April 2008
Pt 1: Reverend Jeremiah Wright In Context - More than a month after Senator Barack Obama's former pastor first hit the news, the controversy over...
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Pt 1: Risks of Reporting - On April 28, 2008, Miyasar Abu Meatak was preparing breakfast when an explosion tore through her home, killing her...
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Pt 1: Replacing Hillier - In his time as Canada's top soldier, General Rick Hillier earned himself a reputation as a loud and unapologetically blunt...
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Pt 1: Statistics Canada Looks At Cars - According Statistics Canada, Canadians are among the worst polluters in the world. In a study released in...
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Pt 1: Zimbabwe and China - Almost a month after Zimbabwe's presidential election, results have still not been released and no winner declared, with fears...
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Pt 1: Pennsylvania Primary - The shot glasses and mugs have been washed and stacked at Bronko's Restaurant and Lounge, where Hillary Clinton famously put...
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Pt 1: Child Bride - Officials in Texas have begun the long process of sorting out the identities of more than 400 children that they...
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Pt 1: Border Patrol Drones - On April 21, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President George Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderone got together...
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Pt 1: Citizen/Vigilante Justice - In the end, the Mounties got their man -- they just needed a little help to do it. On Wednesday,...
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Pt 1: Seal Hunt - The images are by now familiar: a hunter lifts a long, metal instrument over his head as he prepares to...
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Pt 1: Toronto Terrorism Charges Dropped - A police press conference was held in June of 2006, on the heels of arrests of 18 men...
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Pt 1: Asadullah Khalid - Within hours of seeming to suggest that it might be time to replace the governor of Kandahar, Maxime Bernier was...
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Pt 1: Haiti Food Riots - Haiti was already the poorest country in the western hemisphere, a place where most of the population survives on...
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Pt 1: Spring Cleanses - They say spring tis the season for cleaning. But we thought we'd give the eavestroughs and windows a break and...
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Pt 1: Restraining Orders - The issue of domestic violence was front and centre in the second week April 2008, thanks to two troubling but...
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Pt 1: Pregnant Witness Jailed - When her boyfriend allegedly assaulted her in December 2007, Noelle Mowatt did what you're supposed to: she called the...
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Pt 1: Olympic Torch - Chaos accompanied the Olympic torch as it navigated the packed and angry streets of Paris. From the moment the torch...
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Pt 1: Diet For a Hungry Planet - On Sunday, April 6, 2008, the Prime Minister of Thailand took to the television and vowed to...
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Pt 1: Saskatchewan Videotape Scandal - It's a videotape that Brad Wall and Tom Lukiwski must wish had never come out of the closet. On...
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Pt 1: Muqtada al-Sadr - In March 2008, the world got a good look at the power of Muqtada al-Sadr when his Shia militias squared...
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Pt 1: Zimbabwe Elections- We learned the latest on the post-election situation in Zimbabwe, with Bill Saidi, deputy editor of the Standard, an independnt newspaper...
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Pt 1: Zimbabwe Elections - Three days after the polls closed in Zimbabwe, people were still waiting for results from an election that some said...
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