The Current
with Anna Maria Tremonti
Thursday February 9, 2012
Thursday: The Boy With a Past (Documentary)
At 15, Chris Farley-Ratcliffe did the unspeakable. He got his girlfriend pregnant. Then the teenager was forced to hide the truth. He was a teenage dad. Vilified, stigmatized, and shunned... the birth father who gives up his child often gets a bad rap. Some argue that this can be an unfair characterization which has lifelong effects.
Thursday February 9, 2012
Thursday: Ontario's Decline
A place to stand, but perhaps no longer a place to grow. A demographer explains that Ontario attracts fewer immigrants, grows older and is losing its manufacturing base.
Wednesday February 8, 2012
Regulating Trans Fats
They've been linked to coronary heart disease and increased cholesterol levels and now Trans Fats are being linked to Politics. Government documents show Health Canada was ready to regulate the amount of trans fats in food products - it even had its messaging in place - but the whole idea was scrapped with nary an explanation. Today, we're looking for one.
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Wednesday February 8, 2012
Bringing Baby Doc Duvalier to justice in Haiti
Call it a victory for impunity. A judge in Haiti says Baby Doc Duvalier's record of extra-judicial killings, torture and disappearances has hit a statute of limitations. He could face corruption charges but the penalties would be light. And while a majority of Haitians may be too young to remember Baby Doc's 15 year rule, a whole lot of people in Montreal who fled Haiti recall it all. From the anger in the diaspora to the amnesia on the ground, to the seeming indifference in the international community, we're looking at Justice Haitian-style.
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Wednesday February 8, 2012
Policing the Mentally Ill
Their lives end with a banner headline. A person believed to be mentally disturbed, shot dead by police. It is happening enough in this country that some police forces are changing how they interact with those suffering mental illness. Today, we're examining how police training and police practice is trying to adjust to recognize mental illness on the beat.
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Tuesday February 7, 2012
PM Harper brings Canadian politics to China
He spent his first years in office with an unapologetically hard line on China's transgressions from Tibet to human rights. Now Prime Minister Harper is negotiating a bottom line with an official visit to China, dominated by the business interests and needs of both countries. Today, we're looking at how the Prime Minister has reframed Canada's approach to a nation that becomes more powerful and more in need with every passing year.
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Tuesday February 7, 2012
What to do next as Syrian-Canadians are fearful about the fate of their country
She spends her days monitoring Facebook, scanning Arab language news feeds, video links ...anything to track what might be happening to loved ones in Homs. Her fears speak to the reality of countless Syrian Canadians, horrified at the pictures coming out of the major cities, desperate to see them helped. Today, we bring you her story and the thoughts of a panel of Syrian-Canadians with differing ideas on what-to-do to stop the bloodshed and start anew.
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Tuesday February 7, 2012
Theatre chill over staging controversial productions
Michael Healey spent eleven years writing plays with Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, tackling the political, the philosophical and the personal in acclaimed productions staged across the country and beyond. But some fear his latest work with a character known as Prime Minister may have been perceived as too political. We hear from playwright Michael Healey on the controversy over a play called Proud.
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Monday February 6, 2012
Queen Elizabeth's shifting United Kingdom
She has been on the throne for six decades, becoming the British monarch at the age of 25. And over those 60 years, Queen Elizabeth the Second has overseen epic change within the commonwealth and beyond. And from quarreling colonies to domestic disputes among her children much of it has been .. challenging and unpredictable. Now as the celebrations marking the Diamond Jubilee begin, she presides over a Kingdom at odds with itself. Scotland plans a secessionist referendum in two short years and some political leaders in Wales are eyeing the same prize.
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Monday February 6, 2012
Dr. Agus with a cure to end illness
What is David Agus trying to tell us? The outspoken U.S. oncologist argues that we can bring an end to the illnesses that plague us with regular eat/sleep patterns, a few key pharmaceuticals and a plan to toss out high heels. Dr. David Agus, author of The End of IllnessThe End of Illness explains.
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