2010-04-05 Ross King Defiant Spirits the Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven/h4>  download show (30:00

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A Governor General’s Award–winning author recounts the turbulent years during which a group of young Canadian painters went from obscurity to international renown.Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced what an English critic celebrated in the 1920s as the “most vital group of paintings” of the 20th century. Inspired by Cézanne, Van Gogh and other modernist artists, they tried to interpret the Ontario landscape in light of the strategies of the international avant-garde. Based after 1914 in the purpose-built Studio Building for Canadian Art, the young artists embarked on what Lawren Harris called “an all-engrossing adventure”: travelling north into the anadian Shield and forging a style of painting appropriate to what they regarded as the unique features of Canada’s northern landscape.Sumptuously illustrated, rigorously researched and drawn from archival documents and letters, Defiant Spirits constitutes a “group biography,” reconstructing the men’s aspirations, frustrations and achievements. It details not only the lives of Tom Thomson and the members of the Group of Seven but also the political and social history of Canada during a time when art exhibitions were venues for debates about Canadian national identity and cultural worth.

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2011-03-30 Efraim Zuroff Bringing Nazis to Justice  download show (30:00)

As director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Jerusalem office, American-born Israeli historian

Efraim Zuroff coordinates the center's worldwide effort to locate Nazi war criminals and bring them to justice. In a career spanning 28 years he has not only tracked down those who helped perpetrate the Holocaust, but also convinced often-hesitant governments to prosecute them.In 2002 Zuroff helped launch Operation Last Chance, which offers financial rewards in exchange for information leading to the identification and prosecution of war criminals living—often openly—in Europe, the Balkans, and South America. He also writes the center's annual status report, which lists the most wanted Nazis still at large and grades individual nations on their willingness and determination to prosecute identified war criminals.

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2011-03-23 Alex Traiman  Iranium:

Brent Holland Show Alex Traiman Iranium from Brent Holland Show on Vimeo.

A documentary so explosive that the Iranian embassy in Ottawa made threats if it was screened in Canada.Narrated by Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winning Iranian actress, Shohreh Aghdashloo, the 60-minute film uses rare footage from Iran and interviews with 25 politicians, Iranian dissidents, and leading experts on Middle East policy, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation."We encourage concerned citizens around the world to view this timely film and see firsthand the statements of Iranian leaders on their intentions for America and the international community," said Alex Traiman, director of IRANIUM.


 

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2011-03-23 Sayeh Hassan

Brent Holland Show Sayeh Hassan / Iran Democracy Movement from Brent Holland Show on Vimeo.

Pro Democracy Movement inside Iran

Sayeh Hassan is a Toronto based Criminal Defense Lawyer with Walter Fox and Associates. Ms. Hassan is an Iranian pro-democracy activist who has been involved with this movement for the past eight years. She is also the author of the shiro-khorshid-forever blog which focuses on human rights and the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Through her human rights work she stays in close contact with dissidents inside Iran as well retains contact with numerous Iran based human rights organizations. Her writings often focus on the plight of ethnic and religious minorities in Iran, with a particular interest in the persecution of the Kurdish and Baha'i communities. Ms. Hassan writes regularly for online publications such as Canada Free Press, Persian Journal and the Kurdish Herald. She can be contacted at sayehhassan@gmail.com

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Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal, and a Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.

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His latest book, "The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction" was published last fall by Oxford University Press,  as was the book he co-edited with Vincent Cannato "Living in the Eighties."  This fall, Facts on File is planning on publishing the revised and updated edition he edited of the multi-volume classic "History of Presidential Elections" originally edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Fred Israel while Sterling Publishing Company of Barnes & Noble will release  a new illustrated edition of "The Reagan Revolution: A Brief Insight" in January, 2011.Troy's book Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents was published in June, 2008 by Basic Books, shortly after  the University Press of Kansas released the paperback edition of his book Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, having been published in hard cover in 2006. Troy is the author of Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, published in 2005 by Princeton University Press and released in paperback in 2007. It has been called a "masterly study of Ronald Reagan's presidency - the best single book we have on his administration to date." His two other works in American history were Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons (2000) - first published by The Free Press as Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II and See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate, originally published by the Free Press in 1991, then released in an updated paperback edition by Harvard University Press in 1997. Troy is also the author of Why I Am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today. The book has been hailed as a "must read," and the most persuasive presentation of the Zionist case "in decades." It has been released in a third expanded and updated edition, having sold over 25,000 copies.Troy is a native of Queens, New York. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. After receiving his Ph. D in History in 1988, he taught History and Literature at Harvard for two years. In September 1990, Troy became an assistant professor of history at McGill University. In 1995, Troy was promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure. From 1997 to 1998 he served as chairman of McGill's history department. In March, 1999 he was promoted to Full Professor. Maclean's magazine has repeatedly labeled him one of McGill's "Popular Profs" and the History News Network designated him one of its first 12 "Top Young Historians".  He has appeared on most major Canadian and American television networks and has been widely published and quoted in the media. 

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Barbara Kay National Post Columnist  download show (30:00)

Kay is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she earned an undergraduate degree in English literature. She received a Master of Arts from McGill University and subsequently taught literature at Concordia University and several CEGEPs. Beginning her journalism career as a book reviewer, Kay branched out into writing op/eds for the Post before becoming a columnist in 2003. She also was a contributor and board member of the revived Cité Libre in the 1990s. In 2006 she was criticized for a series of articles accusing Quebec politicians of supporting Hezbollah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. In 2007, the Quebec Press Council released a decision condemning Kay for "undue provocation" and "generalizations suitable to perpetuate prejudices". In 2007, she wrote a column titled "Not in my backyard, either" in which she criticized Hasidic Jews for not integrating into the neighbourhoods in which they live and for being "self-segregating" and "cult-like". In 2008, she wrote another column criticizing Hasids in the Toronto area. She was accused of hating Jews as a result. her own Jewishness notwithstanding. She is the mother of National Post Managing Editor Jonathan Kay.

2011-03-02 Mukhtar Mai  Promoting Women's Rights in Pakistan: Ending Oppression Through Education 

Established in 2003, Mukhtar Mai Women’s  Organization (MMWO) is lead by Mukhtar Mai, internationally known for her struggle for the protection and promotion of women’s rights. Mukhtar Mai Women's Organization is the champion defender of women's rights and education in the Southern region of Punjab Province, Pakistan, a region with some of the world's worst examples of women’s rights violations, such as rape, gang rape, domestic violence, honour killing, vani (exchange of women in settling the disputes), and child marriages. Responding to the alarming rate of violence against women and girls in the region, combined with the failure of the state in providing relief and shelter to the destitute and battered women, Mukhtar Mai Women Welfare Organization has become a beacon hope, empowering women with its mantra of ending oppression through education. Apart from advocacy and awareness campaigns, MMWO provides legal & para aid and shelter to approximately 500 survivors of violence annually through Mukhtar Mai Women’s Resource Centre & Shelter Home. Mukhtar Mai Girls Model School provides free education to hundreds of girls in the remote and deprived areas of Southern region of Punjab province of Pakistan.

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2011-02-16 Charles Evers Civil Rights Hero brother of Medgar Evers

2009-11-25 Abraham Bolden the 1st African American Secret Service Agent on White House detail, handpicked by President Kennedy himself

- Abraham Bolden was the 1st African American Secret Service Agent on White House detail, handpicked by President Kennedy himself. Bolden was not on duty that fateful day in Dallas and that haunts him to this day. He fully  believes  that had he only been there, that somehow, someway, he would have found away to keep the president alive, even if that meant taking that fatal bullet himself. Bolden was subsequently set up by the Secret service to silence his whistle blowing damning accusations about drunk agents that day in Dallas, accusations that were validated shortly thereafter. Synopsis: Tonight living history. Fate & destiny took its turn throughout this story, including where he first met and was introduced to JFK. Bolden, a “Negro” agent living in Chicago in 1962, was assigned the derogatory task of guarding the toilet; out of sight, out of mind. Too much coffee at breakfast brought JFK bounding down the stairs, entourage in tow, until he saw Bolden. He stopped mid-stride, spoke with Bolden for several minutes and then asked him if he would serve on his protective detail. Of course he would; “see you next week in Washington” was the response by the young president. There are heart wrenching and riveting personal stories about how Bolden was willing to lay his life down not only for the president but for the first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Caroline as he recounts a story when on duty protecting them. Bolden was highly liked by Kennedy who took a shining to him and introduced him to a who’s who of White House movers & shakers including his brother Bobby who offered him a job as an ambassador. Appallingly, Bolden also witnessed fellow agents pick up women to have sex with while on duty, supposedly protecting the president. On many occasions, there were also agents on duty too drunk to walk, let alone be called upon in an emergency. Indeed his fears were realized when it was discovered the Secret Service agents on Kennedy’s trip to Dallas that fateful day were all found to have been boozing all night long at a strip club until 7 am, some never having been to bed at all. Bolden was also subjected to rampant racism from his fellow Secret Service agents who did not like the fact he was working alongside them. They put a noose above his desk, called him “Nigger” to his face, and set him up in an effort to silence Bolden’s whistle blowing, damning statements about the president’s lack of professional Secret Service protection and drunken agents. To this day, Bolden is driven to tell the truth about those events that so devastated a nation and the truth about his own role to bring about justice to the President he so desperately tried to save and loyally served. The truth will set you free.

2011-02-09 Tom Segev Simon Wiesenthal

Tom Segev, who writes a weekly column in Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading daily newspaper, is the author of The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust and other pathbreaking books, including One Palestine, Complete, which was named one of the ten best books of 2000 by the New York Times Book Review. He lives in Jerusalem.

This first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliant character study of a man whose life was part invention but wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten.

Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthal did not grasp the nature of the Nazi threat. But six years later, when a skeletal Wiesenthal was liberated from the concentration camp at Mauthausen, he fully fathomed the crimes of the Nazis. Within days he had assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi war criminals, the first of dozens of such lists he would make over a lifetime as a Nazi hunter. A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthal was also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past, when others preferred to forget.

For this new biography, rich in newsworthy revelations, historian and journalist Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’s private papers and to sixteen archives, including records of the U.S., Israeli, Polish, and East German secret services. Segev is able to reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthal’s life, including his stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, his relationship with Israel’s Mossad, his controversial investigative techniques, his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and Albert Speer, and the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel.

Segev’s challenge in writing this biography was Wiesenthal’s own complicated relationship to truth. Wiesenthal told many versions of his life, his suffering in the camps, and his involvement with the arrest of individual Nazis. Segev shows that in order to gain the information he sought and twist the arms of reluctant government figures, Wiesenthal needed to seem more influential than he really was.

For two generations of Americans, Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish superhero—depicted on film by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier—and the muse for a Frederick Forsyth thriller. Now Segev demonstrates that the truth of Wiesenthal’s existence is as compelling as the fiction. Simon Wiesenthal is an unforgettable life of one of the great men of the twentieth century.

2011-02-02 Valerie Fortney True story of Capt. Nichola Goddard 1st combat qualified female Canadian soldier to die in combat

This afternoon we will be looking at this young woman  why she went to Afghanistan to fight. "Sunray tells the story of a remarkable 21st-century soldier. It is an intriguing, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring look at the decision to serve, and at the costs."Many folks firmly believe we shouldn't be in Afghanistan, but when does a country stand together and stand up and say: No, what's happening to people in Afghanistan is no longer tolerable. Are Afghani women any less human beings than Canadian women? Do we simply turn a blind eye and allow little girls to be murdered and have acid thrown in their faces all for daring to have the audacity to desire an education? And despite the rants of some who cry colonialism, we certainly aren't there for its resources. It's certainly not oil. Canada has the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world. Is there anything else we derive from Afghanistan? Well...we know Afghanistan produces 90% of the globe's opium; the poppy; heroin. Certainly that is not our priority to balance trade deficits. So why are we there?Perhaps this afternoon we will gain a measure of  insight as to why captain Nichola Godard chose to leave the comfort of Canada to put herself in harm's way in Afghanistan. Tragically Nichola became the first combat qualified female  Canadian soldier to die in combat. Captain Nichola Godard was a woman of idealism. She was a leader. Above all she was a human being who wanted something better for her fellow human beings inhabiting this small planet.

Amazing Airmen  Canadian and British airmen engaged in fierce and deadly battles in the skies over Europe during the Second World War. Those who survived often had to overcome incredible obstacles to do so -- dodging bullets and German troops, escaping from burning planes and enduring forced marches if they became prisoners. Amazing Airmen tells some of these stories -- tales that are so amazing they sound like fiction. In one story, a tail gunner from Montreal survived despite being unconscious when blown out of his bomber. Another story describes how the crew of a navigator from Ottawa used chewing gum to fill holes in their aircraft. And another tells how a pilot from Northern Ontario parachuted out of his plane and became the target of a German machine-gunner, but within hours 120 Germans surrendered to him. These painstakingly researched stories will enable you to feel what now-aging veterans endured when they were young men in the air war against Nazi Germany.
 

2011-01-05 Lt. General Roméo DaillaireDownload (30:00)

"The ultimate focus of the rest of my life is to eradicate the use of child soldiers and to eliminate even the thought of the use of children as instruments of war." —Roméo Dallaire
In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has unlimited versatility and incredible capacity for both loyalty and barbarism. In fact, there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war-machines. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated and expendable weapons? Children.

Roméo Dallaire was first confronted with child soldiers in unnamed villages on the tops of the thousand hills of Rwanda during the genocide of 1994. The dilemma of the adult soldier who faced them is beautifully expressed in his book's title: when children are shooting at you, they are soldiers, but as soon as they are wounded or killed they are children once again. Believing that not one of us should tolerate a child being used in this fashion, Dallaire has made it his mission to end the use of child soldiers. In this book, he provides an intellectually daring and enlightening introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as inspiring and concrete solutions to eradicate it

2010-10-27 Mark Sobel Hollywood Director, Producer, Writer

2010-10-13 Capt. Dr. Ray Wiss Canadian Combat Doctor in Afghanistan

A Line In The Sand. An impassioned insider’s view of the Canadian soldier’s war in Afghanistan and why it matters.

A Line in the Sand takes up where the bestselling FOB Doc left off—this time, with a focus on the Canadian soldier in Afghanistan. What Captain Wiss saw in Afghanistan during his first tour there in 2007–08 convinced him that this conflict was a rare example of a moral war. When the Canadian Forces asked him to return to the combat area, he agreed. Once again, he kept a diary. This time, he wrote something completely different.

The conflict in Afghanistan continues to command the nation’s attention. Written in an accessible and engaging style, A Line in the Sand’s goal is to ensure that the efforts, sacrifices and achievements of those Canadians who served with such distinction are never forgotten. Illustrated with over 50 colour photographs, A Line in the Sand tells us about virtually every kind of soldier fighting in Afghanistan: the bomb technician, the woman who lugs heavy artillery shells, the engineer, the tank driver, the combat medic, the “grunt.” We accompany Dr. Wiss as he treats the casualties of war—Canadian, Afghan (civilian and military) and Taliban. We follow combat patrols through dangerous terrain. We learn about the Afghans, from whom we are seemingly so different yet with whom we share so much.All profits from A Line in the Sand will be donated to the Military Families Fund, created by former chief of the defence staff General Rick Hillier to assist military families.

2010-09-29 Alex Safian The Gaza Peace Flotilla

2010-09-08 Douglas Osheroff Nobel Prize in Physics / Member of Columbia Space shuttle explosion investigation panel

Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"Osheroff's father was the son of Jewish immigrants who left Russia and his mother was the daughter of Slovak immigrants. Osheroff, born in Aberdeen, Washington, earned his Bachelor's degree in 1967 from Caltech, where he attended lectures by Richard Feynman and did undergraduate research for Gerry Neugebauer.Osheroff joined the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University as a graduate student, doing research in low-temperature physics. Together with David Lee, the head of the laboratory, and Robert C. Richardson, Osheroff used a Pomeranchuk cell to investigate the behaviour of 3He at temperatures within a few thousands of a degree of absolute zero. They discovered unexpected effects in their measurements, which they eventually explained as phase transitions to a superfluid phase of 3He. Lee, Richardson and Osheroff were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for this discovery.Osheroff received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1973. He then worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey for 15 years, continuing to research low-temperature phenomena in 3He. In 1987 he moved to the Departments of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University, where he also served as department chair from 1993-96. His research is focused on phenomena that occur at extremely low temperatures.

Osheroff was selected to serve on the Space Shuttle Columbia investigation panel, serving much the same role as Richard Feynman did on the Space Shuttle Challenger panel.He currently serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.Osheroff is left-handed, and he often blames his slight quirks and eccentricities on it. He is also an avid photographer and introduces students at Stanford to medium-format film photography in a freshman seminar titled "The Technical Aspects of Photography." In addition, he has taught the Stanford introductory physics course on electricity and magnetism on multiple occasions, most recently in Spring 2008, as well as undergraduate labs on low temperature physics.In Oct 2010 Osheroff will be participating in the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate program where middle and high school students will get to engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize winning Scientist over a brown bag lunch.

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2010-09-01 Masoud Moosavi living history Persian Canadian soldier who survived chemical weapons in The Iran Iraq War

This is a must listen to series of shows.The Iran Iraq war took place between 1980 to 1988. There was a total of 70,000,000 combatants and an estimated 1 million casualties. Those are the statistics. But what of the human carnage? What of the young Iranian soldier retching his guts out trying to breathe and survive yet another of Saddam’s chemical attacks?What of the 10 year old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to walk through a mine field in advance of armored tanks? What of the Iranian mother raising her children  with bombardments from Iraqi planes taking place?What of being buried alive when a shell explodes inches from your fox hole?What of speaking to a dead Iraqi soldier who you see as a brother not an enemy Masoud Moosavi is a Canadian. He is also a Persian who saw the evil of this war and its barbaric chemical attacks up close and very personal. This is his story. It is

our story. It is a story that must be told for future generations of Canadians. For through it all runs the hope for a better life in peace as Canada became his Beacon in the Dark.

This afternoon on Brent Holland, the true story of Masoud Moosavi. His struggle for survival. His inner endurance in the face of inhumanity and ultimately his deliverance and new life in Canada. I cannot express the appreciation for the raw courage and inner integrity Mousad showed me while taking me on a journey through his experiences in that G-d awful war during our two hour long interview. Like a time warp he brought me right along with him through the tears and adversities, the smell of death and chemicals the thunder of tanks and shells. You simply must listen and hear. Make no mistake, folks, we live in the best country in the world. I thank our troops everyday for keeping it free and safe. G-d bless them one and all. Oh and by the way...everything you are about to hear is true.

2010-08-25 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have A Dream" Anniversary Special

2010-08-25 Mark Lane Living History Civil Rights Freedom Rider

2010-08-18 Chief Hazel Fox Recollet of The Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve

Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve (usually known as Wikwemikong or Wiky) is an Indian reserve in the north-eastern section of Manitoulin Island in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Wikwemikong is an unceded Indian reserve in Canada, which means that it has not "relinquished title to its land to the government by treaty or otherwise." The name Wikwemikong means "bay of beavers".The reserve is occupied by Ojibwa, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples, under the Council of Three Fires. From 1836 to 1862, the entirety of Manitoulin Island was set aside as the "Manitoulin Island Indian Reserve" under the Bond Head Treaty. The most important of the pre-confederation treaties were the Robinson Treaties because all subsequent treaties were modeled after these! In 1850, William B Robinson, a government negotiator and former fur trader, proposed that First Nations reserves be created on the Crown Land acquired through treaties. These Reserves were intended to be the answer to what the immigrant settlers needed for land settlement. First Nation peoples would be set apart on reserves from the new settlers. The Robinson-Huron and Robinson-Superior treaties were signed in September 1850 for large territories north of the two Great Lakes.According to written records, Lake Huron and Lake Superior area leaders surrendered nearly 15 000 000 hectares of land in exchange for the establishment of 24 RESERVES and a payment of approximately $10 000 to be followed by additional annual payment of $2700. However, First Nations leaders were lead to believe that the agreement was to share the land with the colonists and retain their rights to hunt and fish throughout the area.Wikwemikong as it exists today was created in 1968, when the two unceded bands and the Point Grondine band amalgamated as the Wikwemikong band.

The reserve is also home to the Wikwemikong Cultural Festival (Wikwemikong Pow Wow) which is held annually every Civic Holiday Weekend (first weekend in August).This annual event is touted as the largest and oldest Pow Wow in Eastern Canada. Considered to be one of the major Pow Wows in North America, it is attended by many Aboriginal dancers who participate in competition of all age ranges, demonstrating Traditional, Grass, Jingle, and Fancy Dancing.

2010-08-11 Mark Lane lawyer for Lee Harvey Oswald  JFK Assassination

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 Mark Lane names names & reveals the "who and the why" behind the assassinationThe assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 continues to be shrouded in mystery and controversy.  Now, for the first time in almost thirty years, explosive new evidence reveals much about the CIA’s involvement in an event that devastated the entire nation and irrevocably altered the course of history.  In Plausible Denial, Mark Lane, the author of Rush to Judgment, the provocative and bestselling critique of the Warren Commission’s official report on the assassination, makes startling revelations about the CIA’s involvement in a plot to murder the president.Nearly two decades prior to Oliver Stone’s JFK, Executive Action, a fiction film, used actual news footage from the tumultuous events of 1963, never deviating from the historical record regarding the facts surrounding the assassination.Produced in 1973 as a major motion picture starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan,  Executive Action was described as “the most controversial movie of the decade.”  As directed by David Miller, it thrillingly depicts a daring plot to change the course of US policy by eliminating the man responsible.“Everything we show is supported by evidence” stated Miller, adding that co-stars Lancaster and Ryan were initially skeptical about the conspiracy idea, but were persuaded by the weight of factual material.  As Executive Action tensely builds toward its climax, it poses the real possibility that a complex conspiracy was the cause of those fateful events in Dallas on November 22, 1963.The original screenplay, written by Mark Lane, was based upon his work in investigating the assassination.

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2010-08-04 Lawrence HillThe Book Of NegrosLawrence Hill is the son of American immigrants — a black father and a white mother

 

who came to Canada the day after they married in 1953 in Washington, D.C. On his father's side, Hill's grandfather and great grandfather were university-educated, ordained ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother came from a Republican family in Oak Park, Illinois, graduated from Oberlin College and went on to become a civil rights activist in D.C. The story of how they met, married, left the United States and raised a family in Toronto is described in Hill's bestselling memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (HarperCollins Canada, 2001). Growing up in the predominantly white suburb of Don Mills, Ontario in the sixties, Hill was greatly influenced by his parents' work in the human rights movement. Much of Hill's writing touches on issues of identity and belonging. Lawrence Hill's third novel was published as The Book of Negroes in Canada, Great Britain, South Africa and Jamaica and as Someone Knows My Name in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It won the overall Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award and CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. The book was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award and longlisted for both the Giller Prize and the IMPAC Award.Hill is also the author of the novels Any Known Blood (William Morrow, New York, 1999 and HarperCollins Canada, 1997) and Some Great Thing (HarperCollins 2009, originally published by Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1992). Hill's most recent non-fiction book The Deserter's Tale: the Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq (written with Joshua Key) was released in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and several European countries. Hill won the National Magazine Award for the best essay published in Canada in 2005 for "Is Africa's Pain Black America's Burden?" (The Walrus, February 2005). In 2005, the 90-minute film document that Hill wrote, Seeking Salvation: A History of the Black Church in Canada, Travesty Productions, Toronto (2004), won the American Wilbur Award for best national television documentary.Formerly a reporter with The Globe and Mail and parliamentary correspondent for The Winnipeg Free Press, Hill also speaks French and Spanish. He has lived and worked across Canada, in Baltimore, and in Spain and France. As a volunteer with Canadian Crossroads International, he has traveled to the West African countries Niger, Cameroon and Mali. He has a B.A. in economics from Laval University in Quebec City and an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Hill now lives, writes and runs in Hamilton, Ontario.

 

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2010-08-04 Gordon McGuinty

TrashedHow Political Garbage Made the United States Canada's Largest DumpA botched billion-dollar contract, environmental terrorism, political cowardice ... This is the true story of how the Adams Mine landfill project, the most environmentally sound and cost-effective solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis, and a world class rail transportation opportunity was killed by political mismanagement by the City of Toronto and the Government of Ontario. The Adams Mine landfill survived fifteen years of environmental assessments and contract tenders, four provincial governments, five municipal elections and an international cross-border trucking dispute, only to be trashed by the stroke of a political pen. The actions of environmentalists, media and senior politicians — Dalton McGuinty, Mike Harris, Bob Rae, Jack Layton, Mel Lastman — set against the actions of ordinary citizens striving to do the right thing for Ontario, weave a disturbing tale of political garbage.

How it happened, why it happened — and why millions of tonnes of Ontario garbage are to this day being trucked to landfills in the United States — is a story of people, perseverance and
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2010-07-28 Reza Kahlili CIA undecover agent inside IranA Time To Betray

A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the stunningly courageous account of one man's decades-long commitment to lead a shocking double life informing on the beloved country of his birth, a place that once offered the promise of freedom and enlightenment—but instead ruled by murderous violence and spirit-crushing oppression.

Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit family and two spirited boyhood friends. The Iran of his youth allowed Reza to think and act freely, and even indulge a penchant for rebellious pranks in the face of the local mullahs. His political and personal freedoms flourished while he studied computer science at the University of Southern California in the 1970s. But his carefree time in America was cut short with the sudden death of his father, and Reza returned home to find a country on the cusp of change. The revolution of 1979 plunged Iran into a dark age of religious fundamentalism under the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Reza, clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force at the beck and call of the Ayatollah. But as Khomeini's tyrannies unfolded, as his fellow countrymen turned on each other, and after the horror he witnessed inside Evin Prison, a shattered and disillusioned Reza returned to America to dangerously become "Wally," a spy for the CIA.

In the wake of an Iranian election that sparked global outrage, at a time when Iran's nuclear program holds the world's anxious attention, the revelations inside A Time to Betray could not be more powerful or timely. Now resigned from his secretive life to reclaim precious time with his loved ones, Reza Kahlili documents scenes from history with heart-wrenching clarity, as he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the Marine barracks bombings in Beirut, the catastrophes of Pan Am Flight 103, the scandal of the Iran-Contra affair, and more . . . a chain of incredible events that culminates in a nation's fight for freedom that continues to this very day.

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2010-07-21 Mark Lane - Jim Jone's People's Temple Jonestown Massacre 1st person witness & survivor

Mark Lane is living history. Lane was present in Jonestown during the events of November 18, 1978, when more than 900 Peoples Temple members died in a murder-suicide by cyanide poisoning, and Congressman Leo Ryan and four others were murdered at a nearby airstrip.

During the visit of Congressman Ryan, Lane helped represent the Temple with its other attorney, Charles R. Garry.Late in the afternoon of November 18, two men wielding rifles approached Lane and Garry and told them bluntly they were to be executed. While waiting for their execution Lane heard the cries of children and gunshots less than 200 yards from where he was. The long black night of murder at Jonestown had begun.

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2010-07-21 Mark Lane - Lawyer for The American Indian Movement - Wounded Knee 1973

Mr. Lane represented the American Indian Movement at the historic Wounded Knee trial, which he won.  Following the trial, the United States District Court judge who had tried the case said, "Mark Lane is the finest investigative lawyer in America."The 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee of over 300 men, women and children was one of the most brutal acts of the U.S. government. Pine Ridge Reservation was created based on a treaty negotiated in response to the armed resistance of the tribe. Today there are families who trace their history back to the Wounded Kn

ee massacre and to signers of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. In 1973, many elders feared that their cultural traditions and religious ceremonies were quickly being lost. Hopelessness was growing out of the lack of leadership from the tribal council, as well as a series of incidents including the killing by police of an Indian youth in the reservation border town of Custer. Continued collaboration by the tribal leaders with anti- Indian policies of the federal government led to the occupation of the Wounded Knee hamlet, the site of the 1890 massacre. Oglala Sioux Tribe members and leaders of AIM undertook an action to dramatize the conditions on Pine Ridge Reservation. As a result, the world's attention became focused on the racism faced by Indians on reservations and in the cities, too. The occupation became a 71-day struggle between activists and armed FBI agents and the National Guard. Those occupying believed the conditions were so drastic that they had to take a stand. Many expected to be killed - like their ancestors in 1890 - and two did die. Download Show (30:00)

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2010-07-14 Dr. Francis. S. Collins - leader of The Human Genome Project 

“His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” — President Barak Obama

“Man’s knowledge of man is undergoing the greatest revolution since Leonardo, and Francis Collins is at the leading edge of it. I am a better doctor today because Dr. Collins was my genetics professor in medical school, and now, the world gets to benefit from his wisdom by reading The Language of Life.” — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon at Emory University and Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN
Francis Collins has been at the forefront of this revolution. He was, for fifteen years, the head of the international Human Genome Project, and he now serves as the Director of the National Institutes of Health. He knows, better than anyone, how widespread are the misperceptions about human genetics. Just in the past decade, most of what you think you know about DNA has been overturned. Much of the advice given routinely by health care providers is ill informed, so you need to educate yourself about this rapidly moving area of medicine. You are guaranteed to face some surprises, and some difficult choices about personal knowledge, treatment, and family risk.

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 2010-07-14 Brian Crowley The Canadian Century: Moving Out Of America's Shadow

For years Canada has lived in the shadow of the United States. No more. As the authors argue, while the United States was busy precipitating a global economic disaster, Canada was on a path that could lead it into an era of unprecedented prosp

erity. It won't be easy. We must be prepared to follow through on reforms enacted and complete the work already begun. If so, Canada will become the country that Laurier foretold, a land of work for all who want it, of opportunity, investment, innovation and prosperity. Laurier said that the twentieth century belonged to Canada. He was absolutely right; he was merely off by 100 years

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EMERGENCY BROADCAST Free Sakineh Ashtiani

Here's the link to sign the petition send it to everyone you know: http://freesakineh.org/As you read this a life hangs in the balance. A forty-two-year-old

 Iranian mother, Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, has been convicted of adultery while being married and has been sentenced to death by stoning. As family members of Sakineh have reported, she was originally convicted of adultery in 2006 and received ninety-nine lashes as punishment. Then, recently, her case was reopened and  the judge decided to sentence her to stoning.As a citizen of not only Canada but the world, I have signed the petition. These heinous and  barbaric acts must end. Are Iranian women any less human beings that you or I? It is now the 21st century. At what point does humanity stand and simply say enough. I make that stand now. Will you join me, Peter Gabriel, Anne Lenox, Solomon Rushdie, Heather Reisman, Louise Denys, Marina Nemet and thousands more?Heather Reisman CEO of Chapters Indigo has launched a website for Sakineh and writing a letter to Iranian authorities. I immediately got on board. The website is now up and running. Please share the link with all your contacts and sign the petition on the site. International pressure can save this woman's life.

 Special invited guests on this emergency broadcast:Heather Reisman - CEO Chapters IndigoLouise Dennys - CEO Random House Canada and a brilliant compassionate womanMarina Nemet - author "Prisoner of Tehran"  escaped Evan prison after torture and execution sentenceThank you, Brent HollandHere's the link to sign the petition send it to everyone you know: http://freesakineh.org/Download Show (30:00)

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2010-07-07  Lawrence Kraus- renowned theoretical physicist The Physics Of Star Trek

What warps when you're traveling at warp speed? What is the difference between a wormhole and a black hole? Are time loops really possible, and can I

 kill my grandmother before I am born? Anyone who has ever wondered �could this really happen?" will gain useful insights into the Star Trek universe (and, incidentally, the real world of physics) in this charming and accessible guide. Lawrence M. Krauss boldly goes where Star Trek has gone-and beyond. From Newton to Hawking, from Einstein to Feynman, from Kirk to Picard, Krauss leads readers on a voyage to the world of physics as we now know it and as it might one day be.Lawrence M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University. He is the only physicist to have received the top awards by the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers

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2010-07-07 J. Kirk Boyd 2048 Project Humanity's Written Agreement To Live Together

Our mission is to educate students and the public about the evolution of human rights, and to provide a process to draft an international framework for enforceable human rights that can be in place by the year 2048, the 100th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Welcome! The goal is to draft an international bill of rights that is enforceable in the courts of all countries. 2048 asks for input from people in all professions and all countries to draft this document. Please choose the buttons above to make a general comment about the idea of an international bill of rights and choose from the buttons below if you would like to make a comment about a particular article within the draft document. All comments are reviewed by the staff of the 2048 project, and any change made to the draft document includes a description of the comment that was the catalyst for the change. Thank you very much for your participation. It does not matter who makes the comment. 2048 measures all comments equally based upon the weight of the idea.

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2010-06-30 Sharon Doyle Driedger An Irish Heart - How A Small Immigrant Community Shaped Canada

During the Great Famine of the 1840s, thousands of impoverished Irish immigrants, escaping from the potato crop failure, fled to Canada on what came to be known as “fever ships.” As the desperate arrivals landed at Quebec City or nearby Grosse Isle, families were often torn apart. Parents died of typhus and children were put up for adoption, while lucky survivors travelled on to other destinations. Many people made their way up the St. Lawrence to Montreal, where 6,000 more died in appalling conditions.
Despite these terrible beginnings, a thriving Irish settlement called Griffintown was born and endured in Montreal for over a century. The Irish became known for their skill as navvies, building our canals and bridges, working long hours in factories, raising large, close-knit families. This riveting story captures their strong faith, their dislike of authority, their love of drink, song and a good fight, and their loyalty. Filled with personal recollections drawn from extensive author interviews, An Irish Heart recreates a community and a culture that has a place of distinction in our history. From D’Arcy McGee and Nellie McClung to the Montreal Shamrocks, Brian Mulroney and beyond, Irish Canadians have made their mark.

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2010-06-23 Ky-Mani Marley -  son of the legendary King of Reggae Music Bob Marley

Dear Dad - 'The harder the battle, the sweet of Jah victory.' — Bob Marley This compelling narrative chronicles young Ky-Mani's gritty ascent out of the bullet-riddled life of street conflict and crack selling. An internationally known recording and performing artist, Ky-Mani shares his own story of personal redemption through his music, writing about his experiences, his struggles, and what he has survived to make it to the world stages he now commands as aGrammy-nominated musical artist and philanthropist. THE STORY THE MARLEY FAMILY APPARENTLY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW This memoir is the book the Marley Family tried to stop. By legal standards, they committed tortious interference as an attempt to stop it from going into print and to censor the author from telling his story. You now have in your hand that story in its uncensored form. Ky-Mani Marley, is a Grammy nominated reggae-music artist, film actor and son to legendary reggae icon Bob Marley. Born in Falmouth, Jamaica in 1976, his road to the world stage was wrought with challenge and even poverty growing up on the streets of Miami, Florida. Estranged to his 10 other siblings and family fortune early in his life, Ky-Mani fatefully discovered his inherent musical talent and arose to record 4 critically acclaimed albums, including the mega-hit entitled "Dear Dad".

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2010-06-23 Howard Galganov Quebec Racism

TAKING ON ETHNOCENTRIC QUEBECOIS NATIONALISTS:In 1996, just after the second 1995 near nation ending Quebec Referendum to separate from Canada, Howard formed the Quebec Political Action Committee (QPAC) with which to take on Quebec’s Ethnocentric Nationalists who have made the UNRESTRICTED use of the English language ILLEGAL.QPAC drove the Quebec government to distraction, effectively ending any opportunity for Quebec to hold another referendum to secede from Canada. For Howard's troubles, his wife Anne endured countless death threats and were forced to live with armed bodyguards 24/7 for months at a time between 1996 and 1998.Howard has been written-up in Time Magazine, The Economist and far too many other prominent news magazines and newspapers worldwide to count, including active participation on a CBS 60-Minutes feature on the language wars in Quebec. In 1996, Howard was included amongst Canada’s News Makers Of The Year.

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2010-06-16 Iran On Fire Persian Canadians tell their true stories how they fled the Iranian regime and came to Canada

This afternoon a special edition of The Brent Holland Show. It's been one year since the Iranian Election uprising and those

 horrific images of Neda bleeding to death on the streets of Tehran shot from an Iranian sniper's bullet. Today, we bring you exclusive interviews from ordinary Iranian Canadians who have fled Iran and now find themselves with loved ones trapped inside the Iranian regime. One year ago I was told: “ Iran is on fire.” Those were the ominous words given only days ago by personal friends of mine via telephone from the depths of the interior of Iran to describe the conflict going on there. It took several weeks but finally I heard back from them and they were in good spirits, but, by then, many had been murdered.They were born in Iran but fled and now make their home right here in Canada and are as Canadian as you or me. Why Canada ? For the opportunity to raise their children in true freedom. Make no mistake folks; Iran isn’t Canada where if you’re arrested at a protest you have basic human rights. Forget about that. This is Iran . If you’re picked up you may be just disappeared and never heard from again. It’s hard for us to imagine here in beautiful Canada with the trees, the lakes and where the biggest decision of the day maybe whether to get a small coffee or a large one. Imagine being in your home with your family. Your son in his bedroom studying for an exam when there is that knock: that ever dreaded knock. You know damn well what it is and you can do nothing but answer. In come the Iranian secret police that walk past you to your son’s bedroom and confiscate his computer and then your worst nightmare: they arrest him. They simply tell you as they leave if he hasn’t returned in 24 hours to come look for him. But where? This story is true. Think about that in your own context, to your own son or daughter maybe going off to University. This afternoon you will hear horror stories of terror and barbarism. You will hear how they fled the Iranian regime and came to Canada ; how they hold Canada as a beacon of light in the dark. Indeed all nations of the persecuted hold Canada as a beacon light. It is something we as Canadians seem unaware of: just how truly great a nation we are. These are their stories and now as Canadians they are our stories. One more thing, all the stories you will hear today are true and what’s more they are the stories of your neighbours, your friends, the real people who you see and smile to who live right along side you.

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2010-06-16 Marina Nemat "Prisoner of Tehran - a Memoir"

In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary

Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed. She survived only because one of the guards fell in love with her and threatened to harm her family if she refused to marry him. Soon after her forced conversion to Islam and marriage, her husband was assassinated by rival factions. Nemat was returned to prison but, ironically, it was her captor's family who eventually secured her release. An extraordinary tale of faith and survival, Prisoner of Tehran is a testament to the power of love in the face of evil and injustice.

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2010-06-09 Right Honourable Irwin Cotler -  Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2010 & Canadian Attorney General

McGill Professor Cotler teaches constitutional law, international human rights law, law and poverty, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, discrimination and the law, civil liberties, and comparative and international protection of minorities' rights. His main research areas are freedom of expression and assaultive speech, equality law, peace and human rights, and comparative constitutional law. Professor Cotler is Chair of InterAmicus, the International Human Rights Advocacy Centre based at McGill Law School; and Co-Chair of the Canadian Helsinki Watch Group. He has defended political prisoners in Peru, Tunisia, China, Nigeria, Indonesia and Russia and he has addressed major academic gatherings in Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem. He has argued before the Supreme Courts of both Canada and Israel and he has testified before parliamentary committees in Canada, the US, Norway, Russia and various Latin American states.In 1999 Professor Cotler was elected Member of Parliament for the federal constituency of Mount Royal. He was re-elected in November 2000. On December 12, 2003, the Prime Minister appointed Mr. Cotler Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. He was re-appointed on July 20th following the General Election of June 28. http://content.liberal.ca/fe9cf988-49a0-42eb-9e11-2a512494abd7/pdf/2010-01-07-r2p-petition.pdf

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2010-06-09 Harvey Cashore

The Truth Shows UpHarvey Cashore has been a senior producer for CBC’s flagship investigative program, the fifth estate for twenty years where has prepared news-breaking documentaries on government mismanagement, international fraud, and justice-related issues. His in-depth work on the Airbus scandal began in 1994, and he is considered the top expert on the story. Cashore is the recipient of numerous awards including: The 2009 Gemini Award for Best Direction in a News Information Program or Series and The 2009 Canadian Association of Journalists' “Best Investigative Journalism” Award. He has been honoured with five Gemini Award nominations for Best Documentary and Best Information segment.  Canadians everywhere are familiar with the broad outlines of the infamous Airbus story. In recent years there have been countless news stories filed on what has become Canada’s biggest political scandal. What few know is the story of how this scandal was unearthed. How one determined journalist kept the story alive — kept picking at the pieces and posing the difficult questions the government would have preferred to avoid. The public had the right to know that millions of taxpayers’ dollars went missing in the sale of Airbus jets to a Canadian Crown Corporation, and they had a right to know where that money ended up. The Truth Shows Up is a compelling and fast-paced, behind-the-scenes journey with one journalist, and a team of colleagues, who followed this story from the very beginning. In 1994 Harvey Cashore, then an Associate Producer with CBC’s the fifth estate, was working on a news story about bribes in the airline industry. What he came across were the first fragments on what would become known as the Airbus scandal, a tale of bribes and kickbacks at the highest level of federal power.

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2010-05-26 Sam Cutler - tour manager for the Stones and Grateful Dead

You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and other wonderful Reprobates

An exhilarating, all-access rock memoir from someone who has seen and done

 it all, this telling recounts the many experiences of Sam Cutler, the former tour manager of the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. With intimate portraits of other stars of the psychedelic circus that was the music industry in the 1960s and 1970s-including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Band, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, and Eric Clapton-this account is an ideal resource for any music fan. A detailed explanation of the infamous Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, where a man in the crowd was killed by the Hells Angels, is also included. iTunes App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id365685513?mt=8

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2010-05-26 Doug Clarke Thin Bruised Line

Lose respect and you lose the streets. That''s the hard lesson American police learned as their cities burned in the 1960s. Today, Canadian police are scrambling to preserve public order from a new "perfect storm" looming over the horizon and under the political radar. Their vaunted thin blue line of front-line officers is greyed, frayed, and stretched to the breaking point. Plagued by failed leadership and too few recruits, our police are frantically digging in behind the scenes against the converging triple threats poised to engulf them: shifting demographics, increasingly complex laws, and unrealistic expectations. The threat to officers and public safety has never been greater.DOUG CLARK is an award-winning investigative journalist with thirty years'' experience. His books include The Roaring Game, Dark Paths, Cold Trails: How a Mountie Led the Quest to Link Serial Killers to Their Victims, which was shortlisted in 2003 for an Arthur Ellis non-fiction award; and Unkindest Cut:The Torso Murder of Selina Shen. He has written for The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, The Edmonton Journal, Saturday Night, and Maclean''s, among others. He lives in North Gower, Ontario.

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2010-05-19 Joseph Sebarenzi God Sleeps In Rwanda - A Journey of Transformation  

A harrowing tale of survival and reconciliation by a Rwandan Tutsi who flees his homeland before the 1994 genocide and later returns to be elected speaker of the Rwandan parliament, only to be forced into exile once again

This memoir tells the story of Joseph Sebarenzi, whose parents, seven siblings, and countless other family members were among 800,000 Tutsi brutally murdered over the course of ninety days in 1994 by extremist Rwandan Hutu.Outbreaks of ethnic violence had been occurring in Rwanda since colonial times when the Belgians ruled the region. As a child, Sebarenzi twice hid with his mother during episodes of killing, narrowly escaping with his life. When he was a teenager, his father sent him away to school in Congo, telling him, "If we are killed, you will survive." Sebarenzi returned to Rwanda after the genocide and was elected speaker of parliament. But he then learned of a plot to assassinate him, leading him to once again flee the country in a daring escape.The poetic title of the book is taken from an old saying, "God spends the day elsewhere, but He sleeps in Rwanda," but this African nation is not alone in having had a shameful history of ethnic violence. God Sleeps in Rwanda demonstrates how horrific events can occur when the rest of the world stands by and does nothing. It also shows us how the lessons of Rwanda can prevent future tragedies from happening in that country and other parts of the world. Readers will be inspired by the eloquence and wisdom of a man who has every reason to be bitter and hateful, but chooses instead to live a life of love, compassion, and forgiveness.

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2010-05-19 John EnglishJust Watch Me The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume Two: 1968-2000 (National Bestseller)

This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau's private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called "the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written

" - sweeping us from sixties' Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.

His life is one of Canada's most engrossing stories. John English reveals how for Trudeau style was as important as substance, and how the controversial public figure intertwined with the charismatic private man and committed father. He traces Trudeau's deep friendships (with women especially, many of them talented artists, like Barbra Streisand) and bitter enmities; his marriage and family tragedy. He illuminates his strengths and weaknesses - from Trudeaumania to political disenchantment, from his electrifying response to the kidnappings during the October Crisis, to his all-important patriation of the Canadian Constitution, and his evolution to influential elder statesman. John English is Professor of History, University of Waterloo. Citizen of the World was a multi-award winner and a Globe and Mail Best Book.

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2010-05-12 Chris Wattie Contact Charlie

Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, The Taliban and the Battle that Saved Afghanistan In the summer of 2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan''s Panjwayi region-a densely packed maze of villages, fields and vineyards west of Kandahar-surprised an unexpectedly large force of Taliban fighters. The soldiers of the Princess Patricia''s Canadian Light Infantry had stumbled into a hornet''s nest, the largest buildup of Taliban forces in the region since their regime had fallen in 2001. The Canadians found themselves up against opponents who were suicidally brave, cunning at planting mines and roadside bombs, and experienced at disappearing into the scenery whenever they chose. As their commanders threw more and more soldiers into what became a gruelling, drawn-out struggle, the troops of the battalion''s Charlie Company found themselves at the forefront of every firefight and ambush in what became a desperate, two-month pitched battle. The 150 soldiers of Charlie Company suffered more casualties and earned more decorations for bravery than any other Canadian unit since the Korean War and came into contact with the enemy so many times they became known simply as "Contact Charlie." In Contact Charlie , National Post reporter and embedded journalist Chris Wattie offers an intimate and harrowing look at the series of battles that would eventually take the lives of seven soldiers, including Captain Nichola Goddard, Canada''s first female combat casualty, and veteran soldier Sergeant Vaughn Ingram, who died trying to save one of his young troops. Based on Wattie''s own experience in Afghanistan, as well as hundreds of post-tour interviews with the men and women on the ground, Contact Charlie is a rare piece of military writing, providing readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the stories that made headlines that summer-and continue to do so today.CHRIS WATTIE is a senior national reporter with the National Post , and one of the first Canadian reporters embedded with the army when he accompanied Canadian troops on the International Security Assistance Force mission in Kabul in 2003. He was also with the Canadian Forces'' disaster assistance response team in Sri Lanka for the aftermath of the 2005 tsunami. In January 2006, he travelled to Kandahar with the first troops of the Canadian battle group deployed to southern Afghanistan and was embedded for eight weeks.

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2010-05-12 Capt. Fred Doucette

Empty Casing

When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a UN peacekeeper in 1995, he had a premonition that this tour of duty would be different. He had been posted to Cyprus in the 1970s and 1980s, but the horrors of the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s were beyond imagining. Doucette takes us to the heart of the conflict as the Bosnian Serb forces launch a massive, concerted assault. Sarajevo, the largely Muslim Bosnian capital, is devastated. Thousands of Sarajevans perish. UN forces, tasked with imposing and maintaining peace between the warring forces, realize this is an impossible task.Upon his return to Canada, Doucette begins his own war with posttraumatic stress disorder. Nightmares and flashbacks plague his days and nights. Traumatized and disoriented, he must learn to face himself, his family and his army once again.With raw emotion, Empty Casing tells the story of the making and unmaking of a soldier, and the growth of a man.

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2010-05-05 Jane Goodall Hope For Animals And Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued From The Brink

At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world''s most renowned scientists, brings us& inspiring news about the future of the animal kingdom. With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall-along with Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard-shares fascinating survival stories about the American Crocodile, the California Condor, the Black-Footed Ferret, and more; all formerly endangered species.Interweaving her own first-hand experiences in the field with the compelling research of premier scientists, Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of these beloved species. At once a celebration of the animal kingdom and a passionate call to arms, HOPE FOR ANIMALS THEIR WORLD presents an uplifting, hopeful message for the future of animal-human coexistence.  

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2010-05-05 David KirbyAnimal Factory

 Swine flu. MRSA. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from algal blooms and flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacteria contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that can contaminate our air, land, and water supply. In this thoroughly researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These facilities, known as “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs, confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under stressful conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their 20-year struggle against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized cattle farm and its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of animal waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and safe natural resources.Download Show (30:00)
 

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2010-04-14 Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet army..

The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States. In September of 1980, Hosseini's family moved to San Jose,

California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California-San Diego's School of Medicine, where he earned a Medical Degree in 1993. He completed his residency at

Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Hosseini was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004.While in medical practice, Hosseini began writing his first novel,, The Kite Runnerr, in March of 2001. In 2003,, The Kite Runnerr, was published and has since become an international bestseller, published in 48 countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency.  His second novel,,A Thousand Splendid Sunsswas published in May of 2007. Currently,,A Thousand Splendid Sunssis published in 40 countries. Khaled has been working to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan throughh The Khaled Hosseini Foundationn. The concept for The Khaled Hosseini Foundation was inspired by a trip to Afghanistan Khaled made in 2007 with the UNHCR. He lives in northern California.

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2010-04-14 David Finkel -  Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Good SoldiersDavid Finkel is a staff writer for The Washington Post, and is also the leader of the Post’s national reporting team. He won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen. Finkel lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two daughters.An eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War but of all wars, for all time.It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. “Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,” he told a sceptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic, Army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the Battalion nicknamed The Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way. What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front-lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.

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2010-04-07 Theo Fleury Playing With Fire

Theo Fleury, at 5'6" made a name for himself in a game played by giants. A star in junior hockey, he became an integral part of the Calgary Flames' Stanley Cup win in 1989. Fleury's talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off the ice, Wayne Gretzky believed in him. He became a key member of the gold medal-winning men's hockey team at the 2002 Olympics.The Colorado Avalanche picked up Fleury for the playoffs, and when he signed with the New York Rangers, he was a kid in a candy store. After one season of his next multi-million-dollar deal, this time with the Chicago Blackhawks, Fleury suddenly called it quits and wouldn't explain why.

In Playing with Fire, Theo Fleury takes us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player and talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home. Dark personal issues haunted him, with drinking, drugs, gambling and girls ultimately derailing his Hall of Fame-calibre career."I've known Theo Fleury since back in junior, and I always hated playing against him. Theo was the ultimate competitor. He would do anything to win. That kind of attitude is tough to beat. He was an emotional guy, and when we ended up on the same team in Colorado in 1999, he was still a pest. If I scored, he would come over and pound me on the back or jump up and hug me and get on me for not celebrating enough. I am really glad Theo has come out on top." - Joe Sakic, Captain, Colorado Avalanche

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2010-04-07 Tom Lipscomb -- Pulitzer PrizeeNominee

The real life adventure of Tom Lipscomb to bring back Ché Guevara's diaries just after his murder in BoliviaEver wondered who and got a hold of Ché Guevara's diaries after Ché's murder in Bolivia October 1967 and how they found their way back to the States? Join us today for real living history and the real life adventure of our guest today, Tom Lipscomb, and how he coerced, bribed and schmoozed Bolivian Military officials to win them over and bring back Ché's diaries to the west. Thomas Lipscomb, is an investigative journalist and publisher, was President of Times Books, the New York Times book division when it published The Final Report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations inn 19799. The House Select Committee on Assassinations was established inn 19766to investigate both the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated untill 19788, and inn 19799issued its final report, and this official government investigation concluded, are you ready for this: that President John F. Kennedy was indeed assassinated by a result of a conspiracy. Thomas H. Lipscomb also edited "The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Ché Guevara and Other Captured Documents" inn 19688. These diaries revealed the true nature of Ché. Not the romantic, humanitarian that his myth proclaims, but a cold calculating murderer of children, those who challenged him and was a raging homophobe who wanted to forcefully throw all homosexuals off the island of Cuba.

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2010-03--31 Wade Davis- National Geographic Society- National Geographic Society / Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters In The Modern World

Wade Davis is the bestselling author of several books, includingg The Serpent and the Rainboww, Light at the Edge of the Worldd, andd The Clouded Leopardd. He is also an awardwinning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer, and his writing and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including thee Globe and Maill, Maclean'ss, Newsweekk, National Geographicc, thee Wall Street Journall, and thee Washington Postt. Davis divides his time between Washington, D.C. and northern British Columbia.. Over the past decade, many of us have been alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating extinction of our planet's diverse flora and fauna. But how many of us know that our human cultural diversity is also going extinct at a shocking rate? Biologists estimate that 18% of mammals and 11% of birds are threatened, while botanists anticipate the loss of 8% of flora. Meanwhile, of the 7,000 languages in the world today, 50% will disappear innour lifetime. Languages are merely the canaries in the coalmine: what of the poetry, songs, knowledge, and ways of seeing encoded in these disappearing voices?
Inn The Wayfinderss, acclaimed anthropologist Wade Davis offers a gripping account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through aahandful of indigenous cultures and worldviews while reminding us of the encroaching dangers posed by unchecked globalization. An enlightening, awe-inspiring, and cautionary look at vanishing cultures and languages from one of the world's most celebrated and distinguished anthropologists

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2010-03-24 Dr. David E Guggenheim - Ocean Doctor / The Ocean Foundation

Dr. David E. Guggenheim is a marine scientist, conservation policy specialist, submarine pilot and ocean explorer. He is president of 1planet1ocean, a project of The Ocean Foundation where he is a Senior Fellow and director of its Cuba Marine Research and Conservation Program. He is currently leading a major project to elevate collaboration in marine science and conservation among Cuba, Mexico and the U.S. to a new level and leading the first-ever comprehensive research and conservation program in Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico region, a joint effort with the University of Havana. Also known as the “Ocean Doctor” and host of the ExpeditionCasts podcast series, Dr. Guggenheim is currently engaged in a special “expedition” to all fifty U.S. states visiting schools and bringing special programs about ocean exploration and conservation to young students. So far he has traveled more than 35,000 miles, visited 13 states, made 39 speeches and reached more than 10,000 students in schools ranging from the northernmost community in North America, Barrow, Alaska, to Macksville, Kansas, close to the geographic center of the lower 48 states, to the southern tip of Florida.

In 2007 he served as a scientific advisor to Greenpeace for its expedition to map deepwater corals in the Bering Sea where he piloted the first-ever manned submersible dives into the Bering Sea’s largest underwater canyons. Guggenheim played a lead role in building the recently-formed Gulf of Mexico Alliance, a partnership among the U.S. Gulf states and 13 federal agencies and Mexico. Guggenheim is also working to introduce cutting-edge technologies for sustainable aquaculture practices to the Americas to reduce pressure on overfished wild fish stocks. Guggenheim previously served as Vice President at The Ocean Conservancy, President & CEO of The Conservancy of Southwest Florida, co-chair of the Everglades Coalition and president of the Friends of Channel Islands National Park.
Guggenheim holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Public Policy from George Mason University in Virginia, a Master’s in Aquatic and Population Biology from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Master’s in Regional Science and Bachelor’s in Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
For additional information, please see: www.1planet1ocean.org and www.OceanDoctor.org

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2010-03-24 Andrea Mandel CampbellAndrea Mandel Campbell

Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business from the Suds of Global Obscurity

Andrea Mandel-Campbell was bureau chief for London’s Financial Timessin Mexico and correspondent forr Business Weekkmagazine in Argentina. For ten years she was a

 foreign correspondent in Latin America. She has written extensively on global competitiveness issues, including business ties between Canada and China. In 2008 she was awarded an Honorary Certified International Trade Professional (CITP) designation by FITT – the world’s leading international trade training and professional certification authority. She lives in Toronto..It’s time a country notorious for its middle of the road, fence-sitting proclivities, take a stand and come up with a winning strategy for taking on the world. To do that, we’ll first need to ask ourselves some hard questions about what it means to be Canadian and what we want to achieve. Andrea Mandel-Campbell invites you to participate in this crucial and much-needed debate. Please visitt her blogor contactt her directlyDownload Show  (30:00)

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2010-03-17 Dr. David Suzuki

Dr. David Suzuki tells us of his early childhood a part of his life many maybe unaware. A part of his life where his family was subjected to racism, oppression and blatant ethnic profiling. The families valuables sold off to pay for their forced internment in ethnic camps, no not in Japan or Germany, right here in British Columbia, Canada!Dr. David Suzuki is now a virtual international icon and has been voted one of the top ten Canadians of all time. Join us for an incredible story of fortitude and perseverance against entrenched bigoted racial Canadian government policy. There are many reasons Dr. Suzuki is admired on a global level ; this is one of them.

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew “ Marshall McLuhannWe only have one planet. We’re all in this togther. And we can’t sit back and wait for those who govern to legislate our way to a healthier, greener future. We need community-based leadership. Let’s make those changes ourselves right now, where we live every day – in our homes, workplaces and communities..Here’s how you can be part of the solution:

Stay informed.. Check our website for news on critical issues and DSF campaigns, as well as links to resources and toolkits.. Sign up for our newsletterss. Stay on top of what’s going on in your community - talk to your neighbours, municipal representatives and community leaders.. Tell political representatives where you stand Political leaders earn their postions from votes. They care about public

opinon and keep close tabs on issues constituents raise in letters, meetings, phone calls and editorial pages of local papers. You don’t have to be an expert. Your opinion matters. Here’s a contact list and tips on getting in touch with political representativess.
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Write a letter to the editor, call a local radio show, pen an op-ed – make your voice heard! Suggest story angles to producers and provide background information. (Don’t forget to commend them for good coverage.) Here’s a contact list and tips forr engaging your local mediaato get you started..Create change in your community Urban sprawl is linked to increased air pollution, rising obesity rates and loss of agricultural land. The DSF reportt Understanding Sprawlloutlines ways to stop this problem, and includes the toolkitt Driven to Actionnto help citizens protect their communities from overdevelopment. Invite neighbours and friends to help you effect the changes you want to see.. Volunteer DSF has offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and there are Canadians across the country who feel called too volunteer with uss. You can also contact yourr local volunteer centreeto check out other organizations working for the environment..Support the Foundation Our work towards a healthy environment is only possible with the help of people like you. Give, become a monthly donor, remember us in your will, or donate in honour of friends and family with a gift cards.. Learn more about ways to givee.  Fundraise for DSF When you   raise funds for the David Suzuki Foundationn, you help us find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Successful past events have included concerts, art shows, auctions, and cycling or walking tours. Use your imagination!  

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2010-03-17 John Ortved The Simpsons - An Uncensored, Unauthorized History

The story of TV’s longest-running sitcom and the characters who created it, marking twenty years on the airThe Simpsons will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this fall. No other TV show has had the enduring popularity or cultural influence that The Simpsons has. When it premiered in 1989, the enthusiastic reaction to its subversive humor was instantaneous. It is one of the most astounding successes in TV history. John Ortved’s unauthorized history—the first ever to look behind the scenes of this pop culture phenomenon—tells how the series grew from a controversial cult favourite to a mainstream powerhouse thanks to a group of intense, thoughtful, and creative people who came together to make something unique in the history of American culture. The writers, animators, producers, and network executives—as much a dysfunctional but loving family as the show’s stars themselves—are all here. It’s an intriguing yet hilarious tale full of betrayal, ambition, and love. More than an amusing narrative of the making of The Simpsons, this is an intimate look at the characters behind this cultural juggernaut—their creativity, intelligence, hubris, ego, and passion. The result is a book that is as amusing, dramatic, and compelling as the show itself.

John Ortved is a 28-year-old writer and former editorial associate at Vanity Fair who lives between New York and Toronto, where he was born and raised. Growing up, he was no good at hockey, and was forced to find other ways to impress girls, like writing, working out, and smoking weed – none of which worked. At McGill University, where he earned his BA in English Literature (with a little economics), he wrote a weekly column, The Art Dummy, for The McGill Daily, which 6 out of 10 students considered “pretty awesome.”

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2010-03-10 Alan Dershowitz Human Rights Lawyer

Israel Apartheid Week on University CampusesProfessor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg.
He has also published more than 100 articles in magazines and journals such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post. The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, Commentary, Saturday Review, The Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal, and more than 300 of his articles have appeared in syndication in 50 national daily newspapers. Professor Dershowitz is the author of 27 fiction and non-fiction works with a worldwide audience. His most recent titles include Rights From Wrong, The Case For Israel, The Case For Peace, Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways, Finding Jefferson – A Lost Letter, A Remarkable Discovery, and The First Amendment In An Age of Terrorism, and The Case For Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza.
In addition to his numerous law review articles and books about criminal and constitutional law, he has written, taught and lectured about history, philosophy, psychology, literature, mathematics, theology, music, sports – and even delicatessens.
In 1983, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith presented him with the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award for his "compassionate eloquent leadership and persistent advocacy in the struggle for civil and human rights." In presenting the award, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel said: "If there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different." Professor Dershowitz has been awarded the honorary doctor of laws degree by Yeshiva University, the Hebrew Union College, Brooklyn College, Syracuse University and Haifa University. The New York Criminal Bar Association honored him for his "outstanding contribution as a scholar and dedicated defender of human rights."

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2010-03-10 Rabbi Aron Heir Free Speech on University & College Campuses

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is often the first to speak out on numerous issues that are germane to the world at large. The aim of the Campus Outreach division is to do this "in miniature" at colleges and universities by teaching about and confronting anti-semitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing with Israel, and celebrating diversity and tolerance. Our mission is to foster an awareness of contemporary human rights and ethic issues. We want to encourage participation in exploring Jewish spirit, culture and identity as human, personal and national character. We aim to educate about social justice, to learn to know who we are and what we stand for and how to navigate life fully and competently.

Visit the SWC Campus Outreach web siteclick here to view video of violation of free speech at U of Irvine, California

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2010-03-03 Katie Callaway Hall - Kidnapped and Raped in 1976 by Phillip Garrido

Monsters, Sexual Predators and every Woman's Darkest Nightmare

Summer 2009: police discover a backyard hidden lair at the home of Phillip Garrido. Garrido, a sexual deviant and sadomasochist pervert has kidnapped a young girl by the name of Jaycee Lee Dugard and kept her his sex slave for 18 years fathering two children with her, while all the time his wife looked on.Katie Callaway Hall was 25, a single mom of a 7-year-old son, when Phillip Garrido entered her life one chilly evening in November 1976. Then known as Katie Callaway, she was headed to her boyfriend's house with a carload of food for dinner when a young man with a ponytail tapped on her window in a grocery store parking lot. His car wouldn't start. Could she give him a ride? She looked him over and let him in. "He didn't look like what I thought a rapist should look like," she said Friday during an interview at her Las Vegas home.She followed his directions around South Lake Tahoe, Calif., as he guided her to what she thought was his friend's house. He told her to stop in front of an empty lot, then he struck. The man, who was unarmed, grabbed the back of her neck and forced her head into the steering wheel. "All I want is a piece of ass. If you do everything I say you won't get hurt. I'm serious," he told her, according to trial transcripts. He handcuffed her, moved her to the passenger seat and used a leather strap to bind her head to her knees. He tossed a coat over her and drove off. She asked him when she would be back. "Maybe I will bring you back tomorrow," she testified he told her. She asked him where they were going. "Far away. I've got a shed. I've got it all prepared," he told her, according to the transcripts. He drove across the state line to a storage unit in Reno, which housed a carpeted room adorned with a dirty mattress, sex toys and pornographic magazines.

He raped her again and again for more than five hours. As the night wore on and the assaults grew more violent, Callaway Hall eyed a pair of large scissors and considered her escape. But it was a knock on the shed door that ended her night of terror. Reno police officer Clifford Conrad had noticed a car with California plates outside the storage unit, and upon a closer look he saw the broken lock on the door. He knocked until Garrido rolled up the door and emerged wearing jeans and nothing else.

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2010-03-03 Alan Thicke The Alan Thicke Centre for Juvenile Diabetes Research

Alan has earned a Golden Globe “Best Actor” nomination and seven Emmy Award nominations (five for writing, two for acting.) Television audiences know Thicke best as psychiatrist and father Jason Seaver from ABC’s Growing Pains, now syndicated in over 65 countries. Last year’s Growing Pains: The Reunion was one of Disney’s highest-rated TV Movies. From 1980 to 1983, THE ALAN THICKE SHOW became (and remains) the biggest hit in the history of Canadian daytime television. The American late-night entry THICKE OF THE NIGHT followed. Alan is currently starring in CBC Television's monster comedy success J-POD.

The Alan Thicke Centre for Juvenile Diabetes Research was established in 1989 at the Robarts Research Institute at the London Health Sciences Centre. The Centre was named for actor Alan Thicke because of his early connection to London while attending The University of Western Ontario, and his special interest in diabetes, as he had a son who developed diabetes as a child. The Centre, which is really a virtual Centre ( without walls), consists of a mass of dedicated, talented and creative scientists from the Lawson Health Research Institute, St. Joseph's Health Care, London, The University of Western Ontario, Robarts Research Institute and the London Health Sciences Centre.   The work conducted by these scientists in search of a cure has gained national and international acclaim.   But as of yet the cure has not been found, further funds are required to move closer to end diabetes.   All funds raised by the Centre are dispersed in London and are eligible to be supplemented by Federal Government grants. Dr. David Hill is the scientific advisor for the Alan Thicke Centre

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2010-02-24 Drew Hayden Taylor Me Sexy

A moving and often funny look at Native sexuality from some of Canada's best First Nations and Inuit writers. A sequel to the highly successful Me Funny, Me Sexy is an

 anthology containing thirteen contributions from leading members of North America's First Nations writing communities. The many highlights include Lee Maracle's creation story, Salish style; Tomson Highway explaining why Cree is the sexiest of all languages; Joseph Boyden asking the eternal question, "Do Native people have less (or more) pubic hair?"; Marius P. Tungilik looking at the dark side of Inuit sex; and Marissa Crazytrain discussing her year as a stripper in Toronto, and how it shaped her life back in Saskatchewan. Drew Hayden Taylor, an Ojibway playwright, is widely known for his thoughtful and witty observations on Aboriginal issues. Other contributors include Lee Maracle, Joseph Boyden, Tomson Highway, Gregory Scofield, Daniel Heath Justice, Michelle McGeough, Norman Vorano, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Makka Kleist, Marius P. Tungilik, Marissa Crazytrain (a.k.a. Simantha Whitecalf ) and Nancy Cooper.

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2010-02-24 Ian Gill All That We Say is Ours : Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation

Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is Canada’s Galapagos, a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty. It is also the ancient homeland of the Haida nation. In the 1970s, after decades of rapacious logging, the Haida joined forces with environmentalists in a high-profile struggle to save the islands. The battle found powerful expression through Giindajin Haawasti Guujaaw, the visionary artist, drummer and orator who would later become president of the Council of the Haida Nation.The victories over logging interests are just one highlight in the Haida’s epic, decades-long struggle to take back control of their own destiny. In 2004, they filed suit against British Columbia and Canada, laying claim to their entire traditional territory.

Combining first-person accounts with vivid prose, Ian Gill captures the excitement of their struggle, from high-octane logging blockades to defiant legal challenges. Guujaaw’s audacity, eloquence, tactical skills and deep knowledge of his homeland put him at the heart of the struggle, and All That We Say Is Ours reveals the extraordinary role he played in this incredible story.In chronicling the Haida’s political and cultural renaissance, Gill has crafted a gripping, multilayered narrative that will have far-reaching reverberations.

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2010-02-17 David Toycen - President World Vision Canada

Earthquake in Haiti  World Vision is on the ground right now in the Haitian city of Port-Au-Prince, helping families and children devastated by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Your donations are vital to the relief efforts and are needed today. Every dollar makes a difference and now if you give a donation to the Haiti Earthquake victims through World Vision, by February 12th, it will double in impact due to a generous contribution from the Canadian Government. With an international response team flying in from around the globe to assist, our relief efforts are underway. World Vision Haiti is now distributing emergency supplies to families and children struggling to deal with this catastrophic disaster. World Vision has been working in Haiti for over 30 years, helping an estimate 300,000 Haitians each year to overcome poverty through providing access to education, improved access to food and clean water and improved nutrition as well as helping families with improved medical care. Now, more than ever, your help is needed to help families in Haiti and let them know they are not alone in this emergency. Emergency kits help provide things like tarps, blankets, soap, towels, personal hygiene items and cooking utensils at $55 per family. Please note these costs are estimates due to the urgency of the situation, and may vary.

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2010-02-10 Meagan McGrath First Solo Canadian Woman Antartic Expedition Antartic Expedition Major Meagan McGrath was born in Toronto, in 1977, and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. She enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1995, and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 2000, with a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry). Upon completion of her Aerospace Engineering training, Major McGrath served for a short time as the Maintenance Support Officer at 19 Air Maintenance Squadron, CFB Comox. She was then posted to Ottawa in 2001, where she worked as an Imaging Radar System Engineer, a sub-project of the Aurora Incremental Modernization Project. On August 15, 2005 Major McGrath was posted to the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre Ottawa Detachment, the Air Force Experimentation Centre. Most recently, Maj McGrath has been working on the implementation of a Canadian Forces wide logistics tool. Since 2002, Major Meagan McGrath has climbed many peaks throughout the world, in an attempt to climb the “Seven Summits” – the highest peak on each continent. At 0507hrs, on 21 May 2007, Major McGrath summitted Mount Everest, achieving her goal to climb the Seven Summits. In January 2008, she became the First Canadian Woman to summit the Carstenz Pyramid version of the Seven Summits, becoming the only Canadian woman to achieve both versions of this mountain challenge. She continues to pursue her dream to climb the highest peaks in the world. SUMMARY OF SEVEN SUMMIT CLIMBING EXPEDITIONSJan 2008 Carstenz Pyramid (16,023ft), Indonesia. Carstenz Pyramid is the one of the “Seven Summits”. May 21, 2007 Mount Everest (29,035 ft), Nepal. Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the World, and as it is the highest mountain in Asia, is one of the “Seven Summits”. Apr 2006 Kosciuszko (7,310 ft), Australia. Kosciuszko is one of the “Seven Summits”. Jun/Jul 2005 Attempted Gasherbrum II (26,360 ft), Pakistan. 14th highest mountain in the world. Summit attempt aborted due to extreme avalanche danger. Preparation for Everest in 2007. Dec 2004 Vinson Massif (16,066 ft) Antarctica. Vinson Massif is one of the “Seven Summits”. Aug 2003 Mount Elbrus (18,481 ft), Russia. Mount Elbrus is one of the “Seven Summits”. June 2003 Mount McKinley (20,320 ft), USA. Mount McKinley is one of the “Seven Summits”. Dec 2002 Aconcagua (22,841ft), Argentina is the tallest mountain in the world, outside of Asia, and it is the tallest mountain in the Western hemisphere. Aconcagua is one of the "Seven Summits". Apr 2002 2 weeks on Safari in Africa (Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, etc) 1 week climbing Kilimanjaro (successful summit). Kilimanjaro (19,563 ft), an anomaly in Africa, as it is the only glaciated peak on the continent. Kilimanjaro is one of the “Seven Summits”.Download Show (30:00)

2010-02-10 Dr. Peter MacCleod 

Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is one of the pivotal events in North American and global history. This clash between British general James Wolfe and French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on September 13, 1759, led to the British victory in the Seven Years’ War in North America, which in turn led to the creation of Canada and the United States as we know them today.Rooted in original research, featuring quotations and images that have never appeared before, Northern Armageddon immerses the reader in the campaign, battle and siege through the eyes of dozens of participants, such as British sailor William Hunter, four Quebec residents enduring the bombing of their city and a teenage Huron warrior.

Shifting from perspective to perspective, we move from the bombardment of Quebec to the field of combat, where Montcalm and Wolfe gave their orders but thousands of individual soldiers determined the outcome of the battle. In the final chapters, MacLeod traces the battle’s impact on Canada, the United States, both countries’ Aboriginals and the world, from 1759 into the twenty-first century.

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2010-02-03 Dr. Efraim Zuroff - World's Leading Nazi Hunter
Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest To Bring Nazi Criminals To Justice

Sixty years after the end of World War II, not all those who were faithful to the Third Reich are dead-some members of the Nazi party and their collaborators are still alive, and increasingly difficult to track down. Time is rapidly running out, but Efraim Zuroff won''t give up. Launching Operation Last Chance in 2002, he spearheaded a vast public campaign to locate and bring to justice the worst suspected Nazi criminals before ill health or death spare them from potential punishment. Despite the passage of many years, the reluctance of many governments to cooperate, and even death threats and a price on his head, Zuroff''s project yielded the names of over 520 hereto unknown suspects in 24 different countries and led to dozens of murder investigations, as well as several indictments and extradition requests currently pending. Combining the thrill of a detective story with the inherent poignancy of the history of World War II and its aftermath, Operation Last Chance delivers the important and moving story of one man''s heroic efforts to honor the victims of the Holocaust.
Simon Weisenthal Center

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2010-01-27 Minnijean Brown Trickey

"Civil Rights Legend / Little Rock Nine: Who Helped Desegregate Public Schools Return to Little Rock: a Seminal Moment in American Education and Civil Rights"

As a teenager, Minnijean Brown Trickey entered the Civil Rights Movement -- andAmerica's

 consciousness-- through the front doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a member of the Little Rock Nine, and in defiance of the state, she took her rightful place in what had previously been a whites-only school. Walking past armed guards and an angry mob, and in front of a worldwide television audience, Minnijean helped desegregate public schools -- and change the course of education in America. Incredibly, this was just the beginning of her career as a social activist.

For her work, Minnijean Brown Trickey has received the U.S. Congressional Medal and a medal from the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, among other citations. Under the Clinton administration, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, for diversity. She is also the subject of two acclaimed documentaries: Journey to Little Rock: The Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey and HBO's Little Rock: 50 Years Later.

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2010-01-20 Mark Zuehlke "Holding Juno"

Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland-the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history. But for all the horror endured on June 6 every soldier knew the worst was yet to come.The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle between a Canadian division determined to widen its hold on the beachhead and an equally determined foe intent on eliminating Juno Beach was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself. Although battered and bloody, the Canadians had held their ground and made it possible for the slow advance toward Germany and eventual Allied victory to begin.Holding Juno recreates this pivotal battle and the ultimate triumph of Canadian arms through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it, with the same dramatic intensity and factual detail that made Juno Beach, in the words of Quill & Quire reviewer Michael Clark, "the defining popular history of Canada's D-Day battle.

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2010-01-13 Tom Lipscomb - Pulitzer Prize Nominee"

LAST MAN IN SPANDAU…. The mystery surrounding Rudolf Hess’s flight, his murder & suspected SAS involvement."

The Nazi juggernaut was ripping across Europe and it looked as though nothing could stop them. Country after country fell to the onslaught.  Just after the decimated British forces were forced out of France at Dunkirk and just weeks prior  Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia, a Nazi Messerschmitt was sighted flying into British airspace over Scotland in the dead of night. No British aircraft were scrambled to intercept. No alert was given. Indeed no action was taken at all. Inside the cockpit was none other than Hitler's number #2 man Rudolph Hess. Why was he allowed free access into allied airspace and what was his intention?His mission was to take part in an emerging covert plot and coup instigated from the upper echelon of British power to over throw both the British government and remove Churchill. The next step was to appease and make peace with the Nazis and Hitler.This story has all the makings of a master mystery novel full of intrigue and plot twists, except for one thing. It's true. Pulitzer Prize nominee Tom Lipscomb  has done impeccable investigation, as always to the highest standards, and has turned this epic into a stunning new play: "LAST MAN IN SPANDAU…. The mystery surrounding Rudolf Hess’s flight, his subsequent murder and suspected SAS involvement." You'll never believe just how close we came to loosing the war except for the will of one man: Winston Churchill. The plot is afoothomas H. Lipscomb is one of the few executives with high-level experience in both conventional broadcast and print media and the world of electronic media. He has been both a magazine publisher of consumer magazines such as The Ladies Home Journal and a CEO in book publishing, where he was responsible for bestsellers by authors as diverse as Agatha Christie, Susan Isaacs, Craig Claiborne, Jack Anderson, and William Safire. Books he has published have won literary awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards. His most recent publishing position was as founder and President of Times Books -- The New York Times book division.He is the author of articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harpers, The Nation as well as The Readers’ Digest etc., front page stories in The Chicago Sun-Times and The New York Sun, and articles in internet sites such as The Huffington Post, TechCentral Station, and the Jewish World Review. He was put up for a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 by his newspaper for investigative reporting. He has served in numerous non-profit positions including the boards of PEN, the George Polk Award in Journalism, The New York University Center for Copyright in New Media, The Museum Digital Licensing Collective, The Governor’s Island Technology Center, The Foundation for Entrepreurialism in the Arts, and the Gibraltar-American Council. He is a Fellow of The Digital Copyright Forum, a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, on the board of The Tocqueville Institute, and on the advisory Board of the World Security Network, and has been a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and The New York Academy of Sciences.Mr. Lipscomb has had numerous speaking engagements at colleges and universities such as Harvard, Stanford, The University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia, as well as organizations such as The Davos World Economic Forum, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Association of American Publishers, The Seybold Conference, and The National Center for Automated Information Retrieval. He has appeared on many public affairs shows from NBC's Today Show, and The ABC Evening News, to BBC Channel 1 News, Extra (Germany), News Netherlands, Four Corners and Fine Print (Iran), MSNBC, Fox News and PBS, where he has hosted “The Digital Age.” He is a founder and on the board of CardiACT Inc. He is a founder and formerly CEO of two current public companies, ICC and Wave Systems, which use proprietary technology to create advantaged systems for the secure distribution, marketing, control and auditing of valuable digital information (DRM). He holds five patents in digital technology and he has received coverage by Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, Newsweek, Wired, Advertising Age, Crain's, Publishers' Weekly, Success and other publications.ICC was named one of Fortune Magazine's "25 Cool Companies" in technology (along with companies such as Netscape and Cisco Systems) and Newsweek listed Lipscomb as one of the "50 most influential people to watch in cyberspace."

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2010-01-06 Andrew Nikiforuk Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical exposé of the World's largest energy project - the Alberta oil sands - that has made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders on earth. In Tar Sands, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands and argues forcefully for change. Combining extensive scientific research and compelling writing, Nikiforuk takes the reader to Fort McMurray, home to some of the world’s largest open-pit mines, and explores this twenty-first-century pioneer town from the exorbitant cost of housing to its more serious social ills. He uncovers a global Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine dealers, aimless bush workers, American evangelicals, and the largest population of homeless people in northern Canada. He also explains that this micro-economy supplies gasoline for 50 percent of Canadian vehicles and 16 percent of U.S. demand. Readers will learn that oil sands: burn more carbon than conventional oil, destroy forests and displace woodland caribou, poison the water supply and communities downstream, drain the Athabasca, the river that feeds Canada’s largest watershed, and contribute to climate change. The book does provide hope, however, and ends with an exploration of possible solutions to the problem.Co-published with the David Suzuki Foundation

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2009-12-30 Erin Merryn Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

Erin Myrren is a student at Western Illinois University, where she is pursuing a degree in social work. A leading participant in Take Back the Night, her goal is to raise awareness of abuse in order to end the stigma and silence. She is the author of Stolen Innocence, a memoir about incest. Her writing has appeared in the Daily Herald and Teen Voices, among others.

• Fans of Erin Merryn''s heart-wrenching debut memoir Stolen Innocence were left wondering what would become of an emotionally fragile Erin after her confrontation with the reality of being a child of incest and molestation. In Living for Today, readers find that Erin cultivated the strength to face her abuser and eventually experienced relief from years of emotional restlessness, while also igniting the beginnings of a new fearless journey. Living for Today offers a roadmap for self-discovery, forgiveness, and empowerment to help readers rid the stigma they have attached to their trauma and live fully and fearlessly for today. Readers will learn how they too can: *Look foward, in spite of an abusive past *Block off any impending guilt from outing an abuser *Deal with interfamily strife as a result of incest and molestation *Shake off the "victim" tag and replace it with one that reads "survivor"

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2009-12-23 Marie Wadden

Where the Pavement Ends: Canada’s Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for ReconciliationMarie Wadden began her journalism career in 1977 at CBC television in Newfoundland. The following year she took a boat trip along the Labrador coast for a holiday and saw the Innu community of Davis Inlet at the height of its addiction crisis. She's never lost sight of the needs of Aboriginal people since that time. In 1991 her D&M book, Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim their Homeland, won the Edna Staebler award for creative non fiction.Her radio and television work in Newfoundland and Quebec has also been recognized with Canadian and U.S. awards. In 2005, Wadden received the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and published her research in a Toronto Star series entitled "Tragedy or Triumph: Canadian Public Policy and Aboriginal Addictions." She is CBC Radio's network producer in Newfoundland and lives in St. John's with her husband Chris Brown and their two children, Nicholas and Naomi. Aboriginal Healing FoundationDownload Show  (60:00)

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2009-12-16 Marina Nemat

"Prisoner of Tehran - a Memoir"In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed. She survived only because one of the guards fell in love with her and threatened to harm her family if she refused to marry him. Soon after her forced conversion to Islam and marriage, her husband was assassinated by rival factions. Nemat was returned to prison but, ironically, it was her captor's family who eventually secured her release. An extraordinary tale of faith and survival, Prisoner of Tehran is a testament to the power of love in the face of evil and injustice.
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2009-12-09 Lydia Reich 

"Desperation: Surviving Hitler's Intention"Ever had a nightmare where you're falling and can't wake up? Ever had

a nightmare where you're trapped and can't escape. How about road rage? Ever been a victim? And how you shake from head to toe wondering if you will be alright? Even this doesn't come close. No escape. No one to help. Nowhere to hide. The end of your life facing you, like the person in front of you that just went into the gas chamber. But these are just words, aren't they, as I sip on my coffee in peaceful Canada.Perhaps it is "just" I can't find the words. Perhaps it is right that no words should ever be found to describe the indescribable.Lydia Reich was just a young girl when she encountered Hitler’s “final solution”. In the interview she refers several times to a “wagon”, what she is referring to of course is a train box car. This isn’t a movie folks, this happened. For real.She grew up in the 1930s in Germany; she was ripped from the arms of her mother, virtually, and taken to a slave labour camp. Later, forced on a death march to Bergen-Belsen. It is winter as I write this in Canada. It is freezing outside. They only way to stay warm in the huts at night was for one girl to sleep on top of the other one night and the next night it would be the other’s turn. No blankets, no sanitation, no hope. How many of us would have the drive to live under those conditions. Lydia Reich told me during the interview the sole motivation for her staying alive was an inner voice that told her to survive in order to tell her story. While she lay there in the camps underfed, undernourished, freezing to death, waiting for death at any second, the only thing that kept her alive was to bear witness to what had taken place. With Anti-Semitism being the highest it has been since the 1930s, perhaps this is a person we should all listen to, lest the Shoah should happen again. Please honour Lydia Reich today and listen to this show and share it, share it with all who will listen. It is a free download for all. Download Show  (60:00)

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2009-12-02 Rodney Stark" God's Battalions: the Case for the Crusades"

In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. To the contrary, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to unwarranted Muslim terrorist aggression.Stark reviews the history of the seven major Crusades from 1095 to 1291, demonstrating that the Crusades were precipitated by Islamic provocations, centuries of bloody attempts to colonize the West, and sudden attacks on Christian pilgrims and holy places. Although the Crusades were initiated by a plea from the pope, Stark argues that this had nothing to do with any elaborate design of the Christian world to convert all Muslims to Christianity by force of arms. Given current tensions in the Middle East and terrorist attacks around the world, Stark's views are a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding and are sure to spark debate

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2009-11-25 Abraham Bolden The true story of the first African American Secret Service Agent, hand picked by JFK himself, on White House Protective detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK"

From the first African American assigned to the presidential Secret Service detail comes a gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred and unthinkable corruption.
Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when he was asked by John F. Kennedy himself to join the White House Secret Service detail. For Bolden, it was a dream come true-and an encouraging sign of the charismatic president's vision for a new America.
But the dream quickly turned sour when Bolden found himself regularly subjected to open hostility and blatant racism. He was taunted, mocked, and disparaged but remained strong, and he did not allow himself to become discouraged.More of a concern was the White House team's irresponsible approach to security. While on his tour of presidential duty, Bolden witnessed firsthand the White House agents' long-rumored lax approach to their job. Drinking on duty, abandoning key posts-this was not a team that appeared to take their responsibility to protect the life of the president particularly seriously. Both prior to and following JFK's assassination, Bolden sought to expose and address the inappropriate behavior and negligence of these agents, only to find himself the victim of a sinister conspiracy that resulted in his conviction and imprisonment on a trumped-up bribery charge.

A gripping memoir substantiated by recently declassified government documents, The Echo from Dealey Plaza is the story of the terrible price paid by one man for his commitment to truth and justice, as well as a shocking new perspective on the circumstances surrounding the death of a beloved president.

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2009-11-04 Anna Porter "Katzner's Train - The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

"Born Anna Szigethy in World War II Budapest, Anna Porter and her mother left Hungary in 1956 to escape the increasing Soviet presence. Porter was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992. In 2003, she was awarded the Order of Ontario. She has also been awarded Honorary Doctoral degrees from Ryerson University, St, Mary's University, the University of Toronto, and the Law Society of Upper Canada.  In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agreed to allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other maneuverings Kasztner may have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil." Prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Part political thriller, part love story and part legal drama, Porter's account explores the nature of Kasztner--the hero, the cool politician, the proud Zionist, the romantic lover, the man who believed that promises, even to diehard Nazis, had to be kept. The deals he made raise questions about moral choices that continue to haunt the world today

The Montreal Holocaust Centre educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, while sensitizing the public to the universal perils of antisemitism, racism, hate and indifference.

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2009-10-28 Major-General Lewis Mackenzie

"Soldiers Made Me Look Good"Major-General Lewis Mackenzie (ret’d) was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, and has served in trouble spots around the world.In 1992, he commanded the un Protection Force that opened Sarajevo airport to allow the arrival of humanitarian aid. He published the best-selling Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo after retiring from the Canadian Armed Forces in 1993; “A Soldier’s Peace,” a television documentary based on the book, won a New York Film Festival Award in 1996. His many honours include the Order of Canada and the United Nations Medal of Honour. Mackenzie is now a public affairs commentator on television and in the Globe and Mail and a sought-after lecturer on leadership and conflict resolution.

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2009-10-21 Sandra Chu The Men Who Killed Me; Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence"

" Sandra Ka Hon Chu is a lawyer and senior policy analyst with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. She has worked in East Timor, Libya, Hong Kong, Canada and the Netherlands.A searing testimonial to the horrors of sexual violence in war—a little-known aspect of the Rwandan tragedy.In the hundred days of genocide that ravaged Rwanda between April and July 1994, an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women and girls were raped. No one was spared. Grandmothers were raped in the presence of their grandchildren; young girls watched the massacre of their families before being taken as sex slaves. To a lesser extent, boys and men also fell victim to sexual violence.Fifteen years after the Rwandan genocide, The Men Who Killed Me features testimonials from seventeen survivors. Through their narratives and portraits, sixteen women and one man bear witness to the crimes committed against hundreds of thousands of others. In their strength and courage, they challenge the stigma of surviving sexual violence and living with HIV/AIDS (an astonishing 70 per cent of survivors are HIV positive).Download Show  (60:00)

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2009-10-14 Ray Wiss   FOB DOC" A doctor on the front lines in Afghanistan

 "A compelling and informed observation of the truth of Canada’s war, from a dedicated Canadian doctor. Since returning from Afghanistan, Dr. Wiss has continued to teach nationally and internationally, and re-joined the team at the Sudbury Regional Hospital Emergency Department. He lives in Sudbury with his wife Claude and their four-year-old daughter, Michelle. Royalties from FOB Doc will be donated to the Military Families Fund, which was created by former chief of the defence staff General Rick Hillier to assist military families. Book excerpt: "We had sent out a patrol in light armoured vehicles, and they hit an IED on their way back to the fob. Some of our men were severely wounded and landed on my medics and me within fifteen minutes of being hit. Forewarned of the seriousness of the injuries, we called for the MEDEVAC chopper before the wounded men got to the fob.Download Show (60:00)2009-11-01 Book is on sale at CopyCopy (both branches) and Old Rock Café on Minto in Sudbury. Book being sold and signed at Sudbury Armouries on Remembrance Day at 1 pm. Thanks! Ray