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New Year’s Day 2011: Toronto slept and nursed a city wide hangover. Iron gates were pulled over shop windows and the occasional car floated down forgotten streets. It felt like the calm before the storm and eerily similar to a weekend last June, when downtown Toronto was told to pack up, lock down, and shut up. I still shudder when I see a boy in blue… Continue reading →

Tracy Heffernan – Housing as a Human Right

Marking International Human Rights Day on December 10th, an alliance of non-profit human rights and housing organizations are holding a forum to discuss community and legal actions to end homelessness. Tracy Heffernan, Director of the Tenant Duty Counsel Program for the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario speaks about the connection between housing and human rights.

Michelle Robidoux – War Resisters Support Campaign

Traditionally, Canada has been considered a safe haven for conscientious objectors and during the Vietnam war, more than 50 000 draft dodgers came to Canada to avoid participating in what they considered to be an unjust war. Although the Canadian government was initially hesitant to allow deserters to become permanent residents, overwhelming public support of the anti-war movement changed their policies. The War Resisters Support Campaign is building on this same public support to prevent further deportations of Iraq war resisters, men and women who left their lives in the United States to avoid fighting in a war they consider to be unjust and illegal. Michelle Robidoux speaks about the situation of Iraq war resisters and the legal and political issues they face.

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Host: Damon Scheffer, Associate Producer/Co-host: Cara Chellew, Technical Production: Olivia Shortt

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Pamela Palmater- Reserve Land, Fee Simple Land

The Conservative government, hoping to eliminate historic poverty on reserves has proposed changes to land-use rules, as an attempt to boost corporate investment. Pamela Palmater, chair in Indigenous Governance and Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University, speaks about the conversion of reserve lands into “fee simple” lands and its effects on indigenous communities.

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Host/Senior Producer: David Peterson, Associate Producer: Cara Chellew, Technical Production: Olivia Shortt, Alex Wilson, Gordon Reeves

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John Clarke- OCAP-20 years

For twenty years, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty has been a leading voice advocating for the rights of poor and working people through direct action and community mobilization. Striking a resounding chord with the activist community, their controversial tactics of protest and occupation force attention to issues that affect the city’s most vulnerable. OCAP organizer John Clarke talks about twenty years of activism in Toronto.

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Host/Senior Producer: David Peterson, Associate Producer: Cara Chellew, Technical Production: Olivia Shortt, Alex Wilson, Gordon Reeves

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Judy Rebick- G20 Legal Defence Fundraiser

During the G20 summit in June this year, the residents of Toronto witnessed the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Over a thousand people were arrested, more than two hundred and fifty were charged, and six remain in jail. Judy Rebick, founder of independent media site rabble.ca, author, activist, and political professor at Ryerson University talks about some legal issues surrounding the G20.

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Host/Senior Producer: David Peterson, Co-host: Martin Waldman, Associate Producer: Cara Chellew, Technical Production: Olivia Shortt, Alex Wilson, Gordon Reeves

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David Reville- History of Madness in Parkdale

Exploring the impact of deinstitutionalization in Parkdale, professors Megan Davies and David Reville presented “Parkdale’s Mad History: Back Wards to Back Streets” in November, as a part of the Toronto Public Library’s “Thought Exchange” lecture series. Ryerson professor and former politician David Reville talks about this mad history on Take5

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Host/Senior Producer: David Peterson, Co-host: Martin Waldman, Associate Producer: Cara Chellew, Technical Production: Olivia Shortt, Alex Wilson, Gordon Reeves

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Dr. Danny Harvey – Climate Prosperity

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)  have recently launched “Climate Prosperity,” a collaborative project aimed raise awareness about the effects climate change on Canadian communities.

The national education initiative includes a “Degrees of Change” interactive diagram, feature articles in the current Canadian Geographic and Geographica magazines as well as resource package to be distributed to 12,000 middle and secondary schools across Canada.

Unfortunatley, the first comprehensive look at the expected impacts of climate change on Canada offers substantial and surprising errors. Climate scientist, Danny Harvey from the University of Toronto  discusses how the project misleads the public about the serious threat of climate change.

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Host/Senior Producer: David Peterson, Associate Producer: Cara Chellew, Technical Production: Olivia Shortt

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