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View the full archive of Canadian Voices Season 2 Season 4 #15: Heather-jane Robertson: What the Right Does Right and Murray Dobbin: Framing the Medicare Issue The first half of this edition of Canadian Voices features author, educator and activist Heather-jane Robertson, who speaks on "What the Right has done right, and what the Left can learn ". The second half features Murray Dobbin, Vancouver-based journalist and activist , who speaks on "Framing the Medicare issue: Fighting to Win" . These lectures were recorded at the Parkland Institute's annual fall conference, in Edmonton, Alberta , in November, 2008. They are set upo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #14: Maher Arar: Fragile Rights This edition of Canadian Voices features Maher Arar, <!-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->a wireless technology consultant. He was born in Syria and came to Canada with his family at the age of 17. He became a Canadian citizen in 1991. In 2002, while in transit in New Yorkâs JFK airport when returning home from a vacation, Arar was detained by US officials and interrogated about alleged links to al-Qaeda. Twelve days later, he was cha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #13 : Clive Doucet: Urban Meltdown-- How Cities Malfunction &lt;!-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } H1 { margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; page-break-after: auto } H1.western { font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif } H1.cjk { font-family: &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot; } H1.ctl { font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot; } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --&gt; This edition of Canadian Voices features urban activist, author and Ottawa City Councillor Clive Doucet, speaking on themes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #12: Chris Turner: The Geography of Hope &lt;!-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } H1 { margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; page-break-after: auto } H1.western { font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif } H1.cjk { font-family: &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot; } H1.ctl { font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot; } --&gt; This edition of Canadian Voices features Chris Turner, journalist and author of the national bestseller 'The Ge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #10: Michael Ableman: Feeding the Future This edition of Canadian Voices features farmer, photographer and author Michael Ableman, speaking on themes, and telling stories, from his most recent book, Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It. Michael Ableman currently farms at the Foxglove Farm, a 120 acre farm on Saltspring island, British Columbia, where he is developing the Centre for Art, Ecology and Agriculture. His experience as a practitioner of sustainable agriculture and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #11: Malcolm Gladwell vs Adam Gopnik: Canada: Nation or Notion? PLEASE NOTE: For copyright reasons, this podcast will only be available during the month of April, 2009.This edition of Canadian Voices features a lively debate, presented by Maclean's Magazine, by ex-pat Canadians Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik. In speaking about the colleagues' respective approaches to the issue of Canadian identity, Adam Gopnik points out that the two writers address the question from entirely different perspectives: Gopnik from a sentimental and symbolic stance, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #5: Norman Doidge: The Brain That Changes Itself This edition of Canadian Voices features Dr. Norman Doidge, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author, delivering the keynote address at a University of Toronto interdisciplinary symposium on "Altered States of Mind" in 2008. The talk focuses on themes from his recent book, The Brain that Changes Itself.The New York Times reviewed Dr. Doidge's best-selling book by saying that, âThe power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-bending, miracle-making, real ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #6: Margaret Visser: The Gift of Thanks This edition of Canadian Voices features cultural historian Margaret Visser, speaking on themes from her 2008 book, "The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence, and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual". The talk was originally broadcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas programme in December, 2008. In the Gift of Thanks, Margaret Visser takes her cues from linguistics, the classics, and anthropology, to investigate the way gratitude manifests itself across cultures, from tippi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #7: Andrew Cohen: The Unfinished Canadian <!-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This edition of Canadian Voices features Andrew Cohen, author and journalist, speaking on themes from his 2007 book, The Unfinished Canadian: the People We Are. The talk was originally broadcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas programme in November, 2007. Taking from his book, the Carleton University journalism professor asks why Canada is so reluctant to understand and commemorate her accomplishm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #8: Beverley Jacobs: Stolen Sisters This edition of Canadian Voices features Beverley Jacobs,president of the Native Women's Association of Canada, presenting the 2004 Amnesty International report Stolen Sisters, on Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada. In March 2004, the Native Womenâs Association of Canada and the ecumenical social justice network KAIROS launched the Sisters in Spirit campaign to draw attention to the high levels of violence faced by Indigenous women in Canada, especially ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #4: Megan Boler: Media Tactics and Interventions, Digital Dissent and Satire This edition of Canadian Voices features Megan Boler, author , activist, and Professor of theory and policy studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto. This talk, in which Ms. Boler ponders questions surrounding evolving media's impact on culture,  was the keynote address at the Parkland Institute's 2008 Fall Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, in November, 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #3: Jeffrey Simpson: Hot Air: Fixing Canada's Climate Change Catastrophe This edition of Canadian Voices features Jeffrey Simpson, Ottawa-based journalist and author, and the Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist. He speaks on themes from his recent book, Hot Air, co-authored by Nic Rivers and Mark Jaccard, who was featured in the second season of this programme. The title of his talk is â Hot Air: Fixing Canada's Climate Change Catastropheâ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #2: Hamida Ghafour: The Sleeping Buddha and Marina Nemat: Prisoner of Tehran This edition of Canadian Voices features 2 speakers. The first is Toronto author and journalist Hamida Ghafour, who discusses themes from her book, The Sleeping Buddha. When Hamida Ghafour returned to her family homeland of Afghanistan in 2003 to report for the London Daily Telegraph, she found a place utterly changed from the world that her parents raised her to believe in. She witnessed the reconstruction efforts and the day to day struggles of the Afghani people, while coming to terms wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 4 #1: Gabor Mate: Addictions and the Biology of Loss: What Happens When Attachments Are Impaired? This edition of Canadian Voices, the first programme in our fourth season, features Vancouver author and physician Gabor Mate. He speaks on the roots of addiction, from his perspective as a staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and resource centre for the people of Vancouver, BC's Downtown Eastside. Many of his patients suffer from mental illness, drug addiction and HIV, or all three. More information at www.canadianvoices.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 3 #15: Darin Barney: One Nation Under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic This edition of Canadian Voices, the final programme of Season 3, features Darin Barney, professor of Communication Studies at McGill University where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Communication and Media Studies.. Mr. Barney delivered the 2007 Hart House Lecture at the University of Toronto. His talk is entitled One Nation Under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic The talk was first braodcast on TV Ontario's Big Ideas, in May, 2007. More information at tvo.org/bigi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 3: #14: Martin Van Den Borre: Cooperation and Survival: The Fair Trade Revolution    This edition of Canadian Voices features Martin Van Den Borre, Co-Director of Ottawa-'s La Siembra Worker Co-op. He speaks on â Cooperation and Survival: The Fair Trade Revolutionâ, at an event co-presented by Canadian Voices and the Upper Columbia Co-op Council, in Nelson, BC, in April, 2008. La Siembra Worker Co-op produces the award winning cocoa camino line of organic fair trade cocoa , chocolate, and sugar products, and has been a pioneer in North American Fair Trade Cer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 3 #11: Carl Honore : In Praise of Slowness; Mark Kingwell: Boredom, Philiosophy, and the Meaning of Life This edition of Canadian Voices features 2 talks from Canadians who incorporate the concept of our growing cult speed into their work and thoughts. The first half of the programme features author Carl Honore, who speaks in Praise of Slowness: Changing the Cult of Speed, which is the title of his most recent book. He spoke as part of ,Cambridge Forum, a weekly public radio show recorded live in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May, 2005. The talk was made available throug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 3: #12: Michael Geist: Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble with Copyright This edition of Canadian Voices features Michael Geist, a University of Ottawa Law School professor , a champion of copyright reform, and an internationally renowned expert on law and the internet . Dr. Geist delivered the 2006 Hart House Lecture at the University of Toronto. His talk is entitled Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble with Copyright. A recording of this talk was made available by TV Ontario's Big Ideas programme, on which it was first broadcast on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 3: #13: Minelle Mahtani: How Race is Performed Among Mixed Race Women; Ariel Garten: The Neuroscience of Conflict This edition of Canadian Voices features 2 talks from Salon Voltaire ( www.salon-voltaire.com), an intellectual entertainment series held at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel. The first half of the programme features Minelle Mahtani,an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. In her lecture, "Tricking the Border Guards: How Race is Performed Among Mixed Race Women",The second half of the programme features Ariel Garten, psychotherapist, artist and author,who discusses The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Season 3 #10: Maude Barlow:The Inconvenient Truth about the Commodification of Water This edition of Canadian Voices features Maude Barlow, author, activist and the  national chairperson of The Council of Canadians,   a progressive citizensâ advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. Maude Barlow was featured in the first season of Canadian Voices, discussing Canada-U.S. Integration. In this edition, She speaks on âThe Inconvenient Truth About the Commodification of Waterâ, in a talk presented by Selkirk College in Castlegar, BC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |