August 2010
Pt 1: Wheat - This has been a tough year for farmers. Depending on where in the world you live, you might have seen...
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Pt 1: Long Gun Registry - As the vote to scrap the Long-Gun Registry draws nearer, the issue is putting both the government and...
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Pt 1: Amnesty International - Amnesty International is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Over the last half-century, it has become one of the...
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Pt 1: Private Security Contractors - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered all private security contractors to get out of Afghanistan. He says the...
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Pt 1: Trapped Miners - 33 Chilean miners are trapped about 700 metres below the surface of the earth. Incredibly, they are alive and...
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Pt 1: Geopolitics of Natural Disasters - The latest on the floods in Pakistan and the political fallout from them as Pakistan's government appears to...
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Pt 1: Potash Corporation - Potash is to Saskatchewan what cars and steel are to Ontario. What hydroelectric power is to Quebec. What oil...
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Pt 1: Migrant Politics - 492 Tamils are now waiting to find out whether they have a future here in Canada. Politically, their cases...
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Pt 1: Veterans Double-Standard - The Conservative Government's decision not to renew the contract of Veteran's Ombudsman Pat Stogran has raised a storm of...
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Pt 1: Pathology Oversight - Last month, we heard from Nick Bala. He's a Law Professor at Queen's University. He's suffering from a very...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | Categories: |
Photo: TtzavarasChad is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its independence from France. But for many Chadians, that independence is still a work in progress....
Pt 1: India & RIM - Research In Motion, the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry wireless device, is under pressure to give the Indian Government...
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Pt 1: Tamil Refugees - We have the latest on the 500 Tamil Sri Lankans on board a boat docked off the coast of British...
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Pt 1: Omar Khadr's Trial - As the U.S. military commission trial of Omar Khadr continues, Mike Finnerty talks to Omar Deghayes, a former...
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Pt 1: BBC Urdu & Pakistan - The BBC's Urdu language service has launched a new service for the millions of Pakistanis whose lives have...
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Pt 1: Ground Zero Mosque - The proposal to build a mosque near the site of the September 11th attacks in New York City...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 | Categories: |
For half-a-century, the idea of "The Third World" has lingered around ... an awkwardly enduring short-hand for poor countries in Africa, the Middle East,...
Pt 1: War Resisters - According to a new government directive, Canadian immigration officers are now required to report anyone who tries to desert their...
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Pt 1: Census Fight - Barring a court challenge, the new, voluntary census is set to go to the printers today. Mike Finnerty talks...
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Friday, August 6, 2010 | Categories: |
June 30, 2010 was the 50th anniversary of the DRC's independence from Belgium. But half-a-century on, the DRC is in crisis. During 6 years,...
Friday, August 6, 2010 | Categories: |
We started this segment with Bob Marley and the Wailers 1979 hit, Africa Unite - which helped popularize the concept of a united Africa....
Friday, August 6, 2010 | Categories: |
We started this segment with a CBC report of the military overthrow of Ugandan president Milton Obote in January, 1971. The man who took...
Friday, August 6, 2010 | Categories: |
Sixteen years after the genocide in Rwanda, the tiny east African country has - by many accounts - come a long way. In recent years,...
Pt 1: Pickton Mistakes- Thanks to the lifting of a publication ban, there is new and troubling information about the investigation of convicted serial killer...
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Pt 1: B.C. Forest Fires - As forest fires continue to threaten parts of British Columbia, Jim Brown will talk to fire ecologist Robert Gray....
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Pt 1: Radicalization of Aid - Pakistan Floods - In the wake of the devastating floods in Pakistan, radical groups have been stepping up to...
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Pt 1: Bedbug Nation - A new survey indicates we're on the threshold of a global bed bug pandemic and experts and people who've experienced...
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Pt 1: RIP Research in Motion? - There's a lot of buzz surrounding an upcoming New York press conference called by Canadian telecommunications giant Research...
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