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The Current in Montreal: Student Protests

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | Categories: News Promo, Past Episodes

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Today we bring you a special edition of The Current in Montreal. Where Anna Maria is joined by co-host Montreal Journalist David Gutnick and later in the show by Quebec's Radio Noon phone in show host, Bernard St. Laurent.

PT 1: Montreal reaction to the 100th day student protest

We started our special in Montreal to look at the evolution and direction of the Quebec student protest movement and we check in to Montreal's reactions, the morning after a massive student protest on Tuesday night to mark the 100th day of student protests.(Read More)

Pt 2: The unintended consequences of the Quebec protests

The student protest is hardly a black and white issue-- unless you're the AnarchoPanda. Since the protest's early days, a philosophy professor dressed in a giant panda suit has walked with the marchers. He joins us to explain. And we have more on Quebec's restless students and what life has been like in Montreal over the past one-hundred days of protest. (Read More)

PT 3: The political fallout of the Quebec student protests

Quebec's Premier may not be popular in general -- but his specific handling of the student protests seemed to have the support of a majority of Quebeckers. Still, some wonder if he's overplayed his hand with new legislation so tough it looks destined for a charter challenge. (Read More)

Egypt Votes

Thursday, May 24, 2012 | Categories: Interview Panel, Past Episodes

They may live in the shadows of the oldest of civilizations but they are experiencing the newest of democracies and for Egyptians in day two of the first round of voting in Presidential election, there is no denying the thrill of electoral choice. Still ... it is tempered by the reality that 20 to 40 percent of the economy is controlled by the military, some of the new president's powers will be undefined and the choices aren't good enough for everyone. Today, we hear from Egyptians looking for promise at the polls.

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Unworthy Creature: Aruna Papp

Thursday, May 24, 2012 | Categories: Books, News Promo, Past Episodes

Hers is a story of growing up in what she calls an Honour Culture where girls are valued less than boys ... where they can be punished for making the wrong choices or be compliant enough to punish themselves. Aruna Papp says the Honour Culture she experienced in India followed her to Canada. We hear her story and her belief that many South Asian - Canadian women still face what she escaped.

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Montreal reaction to the 100th day student protest

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes

We started our special in Montreal to look at the evolution and direction of the Quebec student protest movement and we check in to Montreal's reactions, the morning after a massive student protest on Tuesday night to mark the 100th day of student protests.

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The unintended consequences of the Quebec protests

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes

The student protest is hardly a black and white issue-- unless you're the AnarchoPanda. Since the protest's early days, a philosophy professor dressed in a giant panda suit has walked with the marchers. He joins us to explain. And we have more on Quebec's restless students and what life has been like in Montreal over the past one-hundred days of protest.

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The political fallout of the Quebec student protests

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes

Quebec's Premier may not be popular in general -- but his specific handling of the student protests seemed to have the support of a majority of Quebeckers. Still, some wonder if he's overplayed his hand with new legislation so tough it looks destined for a charter challenge.

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Wednesday: The Current is in Montreal

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 | Categories: Coming Up


We bring you a full-edition special from Montreal with the latest on the student protests and the legislation aimed at containing them. Politicians, police, business owners and students sound off on the upheaval.

Quebec Protest Resolution: Mediators

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes

It has worked on everything from Northern Ireland to Oka ... brokered deals between intractable rivals to try to keep the peace. A hundred days into a standoff in Quebec, is it time for Mediation between the students and the government? And how might that happen? Today, we go to the experts on how one might confront and diffuse an escalating confrontation.


 

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Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 | Categories: Books, Past Episodes

Kamal Al-Solaylee and his siblings were born into a world of rapid change, their mother a shepherdess, their father a businessman. His was a life of privilege in Yemen cut short of confronting his homosexuality even as an older brother embraced strict Islamic values and sisters donned the hijab. Today, we bring you the story of one's family's journey ... one that mirrors the changes and challenges of a wider Middle East.

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Digesting Diamonds

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 | Categories: News Promo, Past Episodes

An alleged diamond thief with the intestinal fortitude to hang onto the evidence finally well .. released it in Windsor this past weekend. Of course, follow the news and you'll know that ingesting the evidence is nothing new - from gems ... to memory chips ... to drugs. But the practice of Digesting Diamonds is even more common at actual diamond mines with organized crime on one end and increasingly sophisticated mine security at the other.

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Ottawa Sex Exhibit Controversy

Monday, May 21, 2012 | Categories: News Promo, Past Episodes

Well, finally. Something too sexy for Ottawa. And wouldn't you know it. It's in a museum. And paid for by taxpayers. A truly Canadian controversy. The exhibit entitled Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition, won't be telling all, after all, because it's been declared just too graphic for some to see. We tell you why and hear from both sides of the divide over what's appropriate to tell our kids, and when.

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