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Documentary: Keeping it Down

Documentary: Keeping it Down

Baba Yaga House, The Sequel

Baba Yaga House, The Sequel

Sonali Deraniyagala remembers disaster

Sonali Deraniyagala remembers disaster

Women hold up Half the Sky

Women hold up Half the Sky

Dissident Irish priest censured by Vatican

Dissident Irish priest censured by Vatican

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Ecologist David Schindler Retires

Sunday, May 26, 2013 | Categories: Features |

Photo: The University of Alberta

Photo: The University of Alberta

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The contribution David Schindler has made to environmental science has been remarkable. From his position as the Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta, he has looked at the effects of acid rain and phosphates from detergents on our lakes.

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Child Soldiers, Crosswords and Jennie Rooney on her novel "Red Joan"

Sunday, May 26, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Child Soldiers, Crosswords and Jennie Rooney on her novel
The podcast for Sunday, May 26, 2013, features Opiyo Oloya on child soldiers in Uganda and his book Child to Soldier: Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army and Jennie Rooney on her third novel, Red Joan, which takes as its inspiration the story of Melita Norwood - former secretary, grandmother and KGB spy.


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Seniors group creates NYT-worthy crossword puzzles - Documentary

Sunday, May 26, 2013 | Categories: Documentaries |

Seniors group creates NYT-worthy crossword puzzles - Documentary
Most of the New York Times cryptic crossword puzzles - the grid and the clues - are written by experts. Even for them, having a puzzle accepted and published by the Times is a big deal. Which is why there was celebratory coffee, ginger ale and cake the first time an unassuming group of seniors joined the crossword-creating elite. They have now hit that jackpot five times. 

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Michael's Essay -- Rob Ford; politics and the challenge of substance abuse

Friday, May 24, 2013 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

Michael's Essay -- Rob Ford; politics and the challenge of substance abuse

This is a quote from a politician named Ford: "I liked alcohol. It made me feel warm. And I loved pills. They took away my tension and my pain."

Those words were written in 1987 by the former First Lady of the United States, Betty Ford.
It was a stunning admission at the time. Yet Americans came to respect, even love Mrs. Ford after she talked about her addictions. 

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The Reinvention of J.S. Bach

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Categories: Features |

The Reinvention of J.S. Bach
Author, editor and journalist Paul Elie argues that the music of Bach is with us today largely because of the work of five great musicians; organist and physician Albert Schweitzer, cellists Pablo Casals and Yo Yo Ma, pianist Glenn Gould, and conductor Leopold Stokowski. 

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Jeffrey Simpson on Medicare; Marcia Angell on living a goodlife; and more...

Sunday, May 19, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Jeffrey Simpson on Medicare; Marcia Angell on living a goodlife; and more...
The podcast for Sunday May 19, 2013, featuring author David Sedaris, a documentary about Canadian bookstore maven of New York City Sarah McNally, Michael learning Ikibana, the Japanese art of flower arranging.

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David Sedaris on Owls, Taxidermy and Preserved Pygmies

Sunday, May 19, 2013 | Categories: Features |

David Sedaris on Owls, Taxidermy and Preserved Pygmies
Over twenty years ago, an unknown David Sedaris read one of his stories on National Public Radio in the US. It was a dark and hilarious piece about being a Santa's elf at Macy's department store in Manhattan.

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Documentary: Sarah McNally, "Another Hipster In The Business: God Help Me."

Sunday, May 19, 2013 | Categories: Documentaries |

Documentary: Sarah McNally,
A New York editor once said, "Sarah McNally has a combination of Canadian seriousness, rapacious intelligence and an idiosyncrasy that clearly comes from a deep place."

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Sunday School: Michael learns Ikebana -- the ancient art of Japanese floral arrangement

Sunday, May 19, 2013 | Categories: Sunday School |

Sunday School: Michael learns Ikebana -- the ancient art of Japanese floral arrangement
Why settle for a full bouquet of robust blooms when you could have an artistic expression of floral subtlety that captures the beauty and the fragility of life?

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Michael's Essay: Rob Ford, Magic Powder and the Cult of the Red Chamber

Saturday, May 18, 2013 | Categories: |

      These were unhappy, roistering days in the Great City. The Leader, a round and blondish man, was surrounded by enemies, like small dogs barking and tearing at his raiment. Oh, he had fought them before. Indeed, since capturing the Great City, wresting it from the iron grip of the evil Downtowners, he had turned away one catastrophe after another.

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Dealing with human frailty; Former Madam Justice Claire L'Heureux Dubé; the struggle of First Nations women; and more...

Sunday, May 12, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Dealing with human frailty; Former Madam Justice Claire L'Heureux Dubé; the struggle of First Nations women; and more...
The podcast for Sunday May 12, 2013, featuring Al Gore, a documentary about the first Chinese university students in North America, and...

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