. Then, we'll meet Dr. Louise Laberge, the founder of Mission Africa Smiles and Daniel Borsuck, a plastic surgeon who'll be going over to Mali with the group to help children in Africa with severe facial disfigurements.
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02/05/2010 - From Paris With Love / Saint John of Vegas / Dear John
There's a little something for everyone at the movies this weekend.
If you were a fan of "The Notebook", perhaps you'd enjoy the new romantic film "Dear John."
And if movies like "The Notebook" send shivers down your spine, well maybe you're in the mood for newest John Travolta action flick..."From Paris With Love."
Plus there's an extra bonus for Steve Buscemi fans, "Saint John of Vegas."
With more on what to see, and what to avoid, here's CBC Film Reviewer Eli Glasner
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01/29/2010 - Edge of Darkness
Movie fans know Hollywood loves a good redemption story.
And the star of this week's new release certainly has potential.
Edge of Darkness is a thriller starring Mel Gibson.
You remember Mel Gibson don't you?
He used to be a movie star until he made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Well he's back. But is it for the better?
With the answer here's CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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01/22/2010 - Creation and The Last Station
Films have a way of making people look larger than life, especially when it come to the great historical figures.
But two new movie have a different spin on two of history's giants.
Opening this week is CREATION, the story of the man who wrote The Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin.
Also beginning to roll out across North America is THE LAST STATION, a movie about Leo Tolstoy that's generating some Oscar buzz.
For more here's CBC Film Reveiewer Eli Glasner.
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01/15/2010 - The Lovely Bones
When it was first published the book THE LOVELY BONES became one of those novels friends passed to friends, quickly becoming a best seller.
And one of the big fans of the book was movie director Peter Jackson.
Now the master of Middle Earth has completed his adaptation of the novel, which opens tonight.
Here to tell us if the film is equally as lovely is CBC film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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01/08/2010 - Daybreakers and Youth in Revolt
Dedicated film fans know January isn't the best time to head out to the theatre.
Most of the Oscar-worthy films have opened and the big spring
blockbusters are still months away.
But our film reviewer has been digging around to find a couple movies worth braving the cold for, whether you're looking for a scare or a laugh.
With reviews of DAYBREAKERS and YOUTH IN REVOLT here's CBC film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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12/25/2009 - Best of 2009
All right, let's be honest.
After you'd taken a third run at the turkey.
After you've heard ol' Bing warble that tune for what seems like the four hundredth time.
You might be ready for a distraction.
Sure the holiday are a great time for catching up with friends and family.
But they're also a great time to catch up on films.
CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner has been making a list and checking it twice.
He's here to tell us who was naughty and nice in tinseltown this year.
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12/18/2009 - Avatar
In 1997 director James Cameron surprised the world with the film Titanic.
They said he was heading for disaster but the movie wound up raking in an incredible 1 point 8 billion dollars.
The question is, can he do it again?
In theatres today: Avatar, an all new adventure, this time on an alien world.
With more about the movie and the man who made it happen, CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner
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12/11/2009 - Invictus
Actors have always been drawn to historical figures.
What better way to leave your mark than playing an icon, such as Alexander the Great, Ghandi or Ben Hur.
But when you step into the shoes of a living legend that raises the difficulty level.
That's the challenge for Invictus, the new film featuring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela.
It's a performance that's already generating a lot of attention.
With a closer look here's CBC Radio's Eli Glasner.
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11/27/2009 - The Road & Fantastic Mr. Fox
This weekend, there's a wide range of movies to mull over.
For the serious cinephile there's the apocalyptic thriller THE ROAD based on the famous novel (by Cormac McCarthy).
Or for the young at heart, perhaps you'll enjoy FANATASTIC MR. FOX starring the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep.
Here to help us choose is CBC Radio's serious cinephile who has never lost touch with his inner child: Eli Glasner.
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11/20/2009 - The Twilight Saga: New Moon
It was 2008 when much of the world first learned of the super-suave vampires of Twilight.
The book based on the series by Stephanie Meyer became a box office smash, with fans falling hard for the immortal Edward.
And judging from the anticipation, that was just a warm up.
"New Moon" -- the latest installment in the Twilight Saga -- opens today.
CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner battled his way through the throngs of fans to bring us this review.
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11/13/2009 - 2012
In 1996, director Roland Emmerich stunned movie-goers with the alien invasion movie "Independence Day."
Since that time, Emmerich has become the go-to-guy for destruction.
He's helped Godzilla mash-up Manhattan and then turned the city to a popsicle in "The Day After Tomorrow".
But all that was just a warm up for this weekend's new movie.
It's called "2012" and here to tell us how the world ends is CBC Radio's cinematic survivor, Eli Glasner.
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11/06/2009 - A Christmas Carol
While some kids are nursing the last of their stash of Halloween candy, Hollywood is charging headlong into the next holiday season.
This weekend the Disney adaptation of A Christmas Carol arrives in theatres.
While there have been many versions of the Dickens classic, this 3-D edition offers something new and old.
Here to tell us more is CBC Radio Film Reviewer Eli Glasner
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10/30/2009 - Paranormal Activity
A decade ago the film The Blair Witch Project created a very big scare on a very low budget.
Now, it's happening again.
The movie is Paranormal Activity.
Last weekend at the box office, the micro-budget movie bested the popular horror franchise film "Saw VI."
And so CBC Radio Film reviewer Eli Glasner had no choice but to gather his courage and check out this fearful flick.
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10/24/2009 - Astro Boy & Amelia
Two very different legends of the sky get the big-screen treatment this weekend.
The kids cartoon Astro Boy is now a full-length animated feature.
For the adults, Hilary Swank suits up to play Amelia Earhart in the film about the first woman who flew solo across the Atlantic.
Here to see whether they soar or snore is CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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10/19/2009 - Where the Wild Things Are
In 1963 a young man named Maurice Sendak wrote and illustrated a book about a boy who escaped into a world of wild fantasy.
Although "Where the Wild Things Are" was only 9 sentences long it quickly became a classic.
Now it's become something else: The newest movie from director Spike Jonze.
Expectations are high for this one, and here to give us the details is CBC Radio Film Reviewer Eli Glasner.
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10/09/2009 - Couples Retreat
If you're a fan of independent films or actor Vince Vaughan you might remember the 1996 movie SWINGERS.
Vaughan and his buddy Jon Favreau played two Hollywood hot shots out for a night on the town.
Since then both Vaughan and Favreau have become hot shots themselves.
This weekend they're back together for the new comedy they wrote together.
It's called Couples Retreat.
Here to see if thereunion is as good as their first collaboration CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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10/02/2009 - Whip It.
Movie star Drew Barrymore almost seems to have lived her life on the big screen.
From the little girl who fed E.T. over the years we've watched her grow into one of Hollywood's leading ladies.
This weekend she's taking another step forward, directing the roller-derby movie WHIP IT.
The rock em, sock em romantic comedy stars Ellen Page.
Here to tell us whether Drew and Ellen work well together is CBC Radio film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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09/25/2009 - Surrogates
It's hard to believe it was more than 20 years ago when Bruce Willis first burst onto the big screen.
This weekend, Bruce is back as a law enforcement officer in the futuristic thriller Surrogates.
The film finds the macho man in a world filled with artificial creations.
To tell us whether Bruce has a hit on his hands or will die hard, here's CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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08/21/2009 - Inglourious Basterds
For decades directors have used the backdrop of war to tell classic stories, like The Great Escape, or The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Today, it's back to the blood-soaked fields of France, for Inglourious Basterds.
Director Quentin Tarantino has recruited Brad Pitt and an army of co-stars to tell the tale of American Jews looking to settle the score.
It's been a while since Tarantino hit a home run. To see how he'll fare this time...here's CBC Radio Film Reviewer Eli Glasner
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08/14/2009 - District 9 & The Time Traveler's Wife
Two new movies landing in theatres this week demonstrate the power of adding a little sci-fi twist to a story.
"District 9" is a parable about racism in South Africa with a twist.
And "The Time Traveler's Wife" is a different spin on the old "boy meets girl", "boy loses girl" yarn.
With more here's CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner, who has been a science fiction fan since he and Luke helped destroy the Death Star.
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08/07/2009 - Julie & Julia
In a little over a year Meryl Streep has blitzed her way through a triathlon of film roles.
She was a terrifying nun in Doubt, a singing star in Mama Mia, and this weekend she's taking on another supersized personality. The movie "Julie & Julia" features Meryl Streep as cooking legend Julia Child and Amy Adams as her modern-day admirer.
To find out how well it all sticks together CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner is serving up his verdict.
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07/31/2009 - Funny People
Up until now one of the biggest films of the summer was the raunchy comedy The Hangover.
This week another king of comedy arrives at the box office - director Judd Apatow.
He's teamed up with Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen for the new movie "Funny People".
The story is about a comedian with cancer marks a shift for the director. But will his legions of fans follow?
With more on all things Apatow here's CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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07/24/2009 - The Ugly Truth & G-Force
Romantic Comedy and Kids films are two of the essential food groups for any Hollywood studio.
And today there's two new movies on the menu.
For the romantics there's "The Ugly Truth" staring Katherine Heigl.
And for the wee ones, there's G-Force, about a team of guinea pigs who happen to be secret agents.
Sounds like cinematic junk food, and here to dissect and digest it all, CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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07/17/2009 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" opened at midnight on tuesday and already the teenage wizards are giving the Transformers a run for their money.
The sixth Potter movie finds Harry back at school, trying to uncover the secret of his most dangerous foe.
To find out how Harry keeps audiences coming back we've conjured up CBC Radio film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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07/10/2009 - Bruno
Three years ago actor Sacha Baron Cohen shocked the world with Borat.
The mockumentary about a village idiot turned journalist was a smash and Universal Pictures quickly commissioned another.
Today Cohen returns as BRUNO, an Austrian Fashion-ista who knows no limits.
Can Bruno possibly top Borat?
And if he does, would you want to see it?
Here with the answers, CBC Radio's fearless film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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07/03/2009 - Public Enemies
At the start of the Dirty Thirties, bank robber John Dillinger terrorized the midwest.
The effort to catch the glamorous gangster created the first "War on Crime."
That's the story at the heart of the new film Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp.
And here waging his own war on mediocre movies is CBC Radio film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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06/26/2009 - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Summertime means big blockbusters at the movie theatre and they don't get much bigger than the films of Michael Bay.
Opening today is 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.'
It's the latest movie from a director known for films filled with fireballs and quick cuts.
And rubbing his eyes but here to talk about it, is CBC Radio film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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06/19/2009 - The Proposal/Whatever Works/Away We Go
When it comes to summertime cinema, the movie theatre is often a bit of a boys club.
So far we've had trekking spaceships and killer robots...and next week the Transformers return.
But this month there's actually some female-friendly fireworks.
With new movies The Proposal, Whatever Works and Away We Go screening, it seems love is in the air.
With more here's CBC Radio Film Reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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06/12/2009 - The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Some of the biggest names in the movie biz are appearing on the silver screen this week.
Denzel Washington and John Travolta both star in "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3"
The movie about a hostage standoff on a subway was big hit decades ago.
To find out whether the new version's on the right track, here's CBC Radio Film Reviewer Eli Glasner
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06/05/2009 - Land of the Lost
Another weekend at the movies and time for another big budget Hollywood remake.
The Land of the Lost was a kids' T-V show in the early seventies.
And now it's been resurrected as the latest comedy for funny man star Will Ferrell.
To help us understand why Hollywood seems stuck in the past, here's our never copied, always original, cbc film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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05/29/2009 - Up
Expectations are high for the the latest film from Pixar Studios.
The creators of Wall-E and Toy have a history of pushing the enevlope, and "Up" is no different.
Up is the first Pixar film to be shown in 3-D.
And the action hero leaping out of the screen is ... Carl, a 78 year-old senior.
Dropping by with his review is CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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05/22/2009 - The Newest Night at the Museum & Terminator Salvation
Summer is upon us and that means we are truly into the season of movie sequels.
Today not one, but two new sequels are in theatres.
Ben Stiller returns as the Night Guard in the newest Night at the Museum movie.
And Christian Bale trades in his cape for a gun in, Terminator Salvation.
With more here's CBC Radio Film Reviewer Eli Glasner.
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05/15/2009 - Angels & Demons
It's been a big week for Catholics.
Pope Benedict traveled to the Middle East on a mission to promote peace.
And there's also drama on the big screen as the latest adaptation by mega-author Dan Brown hits theaters.
"Angels and Demons" finds symbologist Robert Langdon in the Vatican racing to uncover a conspiracy that threatens the church.
And stepping into the confession booth with his thoughts is CBC Radio film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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05/08/2009 - Star Trek
It's been seven years since a version of Star Trek hit movie theatres.
Fans are already snapping up tickets to see JJ Abrams' new take on the Trek universe.
The producer of Lost, Alias and Cloverfield has restarted the series with a fresh cast.
Here with his review and phasers set to stun is CBC Radio's Eli Glasner.
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05/01/2009 - X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Well the last time most of us saw actor Hugh Jackman he was in a tux and tails hosting the Oscars.
This weekend, Jackman's shows off his wild side in the new movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
To find out whether Wolverine will be able to defeat the villain known as movie mediocrity here's CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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04/24/2009 - The Soloist
"The Soloist" tells the story of an Los Angeles Times columnist who discovers a musican who uses the city streets as his concert hall.
You may have seen the real-life tale featured recently on 60 Minutes.
To find out how well the movie matches up to reality, here's CBC Radio Film Reviewer Eli Glasner.
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04/17/2009 - State of Play
You may have heard the news that the newspaper industry is in trouble.
But now the ink-stained wretches are getting a boost...thanks to Hollywood.
In the new movie "State of Play" Russell Crowe plays an old-fashioned reporter who uncovers a political conspiracy.
To find out whether the movie will make headlines of its own here's CBC Radio Film Reviewer Eli Glasner.
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04/10/2009 - Duplicity and Hunger
With an extra day off you might be thinking about heading out to the movie theatre.
Well CBC Radio Film reviewer Eli Glasner has been thinking the same thing.
Well he thinks about that a lot.
But this time he's been thinking about some special scenes that are stuck in his mind.
Specifically a couple standout moments from two recent films.
With more here's CBC's Eli Glasner dissecting "Duplicity" and "Hunger".
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04/032009 - Fast and Furious
Traditionally films with the number four in the title are not expected to become classics.
So it's not surprising the new movie in long running street racing series is simply called "Fast and Furious".
But what is surprising is how the series staring Vin Diesel made it this far.
To tell us how, here's CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner.
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03/0/2009 - Watchmen
Who Watches the Watchmen?
Well, a lot of people judging from the box office activity this weekend.
The cynical superhero movie "Watchmen" opens this week.
To talk about the movie and the antcipation CBC film reviewer Eli Glasner swoops by.
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02/20/2009 - The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
For adults the post-Oscar period can be a slow time for moviegoers.
But if you're a girl between the ages of 6 and 16..this might be the most Awesome - Weekend - Ever.
That's because "The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience" opens today.
CBC Radio film reviewer Eli Glasner caught a preview of the film and found some fiction in the supposed real glimpse of the Jonas Brothers.
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02/20/2009 - Fired Up
Let's be honest.
The weekend of the Academy Awards is probably not the best time to release a new movie.
In fact it might be the worst.
But the movies, they keep on coming.
And one man keeps going back for more.
Neither snow, nor rain, shlock nor dreck can keep him from his appointed rounds.
Back with his review of the new comedy "Fired Up" is CBC Radio's faithful film reviewer, Eli Glasner.
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GCSQ: Ep. 9 - Songs From The Listeners
Finally we're here: our 13 new Canadian songs are in and they're on the air. For the podcast, though, we thought we'd present some of the amazing songs submitted by our audience – maybe even by you!
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GCSQ: Ep. 8 - The Teachers of the Quest
It's probably safe to say that all of our commissioned singer songwriters could not have made it where they are today without the help of some kind of teacher. So this week, we've dedicated the podcast to these fine folks! We'll hear from teachers from Kemptville and Collingwood, Ontario whose students blogged about their towns for the Song Quest. We'll also hear from songwriting instructor Scott McGill and teacher Lauren Simmons presents 10 tips for getting your teen into Canadian music!
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GCSQ: Ep. 7 - Listener Takeover!
Radio 2 listener Bryna Sclater takes over the podcast this week. It's her chance to tell us what she forgot to tell host Tom Allen about Waskada, Manitoba when she was a guest on Radio 2 Morning. We'll also hear an excerpt from an interview Chantal Kreviazuk did on CBC Manitoba's Up To Speed. Finally, Bryna leaves Chantal a message to tell what she should keep in mind when writing a song about her beloved hometown. Sound effects from The Freesound Project.
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GCSQ: Ep. 6 - They didn't make it this far but they're still great!
This week, let's take a few moments to recognize some of the great Canadian places that didn't make it to our short lists. Margot Smith tells us about growing up in the West Point Grey area of Vancouver, Harrison Perkins promotes Lang, Ontario and ex-pat Corrie Lynn McDougall introduces us to Manitoba's Clear Lake Crew. Sound effects from The Freesound Project.
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GCSQ: Ep. 5 - Inspiration From Our Archives
We made 13 big announcements this week on Radio 2 and now it's time for our 13 commissioned singer songwriters to get to work! We thought we'd help them out with some inspiration from our archives. We'll learn about the Badlands of Alberta from the author of "Dinosaur Country," find out how roughing it in Algonquin Park became more luxurious in the 1960's and hear why J.P. Cormier thinks the Cabot Trail is one of Canada's great wonders.
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GCSQ: Ep. 4 - On-Air Pitches
Up until now, this podcast has been a venue for special online-only features that you won't hear on the air but this week, we thought we'd get you caught up with some of the great on air Song Quest interviews from Radio 2 Morning and Radio 2 Drive. We'll hear from the CEO of the Manitoba Farmers' Co-operative about The Forks, the CEO of the Calgary Food Bank on his vote for Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories and the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. SFX from freesound.org.
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GCSQ: Ep. 3 - Time To Vote!
It's a big week at CBC Radio 2. We've announced the finalist locations from each province and territory as well as our short list of potential songwriters. On the podcast this week, we'll recap how the nominations played out, take a trip down the Road to Nowhere in Iqaluit, remember the good times at Good Time Charlie's in Regina and find out what steamy spot listener Lisa Turner wants Hawksley Workman to write a song about.
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GCSQ: Ep. 2 - The Bloggers
This week, we'll check in with our database to find out what 13 Canadian places are leading in nomimations. Then, we'll hear from three of our most enthusiastic GCSQ champions! Blogger Dr. Lori Shyba and her friend Dr. Larissa Faulkner present "Niagara & Louise," Robb Cusack and his son, Sam, explain why Carter's Beach, NS is so great and Frank Beattie tells us what he would miss about Grand Bend, ON if he ever had to leave. Sounds effects from Freesound.org.
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GCSQ: Ep. 1 - What is the Great Canadian Song Quest?
That's right, CBC Radio 2's Great Canadian Song Quest has a podcast. This week, Radio 2 Morning host Tom Allen will explain the Quest inside 1 minute, listener Blane Despres tells us why he's nominating Grand Pre, NS and blogger Michael Morrison (www.mikesbloggityblog.com) shares a poem about his comfy couch. He even finds a rhyme to go with "on sale at Leon's!" Sound effects in this episode are from the following contributors at www.freesound.org: ottophokus, nemoDaedalus, vtkproductions.com.
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The Hour Podcast
For past episodes of The Hour Podcasts (audio and video), head to their website.
The House, February 06, 2010
The House goes to Alberta
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The House, January 30, 2010
This week on The House, host Kathleen Petty gets some help from former Solicitor General Warren Allmand in understanding the Supreme Court ruling in the Omar Khadr case; Kathleen also talks to Senators Gerald Comeau and James Cowan about the latest Senate appointments; former PM Paul Martin shares his thoughts about the future of the G8 and the G20; and reporter Susan Lunn looks at the future of healthcare in Canada.
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The House, January 23, 2010
This week on The House, host Kathleen Petty continues to look at the crisis in Haiti, first with Haiti's Charge D'Affaires to Canada, Nathalie Gissel-Menos, then Kathleen has a conversation with former Prime Minister Jean Chretien about the challenges ahead. Back in Ottawa, this week's cabinet shuffle was bigger than expected, and Kathleen has a conversation with the new President of Treasury Board - Stockwell Day. Finally reporter Susan Lunn looks at the impact of funding cuts on NGOs.
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The House, January 16, 2010
This week on The House host Kathleen Petty talks with MPs Peter Goldring and Denis Coderre to discuss how Haiti can move forward from this cycle of lurching from tragedy to tragedy; Kathleen sits down with Environment Minister Jim Prentice to talk about Canada's plan post-Copenhagen, then we hear from you, our listeners, about how you feel regarding Canada's environmental role going forward; and reporter Susan Lunn checks in with a look at the future of AECL.
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The Enright Files
Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation with Joel Des Rosiers, a Haitian Quebec psychiatrist and poet, and Suketu Metha, an Indo-American novelist and journalist about finding meaning in natural disasters.
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[mp3 file: runs 53:45]
Ducks on the Moon
Regina playwright and producer, Kelley Jo Burke was an orderly woman with an orderly life. In 2000, she had a perfect baby. But by 2004, order was out the window, as she tried to cope with her perfect but "special" boy. In this performance-documentary, annotated by comments from specialists and other parents, she talks about meeting and accepting her son’s autism.
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A Champion of Reason
A.C. Grayling is a British philosopher and prolific author. His writings are encyclopedic, and his fondness for reason, unbending. He thinks religion is obsolete and unnecessary.
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You Are Pre-Diseased - Part Two
Why wait until you are diagnosed with cancer, if you can hunt it down before it could kill you? Why not get a simple high tech CT scan to see if you are harbouring signs of pre-disease in your heart, your lungs, your breasts or your bowels? Those are the questions that dog Health Researcher Alan Cassels as he voyages inside the world of cancer screening, taking him from his own doctor's office to the world's biggest medical meeting.
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Laugh Out Loud Accent Part 3
From Accent on Toronto - Part three featuring Nile Seguin and Irwin Barker - hosted by the Doo Wops.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:54]
Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees
This episode was originally heard on October 3rd. From the Halifax fest, Jen Grant and Tim Nutt
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[mp3 file: runs 27:59]
Laugh Out Loud Queer as Jokes
A special episode of Laugh Out Loud from the Winnipeg Comedy Festival Queer as Jokes. Performers Darcy Michael and Bob Smith. Sabrina has exclusive interviews with both guests.
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Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees
This week we're bringing you your favourites; Big Daddy Tazz and Derek Edwards. From flying to pineapples, this is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud!
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[mp3 file: runs 27:57]
Laugh Out Loud Accent Part 2
Accent on Toronto Part Two with The Doo Wops, Pio Modi and Dana Alexander
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[mp3 file: runs 28:14]
Laugh Out Loud December 12
Happy Hanukkah! We're celebrating Jewish performers on Laugh Out Loud with Simon Rakoff and Brian Lazanik.
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Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees - Welcome to the Season!
On this our first seasonal episode, Shaun Majumder shares his childhood memories of Christmas in Newfoundland, Two Guys serenade us and Jim McNally recounts his tourist encounters at an all inclusive resort.
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Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees presents Accent on Toronto Pt 1
All the major cities in Canada have festivals, but Toronto has one special night of Comedy: Accent on Toronto now in it's 8th year. This episode features Evan Carter and Steve Brinder.
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Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees - We're talking food!
Gemini Award Winner Debra DiGiovanni, Scott Harris and Frank Spadone talk about food!
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Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees presesnts Deborah Kimmett
The spotlight shines on authour, playwright and humourist Deborah Kimmett. Whether she's entertaining 500 people or 50, this is One Funny Lady.
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Laugh Out Loud Presents The Cream of Comedy
Recorded live at Second City in Toronto, this is the final night of competition, the winner walking away with $5,000. The nominees are: Mark Debonis, Craig Fay, Kayla Lorette, She Said What, and Calvin Storoschuk.
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CBC Radio Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees
In honour of Halloween this episode is very scary. It's all about children with Mary Ellen Hooper and Big Daddy Tazz.
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CBC Radio Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees
Cradle to the Grave with The Williamson Playboys and Teresa Pavlinek
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CBC Radio Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees
From Season One, comics Cory Kahaney and the host of CBC Radio's The Debaters, Steve Patterson.
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CBC Radio Laugh Out Loud
Savings and Groans! People are having a hard time with their finances these days and here to talk about is That Canadian Guy Glen Foster and character monologuist Kathryn Greenwood.
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[mp3 file: runs 28:31]
CBC Radio Laugh Out Loud with Sabrina Jalees
From Season One, this episode shines the spotlight on the poetry, songs and comedy of John Wing.
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Laugh Out Loud September 19
Sabrina tips her hat to American comics today - from the Halifax comedy festival, Cathy Ladman and Bob Marley.
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Laugh Out Loud September 12
Canada's big eh? Host Sabrina Jalees and comedians Chuck Byrn and Brent Butt.
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[mp3 file: runs 24:16]
Listener's Choice - February 5th, 2010 - Tapestry - Coleman Barks and Andrew Harvey on Rumi
Irene Monroe called us from Victoria, BC to request Tapestry host Mary Hynes' discussion with scholars Coleman Barks and Andrew Harvey about the 13th century poet, mystic and scholar Rumi. The conversation originally aired on September 9th, 2007.
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Listener's Choice - January 29th, 2010 - The Finale of Morningside (re-release)
Ross McKinnon requested the final broadcast of CBC's Morningside with Peter Gzowski. It originally aired on May 30th, 1997.
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Listener's Choice - January 22nd, 2010 - The Sunday Edition - Humble Me
Bob Williams called us from Toronto, Ontario to request the documentary "Humble Me." In it, producer Frank Falk takes a look at the concept of humility. It originally aired on The Sunday Edition on January 4th, 2004.
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Listener's Choice - January 8th, 2010 - The Current - The Rape of Berlin (Follow)
Tom called from Ottawa, ON to request The Current's Senior Producer Aaron Brindle's follow up on the Rape of Berlin story with host Anna Maria Tremonti. Last summer, The Current had presented a two-part series about the sexual abuse of German women during the Second World War. Sigrun Cowan wrote in to tell the CBC about her connection to that story. In this feature, we'll meet Sigrun and her mother, Louise. It originally aired on October 21st, 2009.
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February 8th, 2010 - The State of the Union
Two happily married authors who row, one cook who says Divorce Sucks, and a twice-married man makes his confession.
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February 1st, 2010 - Ian Brown, David Carpenter, Vincent Lam
Ian Brown on his parenting memoir, The Boy in the Moon, about his severely disabled son. Vincent Lam on the miniseries adaptation of his story collection. David Carpenter on fishing and novellas.
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[mp3 file: runs 47:15]
January 25, 2010 - Polar Extremes
Norman Hallendy learns about stone structures in the Arctic, Ted Harrison paints Yukon, and Soraya Peerbaye finds empty place names in Antarctica.
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[mp3 file: runs 53:56]
January 18, 2010 - It's Complicated
John Bemrose on love triangles, Andrew Nikiforuk and Alanna Mitchell on writing about the planet, and Shelagh remembers PK Page.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:47]
January 11, 2010 - Dayjob Inspiration
Robert Rotenberg, defence lawyer and crime writer, plus Billeh Nickerson with McPoems, Kate Braid with construction-work writing, and Anthony Stewart, English professor and NOT a basketball player.
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January 4, 2010 - All About You
The Ego Boom, Generation X, and Bonnie Burnard's new novel, Suddenly. Plus Diana Athill.
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[mp3 file: runs 49:17]
December 28th, 2009 - Mysteries
Mystery Books panel, Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair, Wayson Choy on the Jade Peony, Antanas Sileika
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[mp3 file: runs 53:50]
December 21st, 2009 - Two Cities
Deirdre Kelly on Paris Times Eight, Anne-Marie MacDonald on Fall On Your Knees, Tom Howell on Revolutionary Books.
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December 14th, 2009 - Tom King
Tom King's new book is for children. It's called A Coyote Solstice Tale. Also on the show: Children's Book Panel, Dennis Lee, and Canada Reads nominee Nicolas Dickner.
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December 7th, 2009 - The Fear Factor
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November 30, 2009 - Food Writing
David Sax on delicatessens, Bal Arneson on Everyday Indian, Itah Sadu on literary delectables, plus a mother-and-daughter cookbook.
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November 23, 2009
Linden McIntyre, plus Shani Mootoo and Kathryn Borel, and Award for Best Cheese Poem.
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[mp3 file: runs 49:13]
November 16, 2009 - Borderline Personalities
Catherine Gildiner, W. Paul Young, and Wendy Morton. Plus book reviews by Randy Boyagoda and Dwayne Morgan.
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[mp3 file: runs 53:24]
November 9, 2009 - Lorna Crozier and Jane Christmas
Books about mothers and daughters.
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[mp3 file: runs 50:29]
November 2, 2009 - Anne Murray
Anne Murray, Shinan Govani, Mark Leiren-Young, Word Report
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[mp3 file: runs 48:28]
October 26, 2009 - Douglas Coupland
Shelagh visits Douglas Coupland's house in Vancouver to hear about Generation A; also Rosanna Deerchild and Pierre Nepveu write about land and dispossession.
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[mp3 file: runs 47:23]
October 19, 2009 - Try To See It My Way
Jessica Grant on Come, Thou Tortoise; Linda Besner on choosing a title for her book; Norman Doidge on the Brain That Changes Itself.
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October 12, 2009 - George Elliott Clarke & Co.
George Elliott Clarke discusses I&I; Julia Child talks food; Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji on folk-tales.
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October 5, 2009 - The Eat, Shrink, Love Edition
Lori Lansens on The Wife's Tale, a panel discussion about great bookstores, and Aritha Van Herk on the fictional good marriage.
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September 28th, 2009 - Your Number's Not Up Yet
Wayson Choy, Michael Turner, Jason Brown, Tom Howell.
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September 21st, 2009 - The Peep Diaries
Hal Niedzviecki tells Shelagh why pop culture has become peep culture; Carlo Rota talks about the books he reads; Karen Solie talks Pigeon; Sara O'Leary reviews biographies.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:00]
September 14th, 2009 - The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood on her new novel, plus interviews with Itah Sadu and Robert Adams.
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September 7, 2009 - New Season
On the first show of the new season, Shelagh reports on her trip to the Woody Point Writers Festival in Newfoundland, complete with an on-stage interview with Michael Crummey, one of the most talked-up authors of the new fall season. The show also stars Pasha Malla, currently on a writing retreat in Pierre Berton's childhood home, sci-fi mega-seller Robert Sawyer, and the mystery writer Joy Fielding, who answers personal questions put to her by our mysterious interrogator.
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March 21 - Mystery Month #3
Jose Latour, Lisa Gabriele, and more.
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March 28 - Mystery Month #4
Pat Capponi, Roy MacGregor, Sasenarine Persaud.
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March 14 - Mystery Month #2
Gail Bowen, Anthony De Sa, Antanas Sileika.
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March 7, 2009 - Mystery Month #1
Shelagh speaks with Linwood Barclay, and Peter Robinson tackles the Questionnaire.
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POWER AND POLITICS Monday February 8, 2010
The Wing Commander at CFB Trenton is charged with murder, Hugo Chavez slams Harper Gov't, Oda on Haiti, Power Panel: Flanagan, Frulla and Hall
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POWER AND POLITICS Friday February 5, 2010
Jack Layton has Cancer, Deal on Buy American: Jacobson, Van Loan, Power Panel: Delacourt, Russo, Martin & Petty
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POWER AND POLITICS Thursday February 4, 2010
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, MPs on March Break, Masse on Toyota, Power Panel: Graves, Fox, & Wells, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott
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POWER AND POLITICS Wednesday February 3, 2010
Funding Canadian Athletes, Dimitri Soudas, Power Panel: Collenette, Hall & Ivison, Page & Clark on the Deficit
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POWER AND POLITICS Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Lawrence Cannon, MPs on the Economy, Hodgson & Shenfeld, Power Panel: Smith, Martin, Norquay & Cochrane
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POWER AND POLITICS Monday February 1, 2010
Manley on Obama Budget, MPs on New Environment Policy, Williams' Surgery, Oda on International Commitments, Power Panel: Ditchburn, Hall & Flanagan
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POWER AND POLTICS Friday January 29, 2010
Supreme Court rules on Omar Khadr, PM Appoints 5 New Senators, Power Panel: Russo, Petty & Martin
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POWER AND POLITICS Thursday January 28, 2010
Nicholson on Youth Crime, Kurt Volker on Afghanistan, Ekos Poll on Gov't and Haiti, Power Panel: Graves, Hall & Duffy
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POWER AND POLITICS Wednesday January 27, 2010
Layton on Taliban, Roland Martin & David Frum, Michael Scheuer, Power Panel: Van Dusen, Collenette & Capstick
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POWER AND POLITICS Tuesday January 26, 2010
Oda on PM's Humanitarian Agenda, Paul Kennedy, Dimitri Soudas & Opposition MPs, Power Panel: Munro, Martin & Fox
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POWER AND POLITICS Monday January 25, 2010
Fmr UN Special Rep. for Haiti Paul Collier, Michael Ignatieff, Power Panel: Anderson, Hall, Pettigrew & Flanagan
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POWER AND POLITICS Friday January 22, 2010
Lawrence Cannon; Coderre & Dewar on Haiti, Tom Flanagan on Party Financing, Power Panel: Petty, Russo & Martin
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POWER AND POLITICS Thursday January 21, 2010
Quebec Immigration Minister on Haitian Immigration, Toronto & Regina Mayors on Stimulus Money, $ of Prorogation, Ekos Poll, Power Panel: Hall, Harris & Collenette
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POWER AND POLITICS Wednesday January 20, 2010
Layton on Prorogation Limits, Kenney on Haitian Adoptions, Rae on Liberal Recalibrating, Power Panel: Duffy, Capstick & Ivison
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POWER AND POLITICS Monday January 18, 2010
Chief of the Army Gen. Leslie, Cdn Amb to Haiti, MP Panel on Election Funding, Power Panel: Lagasse, Hall & Lang
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POWER AND POLITICS Tuesday January 19, 2010
Bev Oda on Relief for Haiti, Stockwell Day on Cabinet Shuffle, Dimitri Soudas, Power Panel: Delacourt, Smith & Norquay, Haiti's Charge d'Affairs Nathalie Gissel-Menos
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Power and Politics Friday Jan 15, 2010
Haiti politics
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POWER AND POLITICS Thursday January 14, 2010
The Crisis in Haiti, Frank Graves on Conservatives' Fall In EKOS Poll, Power Panel: Munro, Ivison and Graves, Joe Scanlon on Disaster Relief
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POWER AND POLITICS Wednesday January 13, 2010
The Crisis in Haiti
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POWER AND POLITICS Tuesday January 12, 2010
Gillian Findlay's exclusive security story, MP Panel: Goodale, Glover and Mulcair.
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POWER AND POLITICS Monday January 11, 2010
Flaherty, MPs on PM's Comments on Markets and Tom Flanagan on Prorogation
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[mp3 file: runs 45:39]
Q the Podcast: 2010-02-08 The Globalization of the American Psyche
Author Ethan Watters* Meaghan Smith* Sports Culture Panel
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Q the Podcast: 2010-02-05 Claire Danes
Friday live - Owen Pallet* CBS ad debate* Claire Danes* Judith Thompson* Elvira Kurt's Hall of Shame
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[mp3 file: runs 1:22:33]
Q the Podcast: 2010-02-04 Kris Kristofferson
CNN anchor and Canadian journalist Ali Velshi* Kris Kristofferson* Chequebook journalism
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[mp3 file: runs 55:55]
Q the Podcast: 2010-02-03 Joe Perry
RCTV shutdown in Venezuela* Aerosmith cofounder Joe Perry on solo album* The Masters of Persian Music
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[mp3 file: runs 58:16]
Q the Podcast: 2010-02-02 Martha and the Muffins
Glaxo Smith Kline backs Barry Levinson doc* Martha and the Muffins* Q panel on Oscar nominations
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[mp3 file: runs 55:55]
Q the Podcast: 2010-02-01 Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan* Nouvelle Vague* Sports Culture Panel
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Q: The Podcast 2010-01-29 Woodhands - Friday live
Friday live guest Woodhands* Nazneen Contractor* Leonard Cohen* Elvira's Cultural Hall of Shame
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[mp3 file: runs 1:15:26]
Q: The Podcast 2010-01-28 Rosanne Cash
Controversy on Russian TV* Rosanne Cash* Howie Mandel
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[mp3 file: runs 57:36]
Q: The Podcast 2010-01-27 Steven Wright
David Foster* Terry Teachout on Louis Armstrong book* Steven Wright* Mio's Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 54:19]
Q the Podcast: 2010-01-26 Danny Boyle
The New York Times David Carr on Apple's tablet launch* Q's Media Panel* Danny Boyle
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Q: The Podcast 2010-01-25 Adam Lambert
VICE and CNN collaborate* Terry O'Reilly* Adam Lambert
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[mp3 file: runs 47:55]
Q: The Podcast 2010-01-22 Canada for Haiti - a tribute.
Musical guests Measha Brueggergosman, Jane Bunnett, Ron Sexsmith perform throughout* George Laraque* Haitian-Canadian musician Luck Mervil* Haitian-American Edwidge Danticat* Stephen Lewis* Mike Holmes and more
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Q the Podcast: 2010-01-21 Jon Amiel
Jon Amiel on Darwin film, Creation* Lori Gottlieb - settling for Mr. Good* Matthew B. Crawford and shop class
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[mp3 file: runs 43:31]
Q the Podcast: 2010-01-20 Tony Hendra
Remembering Kate McGarrigle* Tony Hendra on George Carlin-Last Words* My Parents Were Awesome Blogger* Mio's Download Down-lo
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[mp3 file: runs 44:33]
Q the Podcast: 2010-01-19 Robyn Okrant
Helping Haiti online* Robyn Okrant lives Oprah* Art of handwriting* Jesse Wente on art of the acceptance speech
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[mp3 file: runs 40:21]
Q the Podcast: 2010-01-18 Scott Cooper and Steve Earle
Scott Cooper on Crazy Heart* Steve Earle* Sports Culture Panel
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[mp3 file: runs 51:59]
Q the Podcast: 2010-01-15 Basia Bulat
Live guest Basia Bulat* Haiti's Cine Institut* Pianist Sara Davis Buchner* Malin Akerman
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Q the Podcast: 2010-01-14 Bob Barker
Bob Barker* Salman Ahmed on Rock n Roll Jihad* Google vs China
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[mp3 file: runs 53:17]
Q the Podcast: 2010-01-13 Leno and Conan: The late night debacle
Avatar and smoking - A debate* NBC manoeuvering late night* Alice Quinn on poetry in transit
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[mp3 file: runs 58:34]
Q the Podcast: 2010-01-12 Kids in the Hall
Stolen artifacts* Kids in the Hall* Elvis Bossa Nova
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Q the Podcast: 2010-01-11 Hoarders executive producer Jodi Flynn
Naomi Buck on clash in Hamburg* US TV show Hoarders* Weekly sports panel
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[mp3 file: runs 51:50]
Q the Podcast: 2010-01-08 Hawksley Workman and Cory Monteith
Q panel on public opinion dialogue* Hawksley Workman's new albums* Cory Monteith* Elvira Kurt's first cultural shaming of the year
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Q the Podcast: 2010-01-07 Facebook and political protest
Luxury cinema* Christopher White on Facebook petition* Facebook and politics: a Q debate* Out West, an exhibition and new addition to history of the American West
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[mp3 file: runs 49:15]
Q: The Podcast 2010-01-06
Chef Lynn Crawford on new Foodnetwork show* The Onion editor Joe Garden on their new book* Julie Fader on her new solo album* Mio's Download Down-lo
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Q: the Podcast 2010-01-05 Allan Hawco of Republic of Doyle
actor Allan Hawco on The Republic of Doyle* author Francine Prose looks at the diary of Anne Frank* posh London office space for artists
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Q: the Podcast 2010-01-04 Corinne Bailey Rae
Burj Dubai, the new tallest building in the world* Corinne Bailey Rae* Canadian actor Shawn Ashmore
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[mp3 file: runs 53:15]
Q: the Podcast 2010-01-01 Van Morrison
Dolly Parton* Gustav Dudamel* Dean and Dan Caten (Dsquared2)* Van Morrison
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[mp3 file: runs 1:28:36]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-31 Michael Buble
Robert Carlyle* Michael Buble
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[mp3 file: runs 40:18]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-30 Paul Shaffer
Paul Shaffer * Rosanne Cash * Seth Meyers
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[mp3 file: runs 54:19]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-29 Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman * the Cougar debate * Joshua Bell
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[mp3 file: runs 54:58]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-28 Catherine O'Hara
Catherine O'Hara * Frank Bruni * Lily Allen
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[mp3 file: runs 57:35]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-24 Tom Waits
Holiday Dinner Parties * Tom Waits * Q Contributor Roundtable
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[mp3 file: runs 52:24]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-23 Barihunks
The Science of Santa * Barihunks * screenwriter David Scearce
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[mp3 file: runs 55:28]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-22 Heidegger and a Hippo
Vanguard Journalism * Heidegger and a Hippo - philosophy jokes * Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham
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[mp3 file: runs 45:16]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-21 Clarence Clemons
Thomas the Tank Engine * Clarence Clemons * Q Sports Culture Panel
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[mp3 file: runs 49:51]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-18 Harvey Fierstein
Dancer Rita Marcalo * Harvey Fierstein * Christmas songs can never be cool
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[mp3 file: runs 1:00:13]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-17 Method Acting
Ron Hawkins chats and performs * The death of Method Acting? * Comedian Eugene Mirman live from Copenhagen
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[mp3 file: runs 56:53]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-16 Anne Murray
Terry O'Reilly on the future of Tiger Woods' brand * A feature interview with Anne Murray * Mio!
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[mp3 file: runs 1:07:41]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-14 Sonja Sohn
MTV's controversial new show "Jersey Shore" * Sonja Sohn of The Wire * Inventing a new language for James Cameron's "Avatar"
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[mp3 file: runs 50:46]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-12 Norah Jones
Stage Rage * Norah Jones * Q Sports Culture Panel
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[mp3 file: runs 53:44]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-11 Terry Gilliam
* musical guests Constantines* North Korean designer jeans* Terry Gilliam* Is The Nutcracker bad for dance?* Elvira Kurt
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[mp3 file: runs 1:22:45]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-10 Hulk Hogan
Scroogenomics - Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays* Hulk Hogan* a history of beer in Canada
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[mp3 file: runs 56:09]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-09 Garrison Keillor
Rude people* Garrison Keillor* the romantic mix-tape
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[mp3 file: runs 51:24]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-08 Richard Linklater
film director Richard Linklater* NBA superstar Chris Bosh* Hermit culture
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[mp3 file: runs 55:01]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-07 Howie Mandel
Wikipedia Withdrawal* Howie Mandel* Sports Culture panel
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[mp3 file: runs 1:04:56]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-04 Jason Reitman
Sasha Chapman on the food we waste* Filmmaker Jason Reitman* Amish and Vampire Romance Novels* Elvira Kurt's Hall of Shame* Friday Live guest Sophie Millman
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[mp3 file: runs 1:10:43]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-03 Peter Raymont
American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert* Documentarian Peter Raymont* Web-based TV show "The Bitter End"
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[mp3 file: runs 51:14]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-02 Foul Language on TV
Should the work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger be viewed as hate speech?* Foul langauge on TV* Co-Creator of ThisIsWhyYou'reFat.com Jessica Amason* Mio's Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 59:19]
Q: the Podcast 2009-12-01 Canada Reads 2010
The VANOC freedom of speech controversy* Canadian actor Shawn Ashmore* Jesse Wente on 3-D movies* Canada Reads 2010 panel revealed
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[mp3 file: runs 1:01:43]
Q: the Podcast 2009-11-30 Devo
Canadian Snowboarding Olympian Ross Rebagliati* New-wave rockers Devo* Q Sports Culture Panel
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[mp3 file: runs 58:40]
Q the Podcast 2009-11-27 DJ Champion
Al Jazeera English director Tony Burman* The unfair expectations of minority characters* "Precious" director Lee Daniels* The lost art of the one-liner joke* Elvira Kurt's Hall of Shame* Friday Live guest DJ Champion* Guest Host Jesse Wente
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[mp3 file: runs 1:26:26]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, November 26, 2009
Essay-marking computer program* Montreal indie ensemble Malajube* Mio's Download Down-Lo* Look back at Al Gore and David Suzuki
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[mp3 file: runs 55:13]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones and wife Samantha Bee* Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, joined by former US Vice President Al Gore
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[mp3 file: runs 1:06:56]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Dancer Nico Archambault* Screenwriter Robert Siegel* Q Screenboy Jesse Wente* Filmmaker Werner Herzog
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[mp3 file: runs 1:00:56]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, November 23, 2009
Writer Michelle Tsai on the lack of sex ed in China* Feature chat with Lyle Lovett* Q Sports Culture Panel
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[mp3 file: runs 57:27]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, November 20, 2009
Guest host Brent Bambury* Writers Emily Gould and Wesley Yang on relationships in the text messaging age* Superstar chef Jamie Oliver* Actor Graham Greene* Writer Calvin Trillin on poutine as part of our national identity* Friday Live guest You Say Party! We Say Die!
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[mp3 file: runs 1:31:51]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, November 19, 2009
Charles Kenney on the 2nd TV Age in the developing world* Francine Prose on the literary merit of the Diary of Anne Frank* David Hein and Irene Carl Sankoff, the creators of the musical "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding"
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[mp3 file: runs 54:23]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Documentarian Chris Atkins on why 2009 was the year of the news hoax* Glee's Cory Monteith* Matt Austin Sandowski on his John Hughes documentary* Mio's Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 58:54]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Cable Provider/Broadcaster TV debate explained* Actress and musician Jill Hennessey* Screenboy Jesse Wente on apocalypse films* The study of Pop Culture
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[mp3 file: runs 58:45]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, November 16, 2009
Technology columnist Farhad Manjoo on the impact of the Y2K scare* Singer and Broadway star Lea Salonga* The Q Sports Culture Panel
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[mp3 file: runs 55:54]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, November 13, 2009
Music journalist Tom Moon on lip-synching controversies* Morgan Freeman* Sociologist and author Diego Gambetta on how mafia movies inspire real-life mobsters* Friday Live guest The Wooden Sky
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, November 12, 2009
Joe Dolce on the .GAY domain movement* YukYuk's founder Mark Breslin on the history of stand-up in Canada* UK band Arctic Monkeys
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[mp3 file: runs 43:00]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, November 11, 2009
AE Hotchner on the recent edition of Ernest Hemingway's memoir, "A Moveable Feast"* Margaret Atwood on her new novel, "The Year of the Flood"* Documentarian Adam Yamaguchi on emotive robots in Japan
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[mp3 file: runs 54:47]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sesame Street executive producer Carolyn Parente* Brooklyn musician Diane Birch* Former NHL player Claude Lemieux
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Q: The Podcast for Monday, November 9, 2009
The Wall and Its Shadows special* Journalist Naomi Buck* Architect Daniel Libeskind* MTV Chief Executive Bill Roedy* Salman Ahmed Lead singer of Pakistani Sufi rock group Junoon* Filmmaker Ricardo Martinez* Author and historian Margaret MacMillan* Author Paul Cooke on Ostalgie, the nostalgia for East Berlin* Filmmaker Min Sook Lee
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Q: The Podcast for Friday, November 6, 2009
Film critic David Poland on box-office hype* Marketing expert Terry O'Reilly* Composer/musician/Letterman sidekick Paul Shaffer* Elvira Kurt's Hall of Shame and Mio's Download Down-Lo* Friday Live guest Luanda Jones and her band
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[mp3 file: runs 1:23:59]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, November 5, 2009
89-year-old White House correspondent Helen Thomas on the Obama administration and the media* Author Nick Carr on our addiction to immediacy* Singer-songwriters and father-son duo, Barney and Dustin Bentall* Mio's Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 54:44]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Filmmaker Larry Weinstein and Holocaust survivor George Brady discuss "Inside Hana's Suitcase"* Author of The Simpsons" tell-all John Ortved* Film director Lee Daniels
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[mp3 file: runs 50:07]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Journalist Caitlin McNally discusses the use of unmanned drones in warfare* Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger on his novel co-written with LeBron James* Documentary filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld and Edmonton pawn shop owner David Woolfson
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[mp3 file: runs 53:30]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, November 2, 2009
Disabled actors on Broadway - NY Times theatre critic Patrick Healy explains the controversy* Rapper Jay-Z on his new album* Sports Culture Panel
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[mp3 file: runs 51:51]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday Live with Blue Rodeo* Visual Artist Spencer Tunick* Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund* Actress, Author, and Jenny Craig Spokeswoman Valerie Bertinelli
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[mp3 file: runs 1:08:48]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, October 29, 2009
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel* Comedian Tracy Morgan* Musician Mary Margaret O'Hara
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[mp3 file: runs 57:45]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
"Father of the Internet" Leonard Kleinrock* Singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash* Dracula: The Undead Author Dacre Stoker
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[mp3 file: runs 48:00]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Comedy Brain Drain - Canadian comics head south* music from Alex Cuba* So You Think You Can Dance Canada winner Tara-Jean Popowitch* Michael Jackson dancer Daniel Celebre
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[mp3 file: runs 56:16]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, October 26, 2009
film director Kevin Smith on celebrity tweeting* Tegan and Sara* Sports Culture Panel
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[mp3 file: runs 57:18]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, October 23, 2009
Friday Live with Corb Lund* BBC protest over controversial politician* Peter Mansbridge* John Ralston Saul* blackface controversy* Elvira Kurt
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[mp3 file: runs 1:25:26]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, October 22, 2009
Eoin Colfer, author of the latest in the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series* singing legend Bill Withers* BC singer/songwriter Dan Mangan
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[mp3 file: runs 58:48]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Update on dolphin slaugher doc, "The Cove"* Wilco's Jeff Tweedy* Oscar the Grouch* Mio
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[mp3 file: runs 55:59]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Calgary's baby controversy* Ivanka Trump* Screenboy Jesse Wente* rock band, Gossip*
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[mp3 file: runs 1:02:22]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, October 19, 2009
Seth Meyers - SNL's Weekend Update anchor* UK band Snow Patrol* Sports Culture panel
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[mp3 file: runs 56:25]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, October 16, 2009
The pride of PEI, Two Hours Traffic chats and performs throughout the show as our Friday Live guest* The Montréal-born art collector Peter Silverman, who owns a drawing that has just been accredited to Leonardo da Vinci* Canadian comedy star Dan Aykroyd and his father Peter discuss the paranormal and Peter's book "A History of Ghosts"* Canadian comedienne Catherine O'Hara chats about the film adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are"
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[mp3 file: runs 1:26:46]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, October 15, 2009
Comedian Chris Rock on his documentary "Good Hair"* Former Canaidan NHL star Theo Fleury opens up about his memoir "Playing with Fire"* Stage director and choreographer Donna Feore and former member of The Plastic People of the Universe discuss the Canadian production of Sir Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll"
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[mp3 file: runs 52:55]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, October 14, 2009
British author Simon Anholt on "nation branding" and Canada's image* Canadian sports journalist (and Q sports panel regular) Stephen Brunt on his book "Gretzky's Tears"* Street fashion blogger Scott Schuman, a.k.a. The Sartorialist* Mio Adilman with the Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 52:22]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Canadian author and broadcaster Ian Brown on his book "The Boy in the Moon"* American alt-country singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile* Actor George Wendt (Norm from Cheers!)* Screenboy Jesse Wente
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[mp3 file: runs 56:22]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, October 12 , 2009
Chris Hedges and Adam Sternbergh debate contemporary pop culture* jazz legend Sonny Rollins* Notes from Roommates
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[mp3 file: runs 55:08]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, October 9, 2009
Friday Live musical guests, Vampire Weekend* Artist Robert Bateman in Russia* A panel on Hollywood's "casting couch"* Kathryn Borel on her new memoir, "Corked"* Ramin Karimloo, the newly-announced lead in the Phantom Of The Opera sequel
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[mp3 file: runs 1:08:12]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, October 7, 2009
American filmmaker Kirby Dick on his latest documentary, "Outrage"* American actor Henry Winkler, a.k.a. "The Fonz"* Australian kids supergroup The Wiggles* Mio Adilman with the Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 57:53]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Maclean's columnist Andrew Potter on how Prime Minister Stephen Harper's singing foray has affected his public image* Toronto indie pop ensemble The Hidden Camera stop by to perform* New York co-author of challenged children's book about gay penguins "And Tango Makes Three", Peter Parnell* Screenboy Jesse Wente
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[mp3 file: runs 56:13]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, October 5, 2009
Korean-Canadian actress and star of CBC's "The Border", Grace Park* Welsh alt-rockers Manic Street Preachers* The Q sports panel resumes with Stephen Brunt and Bruce Dowbiggin
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[mp3 file: runs 54:35]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, October 2, 2009
American singer/songwriter Tom Waits* Friday Live guest Amy Millan performs* Chief arts writer for UK's The Guardian discusses recent Tate Modern obscenity charges* Canadian playwright Brad Fraser
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[mp3 file: runs 1:10:19]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, October 1, 2009
A Canadian exclusive feature interview with Belfast-born soul legend Van Morrison* New York-based film producer Karin Chien on the state of independent filmmaking in China* The Download Down-Lo with Mio Adilman
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[mp3 file: runs 1:07:51]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Mad Men writer/co-producer (and Montréal native) Dahvi Waller* Canadian musician-turned-actor Hugh Dillon chats and performs* CSI creator Anthony Zuiker on his new "digi-novel"
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[mp3 file: runs 57:29]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Canadian comedian Mike Wilmot on his new show "The Foundation"* UK author Nick Hornby chats about his novel "Juliet, Naked"* Grammy-winning banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck
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[mp3 file: runs 56:49]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, September 28, 2009
The Q sports panel on 24-hour sports networks' impact on sports, and Wayne Gretzky stepping down as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes* American consumer and political activist Ralph Nader is in studio with his new novel, "Only the Super-rich Can Save Us"* Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer on how his novel inspired the TV show "Flashforward"
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[mp3 file: runs 56:32]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, September 25, 2009
It's Friday Live with Canadian pop legend Jann Arden performing in studio* Canadian fashion designer Mark Fast on using plus-sized models in his London Fashion Week show* American comedian Louis CK* Grammy-winning American violinist Joshua Bell* Elvira Kurt's "Cultural Hall of Shame"
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[mp3 file: runs 1:12:54]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, September 24, 2009
Canada's heritage minister James Moore responds to criticism over the homeless National Portrait Gallery and re-structured Canada Music Fund* Feature chat with German auteur Werner Herzog* Canadian comedian Ron James on his new program, "The Ron James Show"
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[mp3 file: runs 1:03:18]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, September 23, 2009
L.A. Times reporter Mark Mangier on arts venue attacks in Pakistan* Russian-born, New York-based anti-folk musician Regina Spektor* Jonathan Ames, creator of the fact-fueled-fiction "Noir-otic" comedy TV show "Bored to Death"
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[mp3 file: runs 48:15]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Polaris Prize winner F-ed Up* A debate on "cougars" (older women who date younger men) in pop culture* A panel discussion on the common use of neuro-enhancing "smart" drugs
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[mp3 file: runs 54:14]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, September 21, 2009
American chart-topping jazz musician Harry Connick Jr. on his new album "Your Songs"* Documentarian Adam Yamaguchi talks about humanoid robots and his film "Japan: Robot Nation"* Q's sports culture panel is back to debtate intersex athletes, RIM CEO Jim Balsillie's battle to bring another NHL team to Canada and more
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[mp3 file: runs 47:24]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, September 18, 2009
Q favourite and "Norwegian wonder" Sondre Lerche chats and performs as our Friday Live guest* Canadian literary legend Margaret Atwood and her new book "Year of the Flood"* Crafting the "ideal" David Bowie tune* Antagonizing animals with FU Penguin blogger-turned-author Matthew Gasteier
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[mp3 file: runs 1:16:48]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, September 17, 2009
Aussie musician/author export Nick Cave on his new novel "The Death of Bunny Munro"* Gossip blogger Perez Hilton discusses his transformation into a musical taste maker* Author Greg Garret explores U2's spiritual underpinnings* Mio Adilman
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore on his latest offering, "Capitalism: A Love Story"* Author Chris Hedges and cultural critic Adam Sternbergh debate the effect of sensational pop culture* Irish/Czech musical duo The Swell Season stops by for a chat and performance from its new album, "Strict Joy"
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Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, September 15, 2009
A Q exclusive interview with Oscar-winning British filmmaker Danny Boyle* Senator Jerry Grafstein defends the need for Canada's Portrait Gallery* Brooklyn writer Anna Jane Grossman talks about her new book "Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By."
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[mp3 file: runs 52:13]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, September 14, 2009
Canadian author Douglas Coupland discusses his new book "Generation A"* Quirk Books creative director Jason Rekulak on the "literary mashup"* From the Q Vault: Syracuse University professor Bob Thompson sheds light on the legacy of television's "Guiding Light"
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[mp3 file: runs 53:18]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, September 11, 2009
Friday Live guest Elliott BROOD* Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein and Israeli-Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici discuss TIFF Tel Aviv programme controversy* American writer A.J. Jacobs discusses his new book of "immersion journalism"* Canadian brother design duo Dsquared² on their induction to Canada's Walk of Fame
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, September 10, 2009
Canadian filmmaker Jacob Tierney talks about his new film The Trotsky* A panel on the ethics of reality TV* Iranian-American actor/comedian Maz Jobrani
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Punk icon Iggy Pop* UK singer Imogen Heap plays from, and talks about, her new album "Ellipse"* Canadian superstar jockey Chantal Sutherland* Mio Adilman
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[mp3 file: runs 58:22]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Matt Damon* former NY Times food Critic Frank Bruni* Matthew Good
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Q: The Podcast for Monday, September 7, 2009
comic legend John Cleese* filmmaker/journalist Matthew Tyrnauer on designer Valentino.
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Q: The Podcast for Friday, September 4, 2009
political cartoonist Zapiro* Larry King* hip hop artist M.I.A.* writer/illustrator Seth
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, September 3, 2009
exclusive Rush interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson* Susie Orbach, groundbreaking author of 'Fat is a Feminist Issue'
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall talks about and plays from her album "Quiet Nights"* James Toback on his controversial documentary "Tyson" (about boxer Mike Tyson)
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Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Carol Burnett* Denis Villeneuve, director of 'Polytechnique'* Mark Bittman on his latest book, 'Food Matters'
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Q: The Podcast for Monday, August 31, 2009
*Malcolm McDowell* Canadian filmmaker Bruce MacDonald* the surprising truth behind "fresh" OJ
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Q: The Podcast for Friday, August 28, 2009
Friday Live Guest Dolores O'Riordan (of The Cranberries fame)plays from her new album, "No Baggage"* Author Justine Larbalestier talks about "white washing" in regard to the US preview cover of her novel "Liar"* Walter Koenig, who played Chekov from Star Trek* Slate writer Ron Rosenbaum on Hollywood name changes
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, August 27, 2009
Canadian model Liskula Cohen on winning her lawsuit against bloggers* Bob Garfield on his new book "The Chaos Scenario", about the scorched landscape of traditional media in the digital age* A panel discussion on heavy metal
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Jytte Klausen on the controversy surrounding his new book about the Danish Muhammad Cartoons* Montreal band Young Galaxy chat and play from their new album, "Invisible Republic"* The director and star of the Canadian Inuit film, "The Necessities of Life"
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Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Jack Kerouac's Quebecois roots* Anthony Flint on his new book about Jane Jacobs* SNL alumnus Rachel Dratch and Eugene Pack talk about the comedy night, Celebrity Autobiographies: In Their Own Words
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[mp3 file: runs 51:02]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, August 24, 2009
The disappearance of the Great American Film Director * Kathy Reichs - the forensic anthopologist and the best-selling author of the Temperance Brennan series... which inspired the hit Fox TV series Bones * From the Q Vault: Jian's conversation with Simpson's writer and Calgary native, Joel Cohen.
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Q: The Podcast for Firday, August 21, 2009
Friday Live guest Christina Martin * The Kids in the Hall's Bruce McCulloch * Eve K. Tremblay, a Canadian artist who helped create an artist colony on an NYC barge * Iggy Pop * Musicorps - a therapy program for war vets.
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, August 20, 2009
Ted Allen of Queer Eye fame on his new cooking show, Chopped * Back to Shop Class with philosopher-mechanic Matthew B. Crawford * From the Q Vault, Canadian-Cuban music with Jane Bunnett.
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[mp3 file: runs 51:32]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, August 19, 2009
An interview with Don Rickles... at 83 the Merchant of Venom is still going strong * Should the arts come with a money-back guarantee? * From the Q Vault: Laurent Cantet, director of the incredible French film, The Class
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[mp3 file: runs 50:33]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, August 18, 2009
4chan.org ...one of the Internet's darkest corners * Two Roads West - a play acted out during a Belfast cab ride * From the Q Vault: Jian chats with Muslim punk author Michael Muhammad Knight
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[mp3 file: runs 52:56]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, August 17, 2009
British author James Lever discusses his Booker Prize nominated "memoir", Me Cheeta, My Life in Hollywood * Animal Art - an Ottawa art exhibition looks at art made by animals * From the Q Vault...is the recession over yet? We revisit the Economy Excuse.
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[mp3 file: runs 45:36]
Q: The Podcast for Firday, August 14, 2009
* Eli Roth. He's a filmmaker, animator, producer, writer....and a co-star in Quentin Tarantino's new movie - Inglourious Basterds * Acclaimed indie chanteuse St. Vincent performs live * America on drugs * Film director Jennifer Baichwal (Act of God)
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Oscar winning Sherman Brothers. They wrote musical classics like Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang *Starbucks sneaks back to the 'hood * From the Q Vault, Kevin O'Leary of Dragon's Den.
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[mp3 file: runs 57:27]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A Canadian plinther from Antony Gormley's Trafalgar Square art project * Tori Amos chats and plays from her new album * Comedian Ron James
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[mp3 file: runs 52:32]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Saving Cities by Shrinking Cities * Women and Sex Writing * Canadian comic actor Peter Keleghan
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[mp3 file: runs 55:39]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, August 10, 2009
Art crime expert Noah Charney * Novella Carpenter's memoir of urban farming * Scottish-Canadian country star Johnny Reid
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[mp3 file: runs 50:55]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, August 7, 2009
Friday Live guests, The Great Lake Swimmers* Bronwyn Cosgrave on The Monokini* Writers & Espionage* Marion Kane talks about her friend, chef Julia Child* Lawrence Shorter on "The Optimist"
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[mp3 file: runs 1:27:53]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, August 6, 2009
Director and VJ of the award-winning documentary "Burma VJ"*
Robin Hemley on his memoir "Do Over"* Jane Birkin
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[mp3 file: runs 53:42]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Hamas' new "cultural" resistance* Author Corinne Maier makes the case for "No Kids"* Swedish pop singer Lykke Li
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[mp3 file: runs 52:37]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Anne Kingston on the character that is Garth Drabinsky* Elijah Wald on "How The Beatles Destroyed Rock and Roll"* Jamie Bamber of "Battlestar Galactica" fame
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Q: The Podcast for Monday, August 3, 2009
dolphin slaughter doc, 'The Cove'* Yoga and big business* singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux
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[mp3 file: runs 56:21]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, July 31, 2009
actress and comedian Charlyne Yi* Friday Live with British synth sensations, La Roux* Hollywood props master Harvey Schwartz* Jonathan Goldstein on The Bible
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, July 30, 2009
Canadaian film director Kari Skogland on her new film '50 Dead Men Walking'* Author Dave Eggers on his new book, 'Zeitoun'* Barenaked Lady Kevin Hearn and his solo band Thin Buckle
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The revising of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast'* Dolly Parton* Senegalese music legend Youssou N'Dour
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Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, July 28, 2009
dance innovator Merce Cunningham remembered* film director Todd Philips (The Hangover)* Daniel Lanois performs
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[mp3 file: runs 55:28]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, July 24, 2009
Daily Show regular Reza Aslan on the Global Day of Action on Iran* Friday Live with Xavier Rudd* Autism in Pop Culture* former Barenaked Lady, Steven Page
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, July 23, 2009
from Harry Potter to real science* British writer Martin Amis* Burton Cummings
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday July 22, 2009
Wal-mart in India* comedian Martin Short* singer/songwriter Julie Doiron
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[mp3 file: runs 56:31]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, July 21, 2009
France's battle with Online Piracy* Zach Condon from the band Beirut* Awful Library Books
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[mp3 file: runs 42:01]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, July 20, 2009
Steve Perry of Journey * Living in a He-Cession * From the Q vault: Montreal comedian Sugar Sammy
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Q: The Podcast for Friday, July 17, 2009
Friday Live guests The Most Serene Republic * U2's gigantic carbon footprint * Emmy nominees discussed * Recession wines * The unlikely biographer of porn star John Holmes
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, July 16, 2009
John Cleese, a broadcast exclusive feature interview * The fetish art of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster
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[mp3 file: runs 57:27]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Comic John Leguizamo * The Northern Roots of American music explored * From the Q Vault: Canadian dance legend Peggy Baker
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[mp3 file: runs 59:44]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Rufus Wainwright on his opera's premiere in U.K. * From the Q Vault: Broadcaster John (J.D.) Roberts
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[mp3 file: runs 34:50]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, July 13, 2009
Bill Cosby * Muslim superheroes meet D.C. Comics * Joel Plaskett on opening up for Sir Paul McCartney in Halifax
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[mp3 file: runs 50:13]
Q: The Podcast for Friday July 10, 2009
Halifax Musician Dave Carroll and his viral anti-airline hit song * Somali-Canadian K'Naan: an interview and performance * Vanity Fair's Matt Tyrnauer on his new documentary about the fashion legend Valentino* Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina on Obama's trip to Africa
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday July 9, 2009
Sacha Baron Cohen - the artist* Jazz singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux* A panel on whether the high arts are too exclusive
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday July 8, 2009
The controversial prose of potential US Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor* The scene at the Michael Jackson memorial* Bruce Dowbiggin on on his book "The Meaning of Puck: How Hockey Explains Modern Canada"
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[mp3 file: runs 48:39]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday July 7, 2009
50 Years of IKEA art exhibit* Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore perform from their latest record, The Eternal
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[mp3 file: runs 48:23]
Q: The Podcast for Monday July 6, 2009
New information abut why Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol* a discussion on the role of the 'princess' in animated films* from the Q Vault - Rawi Hage
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[mp3 file: runs 56:18]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday July 1, 2009
novelist Nino Ricci on his biography of Pierre Elliot Trudeau* Canadian short-story writer Mavis Gallant* Montreal singer/songwriter Patrick Watson
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[mp3 file: runs 48:25]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, June 30, 2009
French photoshopping controversy* electronic music pioneer Moby* Master's class in The Beatles* Jesse Wente on gangster films
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[mp3 file: runs 54:27]
Q: The Podcast for Monday June 29, 2009
The Robot Revolution - from the battlefield to our homes* soul singer Sharon Jones* food sleuth Marian Kane and author Leanne Shapton
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[mp3 file: runs 55:22]
Q: The Podcast for Friday June, 26, 2009
Special Q tribute to the King of Pop Michael Jackson, with comments from a wide range of cultural thinkers and figures* Friday live musical guests Homecookin'
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[mp3 file: runs 1:26:18]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, June 25 2009
Grim books for teens* World-renowned conductors JoAnn Falletta and Anne Manson on women and the baton* NPR's Tom Moon on the takeover of the Autotune
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[mp3 file: runs 46:23]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday June, 24, 2009
Calgary’s Sled Island curator and Wire frontman Colin Newman* Sexual violence and videogames* Mio Adilman’s Download Downlo
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[mp3 file: runs 46:08]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday June, 23, 2009
Author J.H. Crawford and car-free cities* Iran, politics, and social networking* Accent coach Eric Armstrong
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[mp3 file: runs 50:25]
Q: The Podcast for Monday June, 22, 2009
South African political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro* America humorist David Sedaris on his lastest book 'When You Are Engulfed in Flames'* Canadian Actor Ryan Reynolds
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Q: The Podcast for Friday June,19, 2009
Q’s NxNE live taping featuring founding member of Blue Rodeo, Jim Cuddy* The Genius of global Wu-Tang Clan fame, GZA* Political icon Preston Manning* Mio Adilman* Jesse Wente* Elvira* Live musical guest, Coeur de Pirate
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday June,18, 2009
Academic and author Camille Paglia* Mexican-American songwriter Alejandro Escovedo* Hollywood movies minus the stars
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday June,17, 2009
Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Babak Payami* Dave Matthews Band frontman Dave Matthews on 'Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King'
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[mp3 file: runs 52:55]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday June,16, 2009
Celebrities and international adoption* Chef Curtis Stone* Author Remy Stern on infomercial appeal
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[mp3 file: runs 50:31]
Q: The Podcast for Monday June,15, 2009
Transgenderism and Popular Culture* Author Monica Ali and her latest book “In The Kitchen”* Van Gogh's Ear
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[mp3 file: runs 54:21]
Q: The Podcast for Friday June,12, 2009
Director Petr Lom on "Letters to the President"* CBS veteran and award-winning journalist Morley Safer* Breakfast at Sulimay’s* Elivira* Friday live musical guests Deep Dark Woods
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday June,11, 2009
Cuban art in the Age of Obama* Is Hollywood going to the kids?* Author Oonagh O'Hagan’s “I Lick My Cheese” on roommate dynamics
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Q: The Podcast for Wednesday June,10, 2009
Provocative writer PJ O'Rourke* "It's OK - I saw it on Oprah!" Celebrity Health Advice* Mio’s Download Down-Lo* Brooke Johnson and “The Trudeau Stories”
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[mp3 file: runs 56:48]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday June, 9, 2009
Sweden's Pirate Party enters the European Parliament* Actor Ryan Reynolds* Jesse Wente on the best and worst movie remakes* Victoria quintet Jets Overhead
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[mp3 file: runs 58:22]
Q: The Podcast for Monday June, 8, 2009
Director, screenwriter and now novelist Guillermo Del Toro* The Police’s Andy Summers* A new exhibition of cover art from Harlequin romance novels
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[mp3 file: runs 58:21]
Q: The Podcast for Friday June, 5, 2009
Mapping North Korea* Jeff Buckley’s mom Mary Guibert* Elvira Kurt* Actress and filmmaker Nia Vardalos* Friday Live musical guests Ohbijou
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday June, 4, 2009
Product placement on Broadway?* Icon Carol Burnett* Canadian Monopoly champ, Will Lusby
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[mp3 file: runs 57:58]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday June, 3, 2009
Should We Hate the Rich?* Billy Elliott's Tony Award nominated David Alvarez* Resurgence of the Witch Hunt* Mio
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[mp3 file: runs 47:40]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday June, 2, 2009
Christopher Hitchens and his best-selling book 'God is Not Great'* Toronto-based author Hal Niedzviecki on his new project, the Peep Diaries* Jesse Wente talks about TV talk show hosts* Author Will Schwalbe on the Exclamation Point!
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[mp3 file: runs 59:11]
Q: The Podcast for Monday June, 1, 2009
Is North American reality tv ready for a gay icon?* Veteran American singer-songwriter Steve Earle on Townes Van Zandt* Food sleuth Marion Kane* Author-filmmaker David Bezmozgis
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[mp3 file: runs 48:53]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, May 29th, 2009
Edmonton's new poet laureate Cadence Weapon* Oscar winner Roberto Benigni* Guggenheim's Scent Opera* Elvira Kurt* Friday Live musical guest The Skydiggers
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Musician and actress Mandy Moore*
Author Kate Harding on the 'fat acceptance' movement* Recession Red, a talk about the popular Fuzion wine.
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[mp3 file: runs 52:28]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Wikipedia hoax and the state of journalism* Canadian master of the short story, Mavis Gallant* Creativity and mental illness* Mio
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[mp3 file: runs 50:02]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Grammy-winning producer Mark Johnson on peace through music* Legendary talk-show host Larry King* Graphic novelist Seth* Jesse Wente
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[mp3 file: runs 56:51]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, May 25th, 2009
Damian Abraham from Toronto punk band Fucked Up on being a Fox News correspondent* Indie rockers, The National* film director Rian Johnson ("Brothers Bloom")
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[mp3 file: runs 58:20]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Friday Live with the ethereal electro-pop of Brooklyn's Au Revoir Simone* the Berlin debut of Mel Brooks hit musical, The Producers* Keith Richards* the amazing world of mushrooms* Elvira Kurt
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Canadian author Alissa Hamilton's exposé of the way orange juice is made* John Greyson's new documentary* Hollywood and the Vatican
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[mp3 file: runs 59:03]
Q: The Podcast - extended, uncut RUSH interview
The extended, uncut version of our feature interview with Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
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[mp3 file: runs 1:01:31]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
A feature hour with the Canadian icons, Rush* Filmmaker, Nahid Persson Sarvestani on her documentary The Queen and I
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[mp3 file: runs 1:17:32]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Author Winifred Gallagher on her book Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life* Cannes Film Fest* PS22 Chorus
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Q: The Podcast for Monday, May 18th, 2009
Actress Rachel Weisz* Adrienne Clarkson on her new book about Norman Bethune* former child soldier and musician Emmanuel Jal (repeat interview)
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[mp3 file: runs 55:20]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, May 15th, 2009
Found Magazine founder Davy Rothbart on his latest collection of intriguing lost notes* Atom Egoyan on his film Adoration* Lenore Skenazy on her book Free Range Kids* Mr. Something Something (Friday Live guests)* Evan Solomon guest hosts
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Host of Celebrity Rehab, Dr. Drew's new book The Mirror Effect* Ohad Benchetrit a.k.a. Years - Scavenger's manifesto & guitar soundscapes
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[mp3 file: runs 49:11]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Tony award-winning, multiple Emmy nominee for Barney Miller, Hal Linden* Director of the acclaimed new film 'Tyson', James Toback* a history of indie rock collective Broken Social Scene
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Q: The Podcast for Monday, May 11th, 2009
Exclusive full-hour with Gord Downie from The Tragically Hip* Author, Graham Roumieu on 101 Ways to Kill Your Boss
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[mp3 file: runs 56:52]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, May 8th, 2009
Dallas Green, Juno award-winning City and Colour plays live in studio* A debate on the corporatization of yoga* Film director, Gabriel Noble and P-Star of the new doc P-Star Rising* Captain 3D, a Hollywood advocate of 3D as the future of cinema
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Q: The Podcast for Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Zambian author Dambisa Moyo on Western aid to Africa* Directors Nelofer Pazira and Havana Marking on their two documentaries about gender relations in Afghanistan* Director Paul Saltzman on his doc Prom Night in Mississippi
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[mp3 file: runs 50:19]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
The director of The Cove* how supermodels lost their artistic influence* Video Game Hall of Fame?* Mio Adilman's Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 50:13]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
One of Canada's great dancers and choreographers, Peggy Baker* Why people love sequels* Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island crew* Q's Screenboy Jesse Wente
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Q: The Podcast for Monday, May 4th, 2009
Book jacket artist Chip Kidd* Panel discussion on artists and their day jobs* politics of classical pianist Krystian Zimmerman
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[mp3 file: runs 56:14]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, May 1st, 2009
Friday Live: UK singer songwriter Adele* Paul Potts, the first winner of Britain's Got Talent* author Molly Haskell defends Gone with the Wind* Pulitzer controversy
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[mp3 file: runs 1:24:17]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Canadian doc maker Jennifer Baichwal* Dutch advertising renegade Eric Kessels and his book The Worst Hotel in the World* Mio Adilman's Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 38:08]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Should there be a retirement age for artists? A Q panel* Gemini-winning screenwriter Tassie Cameron
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[mp3 file: runs 34:15]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
broadcasting veteran Bob Barker on his new memoir* the legacy of actress Bea Arthur - our youtube team debates*
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[mp3 file: runs 44:45]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, April 27th, 2009
Author and psychotherapist Susie Orbach talks body image* Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and music education* Screenboy Jesse Wente with his hot doc list
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[mp3 file: runs 43:40]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, April 24th, 2009
Singer Ndidi Onukwulu* BC Scene director Heather Moore* Novelist Anosh Irani* Choreographer Crystal Pite* Vancouver chef Robert Clark* singer-songwriter Carolyn Mark
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[mp3 file: runs 1:25:39]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Author Nino Ricci on Pierre Trudeau* Actor George "Mr. Sulu" Takei* folk-rockers The Acorn
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[mp3 file: runs 55:20]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Artist Reece Terris* Musician Andrew Bird* Bruce Craig on the cultural significance of the hot dog*
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[mp3 file: runs 54:38]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Pirate Bay ban* Joni Mitchell's Blue Period* Play Hardsell*
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[mp3 file: runs 55:46]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, April 20th, 2009
Space Auction* singer/songwriter Doug Paisley* Tori Spelling
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[mp3 file: runs 41:06]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, April 17th, 2009
Friday Live with hip-hopper K-OS* Elvira Kurt* raw food guru, Aris La Tham* 10-year old advice author, Alec Greven* Jesse Brown on the twists of on-line messages
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[mp3 file: runs 1:15:54]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Leonard Cohen special* Grey Gardens
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[mp3 file: runs 55:45]
Q: The Podcast - Leonard Cohen UNCUT
A feature interview with songwriting legend Leonard Cohen
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[mp3 file: runs 33:50]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Richard Poplak* Kyle Riabko* Great Depression Cooking with Clara
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[mp3 file: runs 47:44]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Green Party leader Elizabeth May* Iron Maiden documentary, "Flight:666"* Jesse Wente* Singer/songwriter Julie Doiron
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[mp3 file: runs 1:03:34]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, April 13th, 2009
*singer-songwriter Dan Hill* author Nazar Afisi* film director Steve McQueen ('Hunger')
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[mp3 file: runs 1:03:35]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, April 10th, 2009
Diana Krall* The Ego Boom* Chef Gordon Ramsay
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[mp3 file: runs 1:23:47]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Google street view* the controversy over a Denver airport sculpture* Gabriel Prokofiev on mixing club music and classical project
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[mp3 file: runs 59:25]
Q: The Podcast - Billy Bob Thornton UNCUT
Billy Bob Thornton and his band, The Boxmasters
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[mp3 file: runs 18:39]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Billy Bob Thornton and his band The Boxmasters* Canadian Actor Albert Schultz on starring in the Soulpepper Theatre production of Glengarry Glen Ross* Graphic Novelist Pascale Blanchet* Mio Adilman
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[mp3 file: runs 58:41]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
James Preston Rogers - the man who would be Thor* Wiretap's Jonathan Goldstein* east-coast rapper Classified
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[mp3 file: runs 48:59]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, April 6th, 2009
soap opera Guiding Light* Graphic novelist/author Neil Gaiman* songer/songwriter Patrick Watson
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[mp3 file: runs 45:07]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Fri Live guests The Arkells* Holiday Tour in Iraq* Superman and Fetish Art* Elvis Costello on Spectacle* David Lynch on Transcendental Meditation* Elvira Kurt
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[mp3 file: runs 1:19:57]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
The 100-Mile Diet Challenge* Coronation Street's Michael Le Vell* The Waking Eyes play live
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[mp3 file: runs 51:08]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Nathan Fielder form 'This Hour Has 22 Minutes'* The revised 'Joy of Sex'* Genie nominated actor Aaron Poole, on his role in 'This Beautiful City'
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[mp3 file: runs 55:43]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Yoko Ono* Bruce Cockburn feature
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[mp3 file: runs 56:08]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, March 30th, 2009
Pulitzer-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof on the dangers of tailor-made news* Canadian elctronic duo Junior Boys* Jian's Juno Awards wrap-up* Jesse Wente
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[mp3 file: runs 55:53]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, March 27th, 2009
Vancouver Live Special with Hawksley Workman* Divine Brown* Bif Naked* Hot Hot Heat* plus Vancouver movers & shakers
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[mp3 file: runs 1:27:14]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Vancouver Mayor, Gregor Robertson* Are the Olympics Good for Vancouver's Entertainment and Culture?* West Coast Cuisine with Chefs Vikram Vij and John Bishop
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[mp3 file: runs 53:31]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Vancouver tour with Nardwuar the human Serviette* Charles Montgomery on Vancouver's quality of life* Vancouver Rock God panel with Mike Reno (Loverboy), Ra McGuire (Trooper) and Jim Vallance
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[mp3 file: runs 53:45]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Gordon Lightfoot feature* National Composition Prize* The art of Detroit in decay
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[mp3 file: runs 52:55]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, March 23rd, 2009
The public death of Brit reality TV star Jade Goody* The Ting-Tings* Comedian Lewis Black
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[mp3 file: runs 55:11]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, March 20th, 2009
NY's free store* Philosopher Peter Singer* Sir Kenneth Branagh on the MAgic Flute* long lost band Death* Elvira Kurt
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[mp3 file: runs 1:22:14]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Polaroid film and "The Impossible Project"* Author Denis Dutton on "The Art Instinct"* Fashion designer Evan Biddell
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[mp3 file: runs 51:56]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Battlestar Galactica at the UN* Radical Children's Literature* Comic artist Reginald Hudlin on gender bending the Black Panther
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[mp3 file: runs 1:02:48]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
The Fate of the Irish Pub* Author Ray Robertson on Posthumous Releases* The end of the Seattle Post Intelligencer
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[mp3 file: runs 51:27]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, March 16th, 2009
the journey of Canadian metal band Anvil* national affairs commentator Rudyard Griffith on his new book 'Who We Are'* author Leanne Shapton on the reationship between images and words
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[mp3 file: runs 54:14]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, March 13th, 2009
Singer/songwriter Joel Plaskett* Life of Brian unbanned* Jonah Lehrer on How We Decide* Canadian ballet star Jason Reilly* Elvira Kurt*
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[mp3 file: runs 1:12:33]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Food writer Mark Bittman* Broadcaster John "JD" Roberts* Australian singer Lenka
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[mp3 file: runs 48:10]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Laurie Brown guest-hosts* American writer David Sedaris* Canadian guitar master Pavlo* Mio Adilman and the Download Down-Lo* Stuff White People Like
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[mp3 file: runs 56:05]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Denis Villeneuve, director of Polytechnique* Pianist Christopher O'Riley, masterful interpreter of Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, and Radiohead* Screenboy Jesse Wente* Tracking political satire, with SATCAN
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[mp3 file: runs 57:06]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, March 9th, 2009
Canada Reads winner Lawrence Hill with Avi Lewis* Journalist Jerry Oppenheimer talks about the dark side of Barbie* Author Graham Roumieu discusses 101 Ways to Kill Your Boss
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[mp3 file: runs 52:46]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, March 6th, 2009
Fake friends on Facebook* Director Bruce McDonald's new film, Pontypool* Globe and Mail music writer Carl Wilson* Music from Emilie-Claire Barlow* Elvira Kurt and the Cultural Hall of Shame
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[mp3 file: runs 58:18]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Masters Degree in the Beatles* Director Michael McGowan talks about One Week* Rebecca Northan about her improvised play Blind Date
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[mp3 file: runs 46:50]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
UK theatre production, England People Very Nice* SNL's Lonely Island* Mio Adelman with the Download Down-Lo* Scottish-Canadian country singer Johhny Reid
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[mp3 file: runs 51:37]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Do newspapers need public funding?* 'RIP: A Remix Manifesto', Canadian doc about mash-up culture* Jesse Wente on comic-inspired movies* Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons.
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[mp3 file: runs 1:01:46]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Newfoundland premier Danny Williams* East Coast Music Awards wrap-up* Shawn Doyle on the journey from Wabush, Labrador, to the acclaimed HBO series Big Love* ECMA winner and Canadian Idol favourite Tara Oram
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[mp3 file: runs 52:36]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, February 27th, 2009
Ex-Barenaked Lady Steven Page* Ex-SNL'er Jimmy Fallon* Music from Bruce Penninsula* Drummer extraordinaire Josh Freese* Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame
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[mp3 file: runs 1:19:05]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Iraq's National Museum re-opens* Clive Thompson on speculative fiction* Modern art collectors Herb and Dorothy* Shelagh Rogers names CBC lit contest winners
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[mp3 file: runs 55:11]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Music, sex, and teens* Kat Von D, TV's most famous tattooed lady* Mio Adilman with the Download Down-Lo* Charles Spearin and the Happiness Project
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[mp3 file: runs 50:52]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Yves Saint Laurent's art collection* Michael Muhammad Knight's Islamic punk-rock novel The Taqwacores* Why men should do more housework* Q Food Sleuth Marion Kane in Florida
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[mp3 file: runs 1:00:57]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Oscars wrap-up with the Q film panel* Are blog comments adding value to news or causing trouble?* The Hylozoists
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[mp3 file: runs 56:35]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, February 20th, 2009
Oscar-nominated film Trouble the Water* Singer-songwriter Gentleman Reg* Canadian actor Peter Keleghan* Record producer Ken Scott* Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame* Mio Adilman and the Download Down-Lo
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[mp3 file: runs 1:18:00]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, February 19th, 2009
And Muzak: a lament* Former child soldier and musician Emmanuel Jal*
Jane Bunnett - Canada's first lady of the saxophone and flute
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[mp3 file: runs 57:24]
Q: The Podcast for Wenesday, February 18th, 2009
Scholastic Book Club: too commercial?* Classic chanteuse Jane Birkin* Acclaimed U.K. director Mike Leigh
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[mp3 file: runs 51:54]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Guest host Laurie Brown interviews author Norah Vincent about 'Voluntary Madness'* Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons* Ben Folds of the Ben Folds Five
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[mp3 file: runs 47:48]
Q: The Podcast for Monday, February 16th, 2009
gay activist Cleve Jones on Harvey Milk* singer/songwriter Dan Hill* film director/playwright John Patrick Shanley ("Doubt")
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[mp3 file: runs 55:08]
Q: The Podcast for Friday, February 13th, 2009
The Q pre-Valentine's Day heartbreak show! With Montreal singer-songwriter Jason Bajada on his album, Love Sh*t* Salon.com advice columnist Cary Tennis* Curators of the Museum of Broken Relationships
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[mp3 file: runs 1:10:02]
Q: The Podcast for Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda* U.K. songstress Lily Allen* Authors of "11,002 Things to Be Miserable About"
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[mp3 file: runs 49:13]
Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Sports stars over as cultural heroes?* Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay* Mio Adilman with the Download Down-Lo* Vancouver hip-hop outfit No Luck Club
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[mp3 file: runs 58:42]
Q: The Podcast for Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
TicketMaster/LiveNation merger* Azar Nafisi, author of Things I've Been Silent About* Feminist artist Judy Chicago
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[mp3 file: runs 51:08]
Q: Podcast Friday September 12, 2008
*Hooded Fang Friday Live*Philippe Falardeau*Viggo Mortensen*
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[mp3 file: runs 58:38]
Q: The Podcast Wednesday July 2, 2008
*LIVE FROM LONDON!*Blur's Alex James*Clothing Designer Katherine Hamnett*Too Many Black and Asian Faces on TV?* Blur's Alex James lived a life of rock-and-roll excess before turning to farming, cheese-making and classical music. His new autobiography is "Bit of a Blur". Samir Shah is the former head of Current Affairs at the BBC, and he's got something to say about diversity and broadcasting in the UK. Plus, fashion designer and creator of the "Choose Life" T-shirts, Katherine Hamnett.
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[mp3 file: runs 51:22]
Q: The Full Sebastian Horsley Interview
From April 15, 2008. The full uncut Q interview with "Dandy in the Underworld" author Sebastian Horsley. Listener discretion advised.
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[mp3 file: runs 35:15]
qq-2010-02-06_01-The Neuroscience of a Gunfight
An experimental psychologist has determined that a person who initiated an action actually performed the task more slowly than they would if they'd been the person reacting - so in a western gunfight, its better to be first than fast.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:03]
qq-2010-02-06_02-Raising The Speed Limit
Using Usain Bolt's top speed of nearly 28 mph in the 100 metre race as an example, scientists believe that by maximizing ground force, that speed could be improved to 40 mph.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:01]
qq-2010-02-06_03-Taming Turkeys
Evidence has been found that the Pueblo People of the Southwestern US domesticated the turkey more than two thousand years ago.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:44]
qq-2010-02-06_04-Freeze Dried Beetle
The larvae of a beetle in Alaska can survive temperatures of -100C by vitrifying - transforming into viscous glass.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:54]
qq-2010-02-06_05-Quantum Pond Scum
A physical chemist at the University of Toronto has found that a common marine algae uses the properties of quantum mechanics to help it suck sunlight.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:39]
qq-2010-02-06_06-Science Fact or Science Fiction: Swallowing Gum
If you swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for seven years. This is science fiction according to a gastroenterologist at McMaster University.
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[mp3 file: runs 5:52]
qq-2010-01-30_01-Colouring In The Dinosaurs
Researchers have found structures preserved within dinosaur fossil feathers that they think are melanosomes - clues to the colours in their plumage.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:10]
qq-2010-01-30_02-Dinosaur Death Pits
Pits containing stacked skeletons of numerous theropods were actually 150 million-year-old footprints of the 20-ton Sauropod. The much smaller theropods simply fell in and were not able to get out.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:38]
qq-2010-01-30_03-Twin Moons Separated at Birth
Callisto and Ganymede, the two outermost great moons of Jupiter, should be twins, but one was smashed by comets and asteroids, the other escaped.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:43]
qq-2010-01-30_04-Homing In On Echolocation
In bats, a bone that connects the larynx to the bones that support the eardrum has been identified. It is called the stylohal bone and it is key to a bats' ability to echolocate.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:12]
qq-2010-01-30_05-Plant Punishes A Presumptuous Pollinator
Scientists have found a plant this if taken advantage of by too many caterpillars, can switch the timing of its flowering to the daytime, when hummingbirds can pollinate it.
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[mp3 file: runs 7:29]
qq-2010-01-30_06-Sharing - for the Children
A scientist has found out that a dominant male baboon will allow subordinate males to mate occasionally, so they have infants in the troop that in turn need protecting as well.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:41]
qq-2010-01-23_01-Solar Powered Sea Slugs
A sea slug has been discovered that has somehow developed the ability to photosynthesize - and live out its life as a solar-powered animal.
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[mp3 file: runs 11:31]
qq-2010-01-23_02-Mad Cows & Cannibals
A disease called Kuru exploded through a population of people in Papua New Guinea in the 1950's. It was eventually linked to their practice of cannibalistic funeral rituals. Many died, but now researchers have discovere that those that survived had a genetic immunity to the disease.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:51]
qq-2010-01-23_03-Vanishing Tall-grass
The tall-grass prairie used to be a major feature of Manitoba. The remaining patches have been in decline because it needed two things to maintain
its health - bison and fire. The bison are gone, and fire has been suppressed.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:44]
qq-2010-01-23_04-Taking Directions From Slime Mould
In an experiment matching the growth of Physarum polycephalum (slime mould) against an existing man-made network,the slime mould was able to mimic the Tokyo railway system.
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[mp3 file: runs 9:21]
qq-2010-01-23_05-Too Sexy Fruit Flies
New research from the University of Southern California, Santa Barbara has found that female fruit flies are just too attractive to the males for their own good.
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[mp3 file: runs 7:48]
qq-2010-01-23_06-Fact or Fiction - Alcohol & Warmth
Drinking alcohol to keep warm is science fiction.
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[mp3 file: runs 4:11]
qq-2010-01-16_01-Shaving A Fly With A Laser
When the claw-like spines covering the genitalia of the male fruit fly were shaved off, they were far less successful at mating.
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[mp3 file: runs 10:23]
qq-2010-01-16_02-Echoes Of An Extinction
Scientists believe that the huge spike in lung cancer rates among women in a remote region of China is somehow related to the coal that was being burned in unventilated stoves to heat and cook.
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qq-2010-01-16_03-Alligator Lungs
The unidirectional lung function of the alligator may help explain why it thrived during periods of low oxygen content.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:48]
qq-2010-01-16_04-Venomous Dino
The first know venomous dinosaur, Sinornithosaurus, had grooves in its fangs used to channel the poison into its prey.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:09]
qq-2010-01-16_05-Permission For Planets
Astrophysicists believe that fluctuations in density and temperature of the gas in planetary disks, pushes the planets around and allows them to find orbital safe havens in which to exist.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:37]
qq-2010-01-16_06-Sleep Learning
New research has found that humans have the ability to strengthen memories as they sleep.
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[mp3 file: runs 7:58]
qq-2010-01-09_01-The Humans Who Went Extinct
Dr. Clive Finlayson, an evolutionary ecologist, at the University of Toronto has a new book, The Humans Who Went Extinct - Why Neanderthals died out and we survived, suggesting luck played a big role.
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[mp3 file: runs 20:19]
qq-2010-01-09_02-Caught in a Fish Web
The pressure we've put on fish stocks doesn't just affect the fish we catch. It also has a big effect on the ones we aren't even fishing for according to Dr. Nancy Shackell, with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax.
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[mp3 file: runs 9:11]
qq-2010-01-09_03-The 10% Solar System Solution
Dr. Scott Gaudi from Ohio State University, has calculated that solar systems like ours might, in fact, be 10-15% of the solar systems in the galaxy.
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[mp3 file: runs 9:07]
qq-2010-01-09_04-Old Coots and Young Chicks
Dr. Bruce Lyon at the University of California in Santa Cruz has found that coots use the first hatched as a template for what the remaining unhatched chicks should look like, but it can lead to mistaken imprinting.
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[mp3 file: runs 8:21]
qq-2010-01-09_05-Science Fact or Fiction - Appendix
The human appendix serves no purpose: Dr. John Bienenstock, a professor of Pathology and Medicine at McMaster University says it is science fiction.
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[mp3 file: runs 5:21]
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Rewind- Feb 5, 2010- 1st Massey Lecturer- Barbara Ward
Coming up on the Rewind podcast, the first of a series that looks at 20 years of Massey lectures. Today, the very first Massey lecturer- Barbara Ward. Ward was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share their prosperity with the rest of the world.
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Rewind- Jan 29, 2010- Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Interviews with Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Kate died in January after a four year battle with cancer. With her sister Anna, she influenced countless artists, blending music and Canadian folk history. Unfortunately, this podcast can't air any music of the McGarrigles, so we suggest you listen to the interviews here, and then their music afterwards.
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Rewind- Jan 22, 2010- Out in Canada #2
On this Rewind podcast, the second of two programs about the emergence and acceptance of homosexuality called Out in Canada. Last time on Rewind we looked at the view from the 1950s and 60s- when psychiatrists treated homosexuality as a disorder, courts clapped gays in jail and the closet door was firmly shut. Today, the emerging gay rights movement.
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Rewind- Jan 15, 2010- Out in Canada #1
On the Rewind podcast- Out in Canada- the first of two programs about the emergence and acceptance of homosexuality. The last few decades have seen protest, legal fights and a growing sense of solidarity for gays and lesbians as they started to become more visible in society at large.
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Rewind- January 8, 2010- Cuban Revolution
A documentary from 1959 that looks at the state of affairs in Cuba just weeks before a young Fidel Castro and his group of guerrilla soldiers took over the island.
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Saturday Night Blues interview with Bill Wyman
Holger Petersen visited Sticky Fingers Cafe in London England to interview owner and former Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman.
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Saturday Night Blues interview with Mick Fleetwood
Mick Fleetwood, founder and drummer of Fleetwood Mac in conversation with Holger Petersen.
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Saturday Night Blues Interview with Booker T
Legendary keyboard player and leader of the band Booker T and the MG's in conversation with Saturday Night Blues host, Holger Petersen.
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Saturday Night Blues interview with Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy, a living legend and true gentleman of the blues, in conversation with Holger Petersen
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Saturday Night Blues interview with The Yardbirds
Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty, founding members of The Yardbirds chat with Holger Petersen
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Obama the cyberbully and big news for Search Engine
Michael Geist explains why Canada is on America's s*!t list, and I explain what's up with the future of the show
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Was the Pirate Bay "Spectrial" a Mistrial?
Pirate Bay trial judge linked to pro-copyright groups, and why is Ahmadinejad the only guy sticking up for jailed Canadian Blogger Hossein Derakhshan?
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The Twitter Revolution.
How the poorest country in Europe revolted in under 140 characters.
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Time to de-friend Obama?
Gov't 2.0 has yet to happen and Obama has sided with Bush on warrantless wiretaps. Is it too soon to question the President's transparency? I ask Micah Sifry
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No show this week!
Back next Monday with extra goodness.
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Busting the biggest cyberspies in the world
CitizenLab's Ron Deibert and Nart Villeneuve on how they uncovered a massive global online spy ring.
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Spybots can fire you.
Weird ways that employee surveillance is being used to determine layoffs, and is "SmartData" just DRM by another name?
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CCTVs, Biometrics, and self-destructing data
Pt.2 of my interview with Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian
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Show me your papers!
An interview with Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian
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RiP: a generation of copyright criminals!
Brett Gaylor on his remix docufesto
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The great pirate trial.
Epic LOLs in Sweden as the Pirate Bay (and file sharing) go on trial.
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Valentine's day extension...
A quick point about hate speech in comment sections & limits on police power, and then a look at some revelatory news on the Net Neutrality front.
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5 random things about the future of news
Is this worth linking to?
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Jesse or Google: who's more clever? (an interview with Google)
Google plays it coy with regards to their new throttle-tracking "Glasnost" app, and a new study shows that kids have nothing to fear but kids themselves.
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10,000 Iranian military blogs and the Facebook flash mob that actually worked.
An update on drastic and scandalous developments in the Iranian blogosphere, and a story of web-civics in action in the UK.
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The return of the missing White House emails.
With two days left in the Bush Administration, a federal court has ordered every White House staffer to turn over every email they have written or received on the job, so that millions of mysteriously missing documents can be recovered.
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Are we getting ripped off on texting? An interview with Telus.
The New York Times says that carriers are taking us for a ride with texting fees. Jim Johannsson of Telus says different.
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Is throttling necesarry?
Rogers and Bell say they have no choice- if they don't "traffic-shape", the network won't work. Is it true?
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Will the Internet kill CanCon? An interview with Google.
Google wants the CRTC to keep their hands off the Internet. I ask them why, in the first Search Engine interview with the search engine.
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Random Shots
A documentary this week on the 3 weeks I spent on XBox Live, playing Call of Duty 4
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Search Engine Prorogued!
Back next week with a new one.
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Is Canada becoming a digital ghetto?
The idea of Canada as an isolated Internet backwater has sparked heated discussion across the web. Here's the debate so far...
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Where's Hoder?
Iran's "Blogfather" is missing in Tehran and presumed arrested. But how can we be so sure? A look at Hossein Derakhshan with journalist Cyrus Farivar. Plus, the final word (I pray) on "wee-kee".
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Who the #$@! says "wee-kee"?
The Great Firewall of Australia and pt.2 of the weirdly heated Wikipedia pronunciation fracas.
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White (Space) Power!
Tuesday, November 4,2008 was a historic day....for the Internet. The FCC voted to allow "white space" devices. Today I figure out what they are and what they mean.
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Jinx the vote!
Forgive me if I ruin everything, but I'm just going to assume that Obama has already won and discuss his presidency with Micah Sifry.
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Enhanced Driver's Licenses="Privacy Nightmare"
It sounds like a bad sci-fi plot, but it's true: Ontario is about to stamp all new licenses with RFID chips, readable by anyone within a 30-foot radius.
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Canadians? Not retarded.
Two interesting things about the worst election ever.
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Whatever happened with Copyright?
A pre-election check-in with Prof.Michael Geist and an excuse to talk about Sarah Silverman.
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Politics unusual.
A closer look at the Skype-snoop story with CitizenLab's Ron Deibert and candidate Gabe Carini debates himself.
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Video games make me sad.
Just one story this week, but it's a good one. Spore, the "Ulysses" of video games, has spawned an online revolt against the games' DRM. After driving down the Spore's Amazon rating, disgruntled players are now suing Electronic Arts. I talk to their lawyer (and to myself).
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If you can't link to something, then what's the point of the Internet?
Thanks for the awesome reception last week! This week: why blogs are more ethical than the news, music "pirate" sues music industry, and my challenge to Gabe Carini, candidate for PM.
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Canada is retarded.
Back from the dead! CBC executive Chris Boyce on Search Engine's cancellation, and reasons why our democracy is obsolete.
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June.19/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Jim Prentice unlocked, small town cyberwars, and the last episode of Search Engine....vol.1
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June.12/08 Search Engine
Keywords: SPECIAL EPISODE- Search Engine in China
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June.5/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Al Qaeda's funniest home videos, Your boss-the spy, and yet even more of the best of Craigslist
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May.29/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Mohawk Poker, Ivory Towers Falling Down, and Dick Gaywood Fights Back.
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May.22/08 Search Engine
Keywords: again with the copyright? China punks the Navy, and my f*!#ing stapler.
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May.15/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Do you want spies with that, stuff Black people like, and the little ISP that could...piss a lot of people off
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May.8/08 Search Engine
Keywords: the hacker Olympics, the C.I.A.'s pony club, and Speak- the Hungarian rapper
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May.1/08 Search Engine
Keywords: grand theft childhood, teenage surveillance, and the uninvited lawyer.
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April.24/08 Search Engine
Keywords: poetry,Passover,pre-emption. Back next week, folks.
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Apr.17/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Batman begins-to be pirated, Comcast copycats, and more of the best of Craigslist
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Apr.10/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Hillary's wiki-watchdog, grand theft idiot, and the Notorious HTTP
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Apr.3/08 Search Engine
Keywords: sex workers of the world, unite! Cuba's wild colt, and the return of the Best of Craigslist.
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March.27/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Net-addict panic, Trojan horses for Tibet, and a chaos of Joeys
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March.20/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Second Life on Mars, black gay Arab, and Facebook ultimatums
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March.13/08 Search Engine
Keywords: Debunking the Zeitgeist, Debating the Laptop, and Dividing the Waloons
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March.6/08 Search Engine
Keywords: submarine sabotage, metaphysical polls and Conservative piracy.
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Feb.28/08 Search Engine
Keywords: fighting terrorism from the suburbs, and robots ruin poker
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Feb.21/08 Search Engine
Obama's MySpace Mistake, The Infamous Australian Porn Cracker and Five Million Missing White House Emails
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Feb.14/08 Search Engine
Keywords: chairman of the blog, executives anonymous, and hunting the poor- thru Facebook!
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Feb.7/08 Search Engine
Keywords: the not-so anonymous face of Anonymous, Wise Beard Man’s beardy wisdom, and China’s video outrage
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Jan.31/08_Search Engine
Keywords: Tom Cruise vs. Anonymous,Hilary covers Bowie,and the shmaltz factor.
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Jan.24/08_Search Engine
Keywords:ganging up on the Mafia, celebrity cheese, and why Facebook will die
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Jan.17/08_Search Engine
Keywords: Facebook's lynch mobs, Japan's bad manners, Ed Stelmach's good name
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Search Engine ~ Jan 10, 2008
Keywords: writers gone wild, user-generated propaganda, and Super Management Bros.
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Search Engine ~ Jan 3, 2008
Keywords: Sweat-shop sorcerers, The 35-pound football team, and the Jedi who ran for School Board.
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Search Engine ~ Dec 27, 2007
Keywords: Youtube kills the magic, peer-to-peer globalization, and Mr. Rogers goes to Washington.
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Search Engine ~ Dec 20, 2007
Keywords: Robots ruin poker, Gitmo's web-prank hilarity, and death to the blockbuster
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Search Engine ~ Dec 13,2007
Keywords: how the geeks crashed Christmas, five million missing White House emails, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's blog- seriously.
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Search Engine ~ Dec 6,2007
Keywords: 249 unanswered questions, Bill Clinton's architect, and fighting terrorism from the suburbs.
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Search Engine ~ Nov 29, 2007
Keywords: last chance for copyright, cyber-bully worries, and my cousin Joe.
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Search Engine ~ Nov 22, 2007
Preemption notice,Suburban counterterrorist promo
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Search Engine ~ Nov.15, 2007
Keywords:The President of the Internet, the 35 pound football team,and the 1967 iPhone.
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Search Engine ~ Nov 1,2007
Keywords: Italy's geriatric attack, YouTube kills the magic, and why Radiohead might not be okay for computers
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Search Engine ~ Oct 25,2007
Keywords: Web War One, the refugee camp chat room, and Facebook gets busted for union-busting.
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Search Engine ~ Oct 18, 2007
Keywords: illegal arcades, pac-man propaganda, and sweatshop sorcerers.
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Search Engine ~ Oct 4,2007
Keywords: Peer to peer globalization, topless justice, and Canada hates the Internet.
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Search Engine ~ Sept 27,2007
Keywords: The AfroSphere, Cory Doctorow's memo to Paris Hilton, and a correction to our first journalistic error.
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Search Engine ~ Sept 20,2007
Keywords: Big Brother Gets Spanked, How to Teach a Dead Frog New Tricks, and Ihateyoungpeople.com
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Search Engine ~ Sept.13,2007
Keywords: Obama's Myspace Mistake, The Great Polka Rebellion and John F Brewington,Internet Detective.
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Search Engine ~ Sept.6,2007
Keywords: Blog Trouble in Big China, Cory Doctorow, The Infamous Australian Porn Cracker & Mr.Rogers Goes to Washington
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2010-02-07 - No new podcast this week
This week on Spark's regular, over-the-air radio broadcast, you'll hear an "encore edition" of Spark 86: Digital forgetting, email salutations, and food pills. Because we've promised no more podcast repeats, you won't find this episode in our podcast feed. But if you would like to listen again, or check out any of the links mentioned on this week's show, follow this link to the show notes for Spark 86. We'll be back with a brand-new episode of Spark on February 14, 2010, so stay subscribed.
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2010-01-31 - Spark 101: iPads, fantasy user interfaces, and workplace surveillance
John Gruber on Apple's iPad announcement, Mark Coleran designs fantasy user interfaces, Scott Berkun explains why the future of UI will be boring, Spark listeners weigh in on earbud etiquette, Cyrus Farivar intvestigates workplace internet filtering, and David Zweig researches monitoring in the workplace
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2010-01-24 - Spark 100: Distracting clowns, earbud etiquette, and the dark side of the cloud
Dustin Randall and Ira Hyman test people's attentiveness, Steven Yantis studies our brains' abilities to multitask, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty explains capital letters, Wanja Oberhof publishes personalized newspapers with niiu, Gary Liao wonders about earbud etiquette, Google could add real-time advertisements to Street View, Nic Mitham explains advertising in virtual worlds, Cloud 9 invites theatregoers behind the scenes online, and Danny Sullivan on the dark side of the cloud
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2010-01-17 - Spark 99: Pirates, protecting children, and Web 2.0 suicide
Sahara Byrne researches strategies that families can use to best protect children from negative effects of online behaviour, Sharon Duke Estroff spends time as an undercover mom in online virtual worlds, Rebecca MacKinnon weighs in on Google's new approach to China, Cliff Harris asks why people pirate his games, Matt Mason explores how smart businesses deal with piracy, Gordan Savicic builds the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
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2010-01-10 - Spark 98: Traffic lights, digital companions, and Swiss Army knives
Peter Nowak reports from CES 2010, Yorick Wilks explains The Companions Project, Nora's Computer Club: Setting Up a Blog, Nora announces that Spark is airing on Vermont Public Radio, Laurie Dawson tries out Tangible Interaction's digital graffiti wall, Tom Lucier explains Broken City Lab's Cross-Border Communication, the unintended consequences of LED traffic lights, and Bill Buxton and Jared Spool on digital Swiss Army knives and the relative merits of single-purpose and multi-function devices
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2010-01-03 - Spark 97: How to reclaim meaning in your work life
Seth Godin gives away his free eBook What Matters Now, and Matthew B. Crawford writes about the value of work in his book, Shop Class as Soulcraft
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2009-12-20 - Spark 96: Aspirational technology, the future of search, and dinner with a stranger
Ian Manheimer helps find the perfect gadget with Measy, Caterina Fake on Hunch and the future of search, Franke James has Dinner with a Stranger named Mark Shouldice, Dan Misener shows Nora the Spark Holiday Remote Access Toolkit, Rex Sorgatz publishes the List of Lists, and James Gee explains what video games can teach us about the way we learn
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2009-12-13 - Spark 95: Spam, scams, and holiday sentiments
Clancy Delbarre and Barbara Miller explain the import of eCards on paper and ink cards, David Jevans from the Anti-Phishing Working Group explains how to avoid holiday eCard scams, Finn Brunton researches the unintended consequences of spam, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty demystifies holiday grammar, Steve Rubel lists Ten Common Phrases That Could Soon Be History, Lianne Raymond investigates techdropping, and Grant McCracken makes the case for the Chief Culture Officer
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2009-12-06 - Spark 94: Magic technology, glove hackers, and the age of metrics
Gus Savoie remembers the first email he sent, Dan Misener hacks his gloves with conductive thread so they work with his iPhone, Julie Ireton looks at Canadian copyright, Hannah Classen heads to the roof to look at space colonies, Craig Fahner waters his garden remotely with #garden, and Anand Giridharadas on the age of metrics
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2009-11-29 - Spark 93: Too much information, digital pack rats, and Wikipedia's digital blind spots
Gabriella Coleman explains why ebook piracy may be poised to shake up the publishing business, Tim Pretty and Rob Hyndman on digital pack rats, Daemon Fairless's iPod changed his relationship with music, Nora and Sue Foley rock out with ThinkGeek's Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt, Cyrus Farivar surfs the Halal web, Mark Graham maps Wikipedia's digital blind spots and Clay Shirky on how we shape tools and tools shape us
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2009-11-22 - Spark 92: FloH club, new media literacy, and getting the old age you deserve
Sean Cole tries out the FloH Club, a new computer service aimed at older people, Your Job Before the Internet: Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway, co-executive producers of America's Funniest Videos, Jenna McWilliams teaches new media literacy, Nora mentions that the Amazon Kindle is now available in Canada, Cyrus Farivar visits UCLA for the 40th anniversary of the Internet, Joe Coughlin from MIT's AgeLab on the future of aging
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2009-11-15 - Spark 91: CAPTCHAs, data visualization and romancing the phone
Luis von Ahn fights spam and digitizes books with CAPTCHAs and reCAPTCHA, John Lee plays matchmaker for mismatched shoes with unevenfeet.com, Daemon Fairless investigates texting and dating,
December's issue of Esquire magazine has an augmented reality cover, Hannah Classen wonders why we don't have robotic butlers, Fernanda Viegas visualizes data with Many Eyes, and Lawrence Lessig explains the perils of openness in government
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2009-11-01 - Spark 90: The pleasures and sorrows of work, continuous partial attention, and email apnea
Alain de Botton on the pleasures and sorrows of work, and Linda Stone on continuous partial attention and email apnea
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2009-10-25 - Spark 89: Traditional knowledge, instant film, and online borders
V. K. Gupta protects ancient wisdom in the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, Jeremy de Beer on traditional knowledge and intellectual property, Spark Quest: Grant Lawrence tries out Sony's Party-shot camera accessory, Nora checks in with André Bosman of The Impossible Project, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty advises Patrick Horneker about writing for an international audience on the web, Pete Nowak updates Nora on Canadian net neutrality, Dan Misener explains geoblocking, and Roger Martin expla
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2009-10-18 - Spark 88: Tracking trash, the real value of stories, and social media for businesses
David Eaves explains VanTrash, Jennifer Dunnam tracks trash with MIT's Sensible City Lab's Trash | Track, Rob Walker co-curates the Significant Objects Project, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty gives advice about email subject lines, Rick Fogarty uses Skype for hairstyle consultations, Bernd Boesemeyer deals with a negative review of his B&B on TripAdvisor, and Mitch Joel explains why businesses should embrace online conversations
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2009-10-04 - Spark 87: Open science, general knowledge, and doctors before the internet
Tom Howell fixes his leaky sink with a little help from his father (and Skype), Daemon Fairless learns cabinetmaking, cooking, and guitar on YouTube, Jenny Carpenter explains Open Science, Mignon Fogarty (AKA Grammar Girl) explains where to place emoticons and links in email messages, Your Job Before the Internet: Dr. Stewart Cameron, Francois Jacques worries about covert Googling at his pub trivia night and Brian Cathcart wonders, "Is Google Killing General Knowledge?"
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2009-09-27 - Spark 86: Digital forgetting, email salutations, and food pills
Andrew Feldmar is barred from entering the US after a border guard Googled his name, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger believes that digital technology should forget, Mignon Fogarty (AKA Grammar Girl) talks about email salutations and parentheses, Lynn Glazier explores the culture of sexual harassment among teens, Hannah Classen discovers what ever happened to the food pill, Dan Misener looks at the "new old" way to be a pirate, and Peter Nowak of cbc.ca/technology drops by for a Net Neutrality update
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2009-09-20 - Spark 85: Augmented reality, chiptune jazz, and a world without email
Luis Suarez explains how he got rid of corporate email and replaced it with social software tools, Marla Thirsk is still on dial-up, Cathi Bond explains two trends in augmented reality, science fiction author Bruce Sterling contemplates the future implications of AR, Daniel Jones tells the story of NBC versus the pirates, Andy Baio crowdfunds a chiptune cover of Kind of Bloop, and THWOMP revives classic video game music in their "Nintendo cover band"
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2009-09-13 - Spark 84: Regrettable videos, Open Textbooks, and Twittering Taco Trucks
Timothy Tackett (AKA Mr UNSTABL3) takes a bath in a Burger King sink, Bill Wasik and Hal Niedzviecki on regrettable online videos, and what to do about them, Hannah Classen wonders what happened to the promise of a flying car, Eric Frank from Flat World Knowldge publishes open textbooks, Kate Arkless Gray and the BBC's World Service preserve endangered sounds with Save our Sounds, and Cyrus Farivar dines at Twittering taco trucks
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[mp3 file: runs 54:27]
2009-08-26 - Spark in the Summer: Anil Dash and Gina Trapani on keeping last year’s model
Extended interview with Anil Dash and Gina Trapani.
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[mp3 file: runs 21:28]
2009-08-19 - Spark in the Summer: Gary Hustwit on Objectified
Extended interview with Gary Hustwit.
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[mp3 file: runs 21:13]
2009-08-12 - Spark in the Summer: William Deresiewicz on “The End of Solitude”
Extended interview with William Deresiewicz.
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[mp3 file: runs 18:31]
2009-08-05 - Spark in the Summer: Rachel Wagner on digital culture and religion
Extended Interview with Rachel Wagner.
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[mp3 file: runs 24:55]
2009-07-22 - Spark in the Summer: Carl Wilson on MP3s and the Sound of (Pop) Music
Extended Interview with Carl Wilson
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[mp3 file: runs 11:10]
2009-07-29 - Spark in the Summer: Glen Hougan on designing for seniors
Extended interview with Glen Hougan.
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[mp3 file: runs 16:25]
2009-07-15 - Spark in the Summer: Seth Godin on Tribes
Extended interview with Seth Godin
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[mp3 file: runs 18:04]
2009-07-08 - Spark in the Summer: Jane McGonigal on gaming for the greater good
Extended interview with Jane McGonigal.
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[mp3 file: runs 21:22]
2009-07-01 - Spark in the Summer: Ed Burtynsky on 10,000 year old photos
Extended interview with Ed Burtynsky.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:03]
2009-06-24 - Episode 83: Corrupted files, what I wore, and email sabbaticals
Scott Jaschik on trust and digital cheating in the classroom, Dan Misener looks at "What I Wore"-style blogs, Jenny Carpenter investigates forensic linguistics and sentiment analysis, and danah boyd takes an email sabbatical
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[mp3 file: runs 27:24]
2009-06-17 - Episode 82: Teen texting tales, accessible technology, and viral culture
Spark listeners call in with their terrifying teen texting tales, Al Rae tries to send and receive 80 texts in one day, Nora visits the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto, and Bill Wasik on how the internet is changing culture
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[mp3 file: runs 27:30]
2009-06-10 - Episode 81: Canadian broadband, Twaiku poetry, Cigarette vending machines, and Bookcamp
CANARIE's Bill St. Arnaud explains the current state of Canadian broadband, and comments on the OECD's recent broadband report, Rayat Deonandan writes Twitter haiku poems, Michael Keferl of CScout Japan explains Taspo, the Japanese RFID-enabled "tabacco passport," and Hugh McGuire explores the future of books and publishing in the digital age at BookCamp Toronto.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:21]
2009-06-03 - Episode 80: Social Translation, Mapmaking 2.0, Drunk Dialing, and Open Cities
Ethan Zuckerman explains social translation and the multilingual web, Cyrus Farivar reports back from the Where 2.0 conference, Nora mentions Bad Decision Blocker iPhone app, and Gmail's Mail Goggles feature, and Andrea Reimer explains Vancouver's plan to open up municipal data
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[mp3 file: runs 27:18]
2009-05-27 - Episode 79: Digital preservation, Exclamation Marks (!!!) and SPIN Farming
Seamus Ross, Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, explains digital preservation, Mignon Fogarty (AKA Grammar Girl) talks about exclamation marks and interrobangs, and Wally Satzewich starts a web-powered, veggie growing revolution called SPIN Farming
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[mp3 file: runs 27:28]
2009-05-20 - Episode 78: Soaking dishes, driving tech innovation with porn, and cultural laziness
Stef and Luigi disagree about soaking dishes online with Sidetaker.com, Peter Nowak explains how the business of pornography fuels the business of technology, Kate Rich runs Feral Trade, a "freight network outside of commercial systems," and Cyrus Farivar admits his cultural laziness.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:26]
2009-05-13 - Episode 77: QWERTY, Objectified, and Last Year's Model
Nora delves into the deep, dark history of the QWERTY keyboard layout (guests include: Martin Howard, Bill Buxton, Stan Liebowitz, Philip Steadman, and Jared Spool), Gary Hustwit interviews industrial design heavyweights for his documentary Objectified and Anil Dash and Gina Trapani want you to buy great gadgets, then keep them with LastYearsModel.org
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[mp3 file: runs 27:42]
2009-05-06 - Episode 76: Online activism, lurking, mashups, and APIs
Anders Colding-Jørgensen created a real Facebook group about a fictitious cause: "No to the demolition of the Stork Fountain," Evgeny Morozov on Slactivism and the role social media can play in political activism, Jim Lebans defends lurking, Jer Thorp uses the NYT NewsWire API to control a smoke detector called the NewsAlarm, and explains the importance of APIs.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:27]
2009-04-22 - Episode 75: Self-monitoring, interactive magazines, and a Twittering cat door
Gus and Penny (who are cats) use a Twittering Cat Door, Nicholas Felton on self-monitoring and Daytum.com, Nora and Elizabeth review some of the messy desktop contest entries submitted so far, Anand Agarwala explains human-computer action, and shows Nora Bumptop, and Tim Devin publishes I Left This Here for You to Read.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:27]
2008-04-15 - Episode 74: Religion in a digital age, WiFi t-shirts, and curating the web
Rachel Wagner researches the intersection of digital culture and religion, and what it means for how we understand the sacred, Liane Balaban reads her poem "Wireless Networks," Nora and Jesse Wente try out the WiFi t-shirt, and Jason Kottke curates the web
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[mp3 file: runs 27:32]
2009-04-10 - Hour-long Spark Special
As part of CBC's special programming on April 10, we put together a one hour-long "best of" program, featuring some of our favorite guests and items from past seasons, including: Ben Terrett's Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet, David McCallum's Warbike, Christian Payne’s grandmother on Twitter, Dan James's shingling, Tom Howell's Techiquette, Celeste McWhorter's gamedar, and Jenova Chen's video games with a sophisticated emotional palette.
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[mp3 file: runs 51:59]
2009-04-08 - Episode 73: Copyright, the public domain, and remix culture
Kutiman remixes YouTube on THRU YOU, Teru remixes Nora's full interview with Kutiman to win Spark's remix contest, James Boyle tries to balance intellectual property rights and the public domain, and Jean Dryden demystifies Canadian copyright law.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:25]
2009-04-01 - Episode 72: Roombas, Goodbye Emails and Facebook Mea Culpas
Paul Saulnier hacks a Roomba vacuum cleaner so that it moves away from you when you're angry.Saul Greenberg explains why it's hard for computers to understand what humans are feeling.Sean Prpick tells the story of how a Roomba brought pain to his marriage.Futurist Jamais Cascio looks at how we relate to robots, and why we treat them like pets.Megan Hustad wonders wonders why we're compelled to send out goodbye emails. Al Rae is using Facebook to find old friends and say he's sorry.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:32]
2009-03-25 - Episode 71: Music & Technology
Pat and Patrick Costello organize The Ukulele Project to make instructional videos for Tom White's ukulele club in Ogoki Post, Ontario, Jonathan Berger explains why some people prefer the sizzling sound of MP3s, Carl Wilson on how technology influences the aesthetic of pop music, Nora tries out the Emotichair, a chair designed to give deaf people a richer experience of music, and Richard Cytowic studies synaesthesia, a "crossing of the senses"
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[mp3 file: runs 27:44]
2008-03-18 - Episode 70: e-Fidgeting, road trip mixtapes, LIFT, and the return of aspic
Dan Misener fidgets with technology. James Levine and Chris Noessel explain why that might be a good thing. Grant Lawrence from CBC Radio 3 makes a road trip mixtape using Harmon Kardon's Amplified Journeys, Cyrus Farivar explores where the future went at the LIFT Conference, and Cathi Bond enjoys the gelatinous food that's all the retro rage: aspic
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[mp3 file: runs 27:28]
2009-03-11 - Episode 69: Springboard, Metropath(ologies), and CRTC hearings
Cristina Matei designs Springboard, a social network for public transit, Judith Donath explores information overload through Metropath(ologies), Anil Dash unplugged for two weeks, and didn't miss anything, and Peter Nowak explains the current CRTC hearings
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[mp3 file: runs 27:31]
2009-03-04 - Episode 68: Greener gadgets, the end of solitude, and becoming the master of your domain
Allan Chochinov of Core77 explains the Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2009, William Deresiewicz on The End of Solitude, Rhonda McEwen researches how university students use mobile phones and social networks to manage feelings of loneliness, Elizabeth Bowie discovers that ElizabethBowie.com is taken, then buys ElizabethBowie.ca, Peter Rukavina explains why everyone should get their own domain for their email, and Spark listeners own a lot of domains
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[mp3 file: runs 27:25]
2009-02-25 - Episode 67: Twittering Grandma, Digital Legacy, and Ageism in Design
Christian Payne's grandmother is on Twitter, Paul Taylor combines genealogy and social networking with Arcalife, and Glen Hougan teaches his students to design for an aging population
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[mp3 file: runs 27:41]
2009-02-11 - Episode 66: The tech gap in relationships, meta-movie reviews, and spatial intelligence
Bill Buxton and Elizabeth Russ explain the technology gap in their relationship, Twanna A. Hines on the importance of technological compatibility, Bill Buxton explains how a computer is unlike a pencil, David Edelstein explains how review aggregators are affecting film criticism, Nora tries her hand at the Rubik's 360, Will Shortz explains why our love affair with puzzles persists, Philip Servos on spatial intelligence and Rubik's puzzles, and 9 year-old Callum Moseley solves the Rubik's 360
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[mp3 file: runs 27:40]
2009-02-04 - Episode 65: Laptops in the Kitchen, Games for Grownups, and ChangeCamp
On this episode of Spark, Hannah Classen brings tech into the kitchen to splatter-proof your internet recipes, Jenova Chen designs video games with a sophisticated emotional palette, Gerjon Zomer saves ink with the Ecofont, and Mark Kuznicki brings people together to re-imagine government and citizenship at ChangeCamp
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[mp3 file: runs 27:23]
2009-01-28 - Episode 64: Blogs get unplugged, photos get real, and government gets visible
Ben Terrett prints blog posts on newsprint in Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet, Dan Pacheco enabled citizen publishers with Printcasting, Liz explains print-on-demand photo technology like this photo frame from Prinics, Andy Kaplan-Myrth promotes government transparency through visiblegovernment.ca
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[mp3 file: runs 27:42]
2009-01-21 - Episode 63: Whoppers, Facebookgate, and Leadership 2.0
Nora wonders what Burger King's Whopper Sacrifice campaign says about the nature of Facebook friendship, Brad J Ward investigates Facebookgate, Mitch Joel on social media, ethics and marketing, Andy Kaplan-Myrth promotes online tools for government transparency at VisibleGovernment.ca, and Seth Godin explains how the internet is changing leadership
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[mp3 file: runs 27:09]
2009-01-14 - Episode 62: Laptops vs. Desktops, iPosture, Ethan Zuckerman and computer viruses in Sierra Leone
As laptops overtake desktops, ergonomist Rabiya Lallani explains the effect computers can have on our bodies.
Rabiya and Nora make a video to explain how to set up your laptop for proper ergonomics
Nora asks for your ideas on redesigning laptops
Ethan Zuckerman explains why the big wide world of the Web may actually be limiting the kind of information you get.
Craig Desson reports on Sierra Leone's computer virus pandemic
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[mp3 file: runs 27:23]
2009-01-10 - Episode 61B: CES, Xenophiles, and what if gamers ran the world?
EPISODE 61 UPDATED W/ NEW CES CONTENT ON JAN 10, 2009 -- Nora checks in with Peter Nowak at CES 2009, Tom Armitage wonders What if Gamers Ran the World to discuss what video games can teach the leaders of tomorrow, Ethan Zuckerman on xenophiles, bridge figures, and third-culture kids, Update on Mitch Kapor's idea of a CTO for the USA
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[mp3 file: runs 27:23]
2009-01-07 - Episode 61: CES, Xenophiles, and what if gamers ran the world?
Nora checks in with Peter Nowak at CES 2009, Tom Armitage wonders What if Gamers Ran the World to discuss what video games can teach the leaders of tomorrow, Ethan Zuckerman on xenophiles, bridge figures, and third-culture kids, Update on Mitch Kapor's idea of a CTO for the USA
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[mp3 file: runs 27:22]
2008-12-30 - Episode 60: 27 Ideas in 27 Minutes
This week, Spark tried something a little different. Producer Jane Farrow put together a special episode chock-full of fresh ideas for 2009.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:26]
2008-12-24 - Episode 59: Clay Shirky on your cognitive surplus
This week on Spark, a feature interview with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Clay and host Nora Young talk about the pros and cons of social media, new online business models online, and how big change comes from human motivation, not shiny new technologies.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:23]
2008-12-17 - Episode 58: Memory, Wikipedia,and Sewing 2.0
Angela Troyer explains why ballroom dancing can help improve your memory, Gary Small says you can teach an old brain new tricks, Cathi Bond explores sewing's resurgence (pun intended), and Chris Jensen assigns his students Wikipedia homework
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[mp3 file: runs 27:19]
2008-12-10 - Episode 57: Government transparency, blogs, and vlogs
Rahaf Harfoush explains what Obama's campaign and change.gov can teach Canadian politicians about transparency, Tom Steinberg makes it easy to track elected officials using They Work for You, Merlin Mann answers your questions about blogging, and Heather Gold bridges the geek/non-geek divide to explain vlogging
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[mp3 file: runs 27:13]
2008-12-03 - Episode 56: Boot-up Times and Iconoclasts
On this episode of Spark: David Schlesinger represents call centre employees who are suing over long boot-up and login times, Matt Richtel explains the future of quick-booting computers, Andy Hertzfeld tells the story of saving lives by reducing boot times, and Gregory Berns on Iconoclasts
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[mp3 file: runs 27:28]
2008-11-26 - Episode 55
On this episode of Spark, Tony Hsieh blogs about the layoffs at his company, Zappos.com, Don Tapscott explains the Net Generation's new expectations for work, Dan James of silverorange divides his time between CEOing and shingling, and Vincent Lam explains how to be a writer and a doctor.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:35]
2008-11-19 - Episode 54
Gavin O'Carroll sends postcards to his relatives using Send With Peggy, Don Tapscott explains how the "Net Generation" thinks differently, Pete Nowak explains what system access fees are and why they're disappearing, and Merlin Mann helps build an audience for your blog without alienating the people you admire
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[mp3 file: runs 27:24]
2008-11-12 - Episode 53
On this episode of Spark: Jackie Sharkey explains internet use in Nunavut, Spark listeners do their best dial-up impressions, Nora introduces Spark Lite, our low-bandwidth podcast, Laurence Ashworth explains marketing electronics to women, Ying Cheng develops technology for women, and started the No More Pink Phone movement, Nora tries out the GenderAnalyzer, and Merlin Mann encourages bloggers to get better.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:20]
2008-11-05 - Episode 52
On this episode of Spark, small design decisions with big consequences: Bill Gauley tests toilets for efficiency, Raphael Grignani designs mobile phones for billions of people, Spark listeners weigh in on the future of the phone book, and Dan signs up and signs on with OpenID.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:30]
2008-10-29 - Episode 51
Twanna A. Hines explains the group dating trend, Merlin Mann talks about managing expectations on your blog, Dan asks "How am I supposed to use this phone with my mittens on?" Duncan Elliott explains capacitive touchscreens, Spark listeners call 1-877-34-SPARK, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland sends out Honest Signals.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:23]
2008-10-15 - Episode 49
Jean Snow looks back at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show, Peter Nowak visits the Brookhaven Lab to learn about Tennis for Two, Merlin Mann teaches Nora to think about her blog audience, Nora falls asleep,
Tapani Salmi wakes Nora up to explain HappyWakeUp, and Quinn Norton reflects on the human-robot interfaces and the HAL exoskeleton.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:22]
2008-10-08 - Episode 48
Dan talks to Ilona Dougherty, Richard Akerman, and Grace Lake about voting online, Nora introduces our new toll-free number: 1-877-34-SPARK, Spark listeners talk about their workplace computer woes, Lisagaye Tomlinson and Paul Martine BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer), Nora talks to Merlin Mann about his upcoming series, and Jane McGonigal explains Superstruct, and gaming for the greater good.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:22]
2008-10-01 - Episode 47
Bill Parry's tale of two laptops, Nathan Eagle empowers people in the Dominican Republic and Kenya through text messages with txteagle, Ken Njoroge sells ringtones to Kenyans, Canada's Digital Wish List: Lynn Sutherland, Charles Zamaria and Sylvain Grand’Maison on the French-English digital divide in Canada.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:13]
2008-09-24 - Episode 46
On this episode of Spark, Stephen Baker introduces Nora to The Numerati, Canada's Digital Wish List: Ron Deibert, director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, Spark listeners Ed Shaw and Stuart Croall add their wishes to the Digital Wish List, Gina Trapani talks to Nora while riding her solar powered, GPS enabled, picture-taking Flickr Bike, and Terry O'Reilly looks at the resurgence of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, and the delicate art of marketing to urban hipsters.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:26]
2008-09-17 - Episode 45
On this episode of Spark, Matt Richtel writes a Twiller - a thriller novel on Twitter, Merlin Mann tells Nora what makes a good blog, Heather Creech talks about her Digital Wish List for the upcoming election, Mitch Kapoor thinks countries should have CTOs - Chief Technology Officers.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:32]
2008-09-10 - Episode 44
Brewster Kahle, of Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, talks about why, for the sake of our culture, we need to digitize works of print, audio and video. You do your best impressions of a dial-up connection. Katherine Monk weighs in on when movie CGI works and when it just seems fake and creepy. Photographer Ed Burtynsky proposes the Gallery of the Long Now, and photographs that will last 10,000 years.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:43]
2008-09-03 - Episode 43
Nora escapes from phone tree hell to host a new season of Spark. Shai Berger makes calling big business easier with Fonolo.com. Richard Rose explains what's new in speech recognition research. Pete Nowak gives Nora the 411 on Canadian data plans and consumer discontent.Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir is in Dale, Norway and listening to the world via the Telemegaphone project. Chemistry teachers Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams send their students home with podcasts, not homework.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:25]
Spark in the Summer 10 - Telemegaphone Project
A sneak peak at an upcoming item for our first show of Season 2 about a very loud phone on top of a mountain in Norway.
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[mp3 file: runs 7:45]
Spark in the Summer 9 - We're Back!
Spark is back and gearing up for Season 2.
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[mp3 file: runs 2:06]
Spark in the Summer 8 - Clay Shirky
From May 2008, Nora Young's full interview with Clay Shirky
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[mp3 file: runs 27:07]
Spark in the Summer 7 - Malle Vallik
From May 2008, Nora Young's full interview with Malle Vallik.
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[mp3 file: runs 18:27]
Spark in the Summer 6 - Derek K. Miller
From April 2008, Nora Young's full interview with Derek K. Miller.
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[mp3 file: runs 24:55]
Spark in the Summer 5 - Microcelebrities
From March 2008, Nora Young's full panel with Theresa Senft, Sarah Meyers, and Merlin Mann on Microcelebrity
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[mp3 file: runs 40:41]
2008-06-18 - Episode 42
Chris Higgins discovers Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid's digital version of Jamie Livingston's 'Polaroid a Day' project, Nora gives an update on Spark's Grandma Dinner, Nora mentions her full interview with Jonathan Zittrain, and Ken Banks explains what the west can learn from cell phone use in Africa
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[mp3 file: runs 27:39]
2008-06-11 - Episode 41
Valérie Lamontagne tells the story of Peau d'Âne, and talks about her Sun, Moon, and Sky dresses, Roel Vertegaal reshapes computers, Merlin Mann explains how to deal with Turkey Bacn: those unwanted email forwards that clog up your inbox, and Paolo Prandoni builds "billboards that look back."
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[mp3 file: runs 27:39]
2008-06-04 - Episode 40
Eugene Potapov helps deer blog, Steven Johnson on the state of the Geoweb, Justin Hall explains PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, and Ron Baecker develops memory prosthetics for seniors, amnesics, and Alzheimer's patients
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[mp3 file: runs 27:24]
2008-05-28 - Episode 39
Harlequin's Malle Vallik publishes romance 2.0, Amber Mac explains what the US switch to digital broadcasting in 2009 means for Canadians, Nora introduces Elena, star of Spark's upcoming Grandma Dinner, and Bill Buxton on webcams, telepresence, and if location matters anymore. Go to cbc.ca/spark for links, information, full interviews, and contests.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:26]
2008-05-21 - Episode 38
Clay Shirky talks about our cognitive surplus. Merlin Mann helps Nora cringe-bust her TODO list with 3 easy tips. Spark listeners share their tips too. Nora thinks voicemail is obsolete, and you fill our inbox with your opinions. Kate Raynes-Goldie reports back from ROFLCon with her take on internet memes.And I Can Has Reuseable Grocery Bag? Enter Spark's lolcat contest.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:27]
2008-05-14 - Podcast repeats?
The on-air version of Spark is a repeat this week. Instead of replaying it, Nora talks to Raj Patel about podcast repeats. If you're looking for the episode that went to air this week, see http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/02/show_notes_february_13_2008.html
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[mp3 file: runs 3:31]
2008-05-07 - Episode 36
Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom closes its doors, Beth Coleman on participation, ownership and identity in online virtual worlds, Spark listeners share their "off the grid" stories, John Sanderson tries to keep large trucks from getting stuck in Wedmore, England, and Michael Feir gives Nora a tour of the internet from the perspective of a blind person.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:21]
2008-04-30 - Episode 35
Derek K. Miller wonders if he needs a digital executor, Amber Mac explains Creative Commons, Catherine tells the story of losing her digital photos when her Powerbook died, Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com builds a Disaster Preparedness Kit for your digital life, The Guardian's Charles Arthur explains Phorm's partnership with UK ISP to deliver targeted advertising and Lauren Weinstein thinks ISPs shouldn't have right to intercept users' internet communications.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:28]
2008-04-23 - Episode 34
Patrick Griffin designs fonts and sells them online at MyFonts, Virginia Postrel explains the cultural currency of type, Jeff MacIntyre uses zenware to focus on his writing, Dane Watkins tests small communities for their collective dysfunctions through his art project Disorder and Naomi S. Baron on how digital technology affects the way we read and write.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:32]
2008-04-16 - Episode 33
Jenny Sparrow learns that her "unlimited" internet plan actually has some limitations, Bill St. Arnaud on how Canada's broadband access compares to the rest of the world, Spark introduces new video columns, Amber Mac explains Net Neutrality, and why you should care, and Bell's Mirko Bibic on traffic shaping and net neutrality.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:24]
2008-04-09 - Episode 32
Robert Scoble and Brad Kellett document obsolete skills, Peter Hirschberg shares his love of games through his own personal arcade, Tom Lucier on people who have never dealt a physical hand of solitaire, Jayant Agarwalla and John Chew on the popular and controversial digital Scrabble game Scrabulous, and Sam Flemming on the Chinese trend of Tuangou ("team-buying")
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[mp3 file: runs 27:26]
2008-04-02 - Episode 31
Ian Usher sells his life on eBay, Michael Sikorsky crowdsources through Cambrian House, Amber Mac explains why Canadians often can't watch TV online, Nora mentions Hector Serrano's Reduced Carbon Footprint Souvenir concept, Adrian Bowyer on the new manufacturing model that the 3D printer might create, and a panel: Theresa Senft, Sarah Meyers, and Merlin Mann on microcelebrity
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2008-03-26 - Episode 30
Spark listeners are geeks, Craig Desson joins the Dork Army, a group of Canadian professional video gamers, Celeste McWhorter defines gamedar, André Meadows is a self-professed "proud certified black nerd," Raafi Rivero on the rise of the black nerd, and Ivan Bowman uses a robot to telecommute from Halifax to Waterloo.
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2008-03-19 - Episode 29
Lee LeFever explains technology In Plain English, Laurent Haug bridges the divide in the kitchen through grandma dinners, and André Caron explains the mobile digital divide.
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2008-03-12 - Episode 28
Eszter Hargittai uses her camera to remember the cheese she likes, Saul Greenberg on how technology has changed the way we remember, Clive Thompson asks if an outboard brain makes you stupid, Patrick Davidson on the cognitive neuroscience of memory, danah boyd shares her algorithms for dumb security questions, Tom Lucier on spilled beer and Barilliant, and Genevieve Bell on keeping track of your digital lies
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2008-03-05 - Episode 27
Nora tells the story of the Virginia Snow Day, Marc Fisher and danah boyd on what the snow day story says about digital culture right now, Dr. Brian Goldman reveals the correct diagnoses in our cyberchondriacs contest, Steven Skolne invents a new sport: speedcabling, and Nora challenges cable wizard Keith Murray to a speedcabling match.
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2008-02-27 - Episode 26
A repeat podcast from January 9, 2008: Nora needs to pee, and consults MizPee, Carlo Ratti maps the Wikicity, Joe Pompei beams sound with the Audio Spotlight, Kristen Nauth explains multisensory marketing, Dan Ackerman Greenberg greases the wheels of viral video, Jean Burgess on the viral nature of the web, and Nora introduces the Spark Wiki, then asks for your questions for her interview with Howard Rheingold.
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2008-02-20 - Episode 25
The top health searches of 2007, Steve Lohr on Google Health and the consumerization of health information, Spark and White Coat, Black Art team up to give two listeners medical conditions, Keith Laycock explains why you can't use cell phones in the hospital, and Judy Illes on the ethics of cognitive enhancement drugs.
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2008-02-13 - Episode 24
Dan Misener accidentally receives someone else's email, a Spark listener uncovers digital evidence for divorce cases, David Paccioco explains on how the law treats digital evidence, Lawyer Lou Brzezinski carries a blank laptop, Clive Thompson keeps the his most important information on his laptop, not in his head, Nora mentions Spark's self-diagnosis contest, and Nick Carr explains the big switch in computing.
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2008-02-06 - Episode 23
Kevin Lawver and Saffron write very short stories called Ficlets, Tom Howell defends idiosyncrasy, Michael Kinsley tells the story of the LA Times Wikitorial, Calendar Girl makes a collaborative record through Calendar Songs, and Howard Rheingold on collaborative technology and collective action.
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2008-01-30 - Episode 22
Nora builds a Virtual Nora with My Virtual Model, Ian McCarthy explains mass customization, Julien Smith says the web is built for text, Jim Glass searches audio with the MIT Lecture Browser, James Graham harvests the energy of human movement with crowd farms, and Dan Misener bundles up.
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2008-01-23 - Episode 21
Luke Closs measures his energy use with his Kill-a-watt, Michael Bhardwaj fights vampire power, Alex Steffen blogs bright green at Worldchanging, Bruce MacDougall poses an energy riddle, Tom Howell investigates obsolete armoires, and Bill St. Arnaud explains how the Internet causes carbon emissions.
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2008-01-16 - Episode 20
Alex Pang on "Googling your stuff" with RFID tags, Justin Langois turns RSS feeds into art in With Love, RSS, Virginia Heffernan defends lurking, Maddy Janse builds the connected house of the future with the Amigo Project, and Alex Pang returns to explore the future of RFID
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2008-01-09 - Episode 19
Nora needs to pee, and consults MizPee, Carlo Ratti maps the Wikicity, Joe Pompei beams sound with the Audio Spotlight, Kristen Nauth explains multisensory marketing, Dan Ackerman Greenberg greases the wheels of viral video, Jean Burgess on the viral nature of the web, and Nora introduces the Spark Wiki, then asks for your questions for her interview with Howard Rheingold.
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2008-01-02 - Episode 18
Spark listeners share their technological New Year's resolutions, Gina Trapani boosts her productivity with some New Year's life hacks, Spark producer Elizabeth de-clutters by donating her CD-ROMs to MOOT, the Museum of Obsolete Technologies, Rick Prelinger archives ephemeral films, and students at George Brown College resolve to learn to type
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2007-12-26 - Episode 17
Spark listeners watch TV on demand, Matthew Cashmore on the shared experience of television, Nora and Cathi Bond watch a giant outdoor television, Peter Rukavina explains living with a Nabaztag WiFi-enabled rabbit, and Anand Giridharadas explains outsourcing 2.0.
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2007-12-19 - Episode 16
Frank Branham explains why so many board games come with DVDs, Tom Lucier has a love/hate relationship with USB gadgets as Christmas gifts, Darsha Hewitt turns electronic toys into circuit bent instruments, Jay Baydala wants to eliminate extreme poverty through ChristmasFuture, Techiquette: Tom Howell asks if it's ethical to upgrade to the latest power-hungry electronics
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2007-12-12 - Episode 15
George Norman Lippert writes Harry Potter fan fiction, Denis McGrath on fan fiction, Daniel Gervais on the legal implications of fan fiction and remix culture, Rick Prelinger on the peaceful co-existence of fee and free (full interview, Spark listeners confess their love for old technology, the University of Manitoba holds a funeral for its mainframe, and Mitch Joel on online reputation management.
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2007-12-05 - Episode 14
What the heck is my kid doing? Technology that parents just don't understand, high school students Rose and Brad from Spartan Youth Radio explain how they use technology, Barbara Coloroso on parenting in the age of surveillance, Emily Want on Anne's Diary, a social networking site for girls, kids explain the technology their parents just don't understand, Tom Lucier is a paper man, and students from Spartan Youth Radio explain their relationships with technology.
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2007-11-28 - Episode 13
(Some) Spark listeners are geeks, Craig Desson joins the Dork Army, a group of Canadian professional video gamers, Celeste McWhorter defines gamedar, André Meadows is a self-professed "proud certified black nerd," Raafi Rivero on the rise of the black nerd, and Anand Giridharadas explains outsourcing 2.0.
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2007-11-21 - Episode 12
Matthew Cashmore on the shared experience of television, Nora and Cathi Bond watch a giant outdoor television, Peter Rukavina explains living with a Nabaztag WiFi-enabled rabbit, Techiquette: Tom Howell investigates the ethics of personal outsourcing, and Anand Giridharadas explains outsourcing 2.0
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2007-11-14 - Episode 11
Elizabeth Bowie admits her WiFi is unsecure, Rob Burbach explains the latest trends in credit card fraud, Tracey Black explains the next generation of payment systems -- the chip card, Roger Ball measures Chinese head and face shapes for the SizeChina project, Robert Beggs helps Elizabeth secure her WiFi, Darin Myman on the BigString self-destructing email service, and Robert Ransick explains his artwork Casa Segura.
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2007-11-07 - Episode 10
Lorraine Gauthier gives John Van Dusen's wartime house a green makeover as part of the Now House project, John Moralee and Tom Steinberg improve their neighbourhoods using FixMyStreet , Techiquette: Tom Howell investigates the legalities and ethics of using your neighbour's WiFi, the grade five class at Market Lane Public School cranks dat Soulja Boy, and Xiaochang Li explains the success of Soulja Boy and how internet trends cross over into the mainstream.
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2007-10-31 - Episode 9
Are advertisements becoming smarter than we are? Nick Prigioniero explains marketing through narrowcasting, Anastasia Goodstein on marketing to kids in virtual worlds, John Furneaux tells us how Life Brand tissue boxes got their stripes, Allen Adamson on product repackaging trends, and Tom Howell spins hybrid vinyl CDs right round, baby, right round.
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2007-10-24 - Episode 8
Adrian Bowyer prints in 3D with RepRap, Richard Harper demystifies the paperless office, Jeff Bilmes controls a mouse pointer with the vocal joystick, Jamais Cascio and William Gibson on the future of the 3D Web, and Cory Kidd and Amna Carreiro on Autom: A Robotic Weight Loss Coach
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2007-10-17 - Episode 7
Matthew Seiler brews some do-it-yourself root beer, Sherry Huss on Maker Faire and the DIY movement, Jamais Cascio and William Gibson on smart environments and the future of the Internet, Journalism student Catherine Rolfsen interviews Andrew Keen and Rahaf Harfoursh about the future of newspapers, your reactions to cell phones on airplanes,and Nora and Tom Howell try to change traffic lights using magnets
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2007-10-10 - Episode 6
Nora rides David McCallum's Warbike, Jesse Wente unwires his house with Internet over Power Lines, William Kamkwamba builds a windmill to bring electricity to his home, Ory Okolloh on the power of blogging in Africa, Nora mentions Afrigator, an African blog aggregator, Promo for next episode: William Gibson interview, Techiquette: Is it OK to use your cell phone on an airplane?
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2007-10-03 - Episode 5
On this episode of Spark: Nora drops her cellphone in the sink, the toilet, and the pool, Karen Ryan on Trash Luxe, design that finds "beauty in unexpected and unwanted materials,"CScout Japan's Michael Keferl explains QR codes, Ivan Bowman answers questions about his robot IvanAnywhere, Lane Becker and Patti Roll on crowdsourced customer service with Satisfaction, and Khoi Vinh on designed deterioration.
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2007-09-26 - Episode 4
Mike Partridge explains his cochlear implant, Kevin Englehart on the new wave of artificial limbs, Ryan Knighton on computer screen reader monotony, Spark visits a German-style games night at Drexoll Games in Vancouver, is it OK to look at someone else's browser history?, David Sky writes a sequencer plugin for Audacity, Pedro Mendes on Digital camera hacks, and Andy Thompson and Patrick Condon on the return of the trailer park.
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2007-09-05 - Episode 1
On the first episode of Spark, Nora Young explores Plagiarism 2.0, cleaning your keyboard in the dishwasher, interactive film, and Omlet.
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Racism in the ring: The story of boxer Jack Johnson - with bonus interview!
This week on Spotology: Putting right the wrongs of the ring.
President Obama is being urged to pardon legendary heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson. Back in 1912 Johnson was arrested and sentenced to jail simply because he was a black man.
Here's Nick Purdon...
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The hardest slapshot in the NHL gets immortalized in bronze!
There is now a statue of the NHL's most potent slapshot. Al MacInnis - the famous defenceman from Nova Scotia - already has a Stanley Cup ring, an Olympic Gold medal and his number hanging from the rafters of an NHL rink. Now he's been immortalized in bronze outside the Scottrade Centre in St. Louis. The statue shows MacInnis winding up to fire his legendary bullet from the point.
Our sportologist has the story of how MacInnis learned to shoot the puck so hard.
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Two-degrees of Mike Sillinger...with bonus Sillinger interview!
Forget 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. Your Sportologist Nick Purdon explains "Two-degrees of Mike Sillinger."
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Wayne quits: The sportology take...with bonus interview!
Wayne Gretzky has quit as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, and as your loyal sportologist I want to explain a couple of things. Why Wayne wasn’t a very good coach to begin with. And what the news means for the Great One’s legacy.
Also keep listening after the column for my full interview with Stephen Brunt…whose book "Gretzky's Tears Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed" will be published by Random House.
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All sports TV turns 30 - the story of ESPN
One of the biggest developments in television history took place 30 years ago.The birth of ESPN. ESPN, which stands for the “Entertainment and Sports Programming Network” was the first network to broadcast 24 hours a day 7 days a week. They did it even before CNN. To mark the 30th anniversary of all-sports television, your Sportologist Nick Purdon has the remarkable story of how ESPN got started.
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The Phoenix Coyotes have fans!
Well so far the court proceedings around the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy case has solved little about who will ultimately own the team. In the meantime here's something to think about. There actually are hockey fans in Phoenix! Have a listen.
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What does a winter Olympic athlete do in the summer?
The countdown continues to the Vancouver Olympic winter games. And the proximity of the games, along with the brilliant sunshine outside, has sportologist Nick Purdon wondering...what exactly does a winter Olympic athlete do in the summer?
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The epic escape of the Hudec family.
With the Vancouver Olympic games now a mere 6 months away sportologist Nick Purdon has the story of Canadian Olympic ski hopeful Jan Hudec. Hudec has spent a lot of his summer rehabilitating his left knee after tearing the ligaments in February. At that time he'd just finished rehabbing the same injury to his right knee. But if all the rehab ever gets him down, all he has to do is remember his family's epic journey.
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The newest Crazy Canuck
The Vancouver 2010 Olympic games are getting closer and closer.And so, sportologist Nick Purdon thought he'd start getting you ready. Here Nick introduces us to a sport that will make its Olympic debut at the Vancouver games…and the Crazy Canuck who just might be racing for Canada.
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Rock climbing legend John Bachar falls to his death.
This week sportologist Nick Purdon marks the passing of a rock climbing legend. John Bachar stood out in the climbing community because he was what is called a “free-solo" climber.That means he didn’t use ropes to protect him from falling. Earlier this summer, at age 52, John Bachar fell to his death while climbing near his home in southern California. Here’s John Bachar’s story.
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Cooperstown controversy: Clear a shelf for the baseball scouts!
It was hall of fame weekend in baseball. Several legendary players were inducted into Cooperstown. Among them Rickey Henderson - baseball's all-time stolen bases leader. But this week sportologist Nick Purdon wants to talk instead about who wasn't inducted.
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Sports 2.0
There's been a lot of talk recently about how social media sites, like facebook and twitter, are changing the news business. How citizen journalists are replacing professional reporters paid by newspapers and TV networks. This week sportologist Nick Purdon explores how social media are changing the world of sports reporting.
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There she goes: Sportology and the home run call.
Ever since baseball players began hitting home runs, broadcasters began delivering signature home run calls. For example when a Toronto Blue Jay hits a homer, Jerry Howarth likes to say "There she goes!" Major league baseball's annual home run derby got your sportologist thinking of all the ways of saying…"there she goes".
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The story of Tommy John surgery
Look through any major league baseball roster and I guarantee you'll find a couple of players who've had "Tommy John" surgery. Your sportologist talks to Mr. John himself about the ground-breaking procedure.
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Svein Tuft: the Grizzly Adams of cycling.
Svein Tuft began with a 40 dollar bicycle. He welded a trailer on the back for his dog to ride in, then he pedalled off into the wilderness for months at a time.
He's now 4-time Canadian cycling time trial champion. Tuft, from Langley B.C., won this year's event in Quebec. Your sportologist Nick Purdon has the remarkable story of how Svein Tuft got into bike racing.
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Wimbledon: Get your grunt on!
The world's loudest grunters have descended on surburban London for the world's oldest tennis tournament. And one of the big sideline stories at Wimbledon this is how loudly some of the women players grunt each time they hit the ball. It has reached the point where tennis' governing body is looking into punishing those who make too much noise on the court. Sportologist Nick Purdon heads to his local tennis club to figure out what's going on.
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Meet Lord Stanley's engraver.
The Stanley Cup has begun its summer journey with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Each player on the team is allowed to take the trophy home for one single day. Then late in the summer the Stanley Cup is flown secretly to Montreal.
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When the "can't-miss" prospect misses.
In time for the major league baseball draft, your Sportologist Nick Purdon has the cautionary tale story of how hype can ruin a career.
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Let's not forget: Syd is still a kid.
Sportologist Nick Purdon reminds us all that Syd the Kid is still well...a kid.
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The Windsor Spitfires: Lifting a city on their backs.
The Windsor Spitfires defeated the Kelowna Rockets in the Memorial Cup championship game on the weekend.
And while Windsor has been hard hit by the economic downturn…your sportologist Nick Purdon reports how their hockey team has helped the city cope.
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Jack Kerouac's fantasy baseball league.
This week on the Sportology podcast Jack Kerouac’s fantasy baseball league. That’s right a new book outlines how the famous beat writer created a fictional baseball league when he was a teenager. And by all accounts Kerouac maintained the league until his death and kept it secret from the rest of the beat writers.
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The Defection of Sergei Fedorov
Much has been made in the NHL playoffs of outstanding play of the young Russian sniper Alexander Ovechkin. After all, Ovechkin has been on fire. But your sportologist Nick Purdon points out, the path of the young star was paved years ago by his grizzled Russian teammate Sergei Fedorov.
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An ode to the hockey mom.
With mother's day upon us, your sportologist, takes a few minutes to thank the hockey mom.
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Homeless soccer team makes the (regular) league finals!
This week your sportologist Nick Purdon has the story of a homeless soccer team. The team is made up of players who, at one time or another, didn't have a place to live. Some of the players have even struggled with addictions and mental health issues.
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Oiler nation. Canuck nation. Red Sox nation: Where did the (irritating) obsession with sports 'nations' come from?
The question is how did we get here? Where did this nation thing start?
Well in southern Conneticut of course, with a guy named Nathan Cobb...
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Vin Scully: Greatest Broadcaster of all time!
Your sportologist Nick Purdon has the story of baseball’s poet laureate Vin Scully embarking on his 60...and likely his last season...calling Los Angeles Dodgers games.
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Waka Waka! The cult sensation of Florida Panthers play-by-play man Randy Moller!
Well you wouldn't exactly call south Florida "hockey country”. But that might be changing. For one…the NHL's Florida Panthers are taking a run at the playoffs for the first time since 2000. But it seems they've also got a cult hero on their hands. Your sportologist Nick Purdon, has the story.
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The meaning of the Mullet
Some call it the Kentucky waterfall. Others simply call it the neck warmer. But up here in the great white north it's simply known as "the mullet." Recently the Manchester Monarchs - a team in the American Hockey League - celebrated the rich history of the mullet with "Rock the Mullet Night." That got your sportologist, Nick Purdon, wondering if the mullet might have a deeper meaning these days.
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Team Canada: Booted from the World Baseball Classic.
The star-studded Canadian national baseball team was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic by an Italian squad made up of mostly semi-pro players.
Your sportologist Nick Purdon watched the game with the fans at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Here’s Nick.
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Hockey and the heart: The dangers of beer league hockey.
Sportologist Nick Purdon has the tragic story of a man who died with his skates on…and some tips to ensure the same thing doesn’t happen to you.
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Black Ice: the story of an all-black hockey league that once flourished in the Maritimes.
If historians had hockey cards George Fosty’s would read like this. In 7 seasons of research he’s poured over 6-thousand hockey sources from 48 countries in 13 languages. He's managed to cobble together the most comprehensive understanding of what was called the "coloured hockey league of the maritimes"…back in the late 1890’s.
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The longest losing streak in Canadian sports history comes to an end: The story of the RMC Palladins' first ever victory.
If you scan the sports headlines this week there’s a lot of bad news. The best player in baseball has confessed to taking performance-enhancing drugs.
NHL bad boy Sean Avery is back playing hockey. The Montreal Canadiens are in the tank.
And so, your loyal sportologist thought he'd cheer everyone up with some good news from the sports universe. Here’s a small, but inspiring story, of a team that finally broke the longest losing streak in Canadian sports history.
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The Darkside of the NFL (just in time for the Super Bowl)
Hello and welcome to sportology. NP here. This week as the hype mounts before Sunday’s Super Bowl…here’s a story to remember about the great and golden NFL.
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Presidential Sports: Obama and his love of hoops.
Barack Obama was sworn in this week as the 44th president of the United States. Our sportologist Nick Purdon takes a look at sports in the White House and the meaning behind Obama's love of basketball.
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Fighting in the NHL: "We gonna do this?"
Fighting is back in the hockey spotlight as amateur player Don Sanderson went into a coma and died after his helmet came off and his head struck the ice during a fight earlier this year. Sanderson played for the Whitby Dunlops in Whitby, Ontario. His death renewed calls for the National Hockey League to ban fighting. However the league has done no such thing. In fact fights are up this season in the NHL. Here’s Nick’s sportology take.
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The Religion of the Montreal Canadiens.
Are the Montreal Canadiens a religion? A new course in the theology department at the University of Montreal tackles that thorny question. Your sportologist Nick Purdon has more.
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The most important invention in the history of being a sports fan!
On this edition of sportology…the story you never knew about your TV remote. A tale of death...dashed dreams...and people listening in on phone calls. My phone call that is! We’re going to take a look at the most important invention in the history of being a sports fan…and remember those who brought it to us.
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From undercover agent to NBA refereee: The story of Bobby Covert
These days he blows a whistle as a referee in the NBA…thirty years ago he blew the whistle on the mob. Our sportologist Nick Purdon has the fascinating story of Bob Delaney…AKA Bobby Covert.
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The NFL in Canada.
For the first time in history the National Football League will play a regular-season game in Canada.
The Buffalo Bills will take the field in Toronto against the Miami Dolphins on December 7th.
Our "sportoloist" Nick Purdon remembers a time when bringing 4-down football into 3-down territory was met with loud opposition.
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Political kickoffs at the Grey cup.
It's Montreal versus Calgary in the 96th edition of the Grey Cup.
The Allouettes and the Stampeders have rarely faced each other in the CFL championship.
In fact the last time they met was in 1970 when Pierre Trudeau kicked the ceremonial kickoff.
In those days Prime Ministers used to do that sort of thing.
So what’s the likelihood of that kind of thing happening again.
Our "sportologist" Nick Purdon answers that question.
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Sports and War.
With Remembrance Day upon us, Nick Purdon takes a look at the long and complicated relationship between sports and war.
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The Vendee Globe.
One of the most grueling and dangerous sporting events ever conceived begins this weekend. The Vendee Globe is a three-month solo sailing race around the world. The race takes place every four years and begins in the relatively calm waters off the coast of France. Then, the sailors - among them a Canadian - head south and into the the most violent ocean on the planet. Our sports columnist Nick Purdon has more.
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Branding and the Bong: the Michael Phelps story.
This week our “sportologist” Nick Purdon…takes a look at the yelps about Michael Phelps smoking pot.
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The Best of The Sunday Edition February 7, 2010
In this week's podcast host Michael Enright presents his latest essay; Michael interviews Gaynor Arnold about charles Dickens; We present to you the Too Much Medicine Panel with guests Dr. Richard "Buz" Cooper and Dr. Charles Wright.
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The Best of The Sunday Edition January 31, 2010
In this week's podcast host Michael Enright presents his latest essay; Michael interviews Judy Shepard; we present to you two parts on the state of THAT union. In part one - Adam Gopnik and in part two a panel. Elsewhere, "Empty Nest" - an essay by Wendy Morley.
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The Best of The Sunday Edition January 24, 2010
In this week's podcast host Michael Enright presents his latest essay; interviews author Greg Mortenson about building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan; a panel discussion about reluctant readers with Eric Walters, Andrew Wooldridge, and Brenda Halliday; an essay by Michael Geisterfer and his adoption of a Haitian child, also interviews with Jeol Brammier and Duane Chapman regarding the Asian carp invasion into the Great Lakes
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The Best of The Sunday Edition January 17, 2010
In this week's podcast host Michael Enright presents his latest essay; interviews Haitian-born Joel Des Rosiers about the latest tragedy in Haiti; speaks to Robert Enright, Gregory Henriquez, and Liz Evans about the Woodward's Project; also, a look at climate change with our first installment of Media Philes -- an ongoing media column with The Sunday Edition.
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The Best of The Sunday Edition January 10, 2010
In this week's podcast host Michael Enright presents his latest essay, Michael Enright in conversation with Scott Raab, and Rebecca Wittman discussing the John Demjanjuk trial, Also an interview with Kate Hanni regarding flying safer skies. Also a documentary by Alisa Siegel titled "Love me Tender"
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The Best of The Sunday Edition January 3, 2010
In this week's podcast host Michael Enright presents his latest essay, An interview with Robert Skidelsky, author of Keynes: The Return of the Master, Also an interview with Martha White the Grandaughter of EB White, she is also the editor of the Second Edition of "The Letters of EB White"
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[mp3 file: runs 1:23:33]
The Best of The Sunday Edition December 27, 2009
In this week's podcast host Michael Enright presents his latest essay, A panel discussion that's part of our Poverty Series the focus this time is inequality,
also an interview with author Graeme Gibson discussing his latest book The Bedside Book of Beasts
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[mp3 file: runs 57:51]
The Best of The Sunday Edition December 20, 2009
In this week's podcast host Michael Enright revisits an essay from Christmas concerts past, Also an interview with poet Dennis Lee discussing poet Al Purdy
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[mp3 file: runs 25:05]
The Best of The Sunday Edition: March 29
This week,trying to make sense of the economic disaster. Is there light at the end of the tunnel....or have we really gone off a cliff ? The Sunday Edition presents a special public forum from the business school of Simon Fraser University in Downtown Vancouver.
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Tapestry - February 7, 2010 - Alone
Back in the 1970s, Robert Kull was, as he puts it, a "hard-ass macho" logger. Then one night, he walked into the forest, lay down in the moss, and felt peace for the first time. That forest experience changed his life. It also led him to a year of self-imposed solitude. Robert Kull lived on a remote island off the coast of Chile for a year. The nearest town was 200 kilometers away, by water. Mary Hynes speaks to Robert Kull about his book Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes.
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[mp3 file: runs 50:20]
Tapestry - January 31, 2010 - Losing Religion
William Lobdell was the last person anyone would expect to lose his faith. The journalist hit rock bottom in his 20s. But his life turned around when he became a born-again Christian. Lobdell prayed for his dream job, as the religion reporter at one of the biggest papers in the U.S. Miraculously, he got it. He was winning awards for his stories about faith; life was good. Then something happened. William Lobdell tells Mary how his faith came crashing down.
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[mp3 file: runs 53:50]
Tapestry - January 24, 2010 - Interview with Arthur Paul Boers
Arthur Paul Boers likes to say of his pilgrimage in Spain: "I once walked 500 miles to go to church!" Boers is a Mennonite minister, associate professor of pastoral theology at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, and the author of The Way is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago, published by Formatio.
Mary Hynes talks to Arthur Paul Boers.
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[mp3 file: runs 51:28]
Tapestry - January 17, 2010 - Finding Home & At Home with Huston Smith
How do you know when a religion or a wisdom tradition, is the one where you belong? CBC producer Frank Faulk takes us along on his search to find a spiritual home.
Also, Jeff Warren visits the home of the great scholar of religion, Huston Smith. Smith, who is now 91 years old, is now Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books; including the classic, The World's Religions, published in 1958.
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VC: February 6th, 2010 "Turlingtons' Dog"
Bert Turlington has wanted a dog his entire life. His wife Mary has always maintained that dogs are "more trouble than they are worth." So Bert is surprised to come home from work one day to find Mary has changed her mind. He is even more surprised to see that the dog Mary has chosen is a 6 pound teacup Pomeranian.
Originally broadcast February 21st, 2009.
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[mp3 file: runs 54:21]
VC: January 30th, 2010 "Dave's Shoelace"
Join host Stuart McLean in Keswick, Ontario with special musical guest, Serena Ryder. Stuart talks about the famous Canadian humourist, Stephen Leacock, and tells a story about Dave getting his shoelace stuck in a hotel treadmill.
Originally broadcast March 22nd, 2008.
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[mp3 file: runs 54:21]
VC: January 23rd 2010 "We're Feeling Antsy"
Stuart has an ant living in his bathroom sink. He sees it every morning when he goes into the bathroom to brush his teeth – and he sees it again at night, before bed. Is it the same ant? Or is there a colony of ants? If there is a colony – why hasn’t he seen more than the one? Do all ants look the same? Could we even tell if it were the same ant or not? Where does it live? How is it still alive with all that water around? And what could it possible want from his bathroom drain?
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[mp3 file: runs 21:06]
VC: January 16th, 2010 "Wintertime"
It's wintertime and the living ain't easy. Today on the show: stories about winter. Including our favourite winter treat, our instructions on how to walk in winter and a story about Dave and Morley's first winter together
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[mp3 file: runs 40:30]
December 26, 2009 WCBA - Talking Back
For most people, falling ill means being a stranger in a strange land.
The land is medicine, and it has its own practices, customs and language.
Patients and their families are told what to do.
And they do their best to follow along.
But this week on White Coat, Black Art, we give them the floor.
And they give the rest of us some hard-earned tips on how best to manage the system.
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[mp3 file: runs 28:05]
December 19, 2009 WCBA - Tech Show
This week on White Coat, Black Art, we strike a balance between old technologies, and new ones.
On the one hand, there's leeching - still practiced today in a Toronto hospital.
And on the other, there's Dr. Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina. He's growing - and in some cases, implanting - human and animal organs and tissue in a lab.
So, is all this technology necessarily good? The potential pitfalls... we're asking.
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[mp3 file: runs 31:16]
December 12, 2009 WCBA - Pain Problem
According to the Chronic Pain Association of Canada, some 20 percent of Canadians suffer from severe chronic pain.
And yet studies show it is often under-treated...and many physicians say they feel ill-equipped to manage not only the physical symptoms, but the psychological impact.
So they offer up drugs, which have their own hazards....even if they're working....and sometimes they don't.
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[mp3 file: runs 28:03]
Dec 5, 2009 WCBA - Corridors of Medicine
In October the Quebec College of Physicians opined that euthanasia should be considered to be an appropriate option for end-of-life care in situations where death is both inevitable and imminent.
It's a first for a Canadian medical college, and it's ignited debate in the corridors of medicine about euthanasia.
This week, Dr. Brian Goldman talks to both sides. And then we venture into another kind of corridor: a Montreal ER where they've turned the hallways into defacto wards.
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[mp3 file: runs 34:13]
November 28, 2009 WCBA - Telling Tales
Neurologist Oliver Sacks started it all with his breakthrough book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
What followed is a parade of tv shows and books by doctors telling stories about their patients and how they cared for them.
It's part education, part entertainment, part voyeurism.
And it skirts - and often crosses - the line of one of medicine's prime directives: patient confidentiality.
This week on White Coat, Black Art - to tell or not to tell....stories about your patients?
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[mp3 file: runs 28:01]
November 21, 2009 WCBA - The Unmentionables
We all get embarrassed by something, sometime. But when it involves your health, can you drum up the courage to confess it to your doctor? This week on White Coat, Black Art: the shameful or embarrassing conditions that stop you from getting help. Anti-depressants? Sexual health? Or what's up with your colon... we're taking a look.
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[mp3 file: runs 28:00]
November 14, 2009 WCBA - Moral Distress
Most of us can say there's at least one task at work we find distasteful or uncomfortable.
But what if every day you faced the possibility of moral distress on the job?
That's when you believe you know what's the ethical thing to do....but for one reason or another, can't make it happen.
It's the reality for health care workers.
And a shock for young nurses when they first come into the system.
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[mp3 file: runs 28:45]
November 7, 2009 WCBA - Reinventing Family Medicine
It's not hard to find something to complain about in our health care system.
Many people have no family doctor, for instance.
And those who do often have trouble getting in to see them when they need to.
A problem made worse by the panic over swine flu.
This week on White Coat, Black Art, we look at some innovative steps taken by GP's to give quicker, and better, care. Nurses in family practice? Max loading? Group visitations, anyone?
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[mp3 file: runs 28:04]
October 31, 2009 WCBA - Military Medicine
This week on White Coat, Black Art.....host Brian Goldman talks to those work on the REAL front lines of medicine, in Afghanistan, where he explores how the Hippocratic Oath sometimes clashes with the rules of engagement. And he finds out what doctors and nurses here at home can learn from medicine practiced under fire.
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[mp3 file: runs 33:09]
October 24, 2009 WCBA Violence & Paramedics
They come at a moment's notice to help when you're scared and in pain. Paramedics - they're modern knights in shining armour, right?
Surprisingly not everyone seems to think that. Or at least they don't alway act that way. This week on White Coat, Black Art, host Brian Goldman walks a mile in the shoes of a couple of paramedics in Toronto. And some of what he saw was not pretty.
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[mp3 file: runs 28:20]
October 17, 2009 WCBA - Good Samaritans
We've all heard the call go out — is there a doctor in the house?
And we take for granted that if there is one, he or she will spring into action.
Because taking that Hippocratic Oath is like putting on the white coat and never being able to take it off.
But is that fair? And what if the doctor doesn't really have the skills to deal with the problem...should they get involved anyhow?
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[mp3 file: runs 27:55]
WCBA Oct 10, 2009 (Mental Health)
This week, Dr. Brian Goldman takes a look at the medical system from a slightly different perspective...that of someone struggling with a mental illness.
He finds that there's a definite 'restrain first, ask questions later" attitude out there.
Some of it is grounded in stereotypes and ignorance.
And some of it is based on bad experiences with people acting out in the throes of mental illness.
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[mp3 file: runs 28:45]
WCBA Oct 3, 2009 (Orphan Patients & DIY)
This week on White Coat, Black Art....a solution for Canada's perennial problem of orphan patients....the people who can't find a family doctor.
There are about 4 million of them across the country.
The Ontario government is opening up about 25 nurse-practioner run clinics, and that's got some GP's riled up. Plus, tales from the Do It Yourself world of surgery.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:48]
WCBA Sep 29, 2009 (Fat Doctors)
It's taboo these days to discriminate based on the colour of someone's skin, or where they're from; whether they're a man or a woman, and whether they love men or women. But there's some people we still make fun of with impunity. Fat people.
And the insensitivity doesn't stop at the hospital door.
This week, how the health system treats obesity. From the surgeons who operate, to the doctors who are fat themselves. That's on WCBA.
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WCBA Sep 19, 2009 (Swinefeld)
We've heard a LOT about the global pandemic of swine flu in recent months. Experts are predicting a deadly second wave of the illness this fall. Accordingly, Canadian health officials are scrambling to put plans in place to handle the expected health crisis. It's costing us millions and millions of dollars. But not everyone believes it's necessary.
This week, we ask the question: could this be a pandemic about nothing?
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[mp3 file: runs 28:04]
WCBA Sep 12, 2009 (Sleepy Residents)
A trainee doctor in Canada is expected to work 80, 90 -- sometimes even 100 hours a week -- week after week, year after year.
And while they're doing that, they're taking care of you and your loved ones.
In the US and European Union they've limited the hours residents can work, to help protect patients from serious medical errors.
But not yet in Canada.
In this week's edition of White Coat, Black Art, Dr. Brian Goldman talks to residents about their chronic overwork and sleep deprivation:
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[mp3 file: runs 31:26]
WireTap Episode - Meet the New Boss
This week on WireTap, we try to get to the bottom of an age old question: where does all the change in the shopping mall fountain go? Something tells us Howard might have the answer. Plus, Jonathan gets a tough new boss, with an all new style of management.
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[mp3 file: runs 25:35]
WireTap Episode - Multi Media
This week on WireTap, Howard discovers his sensitive side and becomes an artist. Plus, Josh tries to quench his thirst for knowledge by going back to school, and Gregor reveals how he's been keeping close tabs on Jonathan's comings and goings. Visit http://cbc.ca/wiretap for details on how to get free tickets to a live WireTap show in Vancouver.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:11]
WireTap Episode - Radical Honesty
This week on WireTap, Starlee Kine recounts her experience with a self-help movement that promotes telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Plus, Howard discovers Radical Honesty... and Jonathan pays the price.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:53]
WireTap Episode -Getting Away from it All
Howard finds freedom on the open road in his new life as a trucker, and Jonathan faces the wrath of Gregor's mother. Plus, Angst, a short story from David Eagleman's book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:53]
WireTap Episode - Fake It Until You Make It
This week on the podcast, Jonathan gets profiled in a radio magazine, and a trigger-happy fact checker helps "enhance" some of his answers. Jon Tucker lives out a lotto fantasy, Zak gets suckered into doing an oral report about his uncle Johnny and Howard embraces his golden years and retires before the ripe old age of 40.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:17]
WireTap Episode - The Gentleman's Guide to Grooming
On opposite sides of the continent, Jonathan and Gregor make a pact over the phone to grow beards; expert John Hodgman on history's worst haircuts; and Jonathan gets some no-nonsense advice on his image from an ex, a professional image consultant.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:22]
WireTap Episode - David and Goliath
This week on WireTap, what goes through the mind of a tiny young shepherd about to go into battle with a Philistine giant? Jonathan retells the tale of David and Goliath live on stage from Vancouver's Studio One.
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[mp3 file: runs 22:24]
WireTap Episode - Mysteries
This week on Wiretap, Jonathan solves the case of his missing office chair after two days of hovering over his desk, and Gregor tests Jonathan's deductive skills with some One-Minute mysteries. Plus, Howard embraces his new British accent.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:58]
WireTap Episode - Jacob And Esau
A mother is pregnant with twins. She hears the voice of God which tells her that her sons will one day father warring nations. Even while still inside her stomach, they fight hard enough to knock her from one end of the house to the other. Is there any hope of the brothers ever becoming friends? It’s the story of Jacob and Esau on this week’s Wiretap.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:59]
WireTap Bonus Audio - Howard at the Doctor's. Again.
And now, for the first time ever-- bonus audio! This is for podcast listeners only and will never be broadcast on the radio, so please, no letters begging for radio play. No "But I don't know how to use the internet" or "You owe its radio-broadcast to grad students writing their theses on Howard Chackowicz who can't afford a computer". Apologies in advance, but no dice. So now for your listening pleasure, the reason Howard was at the doctor's office during this week's episode, Adhesion.
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WireTap Episode - Adhesion
This week on WireTap, Howard puts his and Jonathan's compatibility to the test with a relationship quiz, and newlyweds Tony and Natalie enlist Jonathan for some over the phone marriage counseling. Plus, Adhesion, a short story from David Eagleman's book, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:58]
WireTap Episode - The Answering Machine
This week on WireTap, Howard launches "Jonathan 2.0", a monolog machine that can stand in for Jonathan when he goes on vacation. Plus, Spirals, a short story from David Eagleman's book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:58]
WireTap Episode - We Are Not Supermen
This week on the WireTap podcast, Rob Cordry performs a short story by Jonathan Goldstein about what it's like to date Lois Lane when she's on the rebound from Superman. Plus, Jonathan gets lessons from Gregor on how to be a man when it comes to his ottoman.
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[mp3 file: runs 25:31]
WireTap Episode - 26 Minutes, 30 Seconds
This week on WireTap, Jonathan enlists help from Rap Master Maurice to avenge him with some vigilante raps. Plus, a short story from David Eagleman's book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:34]
WireTap Episode - No Man is an Island
This week on WireTap, Howard starts his very own country within the borders of his apartment: the first nation with wall-to-wall carpeting. Plus, Gregor makes Jonathan a personalized mix-tape to help him seduce the ladies, and Patri Friedman discusses his latest project, the Seasteading Institute.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:58]
WireTap Episode - Get With It
This week on the podcast, we unearth from the Wiretap archives Gregor Ehrlich's very first appearance on the show, back when he was a radical marketing specialist. Named Earl. Plus, Jonathan discovers an unsettling connection between his mother and Howard.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:26]
WireTap Episode - High Art, Low Art
This week on WireTap, Jonathan and Gregor take a ride in the Wayback Machine to find out what it would have been like if they were the Marx Brothers. Plus, Josh invents his own brand of cola and uses Jonathan as a guinea pig in a blind taste test.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:34]
WireTap Episode - Patent Pending
This week on WireTap, a friend of Howard's tries to get Jonathan to invest in some groundbreaking inventions: A toothpaste dispensing toothbrush, a lie-down toilet, edible pen tops... Plus, an automated relationship replacement hotline that helps mend broken hearts.
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[mp3 file: runs 25:21]
WireTap Episode - The High Cost of Living
This week on WireTap, Howard puts his financial journalism skills to the test as he interviews Alex Blumberg about the economic crisis. Plus, Jonathan offers up some business tips to help his goddaughter with her lemonade stand.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:33]
WireTap Highlight - Irwin
This week on the podcast, Jonathan speaks with his old college chum, Irwin, about life as an ice cream man. To listen to the full episode of this week's show, visit our streaming archive by clicking the Audio link in the sidebar.
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[mp3 file: runs 9:45]
WireTap Episode - All Beasts Go To Heaven
Worried about what would happen to your pets in the event of the Rapture? Put your fears to rest as we speak with Bart Carter, an atheist who has post-rapture animal rescue all figured out. Plus, Jonathan pet sits Howard's pugs, Desmond and Bruce. And a short story from David Eagleman's book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
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[mp3 file: runs 25:22]
WireTap Episode - A Better You
This week on WireTap, discover the path to a better you. Gregor offers up some weight loss tips, reminding us that flossing before hopping on the scale can help shave off the pounds. Plus, Howard Chackowicz makes a surprise appearance at Jonathan's gym.
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[mp3 file: runs 24:30]
Word of Week, "rond", 07/02/10
Guest host Jeanette Kelly and word lady Johanne Blais discuss "rond", which means round and circular.
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[mp3 file: runs 4:54]
Word of Week, "rôle", 31/01/10
Bernard and Johanne discuss "rôle", which means role and part.
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[mp3 file: runs 4:34]
Word of Week, "aider", 24/01/10
Bernard and Johanne discuss "aider", which means to help.
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[mp3 file: runs 4:41]
Word of Week, "prendre", 17/01/10
Bernard and Johanne discuss "prendre", which means to take.
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[mp3 file: runs 6:40]
Writers & Co. - 07/02/2010 - David Hare Interview
David Hare. Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the English playwright and director. From post-war disillusion in "Plenty" to the invasion of Iraq in "Stuff Happens", David Hare has remained socially engaged. His newest play, "The Power of Yes", is subtitled "A dramatist seeks to understand the financial crisis".
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[mp3 file: runs 52:47]
Writers & Co. - 31/01/2010 - Adam Thorpe Interview
From the Middle Ages to the 21st century, the legend of Robin Hood has fascinated us. England’s Adam Thorpe subverts the myth in his new novel,"Hodd".
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[mp3 file: runs 52:26]
Writers & Co. - 24/01/2010 - Eva Hoffman Interview
Eva Hoffman Interview. Eleanor Wachtel speaks with novelist, cultural commentator and historian, Eva Hoffman. The discussion ranges from her memoir of growing up in war-ravaged Poland to her exploration of "Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust". Eva Hoffman’s newest book is called "Time".
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[mp3 file: runs 53:01]
Writers & Co. - 17/01/2010 - Biography Panel
Biography panel. This week, life stories. Thomas Mallon on his new book on the art of letter writing, and English biographer Hermione Lee. They'll talk about curiosity and its contents.
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[mp3 file: runs 52:23]
Writers & Co. - 10/01/2010 - Tash Aw Interview
Tash Aw on Writeres & Company. From Malaysia and London, his first novel, "The Harmony Silk Factory" looked back at Malaysia during the Second World War. His new book, "Map of the Invisible World" evokes Indonesia on the brink of the 'Year of Living Dangerously'.
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[mp3 file: runs 52:50]
Regional Podcasts:
Daybreak: Feb 6/7, 2010 - Alberta arts/storytelling internet hub 'Story Channel', Quebecois playwright Larry Tremblay, New York-based playwright Chantal Bilodeau, and Nathaniel Dett Chorale founder Brainerd Blyden-Taylor.
This week, Chris dela Torre speaks to playwright Larry Tremblay about 'Abraham Lincoln Goes To The Theatre', translated for English by New York-based playwright Chantal Bilodeau. The play is running as part of Calgary's Enbridge Playrites Festival. Chris also spoke to Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, the founder of Canada's most prominent Afro-centric choir, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale. Daybreak host Russell Bowers spoke to the founders of Story Channel, a new web-based hub for Alberta storytellers.
Daybreak Alberta Jan 30/31, 2010 - Pierre Brault, El Shaman, Matt Palmer and DJ Fordinho
Chris dela Torre fills in for Russell Bowers. He speaks with playwright Pierre Brault, flamenco duo El Shaman, filmmaker Matt Palmer and DJ Fordinho.
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[mp3 file: runs 42:22]
Daybreak: Jan 16/17, 2010 - Star Trek's Q & The Doctor, Canoe Theatre Fest, artist Bev Tosh on war brides, Stephen Bown & The "Merchant Kings", Olympic Torch bearer, Banff adventure films
This week, we beam up Start Trek's John DeLancie (Q) and Robert Picardo (The Dr.) to talk a little Trek music. Canoe Festival creates new plays in Edmonton. Bev tosh looks for war bride stories. Stephen Bown recalls the Merchant Kings who ruined it for everybody. Erin Stanford talks about why she wanted to carry the torch. And Mike Mortimer remembers 33 years of adventure films.
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[mp3 file: runs 1:17:46]
Daybreak: Jan 9/10, 2010 - Tegan & Sara, Theodore Bikel, Wingfield, Plane Panel and Republic of Doyle
This week, a feature interview with legendary star of stage and screen, Theodore Bikel, in advance of his reprise role in "Fiddler on the Roof." Indie rock darlings Tegan & Sara come home to Alberta. We'll soar to lofty laughing heights with our Plane Panel. Star of the new TV series, "Republic of Doyle" talks cars with Russell. And "Wingfield" star, Rod Beattie, muses over the latest installment of his series of stageplays about that gentleman farmer.
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[mp3 file: runs 56:59]
Daybreak: Dec 20, 2009 - Kreskin, Will Ferguson, Cordell Barker & Daybreakfast
This podcast features an amazing interview with the one and only Kreskin. Author Will Ferguson goes "Beyond Belfast". Animator Cordell Barker takes considerably less time to talk about his film than it took to make it. And the Last Daybreakfast features both our food bloggers, Julianna Mimande and Gail Hiley.
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[mp3 file: runs 1:08:22]
Daybreak: Dec 12/13, 2009 - Bengt Washburn, Holiday Wine Buying, David Francey, Daybreakfast, Chris Benoit book, Depression Fall-out
This week, we meet U.S. comedian Bengt Washburn and his funny take on American foreign relations. We get some help buying wine. Singer/songwriter David Francey has a musical tribute to the St. Lawrence Seaway. Gail Hiley offers some delicious holiday recipes. Wrestling writer, Irvin Muchnick on the death of Chris Benoit. And author Anne Sheffield on dealing with depression.
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Daybreak: Dec 5/6, 2009 - Stephen Brunt, Rex Murphy, Ladies Who Like to Folk, Daybreakfast, Sheri-D Wilson
This week, we're quite bookish about Stephen Brunt's tome on Wayne Gretzky, as well as Rex Murphy's new collection of opinion essays. The Ladies Who Like to Folk have their way with Russell. The Daybreakfast offers up some seasonal menus for those stay-at-home cold mornings. And poet and spoken word artist, Sheri-D Wilson is looking for someone to wear a Golden Beret.
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Daybreak: Nov 22/29, 2009 - Jann Arden, Corb Lund, Morag Northey, Terry O'Reilly, Kathryn Palmateer & Stuart McLean
This week, we play catch-up after missing last week. Jann Arden reminises about the CBC. Corb Lund wants to play for the Calvary. Morag Northey infuses the show with sensuality. Terry O'Reilly makes an ad for his book. Kathryn Palmateer discusses her portraiture of women who've had abortions. And Stuart McLean rummages through the stacks at the Vinyl Café.
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Daybreak: Nov 15/16, 2009 - Erin Karpluk, Twilight stars, Vinyl Cafe Contest, Speed the Plow, Linda Cunningham, Daybreakfast #6, Gordie Tentrees, Hockey Chat Room
This week, Russell welcomes Gemini-Award winning star of "Being Erica", Erin Karpluk. Stuart McLean of the Vinyl Café reveals how to win tickets to his Christmas shows. "Twilight" stars descend on Edmonton. Ryan Luhning & Trevor Leigh tackle "Speed the Plow" at Vertigo Theatre. A Fibre Artist weaves her way through a chat with Russell. Our latest Daybreakfast brings in an international flavour. Musician Gordie Tentrees calls in from the road. And the Hockey Chat Room takes one for the team.
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Daybreak: Nov 7/8, 2009 - Peter Mansbridge, Blue Rodeo, Anthony Sedlak, Mae Anderson, Daybreakfast w Julianna Mimande, Gilles Hébert, John Knowles
This week, Peter Mansbridge stands up for his first book. Blue Rodeo unveil their new double album. Chef Anthony Sedlak spices up the show. Singer, Mae Anderson is Vegas-bound. Daybreakfast goes off the beaten path. Art gallery of Alberta welcomes new Director, Gilles Hébert. And John Knowles follows the money through Alberta.
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Daybreak: Oct. 31/Nov. 1, 2009 - Musician Ann Vriend, drag racer Ashley Bart, Daybreakfast #4 with Gail Hiley, conductor Richard Kaufman and artist Gary Olson
Quite a mix this week. We've got H1N1 reaction & Blue Rodeo contest winners. Musician Ann Vriend unveils her live CD. Drag racer Ashley Bart talks about going 260 mph. Conductor, Richard Kaufman with Calgary Philharmonic. Food writer Gail Hiley brings by some pancakes. And artist Gary Olson gets bullish for his new gallery showing.
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Daybreak: October 24/25, 2009 - John Irving, Downchild Blues Band, David Barsamian, Jim Clemmer, Dr. Shelagh Coutts, Daybreakfast with Julianna Mimande
This week, we feature an interview celebrated author, John Irving. A live session and chat with the Downchild Blues Band. The Univ. of Alberta finds that female business grads are making as much as men. Meanwhile, business author, Jim Clemmer has a new book on dealing with the pace of change. Food writer, Julianna Mimande talks local-food restaurants. Dr. Shelagh Coutts gets a national award for research into strokes. And broadcaster, David Barsamian provides his insight into US media.
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Daybreak: October 17/19, 2009 - Michael Crummey, Daybreakfast #2, Buddy Wasisname & the Other Fellers, Seth
Newfoundland comes to Alberta in this week's podcast. Michael Crummy's new novel, "Galore" is set in a mythical version of the island and it's just been nominated for a Governor General's Award. Comedy troubadors, Buddy Wasisname & the Other Fellers bring their jubilee celebrations to the West. Russell heads out for another breakfast. And in a podcast Extra this week, an in depth conversation with New Yorker cartoonist, Seth.
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Daybreak: October 10/11, 2009 - Thomas Trofimuk, Scotch Tasting, Lindsey Burns, Hockey Chat Room, Cindy Renee Mathieu, Daybreakfast
This episode starts with author Thomas Trofimuk chatting about his new novel, "Waiting for Columbus". Up & coming fashion designer Cindy Renee Mathieu dishes on designing for the stars. Monologist, Lindsey Burns, introduces an "Our Town" for Calgary. We have first course of the Daybreakfast. And we assemble in the Hockey Chat Room.
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Daybreak: Oct. 3/4, 2009 - Jane Seymour, Mixed Blessings, Shaun Johnston, Calgary & Edmonton Film Fests, Alberta Magazines
It's a star-studded podcast this week with the legendary, Jane Seymour, Shaun Johnston (Jack from "Heartland"), Gary Basaraba and Tina Lameman from the APTN series "Mixed Blessings", the director of the doc "H2Oil", the star and writer from movie "GravyTrain". And lastly, getting Ed Stelmach to read.
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Daybreak: Sept. 26/27, 2009 - Don McKellar, TSN's Bob McKenzie, Cory Mack, Pat Strakowski, & Table Hockey
This week, Russell welcomes award-winning and multi-talented Don McKellar to talk up his new movie. Comedian Cory mack shares his tourism knowledge. TSN Insider Bob McKenzie plugs his new book about being a hockey dad. Artist Pat Strakowski celebrates a retrospective book on her work. And table hockey players go for the gold at the West Edmonton Mall.
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Daybreak Sept. 12/13, 2009: Tom Arnold, Drowsy Chaperone, Adam Gregory, Die-Nasty Productions
The musical, theatrical and stand-up stages are well-represented on this podcast. Comedian Tom Arnold leaves the Hollywood Hills for the Calgary Laugh Shop. Improv troupe, Die-Nasty, does a 50-hour improv soap-a-thon. Country superstar, Adam Gregory, comes home to Edmonton. And the musical "Drowsy Chaperone" packs them at the Citadel Theatre.
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Daybreak Sept. 19/20, 2009: Joyce DeWitt, Kelly Hrudey, Craig Simpson & Jamie Salé from Battle of the Blades, Tim Reynolds, Olympic Bobsleigh Hopefuls, Face Reading
Joyce DeWitt, formerly of Three's Company talks about life after Hollywood. HNIC's Kelly Hrudey gets set to interview George W. Bush. Author Tim Reynolds says stand-up is the key to success. Olympic hopefuls publish a children's book. Olympic champion, Jamie Salé pairs up Stanley Cup champion Craig Simpson in CBC-TV's Battle of the Blades. And face reader, Carole Friesen takes a long look at Russell Bowers.
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Daybreak & Westworld: The Alberta Movie Roadshow
Daybreak teams up with Westworld magazine to give listeners a virtual tour of some of the film sets that have been located in Alberta, Canada. Tracy Hyatt and krstine Kowalchuk join Russell to look at the locales for Brokeback Mountain, Superman III, Mystery Alaska, Snow Dogs, Knockaround Guys and Bye Bye Blues.
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Daybreak: September 5/6, 2009 - Morag Northey, Norma Cameron, Multi-tasking Study, Aviation Stories
Russell multi-tasks his way through a Stanford University study, a chat with musician Norag Northey, gets storytelling tips from Norma Cameron and goes flying with aviation author, John Chalmers.
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Daybreak: August 29/30, 2009 - Colin Hay, Hockey Chat, History redux, Baby Boomers, Dog hair & cancer study, chat room
This week, Russell and Colleen Underwood talk about golf and goats. Former Men at Work frontman, Colin Hay, drops by. The Hockey Chatroom looks ahead to the 2010 Olympic Team. Author, Jeff Pearce, says Canada was created by the English and he has a book that explains why. Baby Boomer expert, PJ Wade, talks about breaking routine. And a new study on dog hair genetics may tell us more about cancer genes.
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Daybreak: July 25/26, 2009 The Decemberists, Carolyn Mark, Valdy & Tom Wilson aka Lee Harvey Osmond
This is a musical show, as Russell catches up with some of the musicians coming through Alberta for the 2009 Calgary Folk Festival including Carolyn Mark, Nate Query who plays bass for the Decemberists as well as Tom Wilson of Lee Harvey Osmond. Also stopping by is Canadian folk legend, Valdy.
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Daybreak: August 1/2, 2009 Author Lorette Luzajic, blind runner Lorraine Pitt, musicians Steven Page & Ferron, Plug-in cars
This week, Russell chats with former Barenaked Ladies singer, Steven Page, blind runner Lorraine Pitt, blogger and author Lorette Luzajic, musician Ferron and a talk with a University of Calgary professor about the potential benefits of the plug-in auto.
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Daybreak: Jul 18/19, 2009 Divine Brown, Marcus Beaubier, Proclaimers, MBF, Carny Wayne Kunz, Gadget Greg
This podcast feature some great musicians like Canada's Queen of R&B and Pop, Divine Brown, international stars The Proclaimers and emerging Calgary artist, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald. Comedian Marcus Beaubier plugs his new CD. Gadget Greg talks about overcoming his fear of public speaking. And a profile of professional carny, Wayne Kunz.
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Daybreak: July 11 & 12, 2009 Terri Clark, Kreesha Turner, St. Albert Horse Mural, The Lion King, Pipeline Bombings, The Chairmen
This week, Russell spent time at the Calgary Stampede talking to Medicine Hat's country superstar Terri Clark, Edmonton's pop sentsation Kreesha Turner and St. Albert artist Lewis Lavoie. Russell also spoke with Chris Walker with Daybreak North about the pipeline bombings in The Peace district. Plus a visit with two of the cast members of The Lion King and the zany Chairmen.
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Daybreak: July 4 & 5, 2009 MJ's Media Coverage, Michelle Morgan from CBC-TV's Heartland, Holger Peterson and Blues on R2, Personal Publicity Workshop and Captain Canuck
A Concordia Media prof thinks that frustration over the media coverage of Michael Jackson's death says more about us than it does about the media. Michelle Morgan, "Lou" from CBC-TV's "Heartland" drops in for a chat about the show. Holger Peterson and Saturday Night Blues moves to Radio 2. Two Second City comics want to teach artists about personal publicity. And lastly, Captain Canuck returns to the printed page, this time, Stateside.
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Daybreak: June 27/28, 2009 Badlands Passion Play, Allyson Smith, Myrol, Prairie Gleaners Society, VISTAS at the Glenbow, Willie Mack, The Works Design Fest
It's our tenth podcast already! Comedian, Allyson Smith returns home for a few laughs. Country duo, Myrol, drop in to tell Russell what's happening with their career. The Prairie Gleaners Society want to preserve the food we throw away. Texan musician Willie mack could be more Canadian that some Canadians. And the badlands Passion Play is back for another season. And the romance of the CPR and the Rocky Mountain on display at the Glenbow Museum.
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Daybreak: June 20/21, 2009 Tim Tamishiro on Jazz, Allan Boss on Film, CFWE, Banff Dance Summit, musician Patty Shortreed
Tim Tamishiro from CBC Radio 2's TONIC comes by to help Russell dip his toe into Jazz. Allan Boss reviews "Three Monkeys", the new movie from the award-winning Turkish director. The Banff Centre launches its first Aboriginal Dance Summit. CFWE, an aboriginal radio station, is about to start broadcasting in Edmonton. And musician Patty Shortreed comes by to sell Russell on the joy of booking a House Concert.
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Daybreak: June 13, 2009 Jeff Rubin, Peter Mansbridge, Jocelyn Brown, Motocross Nationals
Russell get the lowdown on the post-recession economy from former CIBC economist, Jeff Rubin. Edmonton author Jocelyn Brown has just published her latest novel for youth and she talks about books and crafts. Motocross Nationals hit the dirt in Alberta on their way across Canada. And "The National" anchor, Peter Mansbridge stops by to discuss politicians and Alberta oil.
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Daybreak: June 14, 2009 Sled Island, Next Fest, David Sedaris, Kathy Jessup, Brenda Vaqueros, Team Edmonton, Walk-Kits
A packed podcasts featuring an extended interview with author David Sedaris as he and Russell talk about everything from squirrels to kidney stones. Previews of the Sled Island and Next Fest festivals of new and emerging talent. Storyteller Kathy Jessup drops by. The band Brenda Vaqueros wax nostalgic over vinyl. And we'll talk about two different approaches to fitness.
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Daybreak: June 6, 2009 Jamie Kennedy, The Fates, Forbidden Broadway
Comedian, Jamie Kennedy spoke with Russell about fame, criticism and his new relationship with fellow actor, Jennifer Love Hewitt; Musician, Lori Reid came by to talk about her band, The Fates; and the musical director for the wildly successful "Forbidden Broadway" talked about the show and what makes for a good Broadway musical.
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Daybreak: June 7, 2009 Memza Africa, Wilfred N & The Grown Men, Laura Smith, Expo Debate
The Memza Africa choir from South Africa have teamed up with musician, Holly Wright, to create a new muscial sound and they tell Russell all about it; Edmonton music legend, Wilfred Kozub, namesdrops over his new CD, Vicotria, BC's Laura Smith blows out the candles on her 23rd birthday, and comedians Andrew Grose and Brad Muise debate which city is better for a World Expo - Calgary or Edmonton.
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Best of Daybreak March 2009, Part 2
Russell chats with acclaimed sculptor and artist, Joe Fafard on the eve of a retrospective of his work; actor Ryan belleville talks about his new movie, "Finn on the Fly" and getting his acting chops at Loose Moose; and a bonus chat with singer/songwriter, Emm Gryner about her new CD, "Goddess".
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Daybreak for May 30/31, 2009
Russell welcomes comedian Jon Dore for a surreal 10 minutes of radio magic; Reader's Digest unveils their Top 10 list of Most Trusted Canadians; we talk to the man who's tenth on that list, Rick Mercer; Canmore musician, Cori Brewster and her musical history of Banff; and a compelling chat with author Kathryn kuitenbrouwer about her new book, "Perfecting."
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Best of Daybreak - May 2009
Russell talks to a wellness expert about taking all his vacation days; Canada makes it's first entry into the World beard and Moustache Cahmpionships; Rick Miller combines Shakespeare and the Simpsons in "MacHomer"; and Rebecca Northan talks about her role in "Evil Dead: The Musical."
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Best of Daybreak March 2009 Part 1
Russell chats with former "Newhart" star, Peter Scolari about dinner theatre and Tom Hanks; iconic comedian, Emo Phillips; and author Sharon Butela re-visits her book, "The Girl in Saskatoon". From March 2009.
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Tuesday February 09, 2010
Context columnist Naheed Nenshi has been thinking about what the Alberta government should do to provide a good financial plan for the province in today's budget. Children and Youth Services Minister Yvonne Fritz describes some important websites to help young people remain safe, in light of 2010 Safer Internet Day. Ricardo Acuna, executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan think tank, outlines the challenges and the necessities the province should consider for budget day.
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Monday February 08, 2010
A pediatric surgeon and a health economist say there is an alarming number of surgeries for children under the age of five that could be prevented. Coach Calvin Zaryski looks at the pressures Olympic athletes are facing and the mental preparation they undergo in the final days before the Games. Judy Gray, the co-chair of the Association of Alberta Public Charter Schools and a founder of the Calgary Girls Charter School, takes listeners calls on educating boys and girls separately in school.
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Friday February 05, 2010
The CBC's John Archer reports on Alberta's health minister's reaction to a report recommending an Alberta Health Act and a Patient's Charter of Rights. A father and son elk-calling team from Medicine Hat describe their recent success leading up to the Canadian elk calling championships. Ruth Myles provides a run-down on the best DVD, TV and movie picks. University of Alberta health economist John Church takes calls on the unfolding reaction to Premier Danny Williams's heart surgery in the U.S.
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Thursday February 04, 2010
A coalition of community and advocacy groups, Join Together Alberta, is hearing that Albertans are concerned about the upcoming budget. Food writer Cinda Chavich describes how Olympians are fed and nourished during the Olympic Games. Political scientist Lori Williams of Mount Royal University takes listeners' calls about what is expected to be a legislative session unlike any in recent history in Alberta.
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Wednesday February 03, 2010
The CBC's Trisha Estabrooks reports on a homicide case in Millet near Edmonton. Forest scientist David McIntyre describes a disturbing development occuring in ancient pine forests in southern Alberta. Parenting power columnist Julie Freedman Smith provides some insight into how to help our children cope with their emotions. Alberta Federation of Labor President Gil McGowan takes listeners calls about the story behind the numbers of deaths occurring in workplaces in Alberta.
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Tuesday February 02, 2010
University of Calgary students are joining in a day of action to protest against proposed tutition hikes at professional faculties in Alberta. Tech columnist DJ Kelly likes the new Apple I-Pad. Red Deer bus driver Josh Soley is one of the volunteer bus drivers at the Winter Olympics in B.C. Ruth Myles of Swerve magazine dishes on the Oscar nominations out today. And Environment minister Rob Renner takes listeners calls on the oil sands and the federal minister's comments.
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Monday February 01, 2010
The Calgary Flames have traded one of their stars, Dion Phaneuf, to try to revitalize the team. At the same time, the Edmonton Oilers are stuck at the bottom of the rankings with few options. Sports columnist Bruce Dowbiggin assesses the trades and the challenges for the Flames and the Oilers. Leigh Clarke, Senior Vice President External Engagement with AltaLink, takes calls on the process to approve a new power transmission line from Edmonton to Calgary.
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Friday January 29, 2010
Guest host Holly Preston talks to Brenda Fehr about how she organized fellow horse lovers to rescue needy horses from the meat plant. Former Olympic hockey star Danielle Goyette describes what it was like to carry the flag for Canada. And,Registered Dietician and author Leslie Beck takes calls on how to reduce sodium from your diet.
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Thursday January 28, 2010
The Canada West Foundation has released a new report showing the economic consequences to the country if the oil sands are curtailed. Canadian Olympic rower Bryan Donnelly volunteers with the medical team for the women's ski events at the Winter Olympic Games. Food columnist Mary Bailey discusses Alberta Olympic fare. And executive coach Susan Scott, internationally renowned author of Fierce Conversations, takes calls on how to communicate effectively.
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Wednesday January 27, 2010
New Democrat leader Brian Mason releases his party's report on healthcare, "What People Want". Brenda Fehr is rallying people to save some distressed horses from slaughter. A Taber couple starts up a Facebook Group that raises thousands of dollars internationally for Haiti. Teena Prevost speaks out against cuts to disability groups. Dr. Charles Samuels takes calls about his research into the sleep habits and success of high performance athletes, including our winter Olympians.
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Tuesday January 26, 2010
Friends of Medicare president David Eggen takes calls on the Health Quality Council of Alberta report into emergency room wait times. Context columnist Naheed Nenshi considers why North Americans have responded so profoundly to the Haitian earthquake. Education Minister David Hancock answers listeners questions about policy changes and other issues involving education.
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Monday January 25, 2010
Sylvia Denning of the Mennonite Central Committee has just returned from Haiti where she delivered aid. The prime minister is convening an international meeting of foreign ministers to cope with the Haiti disaster. Despite his work on the Haiti file, Canadians tell pollsters they're not happy with Stephen Harper's prorogation of parliament. Grant MacEwan University professor Chaldeans Mensah takes calls. Bob Rintoul talks about his new book, No Regrets, No Apologies.
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Friday January 22, 2010
Centre Stage at CBC in Edmonton is the venue for a musical fundraiser for Haiti. The CBC's Lydia Neufeld reports. Political scientist Tom Flanagan comments on the upcoming protest rallies against the prime minister's prorogation of parliament. Ruth Myles of Swerve Magazine looks at the broadcasting extravaganzas for Haiti. New health minister Gene Zwosdesky takes listeners calls on the healthcare system.
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Thursday January 21, 2010
As more people arrive home to Alberta from Haiti, Red Cross provincial director Steve Armstrong describes the settlement process and how Albertans are helping. Food and cooking columnist Cinda Chavich marks Robbie Burns day with oats. Parenting Power's Gail Bell talks about exam time. And University of Alberta professor Pirkho Markula talks about her research into media coverage of female Olympians in a new book entitled Olympic Women and the Media: International Perspectives.
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Wednesday January 20, 2010
A government appointed committee is recommending sweeping changes to Alberta's healthcare system. Edmonton Rutherford MLA and co-chair of the Minister's Advisory Committee on Health takes listeners' calls. Canada is ramping up its aid and military assistance to Haiti. University of Calgary professor Rob Huebert of the Canadian Centre for Military and Strategic Studies looks at what more is possible from Canada given our resources.
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Tuesday January 19, 2010
CBC reporter Erin Collins follows the Olympic torch through Calgary. The prime minister has shuffled his cabinet, including several Albertans -- Rona Ambrose to Public Works, Diane Ablonczy to Seniors, and former Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day to Treasury Board. Tech columnist DJ Kelly looks at how technology is helping Haitians through the earthquake disaster. A U of A research project looks at birds flying into windows. And Dr. Melissa Hershberg takes calls on her new book, The Rebel Diet
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Monday January 18, 2010
Alberta parents Lindsay van Genne and Bonnie Winarski are working the phones and internet to try to get the documentation they need to bring home their adopted children from Haiti. Sport fishing outfitter Keith Rae is furious over Robert Kennedy Jr.'s comments that 90 percent of Alberta's fish are "inedible". Certified Financial Planner Kevin Cork of the Absolute Group takes calls on sound financial investing and getting out of debt.
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Friday January 15, 2010
Alberta families are desperately trying to get the documentation to bring home their adopted children from Haiti. Lindsay van Genne in Grande Prairie and Bonnie Winarsky in Fort Saskatchewan are two of them. Brian Krushel talks about the excitement building for the Olympic torch relay in Camrose. CBC sports reporters Doug Dirks and Min Dhariwal update the big events underway. Public service workers are rallying to fight cuts. And author Reena Nerbas takes calls on home remedies.
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Thursday January 14, 2010
Guest host Holly Preston talks to a member of Red Deer's Liberty Christian Assembly about the orphanage it supports in Haiti. Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt looks at Premer Ed Stelmach's cabinet shuffle. Edmonton food writer Mary Bailey spices up January food. And Dina O'Meara, author of The Alberta Book of Musts, takes calls on Albertans' favorite places and things to do.
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Wednesday January 13, 2010
The Canadian government is responding to the catastrophe unfolding from the Haiti earthquake. Haitians in Alberta, and others with personal connections to the country, are trying to organize ways to help. Diane Pachal of the Castle Mountain Special Places Working Group describes why the coalition has new hope for the pristine and vulnerable area. University of Alberta professor Andy Knight discusses Canada's response to Haiti and his own personal connection to the country.
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Tuesday January 12, 2010
Sylvan Lake has decided to stop snowmobilers from riding through town on April 1. Merv Mann talks about the honour of carrying the Olympic torch in Lloydminster. Context columnist Naheed Nenshi considers the premier's choices in an upcoming cabinet shuffle and the effect on the opposition. And renowned scientist Lowell Wood, a weapons defense consultant for the Pentagon, is in Alberta talking about how science can solve the the climate change crisis.
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Monday January 11, 2010
The CBC's Briar Stewart reports on the latest from the RCMP investigation underway at Weibo Ludwig's farm near Hythe. Cleo Smeeton of the Cochrane Ecological Institute describes what it's like caring for two orphaned lynx cubs preparing for release into the wild. Dr. Reed Ferber, director of the University of Calgary's Running Injury Clinic, answers listeners questions about hip, back, knee and foot pain, associated with running and walking.
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Friday January 8, 2010
CBC National reporter Alison Myers updates developments in the Encana bomber case. Christopher White talks about how his Facebook site "Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament" has taken off. His MP, New Democrat Linda Duncan of Edmonton Strathcona, takes listeners calls on how they feel about the prime minister's decision to suspend Parliament. Pop culture columnist Ruth Myles says fortunately for TV watchers the holiday doldrums are over.
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February 4
The phenomena of hyper-parenting, more on the ethics of refusing to vaccinate and Betsty Trumpener on sour gas leak in Tomslake.
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February 3
A totem pole that will travel from Terrace to China, we meet a homeless bluesman and busting the link between autism and vaccination.
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February 2
Kris Kristofferson, a new arrival from Haiti and a Summerland artist who gets to vote in the Academy Awards.
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February 1
A Kitimat documentary about eating disorders, a Terrace torch bearer and Victoria singer songwriter Art Napoleon.
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January 28
Surrey man Gary August in Port au Prince, searching for a lost time capsule in Prince George and a film about the opening of a "safe" brothel in Victora.
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January 29
Discussions about float plane safety include a conversation with Gordon Dupont, Len Aune, Lyle Soetaert and David Crossley.
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January 27
School closures in Prince George, the "Downside of High" and Princeton is named Gamestown 2010.
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January 26
Dance Victoria's Dance Days. An earthquake specialist answers our questions, then we hear from Nelson's Dave Putt by phone in Haiti.
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January 25
Celebrating Canada in the Arizona desert, nutritionist Anneka Vink on detox diets and protesting prorogation.
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January 22
Kelowna teacher John Vesterinen creates an Olympic Song; Rose Terzario talks about donor fatigue; and Doug Kyle organizes former Olympians in Trail.
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January 21
A couple of BC families who are trying to adopt Haitian children plus a conversation with author Eric Wilson.
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B.C. Almanac Monday Feb 8th
Live from the rejuvenated Robson Square skating rink. We meet British Columbians pumped for the Olympics - from volunteers to log home builders and wine makers.
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B.C. Almanac Friday Feb 5th
Aussie Rules. The IOC wants the Australians to take down a non-conforming flag. We hear how that's playing down under.Who gets to use those tickets purchased by the B.C. government? The minister responsible tells us. We also speak with a Vancouver doctor just back from helping save lives in Haiti; and reaction to the RCMP's plan to stop investigating their own.
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B.C. Almanac Thursday Feb 4th
Olympic freebies. Should B.C. mayors accept tickets to the Olympics? And, are access to information requests becoming too expensive? A B.C. legislative committee is getting an earful. And master gardener Brian Minter answers listeners' questions.
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B.C. Almanac Wednesday Feb 3rd
An outspoken critic of the Olympics is joining forces with Vancouver's mayor to use the Games as leverage to help the poor. We get listener reaction to Premier Danny Williams' decision to go to the U.S. for his heart surgery; and super mechanic Sam Tremblay tackles listeners' car troubles.
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B.C. Almanac Tuesday Feb 2nd
A terrorism expert looks at security risks for the Olympics. Reporter Bob Keating updates us on a suspicious helicopter seized by RCMP, and the joys of mentoring with organizations like Big Sisters.
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B.C. Almanac Monday Feb 1st
Downtown East Side Connect opens today. Information centre or propoganda kiosk? And, a bitter-sweet day in Kitimat as the Olympic relay comes to town and workers pack up their belongings at the Eurocan pulp mill. Victoria Police Chief Jamie Graham on driving and cell phone use; and the Food Panel looks at why countries and corporations are snapping up farm land around the world.
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B.C. Almanac Friday January 29th
More bad headlines. Solicitor General Kash Heed responds to the latest allegations about RCMP members, and working out a new contract.Also stories on float plane air safety, a Supreme Court decision on Omar Khadar, and nutrition expert Leslie Beck has advice on reducing salt intake.
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B.C. Almanac Thursday January 28th
VANOC updates us on their plan to have enough snow for the Cypress Bowl events. We hear about a bold suggestion to conserve half of B.C.s land mass to deal with climate change. Are Olympic benefits flowing to your community? And Toseko Mines tells us how the plan to drain one lake and create a new one.
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B.C. Almanac Wednesday January 27th
Unprofessional conduct. The investigation into the Surrey Six murders is clouded by allegations an RCMP investigator had an inappropriate relationship with a potential witness. Ex-police officer Leo Knight comments. We also ask Fraser Health why a special program for people with disabilities is being cut, and some pre-budget consultation with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance.
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B.C. Almanac Tuesday January 26th
Smile. But not too much. Vancouver city employees now have a manual to help guide them with etiquette for the Olympics. Our listeners weigh in. We hear about the end of Chimo - a special program for people with disabilities. And Haitian adoption requests are sky high. We hear more from Hope Adoption Services.
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B.C. Almanac Monday January 25th
What's next for Haiti? SFU's Doug McArthur has experience working in Afghanistan; we also speak with two Kootenay students back from the ravaged country. Veterinarian Suann Hosie answers listeners' questions about their pets.
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B.C. Almanac Friday January 22nd
Vancouver police apologize for injuring the wrong man on a domestic violence call.
We talk with Kootenay midwife Kelly Dunn on her way to Haiti.
And Thrifty Jane MacDougall has some re-purposing ideas to reduce wanton consumerism.
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B.C. Almanac Thursday January 21st
Mining Watch claims victory after the Supreme Court rules that new projects need more environmental scrutiny. The industry sees positives too. We also check in with B.C. Lions coach Wally Buono as he prepares to carry the Olympic torch into B.C. from Alberta. Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid on school district budget shortfalls, and Kira Vermond is here with financial advice from her book 'Earn,Spend,Save'.
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B.C. Almanac Wednesday January 20th
B.C.'s school districts are facing budget shortfalls and warning of more school closures and layoffs. Intrawest is on shakey financial ground - we get reaction from the mayor of Whistler. And we speak with B.C.'s Representative for Children & Youth about the province;s action plan on domestic violence.
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B.C. Almanac Tuesday January 19th
From Haiti to Home. We look at the history, culture and future for Haiti as we raise money for the Red Cross and other agencies. Expertise from journalist Claude Adams and ethnobotanist Wade Davis. Listeners tell us about their fund raising efforts.
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B.C. Almanac Monday January 18th
Close to home. Kootenay students are back on Canadian soil. Solicitor General Kash Heed announces an initiative to reduce domestic violence. And we look at the controversial Fundamental Skills Assessment test.
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B.C. Almanac Friday, January 15th
Coming Home. Christina Stewart is back on Canadian soil after surviving the earthquake in Haiti.
Meanwhile, family in the Kootenays want help getting their teenage children home. We also look at transportation plans to fight major gridlock during the Olympics.
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B.C. Almanac Thursday January 14th
Helping hands. Kamloops firefighters are ready to go to Haiti, and we hear about the Shelter Box Canada Initiative. After 12:30, master gardener Brian Minter talks pruning during this "weather window" and he answers listeners' questions.
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B.C. Almanac Wednesday January 13th
Earthquake aftermath. How can people in B.C. help the emergency response in Haiti? And we highlight Canadian athletes to watch at the Olympics, and check out "co-housing" as an option for seniors.
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B.C. Almanac Tuesday January 12th
With the Olympics one month away, are you celebrating or running for cover? We also speak with the friend of Pte. Garrett Chidley who was killed in Afghanistan. There could be new uses for the sunflower plant as food and biofuel. And what's the secret to living to be 100? Research Dr Andrew Sixsmith has some ideas.
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B.C. Almanac Monday January 11th
We update you on the investigation into Weibo Ludwig, meteorologist Claire Martin tracks the wild, wet weather, journalist Robert Remington remembers colleague Michelle Lang who was killed in Afghanistan, and we learn about rights in the workplace.
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The Early Edition - February 9, 2010
White Rock roared as the Olympic flame shot past their city this morning. We speak to White Rock's Mayor Catherine Ferguson about the party in her city this morning.
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The Early Edition - February 8, 2010
BC Premier Gordon campbell joins Rick and co-host Jeannie Senft, Canadian figure skating judge, to talk about the 2010 games and the new legislative session that starts tomorrow, live from the Robson Rink in Downtown Vancouver.
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The Early Edition - February 4, 2010
Canada's Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin is in town and visits Rick in the studio.
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The Early Edition - February 3, 2010
The Canada Pavilion for the 2010 Games is being called everything from a public embarrassment or a point of pride, so we asked two famous architects for their point of view.
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The Early Edition - February 2, 2010
Refocusing the fight to end homelessness: Vancouver's mayor Gregor Robertson is calling for a revised plan to better track progress.
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The Early Edition - February 1, 2010
With 11 days to go, VANOC boss John Furlong checks in to tell us how things are coming together for the big day.
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The Early Edition - January 29, 2010
The immigrant organization SUCCESS will join forces with the police chief and police complaints commissioner to help communicate with the Asian community after the beating incident of Yao Wei Wu.
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The Early Edition - January 28, 2010
Police and public confidence: we speak to Wally Oppal about the impact of the recent controversy involving the RCMP.
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The Early Edition - January 27, 2010
Scandal and the Surrey Six: a key investigator is sidelined after an inappropriate relationship with a witness. How does this damage the case and the reputation of the force? We speak to Chief Superintendent Janice Armstrong.
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NXNW FEB. 07
Alan Twigg with Turning up the Volumes, Gary Ho on his book about a life changing meeting, and Jerry Wasserman on The Blue Dragon by Robert LePage.
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NXNW FEB. 06
A visit to the musical halls of Selkirk College in Nelson and a conversation with Saltspring Island author Evelyn C. White
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NXNW JAN. 31
Kitimat teens tackle body image in a documentary film, Best Before pushed the boundaries of theatre and John Lent is Poet Laureate of the Okanagan.
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NXNW JAN 30
A visit with Vancouver actor Sarah Goldberg backstage at the Old Vic in London and a conversation with Rom Hamilton about Nuu-chah-nulth ceremonial curtains.
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NXNW SAT JAN 23 2010
On this edition of the NXNW podcast, a conversation with Métis playwright Marie Clements about her new play The Edward Curtis Project; plus a conversation with Summerland photographer Jeremy Heibert, whose exhibit Looking into Ice opens this week at the Summerland Art Gallery.
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NXNW SUN JAN 24 2010
On this edition of the NXNW podcast, a conversation with actor and comedian Charlie Ross about his one-man show, The One Man Lord of the Rings; plus a conversation with filmmaker and writer Kagan Goh about his father, the novelist and poet Goh Poh Seng, who passed away on January 10th.
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NXNW SAT JAN 16 2010
On today's NXNW podcast, Sheryl Mackay in conversation with award-winning documentary filmmaker Nettie Wild, and writer Jay Ruzesky pays tribute to PK Page.
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NXNW SUN JAN 17 2010
On today's NXNW podcast, Sheryl Mackay in conversation with 100-year-old BC newspaperman Edgar Dunning; filmmaker Ryan Mah and Denise Carson Wild, owner of Paper Ya on Granville Island, both pay tribute to type designer and book designer Jim Rimmer; and writer Marilyn Bowering pays tribute to PK Page.
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NXNW JAN 10
A Quesnel man on his discovery that he could play piano, Colin and Julie Angus on travelling from Scotland to Syria, a search for the elusive blue poppy and author Ashok Mathur on his latest novel.
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February 8
Richard Leblanc discusses the success of the therapeutic community for homeless people on Woodwyn Farm; John Dixon and Veronica Harrison discuss the banning of a pro-life student club at UVic; and Corrine Thompson and Jude Platzer, mothers of suicide victims, discuss prevention.
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February 9
Marshall Smith of the Baldy Hughes center in Prince George, Kevin Cranmer and the Manchester totem pole and Cecil Gisconne on Black History in B.C.
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February 5
Black History on Vancouver Island, hockey night in Courtenay and the Friday political panel.
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February 4
B.C. Chiefs plan for the 2010 Games, the growing private security industry in downtown Victoria and one crisis line for the whole island.
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February 3
The Capital Regional District's plan for increased population, the new owner Victoria's Northern Junk building and VIHA's restrictions on stent surgery.
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February 2
More on WTF's plan to sell west coast land, the City of Victoria's bid to aquire affordable housing, a Tofino man buys the MV Lady Rose and Jody Paterson on building a safer sex trade.
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February 1
Miryam Burns discusses the Canadian University's Queer Services Conference; NDP MLA John Horgan is worried about the future of the forest industry and Western Forest Products President Steve Frasher talks about selling off company land.
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January 29
Heating a house with sewage, samosas for survival and the Friday political panel.
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January 28
Mount Washington's Brent Curtain on snow, a senior drivers study, the Venerable Christopher Page on the Anglican church closures and the world's second best B&B.
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January 27
Bishop James Cowan on the closure of 19 island churches, a man goes over Stamp Falls, we catch up with Alain Vincent who has family in Haiti, the Uplands sewage debate and an economic forecast from Paul Summerville.
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January 26
Earthquake preparedness, online adoption and UVic's Science Venture program.
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January 25
Michael Perreira of Urban Analytics talks about the sale of Victoria's Bayview Residences and Roundhouse and Brook MacDonald from the Recycing Council of B.C. discusses recycling newspapers to China.
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January 22
SFU Professor Benedikt Fischer on safe injection sites and the weekly political panel discusses government cuts and the post-Olympic budget.
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January 21
Lessons on American senior's care, a check-in with an island paramedic in Haiti and a conversation with Jorel George a Victorian with family in Haiti.
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January 20
Rich Coleman on gas lines, rescue in Haiti, the William Head lumber controversy, CFB Esquimalt goes to the Olympics and new damn in Port Angeles.
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January 19
Local Haitian relief efforts by Bruce Andrew, Scarlette Lexington and Me-Kon Hayes; Mike Pennock discusses pollution by cruiseships in Victoria, and Khalil Akhtar talks with Paul Laverick, a ukulele instructor.
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January 18
Dr Perry Kendall on safe injection site and a report from an island rescue team in Haiti. Plus, we'll hear how Nanaimo is capital of Google Earth and about scandalous nude paintings on Pender Island.
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January 15
Gregor visits the Homeless Art Show, moreon earthquakes with seismologist Garry Rogers, the political panel discuss the Olympics and we remember P.K. Page.
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January 14
More on the Bay Street gas blow-out. An island woman whose fiance is missing in Haiti and how the BC Legislative buildings will fare when a big earthquake hits the west coast.
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January 13
Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin on homelessness. More on the natural gas pipeline rupture and local journalist Terry Glavin returns to Afghanistan.
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January 12
Vancouver Island is big in New York, we hear why. Plus we get an update on yesterday's natural gas pipeline rupture, and about how prepared BC Ferries is for onboard medical emergencies.
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January 11
We hear about how CanWest's financial problems will affect island media. Plus we meet Sidney football star Alex Anthony and an island woman who's trying to bring her long lost brother from Iraq to Duncan.
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January 8
John Young discusses the city's decision to go to referendum on the blue bridge. The political panel looks at senate reform and we hear about the upcoming Victoria Idol.
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Manning conference wrap-up
A weekend conference in Edmonton gave itself the mission of imagining a better future for Alberta. Jim speaks with two Calgary attendees to ask them whether the meeting delivered.
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Feb. 5: YouTube teachers
We tell you more about a trend that has teachers feeling like they're being watched.
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Feb. 4: Budget battle
How will Ottawa deal with the deficit without raising taxes? We get the answer from economist Tom Velk.
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Feb. 3: Antarctica
We meet a Calgary woman who will be taking part in what is being billed as an epic journey to Antarctica.
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Feb. 2: Habitat for Humanity
Dan Charlesworth helped organize the opposition to a proposed Habitat for Humanity development in Airdrie.
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Feb. 1: Habitat for Humanity
Some residents of Airdrie are saying "not in my back yard" to a proposal by Habitat for Humanity to build condos in the community. We speak with the non-profit group's CEO.
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Rob Anders' future in Calgary West
Conservative MP Rob Anders' own riding board is convinced he shouldn't be his party's candidate in the next election. Kirk speaks with the board's president.
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Time to go, Bamboccioni
Italy is considering paying adult children a monthly stipend if they leave their parents' home. Our Unconventional Panel debates when its time to leave the nest.
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February 1 - 5, 2010: Eyeopener Highlights
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A compilation from our Calgary 10-11 series on domestic violence
All week, we've been examining the problem of domestic violence in our city. This week's best of the Eyeopener podcast is being dedicated to all the interviews and radio pieces we brought to you throughout the series. As a warning, some of the content in this series is quite graphic and may not be suitable for younger listeners.
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January 18 - 22, 2010: Eyeopener Highlights
Hear from a number of Calgarians trying to help earthquake survivors in Haiti. The wild horse shootings outside of Calgary may have had a break through. We talk to Sundrie's mayor. And much more.
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Paul's January 28th ski report
It hasn't been snowing much in the mountains this week. Paul Karchut gives us the details.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - February 08/09
Today... He has won every major curling championship. Except one. Edmonton skip Kevin Martin is off to his third Olympic Games. Will he bring home the gold? We'll hear from the team. And speaking of the Olympics....From own the podium to disown the podium! Olympic sports funding in Canada could soon be slashed in half after the Vancouver Winter Games. We'll find out what this could mean to elite athletes, and sports trainers in Alberta.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - February 05/09
Today...A 17-year old hockey player has finally been suspended a month after a spearing incident during a midget game in Leduc that left the other player in hospital for three weeks. We'll hear from the injured player, Austin Hoekstra, and find out why it took so long for the suspension to he handed down. And we'll introduce you to an Edmonton woman who, like many of us, has caught the Olympic spirit. Kim Bossert is so inspired by local Paralympian Viviane Forest that she's holding a fundraiser.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - February 04/09
Today...an Edmonton military widow finally receives her husband's sacrifice medal at the Jefferson Armory in our city. We'll speak to Darcia Arndt. And we know oil and gas mining can leave some pretty big scars on the landscape. Edmonton's Terry Macyk has devoted his life to reversing the damage done by surface-mining and now he's retiring. Terry looks back on his 45-year career and also looks ahead to some of the land reclamation problems that must still be solved with the oilsands.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - February 03/09
Today...When the Alberta legislature reconvenes next week, the Wild Rose Alliance and the New Democrats will each get two questions per day during Question Period. As you might expect they're not happy about it. We'll find out why from Wild Rose MLA Paul Hinman. And an Edmonton based travel company has pulled the plug on a floating hotel for the Olympics. We'll speak to one passenger whose plans are sunk.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - February 02/09
Today...Two smog alerts in one month. No fun if you're a person who has trouble breathing. We'll hear from someone for whom good air is a matter of life and breath and from a doctor who makes the call to issue a health warning when the air quality is bad. Also, A new study shows banning hand-held cell phones may NOT lead to a reduction in crashes after all. Reporter Kirk Heuser will have that story.
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Edmonton -AM Podcast - February 1/09
Today.......A Fort Saskatchewan woman is settling in her new role as first-time mom....after her adopted daughter from Haiti finally joined her. We'll hear from Bonnie Winarski. And an Edmonton man is finding out the hard way that the benefits plan he thought he had doesn't exist. Now he's facing a big bill and no coverage for the physiotherapy help he needs. Reporter John Archer with a story that might help you protect yourself.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 29/09
Today...A new study has found the most common password out there ... 1-2-3-4-5-6. Second most common? 1-2-3-4-5. Are we nuts? No -- we're just forgetful. Coming up, we'll hear from Edmontonians, and a security expert ... on how they can keep their information from the hands of hackers. And this Saturday for the first time ever, an NHL game will have the play by play called in Inuktitut. We'll speak to the the Executive Director of the Edmonton Inuit Cultural Society.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 28/09
Today...A Lacombe man goes on trial today. He's accused shining a laser into the cockpit the Edmonton police chopper Air-One.
We'll talk to the president of Air Canada Pilots Association Captain Barry Wiszniowski. He's in town for the trial. And Neville Wright and Jesse Lumsden are dreaming about the gold because they've just qualified to compete at the olympics in Vancouver in the bobsled competition. We'll hear from both of them.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 27/09
Today...The city of Edmonton spent 49 million dollars last year clearing snow. But are we getting our money's worth? We'll put that question to city councillor Karen Leibovici. And Alberta Education is investigating whether some Edmonton-area students cheated on a Grade 12 math exam. Zoe Cooper with the Education Department will tell us what they've learned.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 26/09
Today...Wait times in Alberta hospitals are heading in the wrong direction...that's according to a new report from the Health Quality Council. We'll speak to council CEO Dr. John Cowell. And fighting the Freshman 15. Find out what a group of U of A students are doing to lose their first-year flab.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 25/09
Today...The entire board of trustees for the Northland school division have been dismissed. We'll talk to a teacher who says it's a good move. And the CBC's Niall McKenna will tell us how the Olympic women's hockey team is inspiring young girls in Edmonton to take up the sport.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 22/09
Today...we'll find out how much students at George P. Nicholson managed to raise for the earthquake survivors in Haiti and we'll speak with the head of the Red Cross in Alberta who will tell us how people have stepped up province-wide to help Haitians.
Also the entire board of trustees for the school division representing Northern Alberta got sacked yesterday. We'll talk to one of the trustees who was fired.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 21/09
Today...You'll hear from a Fort Saskatchewan woman who's one step closer to bringing her adopted baby home from Haiti. And the Olympic muzzle. Find out why the Vancouver Olympic Committee or VANOC as it's known said communities hosting the Olympic torch couldn't thank local sponsors.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 20/09
Today......How do doctors reach the decision to take a patient off life support? We'll speak to a health law expert from the University of Alberta at 8:15. And if the bed bugs are biting, chances are you'll be hard pressed to get rid of them. Coming up...the owner of an Edmonton fumigating company will tell you what you can do to get rid of these pesky little buggers for good.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 19/09
Today...A Rocky Mountain House couple goes to court to prevent an Edmonton hospital from disconnecting their three month old baby from life support. Reporter John Archer will have more about this heart-breaking situation. And Alberta Hospital is going to stay open...at least for a little while. We'll tell you about the Alberta government's apparent change of heart.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 18/09
Today...an Edmonton senior is double-billed for care in hospital. But why is she paying to stay in a hospital in the first place? James Hees has the story.
And thousands of people have been charged for heating their apartments...based on meters that may not be accurate and are now illegal in Alberta. We'll meet one senior who wants her money back.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 14/09
Today...No sooner did a massive earthquake shake the island of Haiti this week and Alberta rescue dogs got the call. The dogs and their handlers are now heading to Haiti to help in the search for survivors. We'll talk to Richard Lee from the Canadian Search & Disaster Dogs Association. And we go inside the walls of the Edmonton Remand Centre. We'll hear from a man who, for now, calls the centre home.
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Edmonton-AM Podcast - January 13/09
Today...Just hours before the island of Haiti was rocked by a massive earthquake...19 volunteers from an Alberta-based mission group arrived in the capital of Port au Prince. James Roberts with the group Haiti Arise will tell us their story. And the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are exactly one month away. Four years ago in Torino, Alberta's Jennifer Heil landed Olympic gold. We'll talk to her about the pressure to repeat in Canada.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Feb. 05, 2010 "Dr. Brock Wright"
When you've been waiting months to get your hip or knee repaired, the last thing you want to hear is that your surgery has been cancelled. But that's exactly what has been happening to patients at the Grace Hospital.
A lack of beds has caused a number or orthapedic surgeries to be cancelled at the Grace Hospital. Dr. Brock Wright is the Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Feb. 04, 2010 "Balraj Manhes - head of the United Cab Association in Edmonton"
There are calls for more security for Winnipeg cab drivers. This following several assults and cab-jackings over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, our city's drivers aren't alone. Balraj Manhes is a cab driver and the head of the United Cab Association in Edmonton. We talk to him to find out how they are dealing with recent rash of cab crime.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Feb. 03, 2010 "Councillor Gord Steeves about the possible new house zoning bylaw"
Buying a house in Winnipeg could get more expensive. The city is one step closer to making buyers prove their new homes meet zoning rules and if it doesn't you'll have to pay to fix it. Councillor Gord Steeves is chairperson of the standing committee on property development and he joins us to talk about this new bylaw that is one step away from driving up closing costs on home sales in Winnipeg.
Right click to Download Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Feb. 03, 2010 "Councillor Gord Steeves about the possible new house zoning bylaw"
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Feb. 02, 2010 "Antoine Predock and Winnipeg Streeters talking about The Forks river trail skate shacks"
The love shacks are a little old place where you can get away from the wind when you're skating The Forks river trail. As more of the shacks are being transported to the ice, we find out what Winnipeggers think of them. One of the shacks along The Forks river trail is called "Apparition". It's a skate shack designed by the Antoine Predock. He is the architect for the Museum for Human Rights. Only this looks more like a handful of crumpled aluminum foil. We ask him why.
Right click to Download Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Feb. 02, 2010 "Antoine Predock and Winnipeg Streeters talking about The Forks river trail skate shacks"
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Feb. 01, 2010 "Member of Winnipeg Copwatch - Daniel Thau-Eleff "
When the police were caught on tape arresting Cody Bousquet a question on how the situation has been brought fourth, were they acting defensively or was it police brutality? A local watchdog group is calling for action. Daniel Thau-Eleff of Winnipeg Copwatch speaks to Info Radio about this situation.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 29, 2010 "Dr. Allen Katz on medical ethics"
As a Manitoba doctor is investigated for doing an experimental treatment, we ask: how often do doctors stray into the grey area of quack medicine? And are they putting their patient's lives at risk? If you asked your doctor to prescribe an unusual drug or treatment, in order to save your life, do you know what the answer would be? Or, what it should be? We ask Dr. Allen Katz who teaches ethics in the University of Manitoba's faculty of medicine.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 28, 2010 "Cheryl Andrews"
Baby Isaiah James May was born with severe brain damage in October. His mother and father have been fighting the medical system to keep their son alive and have managed to keep their son on life support for another three more weeks. Cheryl Andrews is baby Isaiah's grandmother from Gimli and she is happy her grandson will be kept on life support for three more weeks and she joins us on Information Radio to talk about this situation.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 27, 2010 "Alix Jean-Paul"
Tears and smiles and relief last night at the Richardson International Airport in Winnipeg as Alix Jean-Paul and his wife Gertrude arrived home from Haiti. Jean-Paul is originally from Haiti and he was there doing charitable work. They arrived in Haiti the same day as the earthquake.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 26, 2010 "Abdi Ahmed and Inspector Devon Clunis"
When the system wouldn't help them, a group of refugee leaders took matters into their own hands. They've recruited the Winnipeg police to help keep their kids out of gangs. Abdi Ahmed came to Canada in 2000 as a refugee from Somalia. He is one of the African country representatives on a new committee meeting with the Winnipeg Police Service. Inspector Devon Clunis is the police liaison on the committee.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 25, 2010 "Noelle Depape"
Over a thousand refugees come to Manitoba a year hoping to make a new life. On Friday last week, we heard from a Sudanese immigrant who is frustrated after his son fell into gang life. Turns out he's not alone. The question now is are we doing enough to keep them from falling through the cracks? Noelle DePape is executive director of IRCOM House in downtown Winnipeg, which provides housing and support for refugees and speaks to us on Information Radio.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 22, 2010 "Abdo El Tassi"
Where do good leaders come from? Some Muslims in Winnipeg are asking that question and they're getting busy answering it too. Tonight Canada's first Muslim Leadership Institute gets launched. Abdo El Tassi is the owner and CEO of Peerless Garments. He's also one of the founders of The Canadian Muslim Leadership Institute.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 21, 2010 "Jim Rosentreter"
First they steal your property, then you have to pay to get it back. Jim Rosentreter is a Winnipeg man who had some stolen property recovered by police, but still faces hundreds of dollars in costs to recover and repair what was taken. He would have to pay $220 in impound fees to get it back and there was hundreds of dollars damage to the bike. None of it covered by insurance. Jim is trying to organize a joint-action lawsuit to recover out-of-pocket expenses from a break-in.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 20, 2010 "Tracie Afifi"
A new study done at the University of Manitoba suggests that Manitoba has to cut way back on the number of VLT's if it wants to get a grip on problem gambling.
Tracie Afifi is the lead researcher on the study and we've reached her by phone in New York
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 19, 2010 "Sick Day Debate"
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling for an end to a sick-days policy that allows Winnipeg firefighters to take payouts when they retire. Unused sick days on the city books now exceed $27 million and in 2008 retiring firefighters collected more than $2 million for unused sick days. Joining us this morning to debate this issue is Colin Craig of the Canadian Taxpayers Association and Julie Guard with labour studies department at the University of Manitoba.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 18, 2010 "Sister Rose Desrochers"
The connection between Haiti and Manitoba's Francophone community is long and deep. For years nuns and priests as well as lay people have served in that troubled French-speaking Caribbean country. Sister Rose Desrocher ran a kind of walk-in clinic in northern Haiti for 14 years. She has many friends and colleagues still in the country and this past week has been one of anxious communication by Email and phone.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 15, 2010 "President of Fireside International - Luke Renner"
Luke Renner is the founder and President of Fireside International. That's a non-profit media company working in Haiti. He writes "Things are usually not as bad as the news says. Sincerely, this is worse". Luke tells us about what he's seeing, how bad things are, stories he's been hearing from locals, what he see's people need most, and more from Haiti.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 14, 2010 "Fitness expert Dean Kriellaars"
A new Stats Can study says Canadians have spent the last twenty years getting fatter, less fit, and we're putting on the weight in the worst place, around the belly. The Canadian Health Measures Survey found nearly two-thirds of Canadians are now overweight or obese and nearly one in four of our children are also carrying too much weight. The numbers represent a more than doubling of the overweight population since 1981.
Dean Kriellaars, a physical therapy professor talk about this new study.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 13, 2010 "Disraeli Bridge project in Point Douglas"
A flying 3-D computer presentation of the new Disraeli Bridge has created more questions than answers for some Point Douglas residents. They fear homes could be destroyed and green space lost. Rhoanna Hepburn, chairman of the North Pt. Douglas residents association, Martin Landry a local resident, and Jordan van Sewell, well-known artist and long-time resident of south Point Douglas talk with Marcy. We then hear from Michelle Bailey, Communications Officer with the city of Winnipeg.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 12, 2010 "Gerald Blanchard - part 2"
We bring you part two of the I-Team's exclusive interview with Gerald Blanchard. I-Team reporter Alex Freedman is the first to be granted an interview with the Winipegger who became known as an international criminal mastermind.
In part one we learned about his criminal roots how he fell into a life of crime, but he became known as a bank thief. That's where we pick up the story this morning.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Jan. 11, 2010 "Gerald Blanchard - part 1"
He's a notorious Bank robber and Identity thief. His crimes took him across the country and the world but it was a team of Winnipeg investigators who finally caught up with Gerald Blanchard and brought him to justice.
He is no ordinary criminal and he has told his story exclusively to the CBC's Alex Freedman who joins us on Information Radio to tell us about what Gerald Blanchard did.
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Information Radio (CBC Manitoba) Nov. 24, 2009 "The Geese That Wouldn't Leave"
Like those kids who won't move out of the basement, Winnipeg's goose population sees no reason to give up good food and a warm place to sleep. Hear how how nature has adapted to an unseasonably mild November.
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Learning English with CBC - Employment Opportunities
With so much talk about job losses and lay-offs, it’s hard to be optimistic about finding a job. But Shawn Mahoney of Opportunities for Employment believes there are still lots of good jobs to be found in Manitoba, you just need to be strategic. For reading and writing exercises to go with this podcast, visit cbc.ca/manitoba/eal
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Learning English with CBC - The Role of Police
What can police do to reduce crimes involving violent assault? The president of the Winnipeg Police Association tells Information Radio host Terry MacLeod what he thinks needs to be done. For reading and writing exercises to go with this pod visit www.cbc.ca/manitoba/eal
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Learning English with CBC - Sign Language
Imagine how challenging it would be to try to learn English if you couldn't hear the language. Listen to an interview with a teacher who teaches sign language and English to newcomers. For reading and writing exercises to go with this pod visit www.cbc.ca/manitoba/eal
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Learning English with CBC - Manitoba Homecoming
Manitoba is a huge party to celebrate the province's 140th birthday. The organizers hope that Homecoming 2010 will encourage former Manitobans to come back and take a fresh look at what the province has to offer. For reading and writing exercises to go with this podcast visit www.cbc.ca/manitoba/eal
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Learning English with CBC - Romance Across Cultures
How does romance differ across cultures? What qualities are you seeking in an ideal partner? Listen to Manitoba author Mary George talk about her career as a writer of historical romance novels and find out what she thinks is true romance. For reading and writing exercises to go with this podcast visit www.cbc.ca/manitoba/eal
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Learning English with CBC - Weathering the Economic Storm
Find out how Steinbach and the rest of Manitoba is weathering the current economic storm. Listen to an interview with the president of the Steinbach Chamber of Commerce. For reading and writing exercises to go with this podcast visit www.cbc.ca/manitoba/eal
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God's Hand is On Them...The Story of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir
This week Maritime Magazine is raising the rafters, with an inside look at a group of people who have been promoting racial harmony and cultural diversity - through music - for nearly two decades.
In it's heyday, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir headlined a national television show, produced a couple of acclaimed CDs and picked up two East Coast Music Awards.
Our documentary this week was produced in part by the Choir's charismatic former director, Woody Woods.
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Test of Faith
This week a troubled Maritime parish greeted its new spiritual leader. But what will it actually take to bring a catholic community rocked by scandal and abuse - back to the church?
Wendy Martin introduces us to some of the people affected by the controversy in the Diocese of Antigonish, in her documentary "Test of Faith"
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Update - Hands Across The Sea Haiti
This week Maritime Magazine checks in with a woman who has made it her life's work to help the children of Haiti.
Karen Huxter runs a school and orphanage about 150 kilomentres outside Port Au Prince. It's called Hands Across the Sea-Haiti, and the charity's board of directors is based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Maritime Magazine's producer Christina Harnett brings us an update. www.hatshaiti.blogspot.com
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Across the Cancer Causeway
This week Maritime Magazine takes us inside the largest long-term cancer study ever undertaken in this country.
The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow project will follow the health of 300,000 volunteers over the next 30 years.
In this region, the project is called Atlantic Path, and many of you may have received brochures in the mail asking you to take part.
Cape Breton in particular may have a special role to play in unlocking some of cancer's secrets. Pauline Dakin explains why.
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What's Wrong in the Woods?
Last fall when a young woman was killed on a trail in the Cape Breton Highlands, many of us were shocked .
Coyotes have been considered a nuisance in some quarters for years - but the idea that they would attack and kill a human seemed ... extreme.
This week on Maritime Magazine, the CBC's Stephen Puddicombe tackles some of the questions still lingering from the incident.
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End of Year Political Panel
The three political affairs reporters for CBC in the Maritimes join Pauline to dish about the year's events.
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Friends of Redtail
This week...the story of one community's fight to keep a piece of local wilderness...wild. In the fall of 2006, some residents in rural Nova Scotia noticed orange ribbons waving from trees - a sure sign that logging equipment would soon be moving in. It's not unusual to see signs of tree-cutting in that area, but this time it was different. Reporter Philip Moscovitch brings us the story.
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Panel Discussion: H1N1 in the Maritimes
Pauline Dakin, our host and CBC's national health reporter brings together a panel to look at how the H1N1 pandemic has been handled so far in this region.
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The Crofts
What it takes to raise two boys with autism. And...what it doesn't take.
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American Ex-pats Add Voices to Health Care Debate
A small band of ex-patriot Americans living in the Maritimes has started a viral campaign to add their voices to the US health care debate.
The group has put a series of videos on YouTube to counter what they see as the lies being spread south of the border about Canada's health system.
This week Maritime Magazine talks with three of them, about why they felt compelled to speak out.
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Afghanistan:Noble Fight or Lost Cause?
This week in Halifax, Andrew Coyne and Paul Wells from Maclean's magazine joined a panel of experts in debating the question, "Afghanstan: Noble Fight or Lost Cause." Maritime Magazine was there and brings you excerpts from the conversation. For the complete discussion visit CPAC.Ca.
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Remembering Joan Orenstein
This week on Maritime Magazine, paying tribute to one of the region's great artists, actor Joan Orenstein.
We also play some of your calls and letters, from our stories about the beagles at the Atlantic Veterinary College, and a new campaign to support breastfeeding moms.
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family court/ firewood / family trees
Justice on hold : questions about why the New Brunswick government isn't acting on reforms that could ease the pain of men, women and children caught up in divorce.
And... Drop that chainsaw: Nova Scotia is putting an end to private citizens logging on Crown land.
And, on the phone-in: Terry Punch answered questions about tracing your family tree.
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Buy America Eases; work rebounds in Alberta; Phone-in Jim White on paint and papering projects.
North-south business opportunities : the new deal with the US doesn't just tackle the Buy American provisions; it could mean more work in Canada for a Maritime firm.
And...The east-west labour flow : as tarsands development picks up again, some Cape Bretoners are preparing to return to Alberta.
And, on the phone-in:Jim White offers advice for your next project that involves paint, stain or wallpaper.
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P-3 schools in Nova Scotia haven't delivered on their promise of value for money/Irving supplied gas stations close in New England/ Doug Bethune on car care
An audit of Nova Scotia's P3 schools shows they haven't delivered on their promise of a better value for public money. We spoke with the province's auditor general.
Shutting down the pumps : Almost two dozen Irving-supplied gas stations in New England close.
On the phone-in: Trouble in Toy-ota-land. Automotive consultant Doug Bethune comments on the automaker's turmoil. And he answered your questions about caring for your vehicle.
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Dr Raj Patel, the author of "The Value of Nothing : Why Everything Costs So Much More Than We Think"
Whether it's a deli sandwich or a dress, when it comes to making a purchase, a set of complicated calculations and desires come into play. In his book "The Value of Nothing : Why Everything Costs So Much More Than We Think", Dr Raj Patel explores what role "price" plays in decisions - and all the things that aren't taken into account. Our question: "In our society, are there things more important than price ?"
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Who's in the Coach's Corner?/Tips for oil tank lines/ The Science Panel
Cherry-picking: callers to a recent phone-in blamed Don Cherry for promoting an environment of violence in hockey to a mass audience. The Executive Director of CBC Sports responds to your criticisms.
When frigid temps freeze your heating oil lines : Art Irwin has tips for the coldest nights of the year.
From the frozen north to the balmy antipodes...mere geography can't keep our science Panel apart. From the Maritimes & Melbourne, White & Wassersug will answer your questions
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NB Power: A worthwhile deal/George Iny on Toyota recall/Art Irwin
A worthwhile deal...with some additional advice : a panel says the sale of most of NB Power assets to Hydro Quebec will save customers money and reduce environmental effects.
Rock em, sock em! You pull no verbal punches in your reactions to Friday's phone-in on ways to reduce hockey violence.
And, on the phone-in: Home heating consultant Art Irwin answered your calls about conserving energy while getting the most out of your heating system.
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Beneficial Blueberries / Roy MacGregor: "What's the best way to prevent violence in hockey?"
For a modest, unassuming little fruit, blueberries sure pack a nutritional punch. Now science has given us even more reasons to love them.
And, on the phone-in: A punch of a different kind: Patrice Cormier's elbow to an apponent's head sent his victim into convulsions, and transformed the captain of Canada's junior team into a symbol of hockey's worst qualities. Today the Globe & Mail's Roy MacGregor joined us as we asked "What's the best way to prevent hockey violence?"
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Your thoughts on cuts to The Fiddlehead & The Antigonish Review/ John Lanchester: is the financial system safer now than before the crash?
You put pen to paper and voiced your concerns about cuts to literary magazines that showcase young Maritime writers.
And, on the phone-in: we were joined by John Lanchester, author of "I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No-one Can Pay". Our question : Do you believe the financial system is safer than it was before the crash ?
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Literary journals in the Maritimes lose federal assistance/Support for regulating the home inspection industry/Marjorie Willison & your gardening questions.
They may have published a who's who of literary greats - but that won't help literary journals in the Maritimes losing federal assistance.
Beyond flashlights and ladders : support for regulating the home inspection industry.
On the phone-in: Marjorie Willison took all your gardening questions - indoors or out. And she'll explain how to start an indoor herb garden from scratch.
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Sea lice & farmed salmon/Maritimers by choice/ Diabetes Phone in.
Outta control : The return of sea lice to salmon farms has researchers looking for a new fix.
Maritimers by choice, but for different reasons : Your thoughts on what living here is all about.
On the phone-in: all your questions about the prevention, diagnosis & treatment of diabetes
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From drunk driving to international incident/The push to regulate the house inspection industry/ The Renovators Panel
From suspected drunk driving to international incident : what happened one October night on the Maine/New Brunswick border.
Unregulated and unsupervised : a Maritime contractor thinks it's time to overhaul the housing inspection industry.
On the phone-in: you called with your questions about renovating.
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Shelter after the catastrophe/ What do you think will be the most likely cause of future conflicts ?
Shelter after the catastrophe : a Maritimer who's helping build secure homes out of the wreckage that is Haiti.
Your thoughts on Amherst's economic woes, and ways to simplify the tax system
On the phone-in: We were joined by Cleo Paskal, author of "Global Warring : How Environmental, Economic & Political Crises Will Redraw The World Map". Our question : What do you think will be the most likely cause of future conflicts ?
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Amherst fights for it's economic life/ A whopper of a tender call or oil and gas development in NB/ Dr. Gabor Maté on raiding kids.
The border town of Amherst is fighting for it's economic life. What will it take to survive and prosper?
It's a whopper of a tender call. The New Brunswick government offers up more than a million hectares for potential oil and gas development
On the phone-in: Dr Gabor Maté answered your questions about establishing a loving and lasting relationship with children.
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A new & improved NB Power deal with Quebec/ Advice on what it would take to return to balanced budgets/ "Should governments raise new tax revenues to balance their budgets ?"
It's new, but is it improved ? The latest version of the controversial deal that changes the energy game in the Maritimes.
Read his lips : Possibly, new taxes : The Parliamentary Budget Officer's advice on what it will take to to return to balanced budgets.
On the phone-in: "Should governments raise new tax revenues to balance their budgets ?"
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One big electricity grid/Why politcians tiptoe around new sources of tax revenue/ Shaking salt from your diet
One big grid: the proposal for a new way of moving electricity around the region and how it might affect your power bill.
One person's tax loophole is another's exemption : Why politicians are tip-toeing around potential new sources of tax revenue that they need to balance budgets.
On the phone-in: advice on recipes that can help you reduce salt in your diet.
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Radiation and body scanners/teenage girls and fitness/ why did you decide to live in the Maritimes?
Concerned about radiation if you have to pass through those new airport body scanners ? We'll get the lowdown on the degree of risk involved.
Your thoughts on why so many teenaged girls are physically inactive.
And, on the phone-in: "What made you decide to live in the Maritimes ?"
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Tug of War: a judge's verdict on family court with Justice Harvey Brownstone.
"If you're a parent, would you give up parental decision-making responsibilities to a total stranger - even if that stranger wears a robe and is called 'Your Honour'?" That's what Judge Harvey Brownstone asks in his book "Tug of War" - an exploration of the pain created when people go to court to slug it out over separation, divorce and custody issues. Judge Brownstone was our guest and he answered your questions about family court.
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Where's the real Gateway?/Waiting for news of Sargeant Mark Gallagher/ Living with Alzheimers
Container traffic to Halifax is lagging. We'll explore options & obstacles.
Lisa Gallagher talks about the search for her husband, Mark, in Haiti.
How can you, or someone you love, prepare for life with Alzheimer's?
On the phone in you called with all your questions about the diagnosis and treatment of dementia.
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Help for Haiti & waiting for news/ on the phone in: what's red tape could you do without
Help for Haiti : as the Island nation struggles with the aftermath of the latest natural disaster, we'll hear from people involved in the relief effort, and from Maritimers waiting to hear from relatives.
On the phone-in: We were joined by Judith Andrew of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Do you have an example of red tape you could do without?
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Fire, floods & power ourages In Halifax/ The uncool factor: why teenaged girls don't exercise/ Best & Worst Ads
Fire, power outages &floods: it's been quite a day in downtown Halifax
The Uncool Factor : Why teenage girls take a pass on exercise, and what it would take to change their attitude towards fitness.
They entertain, they enrage, and they take up a lot of your attention. What are the best or worst ads in circulation today?
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Ready or not: the Moncton hospital makes plans to take patients from Nova Scotia in the event of a strike by health care support workers.
Up in the air or across the water... your response to transportation stories in the news
On the phone-in: veterinarian Dr Eric Carnegy will take all your questions about looking after the family pet.
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Insurance claims & storm damage/ Your feedback on Stephen Harper/On the Phone In:getting fit and staying fit.
How vulnerable are you to storm damage ? The Insurance Bureau of Canada is concerned about how many Maritimers don't realize the risks they face.
You don't like it - not one little bit. Your thoughts on Stephen Harper's style and tactics.
And, on the phone-in:Time to ease back into a fitness program! Call our fitness panel with questions about getting in shape and staying that way.
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Rockweed and sustainability/ Politics, prorogation and governing. What do you want to see happen between now and the next Federal election?
A fine balance. Nutrient-rich rockweed is coveted by those who wish to exploit it commercially - and they say it can be done in a sustainable way.
And, on the phone-in: Politics, prorogation and governing. What do you want to see happen between now and the next Federal election?
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Flying the unfriendly skies/Rockweed controversy in Maine/Doug Bethune on the Phone in
Fly the unfriendly skies : one Maritimer's tale of dealing with the new security regime when flying to the States.
A job bonanza or the marine equivalent of clearcutting ? Some people in Maine want a Nova Scotia company to back off on rockweed harvesting.
And, on the phone-in: automotive consultant Doug Bethune answered your calls on maintaining your car, truck or van.
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Halifax to Boston ferry/ Terry Punch on the Phone In
Could a Halifax to Boston ferry run succeed ? Its proponents have already charted the course.
More tales of storm surge destruction from around the Maritimes.
Terry Punch answered your questions about genealogy.
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Observing Chistmas/ Food Bank Show this Friday/ Mary Sue Waisman on eating well in the season of excess.
Nativity scenes, elves, shepherds and Santas : four Maritimers who don't observe Christmas tell us what December is like for them.
We'll have details on this Friday's Food Bank Show.
And, on the phone-in, dietician Mary Sue Waisman answered your questions about diet, nutrition, and eating sensibly in a season of feasting.
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Lennox Island lobsters/Your emails on dairy prices/Are governments doing enough to support parents of children with disabilities
A first for a First Nation : The Lennox Island band plans to get into the volatile lobster processing business
Milk, cheese and all things dairy : we'll churn through your emails on whether prices are fair for farmers, consumers and the foodservices industry.
On the phone-in: "Are governments doing enough to support parents of children with disabilities
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Miramichi autism registry/Dairy farmer counters complaints from food services industry/Maritime Newsmakers of the Year
Not always what it appears to be : An autism resource centre in Miramichi and local police develop Atlantic Canada's first registry of people with autism spectrum disorders.
A volley from the other side of the farm gate : a dairy farmer counters complaints from the food services industry about high prices.
On the phone-in: Maritime news editors join us with their picks for newsmaker of the year - and they'd like to hear yours
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From mozzarella on pizza to the cheese course & the ice cream for dessert, you don't have to look hard to find dairy on restaurant menus. But will costs force them off ?
Food fight! Sobeys and Superstore pull out all the stops to get you in the door.
On the phone-in: Art Irwin dispensed advice on energy conservation & home heating.
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The future of farming:going extinct or evolving? Dave Phillips & your weather questions
Going extinct or evolving ? The people who grow food in the Maritimes are feeling the squeeze of a powerful industry and the pull of some new opportunities.
On the phone-in: Dave Phillips of Environment Canada answered your questions about the weather.
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Divorce Fair/Keeping imposters out of nursing associations/ The Science of Everyday Life
Advice on getting uncoupled : the Maritimes will be the home of Canada's first Divorce Fair.
Protecting the vulnerable : are professional organizations in the region able to alert each other about unscrupulous people who've been drummed out of their ranks ?
On the phone-in: call Mary Anne White & Richard Wassersug with answers about The Science of Everyday Life.
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The cost of caring for a child with disabilities/The grim future of farming/should there be a public inquiry into Afghan detainees?
Placing a dollar value on responsibilities : how much more expensive is it to care for a child with disabilities ?
You don't know what you have till you lose it. Who will produce the food we all need if farms and farmers go out of business?
On the phone-in: "Should there be a public inquiry into the treatment of Afghan detainees ?"
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Governor of Maine on the Quebec Hydro deal/ Dumbo the Squid/ 100 Photos That Changed Canada
That tingling sensation : the governor of Maine tells us his concerns about the proposed energy deal between New Brunswick & Quebec.
Dumbo the Squid and all his distinctly weird friends : scientist Ron 0'Dor describes who inhabits the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean.
And, on the phone-in: Victory, defeat, joy & despair captured by the camera throughout our history : Our question: What's the most unforgettable Canadian photograph ?
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The case of the Imposter Nurse/ Lobsters & Pain/ Maintaining Senior's mobility.
Not exactly as advertised : a woman who worked as a senior administrator of a nursing home is banned from her profession, but many questions remain about what happened.
We may or may not feel your pain : the mysterious nervous sytem of the lobster.
On the phone-in: advice on how to maintain seniors' mobility.
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High seas search/Liking the Crust-A-Stun/Is Canadian Beer getting better or worse?
High seas search : We'll speak with the sister of 'round the world sailor Hubert Marcoux - the Charlo native who's missing on a trip from Halifax to Bermuda.
And: A reconsideration : apparently zapping lobsters with the Crust A Stun could turn some of you back into lobster-eaters.
And the phone-in you've all been waiting for : Is Canadian beer in your part of the Maritimes getting better or worse ?
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Waiting for an environmentally correct toilet/ Crust-A-Stun/ How to curb deficits
One darn thing after another : just how many things can work against you doing the environmentally-correct thing ?
Shocking : an inventor wants us to buy a device that will making boiling lobsters a thing of the past.
On the phone in: should governments cut services or raise taxes to deal with deficits?
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Opportunities for next generation of Maritime workers/ Preventing family violence
Opening the bottleneck : your ideas on what it would take to open up opportunities for the next generation of Maritime workers.
On the phone-in: Peace in our homes : What's the most effective way to prevent family violence ?
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Nursing supply & demand/Dalhousie University Transition Year Program/Eric Carnegy & Pet Care
Supply, demand & nursing : another look at shortages in the Maritimes and the 4-year academic requirement for nurses
Untapped potential : what's being done to attract & support certain non-tradtional groups into post-secondary education.
On the phone-in: veterinarian Eric Carnegy answered all your pet care questions.
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NB cancer rates/ Ray Ivany on obstacles to education/is a university degree worth the cost?
The link between high cancer rates and air quality: the Conservation Council of New Brunswick insists coal fired generating plants are a major factor.
Mind the gap:the President of Acadia University - and former head of Nova Scotia's community college system - on the obstacles that keep many qualified people from finding a niche in the labour market.
On the phone-in: Is a university education worth the price?
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Insurance caps and Canadian comedy
A lawyer talks about the need to end caps on auto insurance payouts, a new study on Type 2 diabetes, Mark Breslin on Canadian comedy
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Turbines below, weather above
Turbines in the Bay of Fundy, a soldier's story, emails on Remembrance Day, Weather phone-in
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Cenotaph services/ Ted Barris & Veterans' Untold Stories/ Canadian Letters & Images Project/ Changing views of remembrance Day
Cenotaph services in Halifax and Fredericton.
Ted Barris, author of "Breaking the Silence: Veterans' Untold Stories was our guest.
You shared your mementos from veterans with Dr Stephen Davies, The director of the Canadian Letters & Images Project.
On the 12:30 -13:00 phone in, we asked how the Afghan War is reshaping your view of Remembrance Day
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Cenotaph damage/ Dolly McEuen & the Ajax Club/ Jim White on painting
Toppling tradition : Frederictonians are appalled at an act of vandalism directed at the city's cenotaph.
And...Up against the Establishment : Part 2 of the fascinating story of Dolly McEuen and the Ajax Club in wartime Halifax.
And, on the phone-in: call Jim White for advice on your next project involving paint, stain or wallpaper.
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Nov 9 Dolly & the Ajax Club/ Terry Punch on the Phone In
High speed hook ups: we'll check in with the company bringing broadcast to northern Nova Scotia
Hello, Dolly : The amazing story of Dolly McEuen & the legendary wartime servicemen's club she founded in wartime Halifax.
And, on the phone-in: call Terry Punch with questions about tracing your family tree.
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Nov 6 Access, speed, privacy- which digital issues matter most to you?
Ladies OR gentlemen ? Why does gender seem to shape the way we relate to the digital world ?
Too tight a noose: getting too strict about copyright issues on the net may stifle creativity and business opportunities.
From the speed & quality of your internet connection, to access & privacy issues - what's the most important digital issue for you ?
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Nov 5 Net Neutrality/ Pain Management
Net neutrality: Why one of the founding principles of the internet needs protection
Save the last tuna for me : the diplomatic dance to conserve bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean gets underway, with some scientists hoping it's not the Last Dance.
On the phone-in: Dr Mary Lynch answered your questions about the treatment and management of chronic pain.
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Email complaints, digital privacy
Eastlink/BellAliant email complaints, digital privacy, Bob Bancroft on coyotes and wildlife
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New England power generators & the Québec Hydro deal/ Art Irwin on keeping the heat in.
A monopoly with more money than God ? The head of a consortium that represents power generators in New England doesn't like Hydro Quebec's power play.
We'll also hear your comments and questions about the far-reaching effects of the proposed deal.
And, on the phone-in: Art Irwin took your questions about keeping the heat where it belongs - inside.
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No long lines for H1N1 shot in the Soo/ Is the deal to sell NB Power to Hydro Quebec good for the Maritimes?
No long lines or frustrating waits : how an Ontario community is handling H1N1 vaccinations in a calm & orderly way.
Two centuries of robbery, murder and mayhem along the Atlantic Coast - our very own pirate story
On the phone-in: Is the historic deal to sell NB Power to Hydro Quebec good for the Maritimes
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HydroQuébec deal/ The Science Panel.
Power politics.... the premiers of New Brunswick and Quebec announce an historic deal that will put NB Power in the hands of Quebec Hydro.
What else did you expect? We'll have your thoughts about Rick Hillier's assessment of the war in Afghanistan.
And, on the phone-in:the Science panel is back - call with all your questions about the science of everyday life
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Preventable childhood injuries
Never mind H1N1- what about the invisible epidemic ? A new report looks at childhood injuries and ways to reduce their numbers.
Power grab or power sharing ? Speculation around the effects of a potential New Brunswick/Quebec deal ripples through the Atlantic Provinces.
And, on the phone-in: beyond bedsheets...seamstress and designer Sheri McKillop offers her suggestions on how to whip up a hallowe'en costume.
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Oct 27/09 Drs Strang, Morrison and Cleary answred your questions about the H1N1 vaccine.
A special one-hour phone-in:
If you have a question about H1N1 itself or the vaccination programme in your province, call now. We have public health representatives from New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia with the answers.
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Oct 26/09 Rick Hillier on war and politics.
A shock to the system : what would the sale of NB Power assets to Hydro Québec mean for other electrical consumers & utilities in the Maritimes?
And.... Is global production of oil & natural gas peaking and the world running out of fossil energy? A recent guest on the show says that's a myth - but you don't seem impressed with his analysis.
On the phone-in: General Rick Hillier answered your questions about the armed forces & politics.
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Oct 23/09 SCOC dismisses Irving appeal on sub contract/Astronomy phone in
High & dry : the Supreme Court dismisses an appeal by Irving Shipbuilding over the awarding of a huge submarine contract.
A symptom of a health care system in crisis? We'll hear from the daughter of an Alzheimer's patient who was assaulted at hospital in New Glasgow.
From exo-planets to telescopes for the amateur - our astronomy panel answered all your questions about the night sky.
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Oct 23/09 Primer on HIN1 vaccine/ Bob Bancroft on wildlife of the Maritimes
Confused about whether or not you should get the H1N1 vaccine? We'll have a primer.
Not so fast. One energy expert says it's a myth that global production of oil and natural gas are peaking and the world is running out of fossil energy.
On the phone-in: Bob Bancroft answered your questions about wildlife of the Maritimes.
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Oct 22/09 What ancient knowledge most impresses you ?
The rebuttal : a former Nova Scotia cabinet minister responds to yesterday's attack on the phone-in from author Ian Brown on his proposals for rationing costly end-of-life health care.
Can a modern corporation turn green ? The editor of Corporate Knights on what - if anything - was learned from last year's market meltdown.
And, on the phone-in: Wade Davis - author of "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World". What ancient knowledge most impresses you ?
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Oct 20 Learning from person with severe disabilities.
Tomorrow's problem, here today! Not the most optimistic of slogans - but where are the solutions to the pension mess in Canada ?
From nuclear proliferation to pandemic planning : An international conference on world security is coming to the Maritimes.
And, on the phone-in: we'll be joined by Ian Brown, author of a remarkable book entitled : The Boy in the Moon : A Father's Search for his Disabled Son . Our question "What can we learn from a person with severe disabilities ?"
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Oct 20 What can we learn from a person with severe disabilities ?
Tomorrow's problem, here today! Not the most optimistic of slogans - but where are the solutions to the pension mess in Canada ?
From nuclear proliferation to pandemic planning : An international conference on world security is coming to the Maritimes.
And, on the phone-in: we were joined by Ian Brown, author of a remarkable book entitled : The Boy in the Moon : A Father's Search for his Disabled Son . Our question "What can we learn from a person with severe disabilities ?"
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Oct 19/09 Doug Bethune on Car Care
Contesting the contest : two members of the Listuguj First Nation running for office in a Quebec town just across from Campbellton,New Brunswick meet opposition to their entering the race at all.
And... From priorities in our schools and the enironment to stories & questions about organ donation - we hear your contibutions to MN.
And, on the phone-in: Doug Bethune answered your question about car care.
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Oct 16/09 What's the greatest challenge for environmentalists in the Maritimes ?"
Supposition, panic, and politicized agendas : is the Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle really the threat it's made out to be ?
Women, politics, and the case for changing the way we elect members of Parliament
And, on the phone-in: "What's the greatest challenge for environmentalists in the Maritimes ?"
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Oct 15/09 Banning uranium mining, lessons from Sweden, & getting rid of rodents
Tougher than a ban : what will be the consequences - intended and otherwise - of a law against uranium exploration and mining in Nova Scotia ?
Learning from the Swedes : a Halifax delegation is impressed by a country that weaves sustainability into every facet of life.
And, on the phone-in: Of Mice and men - or women. Advice on how to get rid of small, unwelcome visitors in your home this winter.
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Oct 14/09 Dr Evelyn Sutton: diagnosing & treating arthritis
Par for the economic course: what effect is the high Canadian dollar having on Maritime exporters ?
Life, death & meaning: why the definition of "brain death" has implications for organ donation and your final wishes.
On the phone-in: rheumatologist Dr Evelyn Sutton answered your questions about the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis
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Oct 13/09 Tracing your family tree with Terry Punch
The last of the great ones: a man involved in the 40th anniversary celebrations of the voyage of the CSS Hudson explains why it deserves a place in the history of the Maritimes and of world scientific exploration.
And, you take a dim view of some views expressed by recent guests on the show.
On the phone-in: genealogist Terry Punch answered your questions about tracing your family tree.
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Oct 9/09 Brian Lee Crowley: "What change would most improve life for Canadians ?"
No fixed address - no proper health care : A new survey of homeless people explores the link between living on the street and quality of health care
We have an invitation for all you photographers out there.
And, on the phone-in: our guest was Brian Lee Crowley, author of "Fearful Symmetry : The Fall and Rise of Canada's Founding Values". Our question : "What change would most improve life for Canadians ?"
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Oct 8/09 In your experience, who stands out as a great leader?"
A Catholic opts out of a multi million dollar settlement for victims of abuse to pursue a civil case against the Church in Nova Scotia.
Is it time for reform? We'll hear your comments on the prospects of creating a different kind of Church
On the phone in: "In your experience, who stands out as a great leader?"
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Oct 7/09 Rex Murphy on Facts & Opinions
Now, more than ever: women whose calls for reform in the Catholic Church have been ignored say it's time they were heard.
We'll hear your lesson plan on what schools should do to better prepare students for the academic demands of university.
And, on the phone-in: Rex Murphy's new collection of essays is called "Canada & Other Matters of Opinion". He'll be our guest as we ask: "Which interests you more : fact or opinion ?"
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Oct 6/09 Do high schools adequately prepare students for university?
The interpretation of 30,000 medical tests has come under question in Northwestern New Brunswick:we'll have an update from Grand Falls.
Nobel prize winner & Nova Scotia native Willard Boyle reflects on the importance of education, which leads into our question on the phone in today : Do high schools adequately prepare students for university?"
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Oct 5/09 Preparing your home for winter.
Just where he wanted to be : honouring a diver's wish.
It's a gas, man, but should it come from garbage? Your thoughts on the idea of burning garbage to convert it into bio fuel.
On the phone-in: Home heating consultant Art Irwin answered all your questions about making your home as energy efficient as possible
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Oct 2/09 Do you think humans act out of empathy or selfishness?
How many kilometers can you go on a bag of garbage ? Halifax explores turning its citizens' waste into automobile fuel.
And, on the phone-in we were joined by Frans de Waal, author of The Age of Empathy : Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society ". Our question : Do you think humans more likely to act out of empathy or selfishness ?
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Oct 1/09 "How much does a tax rebate on home heating help people on low incomes ?"
Voices from the past brought into the present : a new CD liberates the voices of Mi'kmaq speakers and singers from the archives.
The law and mental illness : lessons learned from a New Brunswick court.
On the phone-in: Where efforts to help the poor collide with efforts to reduce energy consumption :
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Sept 30/09 Adult Literacy 101
An ounce of prevention...an update on Nova Scotia's state of readiness for H1N1.
Regulate, before someone gets hurt : naturopathic doctors in PEI want a regional association
A helping hand : Red Cross in the Maritimes prepares to assist relief efforts in the Samoan islands devastated by yesterday's tsunami
On the phone-in: "What would most help Maritime adults get the literacy skills they need ?"
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Sept 29 The Science Panel, & Dr David Healy on ethics & drug trials
Profit vs protection : psychiatrist David Healy on the lack of progress in putting adverse effects in drug trials on the public record.
On the phone-in: Mary Anne White & Richard Wassersug answered your questions about The Science of everyday Life.
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Sept 28/09 Oh baby! When's the best time to start a family?
A fatal, mosquito-borne neurological disease that affects horses makes its first appearance in the Maritimes.
What would Hippocrates do? Part one of a conversation with Dr David Healy - the Irish pyschiatrist who's made enemies by drawing attention to the ethical issues surrounding the marketing & prescribing of antidepressants.
On the phone-in: StatsCan suggests more Canadians are becoming Moms. So what makes people think it's a good time to start a family?
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Sept 25/09 Gardening with Marjorie Willison
Not all patients are created equal : how sex & gender can affect the quality of your health care.
On the phone-in : Marjorie Willison answered your questions about lawns, gardens, trees & shrubs.
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Sept 24/09
Who's in charge ? A look at the chain of command when herbicides were sprayed in Northern New Brunswick forests.
You really don't want this in your harbour: has "pancake batter tunicate" crossed the US border into the Bay of Fundy ?
On the phone-in: George Iny of the Automobile Protection Association answered your questions about buying a new or used vehicle.
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Comparing cellphone plans; Foreign-trained doctors & nurses; and wills
Out of range : your comments about yesterday's show on the difficulty of comparing cellphone plans.
There are foreign-trained doctors & nurses eager to attend to our health. But they can't until they jump through all the hoops to gain accreditation in Canada. We'll hear some of their stories.
And, on the phone-in: Julia Cornish answered your questions about making a will or updating it.
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The tiny phone, the fine print & the big bills.
Mandatory minimumsfor cheese: why Kraft, Saputo & Parmalat are fighting regulations requiring more Canadian milk in Canadian cheese.
And a place to call home. Your views on the best way provide care and support for adults with intellectual disabilities.
On the phone-in: the tiny phone, the fine print & the big bills : "What do you think would help deliver affordable cellphone service?"
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You Are Now Entering Autumn: Doug Bethune on car care.
Don't fence me in : ATV drivers want openings in moose fences along highways, but some people see it as a step backwards for public safety.
We'll hear your thoughts on the aerial spray programme in New Brunswick and find out why the head of a major Maritime transport company doesn't like new regulations for truck lights.
And, on the phone-in: automotive consultant Doug Bethune answered your questions about your car, truck or van.
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Pickle this, preserve that.
The silence of the workers: a New Brunswick woman fights on behalf of some forestry workers afraid to speak against aerial pesticide spraying.
Employees at Abitibi Bowater in Nova Scotia grapple with more bad news for their newsprint mill; the Premier tells them how the province can help.
On the phone-in Ellie Topp answered all your questions about preserving, pickling and putting away all those fresh fruits and vegies.
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What Maritime stories should make it to the big screen?
10 years ago a landmark ruling gave aboriginal people the right to earn a livelihood from the sea and provoked violence and ill feeling. What a difference a decade has made.
Nova Scotia's introduction of Apology legislation provokes an outbreak of contrition on city streets.
And, on the phone-in what Maritime stories would make a great feature or documentary?
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Keeping your piano in toe-tapping tune.
The kids are allright, but they could be better : the author of a new report on childcare in Canada examines the gap between what different provinces offer parents & kids.
On the phone-in: Bill Stevensen and Gary Trenholme took your questions about the care & maintenance of your piano, and offer some advice if you're thinking about buying one.
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Keeping the wheeze and sneezes under control.
The churning tides of the Bay of Fundy will be the home of three experimental power turbines : we'll find out which conditions are attached.
We'll hear your reactions to the uneven coverage of cancer drugs from province to province, AND your ideas on how to improve Parliament.
And, on the phone-in: from allergies to asthma, call Dr Greg Rex with all your questions about keeping the sneezes & wheezes under control.
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Making it work: your ideas to improve Parliament
A devastating diagnosis with catastrophic financial implications;the inequalities of cancer drug coverage across the country.
Disillusioned with rhetorical mud slinging and personality politics ? On the phone in we asked - "What would improve the way Parliament works?"
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Tracing your family tree: when do you reign in the research?
It's easy to begin tracing a family tree. But once you get started, how will you know when it's time to stop - if ever ?
Genealogist Terry Punch explained how to rein in those perfectionist impulses and come up with a useful piece of research you can share.He also answered you questions about tracing your family tree.
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Live and local: Truro dials up a new radio station.
Live and local : Truro dials up a radio station that'll showcase nothing but local performers.
Pee for the Pea Patch ? your views on using a combo of wood ash and Number One to fertilize crops.
And, on the phone-in: biologist Bob Bancroft took your calls about wildlife of the Maritimes.
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Does shouting make you right?
Does shouting make you right? A wind energy developer stands by his project despite hostile talk from the public.
Making tracks : Eastport, Maine pins its hopes on a restored rail link to St Stephen, New Brunswick.
On the phone-in: Mary Sue Waisman answered your questions about proper diet & offered tips on making more tasty & nutritious lunches than ever.
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Pee For The Pea Patch?
Surendra Pradhan,a research student in Environmental Science at the University of Kuopio in Finland explains that a combination of human urine and wood ash is more effective - and much cheaper and more sustainable for the soil - than chemical fertilizers.
Jim Lindner provides advice on your how to make your personal audio-visual collection survive, whether it's childhood photos, slides, favourite cassette mix tapes or that outrageous wedding reception on VHS.
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You call that parenting?
Cellphone ban in PEI; eat local day; phone-in on best and worst parenting stories
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Here comes the homework
Canso mayor on call centre; researcher on cheap drinks; Fisheries Minister on clam closure; the value of homework
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Grilling the preems
The premiers of all three Maritime provinces answer questions about their priorities for the fall
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The big ban
Reaction to DFO ban on shellfish harvesting for Maritimes
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The Coriolis myth
Hour-long science phone-in with Mary Anne White and Richard Wassersug.
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The lemon balm mystery
Hour-long gardening phone-in with Marjorie Willison
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Blueberry Fields for Ever, and Music That Lifts You Up.
First Nations people from New Brunswick say US Customs cast a shadow over their summer tradition. And music that makes your soul happy.
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University Funding
Reporter Phonse Jessome talks about the MacDonald's murder from 1992. And three university leaders respond to a controversial proposal by 5 big schools to consolidate research money.
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Tempest in a Teapot or Two-Tiered Education?
The president of the University of Toronto muses about the idea of creating centres of excellence at some Universities. And on the phone-in, your driving pet peeves.
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Automotive Phone-in
Doug Bethune tells us why it's the best time to buy a new car. And answers your car-care questions.
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Getting Ready for Hurricane Bill, and your favorite comedy.
A look at preparations around the region in anticipation of Hurricane Bill. And we take your calls about comedy.
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Bad year for bugs and cooking in hot weather
Why people in Northern Nova Scotia have had to stay indoors lately. And our chefs answer your cooking questions.
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All a-twitter about Twitter - Discussing Social Media.
Wading through the federal government's plans to help pork producers, Peter Coade predicts a big blow on the weekend, and our guests take questions on the value of social networking sites.
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Benefits of volunteering
Savoie update
Scallop study
Earwig solution
Yarmouth housing crisis
What benefits do you get from volunteering?
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Are we doing enough for amateur athletes?
Sounds from the Canada Games, a lifelong environmental activist steps down, and we ask "are we doing enough to support amateur athletes?"
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Late Summer Gardening
Marjorie Willison takes all your gardening question.
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What Can the NDP do to win your vote?
Jack Layton takes your questions on the ohone-in; also propaganda on the taxpayer's dime, and thoughts on pandemic planning.
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The Ethics of Pandemic Planning
Dr Jennifer Gibson from University of Toronto and Dr Francoise Baylis from Dalhousie join us to talk about the ethical issues surrounding pandemic planning.
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The Final Chapter
A well-regarded Halifax bookstore calls it quits. So what do we lose when independent booksellers close? Also...an update on a local horse trainer and the biggest race of his life. And on the phone-in, the problem with litter and what to do about it.
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If you're seeing dots...connect them.
That's what Steven Casper has been doing at UPEI. Dr. Casper is the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Biomedical Science, and he's spent the last four months mapping the Island's bioscience sector. Also...Donald Marshall Jr is laid to rest, and Terry Punch answers questions about tracing your family tree.
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Should recommendations from the BC inquiry into Robert Dziekanski's death be taken up by other provinces?
Should the recommendations from the BC inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski be taken up by other provinces ? We'll ask Nova Scotia's Minister of Justice.
Political access with a pricetag : Donald Savoie on the unhealthy effects of lobbyists & consultants on democracy.
We hear from some cast members of a lively Moncton production of "Rent", feature Lezlie Lowe's documentary, A Little Fine Tuning, and tell you how you can put your community on the MN website.
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Remembering Donald Marshall Junior
How Donald Marshall's victories shaped a younger generation of Mi'kmaq.
An Acadian amid the dreaming spires: Donald Savoie's life-changing experuience at Oxford.
The Sydney Mines man who's training Saturday's favourite to win the harness racing classic, The Hambletonian
On the phone-in: veterinarian Eric Carnegy answered your questions about pet care & health.
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More serious than dry rot: what's holding up the Point Lepreau retrofit?
More serious than dry rot : What's holding up the refurbishment of the Maritimes' only nuclear power plant?
From ugly clashes to harmony : Donald Savoie reflects on the remarkable evolution of New Brunswick's two main linguistic groups & what they need to do next.
And, on the phone-in: is there enough parking for bicycles in your community ?
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Rapid change in the lives of New Brunswick Acadians
One man's journey through modern Maritime history : Donald Savoie's insights into the rapid change in the lives of New Brunswick Acadians.
Can you help someone find the plastic trinket that used to adorn a classic 1970s-era rum ?
On the phone-in, Art Irwin answered your questions about home ventilation & energy conservation.
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Marjorie Willison answers all your questions about gardening
Maritime Noon's resident gardener Marjorie Willison answers all your questions.
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Ready...or not. Nova Scotia is not prepared for the flu pandemic
Ready...or not ? Nova Scotia's auditor general says the province is not prepared for an HINI pandemic.
An online & broadsheet publication is launched in NB as an alternative to mainstream news.
Hurry up & wait : problems with the new Marine Atlantic ferry disrupt everything from business to vacation plans.
On the phone in - Mary Ann White and Richard Wassersug answers your questions about the science of every day life.
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Newspaper Follies in NB, Sunbeds As Cancer Boxes, and...Is There A Train Trip In Your Future?
On July 28th,the Telegraph Journal printed a front page apology, admitting that an editor had inserted factually incorrect information into a story written by two reporters about the Prime Minister's behaviour at the state funeral of former Governor-General Roméo LeBlanc.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has just upgraded its assessment of the risks posed by sunbeds and sunlamps.
"What would make you want to take the train ?"
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High speed trains and existential licence plates.
From high speed trains to existential licence plates : your response to the stories we tell.
From a whisper to a roar. Atlantic farmers join forces to make their voices and their concerns heard loudly & clearly.
Doug Bethune answers are your car-care questions on the phone in.
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Red light for a second oil refinery in Saint John.
Red light for a second oil refinery : why the Irvings & BP have decided not to go ahead with the megaproject.
Forget the strike - the head of High Speed Rail Canada will tell us why he thinks Canadians aren't travelling on VIA.
And, on the phone-in: What do you think of your province's licence plate slogan ?
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Which renewable resource matters more ? The clash between the Fundy fishery & tidal energy.
Which renewable resource matters more ? The potential clash between the Fundy fishery & tidal energy projects.
Terror on six legs : the use of insects as weapons of war.
On the phone-in: Lisa Moore, author of "February" - a novel based on the Ocean Ranger disaster joined us as we asked "Which work of fiction has most helped you appreciate an historical tragedy ?"
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Health care workers: what's behind their reluctance to get vaccinated.
Health care workers are the first line of defence during outbreaks like H1N1 : so why are so many reluctant to get vaccinated ?
Friction in the Fundy : traditional weir fishermen blame draggers for low catches, but what are the facts ?
On the phone-in: Jim Lindner dispensed advice on how to rescue audio & visual keepsakes, from family interviews on cassettes to proms & weddings on VHS.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: February 9, 2010
Bob Gainey steps down as head coach of the Canadiens. Nancy parses this hockey development with Sonali Karnick. Also: The Canadian Red Cross Emergency Response Manager. Don Martin on the olympics as political photo op. Mark Lepage on the launch of the trial against Michael Jackson's doctor. And special guest Shari Okeke. Just because.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: February 8, 2010
Nancy talks to two members from Kahnawake about the eviction notices sent to non-natives living on the reserve. Also: fighting e-parking tickets. And Sonali Karnick on the Saints' Super Bowl victory and the Habs' Sunday loss.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: February 5, 2010
Nancy talks to prosthetics specialists from Montreal working in Haiti with amputees. Also: The bike liberator. And Sonali Karnick on divining Super Bowl XLIV.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: February 4, 2010
Nancy talks sharia banks in the wake of report for the CMHC. Also: Loto Quebec moves into online gambling. And response to the news that the provincial Quebec government is going to loosen its immigration policies toward Haitians.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: February 3, 2010
With H1N1 well behind us, Nancy talks to a public health official about the flu vaccination campaign. Also: Sonali Karnick on the Habs win over the Canucks.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: February 2, 2010
Nancy talks to two thirtysomethings who dropped out of their corporate jobs out of a feeling of disatisfaction. Also: United Nations appointed advisor, director of Parliamentary Support in Haiti. And Sonali Karnick on injured Hab Michael Cammalleri.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: February 1, 2010
Nancy talks to a dentistry graduate and a nursing graduate stymied by Quebec language requirements. Also: David Gutnick on the situation in Haiti. And Will Prosper on the situation in Montreal North as the Villanueva inquiry resumes.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 29, 2010
Nancy talks to a home renovaton contractor about the effect of the tax credit. Plus: Sonali Karnick on Hockey Day in Cananda -- in Inuktitut.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 28, 2010
Nancy talks to the mayor of Montreal North, ex-cop Gilles Deguire. Also: real estate agents dish about a hot market. And Sonali Karnick on short-track speed skating.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 27, 2010
Nancy talks with the acting president of the embattled Canadian human rights organization, Rights and Democracy. Also: Ange-Aimee Woods tells us about the Montreal police's Civilian Community Relations Advisor. And Sonali Karnick on the Impact in training and more on the Patrice Cormier case.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 26, 2010
Nancy talks to two Haitian Montrealers and previous Daybreak guests about Monday's reconstruction conference. Also: Shawn Apel on the blue collar rotating strike and the municipal budget vote. And Sonali Karnick on the Patrice Cormier decision and the freestyle downhill ski team.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 25, 2010
As leaders meet to discuss a development planfor Haiti, Nancy talks to Peter Kent, minister of state for foreign affairs responsible for the Americas. As well, she has a sit down with the Haitian consul general in Montreal. Also: Sonali Karnick on women's hockey and Sunday's football game.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 22, 2010
Nancy talks to Shawn Apel about the Haiti benefit concert at the Telus theatre. Also: Two Montrealers who are bringing a differnt kind of relief to Haiti. Sonali Karnick on the firing of Georges Laraque. And Pierre Landry on the local company that has made a success of pressing vinyl.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 21, 2010
Ban smoking outside of restaurants and bars? Nancy talks to a doctor who thinks it's going too far. Also: Trailer park evictions. And Sonali Karnick on last night's Habs game.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 20, 2010
Nancy talks to a woman who's waiting for the daughter she adopted in Haiti to be cleared to come to Canada. Also: Montreal blue collar workers calling for a "rotating" strike.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 19, 2010
Kate McGarrigle dies of cancer. Pierre Landry eulogizes and Nancy talks to one of Kate's doctors about her last days and legacy. Also: Shawn Apel on Haitian Montrealers trying to get speedy immigration for their families. And Stephen Puddicombe on the ground at the site of the disaster.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 15, 2010
Nancy talks to the CBC's David Common who's reporting live from Port-au-Prince. Shawn Apel takes us to the airport as the first Canadians out of Haiti arrive. Also: Pierre Landry on Clovys TV. And Sonali Karnick on Alex Tagliani.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 14, 2010
Nancy talks to two Haitan Montrealers about the ordeal of looking on in the face of disaster. Mayor Tremblay comes to studio to defend his new budget. Also: Sonali Karnick on olympic snowboarding.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: January 13, 2010
In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti Nancy talks to the Haitian Consul General in Montreal, a local fundraiser and a Canadian from Red Cross on the ground in the beleaguered island.
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Daybreak from CBC Radio: December 22, 2009
Steve Rukavina sits in for Nancy Wood. On today's podcast Steve talks about the school closings just announced by the Lester B. Pearson school board. Also: retail makes a small upswing. And Pierre Landry goes looking for the album of the decade.
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Stuart Jamieson's resignation
The CBC's Robert Jones joins Terry Seguin to talk about the Stuart Jamieson resignation and what kind of heat that puts on his colleagues in the Liberal party.
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Mark Rheaume
Today Mark features singer - songwriter Matthew Barber.
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Cabinet Minister Resigns
Tourism and Parks Minister Stuart Jamieson gets shown the door for speaking his mind on the NB Power deal. Terry Seguin talks to a political science professor about what this may mean for the Graham government.
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Movie Reviewers 'When in Rome'
This week marks the debut of Rebekah Chasse's new co-reviewer Tony Sekulich.
Their movie choice this week, 'When in Rome.'
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Helmet Safety
Should wear a helmet while snowboarding and skiing? According to this interview, yes you should.
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First Nation Dogs
We continue our look into the dog problems that afflict Tobique and First Nations communities across the country -- Terry speaks with a woman who says no one wants to see what she had to witness as a child.
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Gas Guru
Which way will price at the pumps go this week?
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Playhouse Preview
Today a preview of Darwin, a show for kids 5 and older.
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New Brunswick Natural Gas
An Alberta energy company says it hopes to be supplying natural gas to homes in the Moncton area from wells in New Brunswick by next year.
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Just Wondering
How can you prevent shin splints?
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There'll be no bridge over troubled water for the Atcon Group.
Provincial reporter Jacques Poitras talks with host Hance Colburne.
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Airport Body Scanners coming to an airport near you.
Reporter Melissa Oakley talks with host Terry Seguin
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Time for a Change?
New Brunswick's Attorney General is promising to fix the backlog in the province's family court system.
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Freedom 65 and Beyond!
Our financial guy, Dan noel is here to talk about retirement.
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Ready, Set....Not so Fast!
Pierre Battah talks about the importance of proper training in the workplace.
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A Year Later...
A Moncton lawyer doesn't think enough has changed about the state of domestic legal aid in New Brunswick.
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Stamp of Approval
The contributions of the Right Honourable Romeo LeBlanc will be recognized this Monday by Canada Post.
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Just Say No...to Chicken Bones?
Our Between the Lines panel discusses the controversy over calls to boycott Ganongs chocolates.
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The Ganong Panel
A group of high profile New Brunswickers passes judgement on the deal to sell part of NB Power to Hydro Quebec.
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Family Law in New Brunswick
The province has been sitting on a taskforce report for more than a year now.
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In Good Hands?
What to do when it's time to leave your small business.
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Floods, Fire and Flu
How prepared is your workplace for an emergency?
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Too Much Information
Many Canadians are concerned about social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Lucien on NB Power, Part Deux
Lucien, the mill worker from the north shore, is always sure to have lots to say. This morning, he has the NB Power deal on his mind.
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Raw Milk
Unpasteurized milk may have won a legal battle in Ontario, but does that mean it will gain a foothold on a mainstream market?
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The Tablet
This year could see the rise of a whole new kind of computer.
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Is it Enough or Too Much?
The hit hockey fans have been talking about for the past week, cost Patrice Cormier the rest of the regular season and the playoffs.
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A Hero's Return
RCMP members in New Brunswick prepare to honour the memory of their colleague, Sgt Mark Gallagher.
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Working for the Weekend
What do you do when your boss demands too much of your time and won't compensate you for it?
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Bank Withdrawal
Some analysts say a U.S. crackdown on big banks could have a major ripple effect on our financial institutions.
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Working Amidst the Devastation
Danielle Levesque is a nurse from Moncton who works for the Red Cross. After last week's earthquake in Haiti, she was on the next available flight to that devastated region.
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Dirty Play or Lapse of Judgement?
We talk to our Between the Lines panel about the Patrice Cormier hit and how we respond to violence in hockey.
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Convenience Fodd version 2.0
Find out how packaged food is finding a new market thanks to a bit of simplifying.
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Starting from Scratch?
Find out why home insurance may be getting pricier in Nothern New Brunswick.
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Not Quite Pulling the Plug...but definitely a Strong Tug
Some Liberal MLA's go public on their discomfort with the NB Power deal.
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R-R-S-P Bust?
A new report says boomers are no longer lining up at the bank to put their money into retirement savings. Have they saved enough?
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Its a Steal.
We take a look at theft in the workplace with Pierre battah.
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Understand?
The New Brunswick Government is concerned the public does not understand the details and benefits of the proposed sale of NB Power. Robert Jones has been looking into this.
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Tragedy in Haiti Hits Home
Last night the RCMP confirmed the news Mark Gallagher's family and friends had feared.
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The Collector
You could call it the OTHER hockey hall of fame. A New Brunswick man builds a world-class shrine to hockey heroes - in his basement. Dave MacDonald visits Chris O'Neill of Escuminac to see his collection.
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Waiting and Wondering
A well respected Mountie who served in both Moncton and Belledune is among the missing in Haiti. We get the latest on the search for Sergeant Gallagher
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Booked your Flight?
Security officials say it's okay to take books on a plane, but it seems not all security guards got that memo...
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Matt Rainnie - Youth in Revolt
An intelligent but awkward teenager creates a dangerous alter ego in his quest to win a girl's heart.
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Could You Please Hold?
If red tape is ruling your life, Pierre Battah has some tips on making your workplace a little less beaurocratic.
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Generation Debt
Our business and financial watcher Dan Noel is here to talk about the economic perils of poor financial literacy skills.
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Lucien on NB Power
Just about everyone has an opinion on the proposed sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec. Lucien, New Brunswick's blue collar philosopher is no exception.
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Ted Nolan - Helping The Leaders Of Tomorrow
Former NHLer Ted Nolan talks about his efforts towards helping aboriginal women in New Brunswick.
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Matt Rainnie's Triple-Header
Up in the Air, It's Complicated and Sherlock Holmes. Three movies for the price of one as Matt Rainnie delivers his holiday movie wrap-up.
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Our Book Worm Talks Canada Reads
Sarah Maier took a look at one of the Canada Reads offerings....Generation X by Douglas Copeland
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[mp3 file: runs 8:36]
The Lord Beaverbrook Rink's 50th Anniversary
The CBC's Hance Colburne spoke with Mac Wickens who's worked at the rink since it opened in the summer of 1960
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[mp3 file: runs 7:00]
Keeping The Blood Services Flowing In Saint John
President of the medical staff organization for the Saint John region, Dr. Andrea Garland, tells us about her fight to keep the Canadian Blood Services Building in Saint John
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[mp3 file: runs 8:06]
Holding Up Repairs To The Harbour Bridge
Saint John M.P., Rodney Weston, gives us his thoughts on why a local M.L.A. is suggesting that his campaign promise to rid the tolls on the harbour bridge is causing bridge repair delays
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[mp3 file: runs 7:08]
CBC Maritimes Reporter Returns From Haiti
Stephen Puddicombe shares his experiences from Haiti where he was covering the aftermath of last month's earthquake
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[mp3 file: runs 7:46]
Romeo LeBlanc Makes His Way Onto A Canadian Postage Stamp
Christian Nicholson painted the portrait of Romeo LeBlanc that will be featured on the stamp
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[mp3 file: runs 7:45]
One Of The "Dragon's" From The CBC's Dragon's Den Comes To Saint Johh
Kevin O'Leary gives us his entrepreneurial thoughts on the buzz over the so-called energy hub
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[mp3 file: runs 7:29]
Our Health Columnist Talks Billing Numbers
Dr. Simon tells us about the new billing numbers that the province has added to try to help the thousands of New Brunswickers who are without a doctor
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[mp3 file: runs 7:55]
Irving Oil Cancels Their Plans For Their Headquarters On Long Wharf
M.L.A. for Saint John Lancaster, Abel Leblanc, tells us why Fort Reliance's decision to not move ahead on Long Wharf is a good thing for the city
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[mp3 file: runs 8:41]
This Week's Saint Johner Away
Erich Schwartz is originally from Rothesay but is now living in Vancouver and has started a company and a board game called "Greenomics"
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[mp3 file: runs 11:31]
Panel Reviews The N.B. Power Deal
David Ganong was part of the panel that concluded the deal to sell part of N.B. Power to Hydro Quebec is a good one for New Brunswick
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[mp3 file: runs 9:53]
Our Finance Columnist Says It's Time For The Talk
Marilyn Williams has some tips on teaching your kids about budgeting and money management
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[mp3 file: runs 7:42]
The Home Renovation Tax Credit Boosts Business
Two local contractors, Ian Cooper and Peter Lewis, tell us how the federal government's tax credit afftected their businesses
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[mp3 file: runs 7:06]
Memorial Service For R.C.M.P. Sergeant Mark Gallagher
Lisa Gallagher spoke at the funeral for her husband who died in the earthquake in Haiti two weeks ago
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[mp3 file: runs 7:40]
Funding For A.C.A.P. In Jeopardy
Tim Vickers, of the Atlantic Coastal Action Program in Saint John, tells us about the missing third of their budget from Environment Canada that hasn't come though yet
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[mp3 file: runs 9:03]
Fraud Vs. Civil Matters
Annmarie West tells us about the carpenter that left her window installation undone and wonders why her case is deemed a civil matter while police are investigating an alleged case of fraud with the snowplow operator who didn't show
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[mp3 file: runs 10:40]
Our Health Columnist Talks Heart Disease
Dr. Simon tells us about the rise of heart disease in people in their 20's and 30's
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[mp3 file: runs 7:26]
Local Hockey Coach Comments On Patrice Cormier's Suspension From The QMJHL
Former Team New Brunswick hockey coach, Ken Dobson, gives us his thoughts on Cormier's suspension for his hit that left Mikael Tam convulsing on the ice
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[mp3 file: runs 9:42]
This Week's Saint Johner Away
Michael Coyne is originally from St. Stephen but is now in Florida training for a marathon
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[mp3 file: runs 9:05]
Fort Reliance Interested In A Regional Energy Transmission Grid
Daniel Goodwin, who speaks for the Irving Oil parent company, tells us what it would mean to have the transmission grid in our region
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[mp3 file: runs 9:54]
More Storming Over The Snowplowing Scam
The CBC's Lindsay Bird spoke with Kelly Spencer about her ordeal with the snow plower who didn't show and Saint John Police Sargeant Tony Hayes
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[mp3 file: runs 6:47]
Our Book Worm Hunts For Bargains
Sarah Maier helps us browse through the very addictive world of book bargain hunting
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[mp3 file: runs 6:59]
A High Speed Chase Makes Its Way Across The Canadian Border
The CBC's Connell Smith tells us about the Maine State trooper that took her pursuit over the border into Canada
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[mp3 file: runs 7:40]
Taking The Snow Plow Money And Running
The CBC's Megan MacAlpine spoke to Alex Scott who says his mother never received the snow clearing services she paid for
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[mp3 file: runs 6:17]
A Catholic Nun From Haiti Tries To Reconnect With Her Family Back At Home
Sister Wildanie Cupidon is originally from Haiti but is now living in Saint John attending U.N.B.S.J.
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[mp3 file: runs 7:26]
Our Movie Guy Reviews "The Lovely Bones"
Matt Rainnie gives us his thoughts of the latest Peter Jackson thriller
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[mp3 file: runs 6:32]
The Energy Minister Speaks About The Re-Vamped Energy Deal
Energy minister, Jack Keir, gives us the details of the new deal between New Brunswick and Hydro Quebec
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[mp3 file: runs 10:22]
Young Girl Found Guilty Of Second Degree Murder
The CBC's Connell Smith tells us what hapened in court yesterday when the jury came back with their verdict of the 16 year old girl who was convicted for the stabbing death of a Damascus man
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[mp3 file: runs 3:41]
Our Health Columnist Talks Prostate Screening
Dr. Mike Simon tells us about the importance and accuracy of screening for prostate cancer
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[mp3 file: runs 7:32]
This Week's Saint Johner Away
Krista Feltmate is originally from Millidgeville but is now living in Waterloo working as a speech pathologist
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[mp3 file: runs 9:59]
Liberal M.L.A.'s Expose Their Discomfort For The N.B. Power Deal
The CBC's Robert Jones tells us what the M.L.A.'s dis-association from the proposed deal might mean
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[mp3 file: runs 11:03]
Informing The Public On The N.B.Power Deal
The CBC's Robert Jones tells us about the government's attempts to counteract the misinformation about the deal to sell N.B. Power to Hydro Quebec
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[mp3 file: runs 8:19]
M.P. For N.B. Southwest Announces His Retirement
Greg Thompson tells us about his resignation as Canada's Minister of Veteran's Affairs and his decision to not run for re-election for N.B. Southwest
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[mp3 file: runs 10:04]
How To Help With The Haiti Relief Effort
Head of disaster management and international operations for the Red Cross in Atlantic Canada, Bill Lawlor, tells us what's happening in Haiti
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[mp3 file: runs 8:23]
Murder Trial Wrap Up
The CBC's Connell Smith gives us an update of the first degree murder trial of the 16 year old girl who's been accused in the stabbing death of a 78 year old Damascus man
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[mp3 file: runs 4:58]
A Grand Manan Fishing Boat Aids In Disaster Relief In Haiti
Member of the Kings Valley Wesleyan Church in Quispamsis, Randy Chiasson, tells us about the boat that arrived earlier this month that had been repurposed as a water ambulance
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[mp3 file: runs 7:36]
Our Movie Guy Reviews
Matt Rainnie looks at the latest Michael Cera movie "Youth In Revolt"
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[mp3 file: runs 6:44]
Our Health Columnist Talks Bad Breath
Dr. Simon gives us some tips on how to get rid of halitosis
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[mp3 file: runs 6:19]
SJHS Students Rally For One Of Their Own
The CBC's Lindsay Bird spoke with some Saint John High School students who are opening up their wallets to help grade 12 student, Jordan Lawrence whose apartment was burned down last weekend
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[mp3 file: runs 5:24]
This Week's Saint Johner Away
Fawn Wilson White grew up in Saint John but is now living in London helping to preserve and promote an historic monument on the southern Italian island of Capri
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[mp3 file: runs 12:20]
The N. B. Government Threatens To Sue The Feds Over The Delays At Point Lepreau
The CBC's Robert Jones spoke with us about Premier Graham's remarks saying that the province will take legal action if the federal government does not admit A.E.C.L. was to blame for the refurbishment cost overruns
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[mp3 file: runs 9:02]
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Reaction To The Bathurst Legal Action
The CBC's Jane Dykeman spoke with people at a basketball tournament to get their opinion on the lawsuit that was filed and then dropped by Atlantic Wholesalers and Loblaw
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[mp3 file: runs 4:36]
Feb. 8, 2010: The Caucus Unity Edition
discuss Stuart Jamieson’s resignation from cabinet over the NB Power deal, the fallout from The Spin Reduxit team discuss Stuart Jamieson's resignation from cabinet, the Ganong panel’s report on the proposed NB Power sale and the impact of the Liberal government’s stimulus package on the provincial economy
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[mp3 file: runs 22:17]
The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Feb. 9, 2010
On today's podcast, storm damage in Greenspond, rebuilding the fire hall in Baie Verte and writing a theme song for the Junos.
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[mp3 file: runs 15:38]
The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Feb.8, 2010
On today's podcast, the government now owns the Abitibi Bowater mill building, keeping watch on the Badger River and evidence of the first animal locomotion in Newfoundland fossils.
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[mp3 file: runs 18:59]
The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Feb.5, 2010
On today's podcast, taking stock after the Baie Verte fire hall burnt to the ground, paying tribute to the Great Auk on Fogo Island, and remembering Samantha Walsh ten years after her murder.
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[mp3 file: runs 27:27]
The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Feb.4, 2010
On today's podcast, fire destroys the Baie Verte fire hall, one of the major employers in Buchans has closed and loggers take a pay cut in the hope of saving the Corner Brook paper mill.
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[mp3 file: runs 26:25]
The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Feb.3, 2010
On today's podcast, we'll tell you how the Red Cross is spending your money in Haiti, we talk about finding homes for displaced teens in the central region and we find out how Baie Verte Academy will be celebrating the Olympics.
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The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Feb.2, 2010
On today's podcast, we speak with the witness to a fatal snowmobile accident, we tell you about a new phone scam to watch out for, and we meet the man who brought bowling back to King's Point.
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[mp3 file: runs 21:39]
The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Feb.1, 2010
On today's podcast, we'll find out how a man is protesting the seal hunt protesters, we get the details on a very generous gift to the town of Grand Falls-Windsor, and we meet the women of South Brook who are all losing weight together.
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[mp3 file: runs 21:14]
The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Jan.29, 2010
On today's podcast, the case for paper books, a senior scammed online and the debate about the future of papermills continues.
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[mp3 file: runs 17:29]
The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Jan.28, 2010
On today's podcast, we get the details on a serious nursing shortage in Grand Falls-Windsor, we discuss the impact of e-books on traditional publishing houses and we check in with a Botwood woman who's living in a tend in the university library for a week.
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The Central Newfoundland Morning Show Podcast - Jan.27, 2010
On today's podcast, we stroll down memory lane with a Grand Falls-Windsor woman about to celebrate her nintieth birthday, we meet an a