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April 2009

April 30, 2009

Pt 1: Swine Flu Narrative - The World Health Organization has now raised its pandemic alert level for the so-called swine flu to five. That's... Read More »

April 29, 2009

Pt 1: Dread and Epidemics - In the face of a new strain of influenza, the sense of urgency, fear and even panic is palpable.... Read More »

April 28, 2009

Pt 1: Tax Mistake Follow - The deadline is looming... You have until midnight Thursday to file your personal income tax. And while that mere... Read More »

April 27, 2009

Pt 1: Flu - We started this segment with some thoughts from people in a Mexico City park yesterday, the capital city of a country... Read More »

April 24, 2009

Pt 1: Thatcher Book - In November, 1984, Colin Thatcher was convicted of murdering JoAnn Wilson. And despite his best efforts, he never did get... Read More »

April 23, 2009

Pt 1: Fowler Release - As you've been hearing in the news, after four very long months, Canadians Robert Fowler and Louis Guay are said... Read More »

April 22, 2009

Pt 1: Sri Lanka - After nearly thirty years of fighting, the Tamil Tigers are surrounded ... hemmed in by the advancing Sri Lankan military... Read More »

April 21, 2009

Pt 1: CanJet Witness - About 40 Canadian travellers returned home shortly after mid-night from a Jamaican holiday, more relieved than relaxed... having survived... Read More »

April 20, 2009

Pt 1: Canjet Hijacking - Police in Jamaica say the hostage situation in Montega Bay involving a Canjet aircraft is over. Police say there were... Read More »

April 17, 2009

Pt 1: Asbestos/Ogden - It was once thought to be a magical material. By the 1970s, it was used in everything from building materials to... Read More »

April 16, 2009

Pt 1: Afghan Moral Misson - At least 300 women marched in protest in Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday. They oppose a new law restricting the rights... Read More »

April 15, 2009

Pt 1: Citizenship Changes - We started this segment with part of an ad launched by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, announcing changes to citizenship rules... Read More »

April 14, 2009

Pt 1: Dream Team - We started this segment with a shout out by The Voice to the Dream Team of presidents and CEOs from... Read More »

April 13, 2009

Pt 1: Rwanda - Fifteen years ago this month, the first reports of a horrifying wave of violence in Rwanda began spreading out across the... Read More »

April 10, 2009

Pt 1: Bunnies - It's spring. And across the University of Victoria's campus, the bunnies ... well, they're breeding like rabbits. In fact, the campus... Read More »

April 9, 2009

Pt 1: Abdelrazik/Kafka Doc - Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Canadian who has been stranded in Sudan for six years. He was jailed twice suspected of... Read More »

April 8, 2009

Pt 1: No Nukes - We started this segment with a clip of U.S. President Barack Obama speaking in Prague on Sunday. In the course... Read More »

April 7, 2009

Pt 1: Cameras at Crime Scenes - This past Sunday, newspaper photographer Jason Payne arrived at a crime scene in Vancouver and began taking pictures.... Read More »

April 6, 2009

Pt 1: Dr. Abu al-Aish - Toward the very end of Israel's three-week assault on Gaza, there was one moment that gave a lot of... Read More »

April 3, 2009

Pt 1: Recession Generation - We started this segment with a Kinks song, Well Respected Man and that's how a lot of people who grew... Read More »

April 2, 2009

Pt 1: Abdelrazik - We started this segment with some tape from Abousfian Abdelrazik. For the last 11 months, he has been sleeping on a... Read More »

April 1, 2009

Pt 1: Newfoundland's 60th Anniversary - We started this segment with some tape from sixty years ago today -- April 1st, 1949 -- as Newfoundland... Read More »