2010 Season

Thursday May 10, 2012

May 10 & 13, 2012: from Damascus, Syria - Munich, Germany - Sao Paolo, Brazil - Alabama - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Port-au-Prince, Haiti

From our correspondents around the world...

Alabama has America's toughest laws aimed at undocumented immigrants. It makes the lives of Hispanics so hard they are "self deporting", even if they are not illegal. The approach has also had an impact on Alabama citizens, many of whom have been drawn into the state's war on undocumented immigrants. (AP Photo/John Amis)

The shifting conflict in Syria. From stand-and-fight to guerilla warfare and a cry for outside help.

The German locomotive hopes to pull Europe's flailing economies out of trouble. But there's a ghost in that machine.

In Brazil, David Rocha makes garbage instruments. Or rather, instruments from garbage. That's why they sound so good.

Illegal immigrant, deport thyself. How an experiment in immigration went wrong in Alabama.

Hotels aren't in the charity business, so why would the Red Cross want into the hotel business, in Haiti?

And from the Netherlands, a cafe where you don't pay for the food. We take repast in a restaurant for these recessionary times.

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Categories: 2010 Season, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes

Wednesday April 11, 2012

April 12 & April 15, 2012 - from Libya - Ganta, Liberia - Montreal - Paris

From our correspondents around the world...

A man points to the place where a bomb exploded. The target was a UN convoy in Benghazi, Libya. The attack reinforces concerns about instability in Libya, since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. (Photo: REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori)

Remember Libya? The one before Syria. Some Libyans think we've forgotten and it's helping tip the country into chaos.

If a neighbour killed your kin and went unpunished, you'd have an idea what it's like in Liberia, where victims of war crimes live in peace without justice.

And from the archives, we strut with The Society of Revellers and Elegant People. Of course they're French. French-African.

Then, as cholera makes a comback in Haiti, a Canadian author tells why it's poised to become the quintessential disease of our time.

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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes

Thursday August 18, 2011

August 18 & 21: from Ghana - Uganda-Sudan border - Detroit - Senegal - London - Germany

American preacher Sam Childers set up an orphanage in Southern Sudan, then went hunting for the most fearsome of rebel leaders. Photo/Lionsgate Productions.

The machine gun preacher of Sudan; why a reformed biker's waging holy war on one of the most feared rebel movements in Africa.

Selling America by the pound. Meet the author who's documented the end of a Detroit auto plant, and its rebirth in Mexico.

Inside the witch camps of Ghana. A Canadian author's time among women exiled more for spite than for spells.

They call it chessboxing and our correspondent is ringside as a merry cult of combatants battle for self-control on the canvas and the board..

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Thursday July 14, 2011

July 14 & 17: from Comitan, Mexico - Paris - New York - China

Cataphile "Riff" heads underground in the Paris catacombs (photo/Don Duncan)

The misplaced love of Marvin Pinto. A story of obsession with the culture of the cockfight

Stove Camp; the "hippie Manhattan Project" hoping to save millions of lives through cleaner cooking.

As China goes, so goes the world, according to an author who says Chinese consumers are transforming...everything.

And, conflict in the catacombs. Hard-core crypt crawlers, take exception to the teen tomb tourists partying in their playground under Paris.

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Wednesday March 30, 2011

March 31 & April 3: from Grand Forks, North Dakota - Ukraine - Amman, Jordan - Bunya, Democratic Republic of Congo - Manila, Philippines

A U.S. Predator-B unmanned drone like the one now deployed by the Americans to look across the Canadian border. Photo/Reuters

Powered by fear: The U.S. flies its eyes-in-the-skies drones above the Canadian border.

Justice delayed in the Philippines, where someone's killing the witnesses while a mass murder case stalls.

Mother to another's brothers: A new Canadian film confronts the special perils facing black foster kids in Ukraine.

Risk Radio: The CBC's correspondent in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the risk of reporting war crimes on local radio.

And, crossing Jordan: Civil unrest sends another Arab King scrambling. His daddy was a survivor. Is King Abdullah his father's son? .

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Wednesday March 23, 2011

March 24 - 27, 2011 from: Noda and Sendai, Japan - Chernobyl - Tunis - Benghazi, Libya - Berlin

People ride bicycles pasrt debris of buildings wrecked by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami in Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. REUTERS/Yegor Trubnikov

Scenes from a tsunami It's already changing Japan forever.

With the weakness of nuclear plants exposed, we'll hear again from our reporter in Chernobyl.

We have a correspondent in Libya with the new rebel recruits.

And another in post-revolution Tunisia, where everyone's complaining. But now someone's listening.

Our correspondent just back from Japan gets his radiation tests.

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