July 16, 2008

Today's guest host was Jim Brown.


Satire

It's Wednesday, July 16th.

Barack Obama says his main priority as U.S. President would be to end American involvement in Iraq.

Currently, according to the New Yorker magazine, Obama's close ties to both Sunni and Shia militants should help ease tensions if he's elected.

This is The Current.

Khadr Interrogation Tape - Political Fallout

Clip and Panel

The video footage of Omar Khadr's interrogation by CSIS agents at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was been broadcast around the clock and around the world upon its release on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. Khadr was 16 at the time and he'd landed in Guantanamo Bay after he was captured in Afghanistan and accused of killing a U.S. Marine. The footage was released by Khadr's defense team, and it raised some potentially serious political questions in Ottawa. The NDP's Human Rights Critic Wayne Marston, for example, addressed the human rights implications.

To get a sense of the political fallout from that footage, we were joined by three people: from Toronto by Michelle Shephard, a reporter with the Toronto Star and the author of Guantanamo's Child; from Toronto by Peter Worthington, Founding Editor and a Senior Columnist with the Toronto Sun; and from Ottawa by Lawrence Martin, a Political Columnist with the Globe and Mail.


Listen to Part One:

Love Interrupted (Documentary)

This is a story of first love: a story of boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy and girl spend 40 years wandering the romantic wilderness, separated by religion, repression and a deep secret, and eventually, girl-finds boy, four decades and 12,000 kilometres later. Alison Armstrong's documentary, Love Interrupted, first aired on The Current in February 2008.


Listen to Part Two: