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CitizenShift

No Construction without Consultation

February 5, 2009
| Amidst Canada's whirlwind of infrastructure development, Adam Bemma brings us a cautionary tale from Montreal of construction without consultation, and growing frustration among city residents

14:30 minutes (26.54 MB)
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Prince of Pot

August 15, 2009
| An interview with Canada's notorious 'Prince of Pot' Marc Emery

16:01 minutes (14.67 MB)
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Microcredit in Canada

September 5, 2009
| An in-depth report looking at microcredit lending in Canada

4:23 minutes (4.02 MB)
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NFB/ONF 70th

September 16, 2009
| A retrospective look at the NFB after 70 years

4:52 minutes (4.46 MB)
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Gay Fare

October 2, 2009
| Guerilla Gay Fare is an LGBTQ group in Halifax, Nova Scotia organizing monthly "takeovers" of straight bars and nightclubs in the city.

9:36 minutes (8.79 MB)
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Africville: The Spirit of Resistance Lives On

October 16, 2009
| The story of Africville still resonates today

10:46 minutes (9.85 MB)
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Montreal: Rottenest city on the continent (again)

November 3, 2009
| Accusations of corruption in Montreal's highest office.

4:48 minutes (4.4 MB)
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Kader wins status

November 21, 2009
| Abdelkader Belaouni is allowed to stay in Canada

9:05 minutes (8.32 MB)
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The car share revolution

December 3, 2009
| North America's first car sharing network.

6:05 minutes (5.58 MB)
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Abdelrazik's predicament

December 13, 2009
| Abousfian Abdelrazik is fighting to clear his name

4:49 minutes (4.41 MB)
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Regent Park Project

January 1, 2010
| Canada's oldest social housing project.

7:57 minutes (7.28 MB)
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Toronto's urban dilemma

January 13, 2010
| John Sewell on Canada's housing program.

10:46 minutes (9.86 MB)
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Mr. Geography

February 2, 2010
| Toronto taxi driver shares his geographic philosophy.

26:43 minutes (24.46 MB)
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Transit guru

December 22, 2009
| Talking Toronto transit with Steve Munro on the 506 streetcar.

12:04 minutes (11.05 MB)
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Race relations in Montreal

February 9, 2010
| The coroner's inquest into the death of Fredy Villanueva resumes this week in Montreal.

10:21 minutes (9.48 MB)
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Back from Haiti

March 1, 2010
| Montreal nurse Scott Weinstein returns from Haiti.

11:25 minutes (10.46 MB)
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Esperanto

March 28, 2010
| Bridging the linguistic divide in Canada.

7:07 minutes (6.52 MB)
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Pirate Party

April 2, 2010
| Following the success of the Swedish Pirate Party in the European parliament, the Pirate Party of Canada was formed late last year.

11:54 minutes (5.45 MB)
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Guerrilla gardeners

April 12, 2010
| In Montreal, the practice of guerrilla gardening has become much more than a hobby, it's a lifestyle.

4:50 minutes (2.22 MB)
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Beyond 1267

April 14, 2010
| Abdelrazik talks about his ordeal.

8:24 minutes (3.85 MB)
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Das Buch

May 2, 2010
| The death of independent bookstores in Canada.

4:10 minutes (3.82 MB)
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Bonaventure Project

April 15, 2010
| An interview with SHM President Isabelle Hudon about the Bonaventure Project in Montreal.

5:38 minutes (2.58 MB)
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Sprout Out Loud!

May 3, 2010
| Sprout Out Loud! is a gardener's ensemble in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough. This is the story of their project Roerich Garden in Mile End.

9:02 minutes (4.15 MB)
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Underground Cinema opens in Toronto

May 5, 2010
| Toronto's newest movie house, the Toronto Underground Cinema, opens May 14, 2010. It will be the second largest single screen cinema in Toronto.

7:06 minutes (3.26 MB)
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Oka Crisis - 20 years later and the issues still remain

September 24, 2010
| In conversation with Kanesatake Mohawk Clifton Nicholas about the 1990 Oka Crisis.

17:53 minutes (8.19 MB)
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A migrant's tale

October 12, 2010
| Tamil-Canadian Ramani Balendra knows first-hand the desperate situation faced by refugees from her native Sri Lanka.

15:04 minutes (6.9 MB)
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Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared

November 1, 2010
| This is the story of how a group of Argentine Mothers turned their movement into a revolution.

35:29 minutes (16.25 MB)
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Haiti update

November 18, 2010
| An update from Haitian community leader Marjorie Villefranche about what's happening on the ground in Haiti and Montreal's diaspora.

10:52 minutes (4.98 MB)
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Aung San Suu Kyi is free!

November 15, 2010
| Jailed Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.

9:06 minutes (4.17 MB)
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The response to Haiti's cholera epidemic

November 29, 2010
| Canadian Red Cross spokesperson Sophie Chavanel from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

6:18 minutes (2.89 MB)
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The case of Mumia Abu Jamal

December 1, 2010
| The latest U.S. appeal court hearings into the fate of Mumia Abu Jamal.

14:12 minutes (13.01 MB)
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Egypt's crackdown on the media

February 9, 2011
| The Committee to Protect Journalists talk about the violence perpetrated against the media in Egypt.

9:58 minutes (4.57 MB)
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Griffintown cultural corridor

February 28, 2011
| Residents of Montreal's Griffintown turn their threatened community into a destination for the arts.

6:02 minutes (2.77 MB)
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Pakistan court issues arrest warrant for Pervez Musharraf

February 18, 2011
| The Pakistan People's Party of Canada speaks about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

10:31 minutes (14.45 MB)
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Quebec's language law Bill 101

March 3, 2011
| Recent calls by the PQ to extend Bill 101 to English language colleges in the province is causing a stir.

2:36 minutes (1.2 MB)
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Musicians of the World

March 8, 2011
| The Montreal World Symphony Orchestra, which recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, is the city's most successful integration project ever.

7:40 minutes (3.52 MB)
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Quebec Leaks

March 18, 2011
| QuebecLeaks.org co-founder and spokesperson Luc Lefebvre explains the new Canadian whistleblower website.

8:43 minutes (3.99 MB)
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An Afghan woman's story

March 23, 2011
| At Montreal's Afghan Women's Centre, Makai Aref has organized a catering service to empower a group of local Afghan women.

10:29 minutes (4.81 MB)
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Illinois abolishes death penalty

March 31, 2011
| Formed in 1999 by Protess and students, the Medill Innocence Project has uncovered evidence to free 11 innocent men, five of them on death row in the state of Illinois.

8:58 minutes (4.12 MB)
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Guatemala's New Horizon

April 14, 2011
| Guatemala's Nuevo Horizonte is a co-operative community founded in 1998 by former guerrilla fighters, two years after a peace agreement was made with the government, ending over 36 years of civil war.

27:22 minutes (12.54 MB)
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Meet Jose. He's not a terrorist.

April 20, 2011
| 'We are Jose' is an awareness-raising tour being led by Jose Figueroa, an El Savadoran man living in Langley, B.C. with a deportation order against him by the Canadian government.

27:47 minutes (12.72 MB)
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Mobilizing the youth vote in Canada

May 5, 2011
| Canada's federal election didn't quite turn out the way everyone expected. I speak with Ilona Dougherty, the executive director of Apathy is Boring, a group mobilizing the youth vote in Canada.

11:45 minutes (5.38 MB)
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The Sergakis Series: Montreal developer threatens local business

August 15, 2011
| Montreal chooses beer over books. Sports bar La Station des Sports is shutting down other businesses in order to turn the bar into a 900-seat sports complex.

4:02 minutes (1.86 MB)
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The Sergakis Series: Montreal's Westcott Books closes after 18 years

August 15, 2011
| Another independent bookstore shuts down in Montreal. A feature interview with local bookshop owner Terry Westcott about independent bookstores in Montreal and if they can survive.

10:14 minutes (4.73 MB)
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The Sergakis Series: Ex-employees speak out!

August 23, 2011
| Ex-employees at Montreal's La Station des Sports, a sports bar in downtown Montreal, speak out against the way they were mistreated by their former boss.

8:24 minutes (3.9 MB)
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Mobilizing the Will to Intervene

August 31, 2011
| Dr. Frank Chalk from Concordia University on Mobilizing the Will to Intervene, an initiative to inform governments and prevent mass atrocities before they occur.

28:09 minutes (12.89 MB)
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Montreal's threatened heritage

April 6, 2012
| A weekly urban issue/affairs update for Montreal's CKUT 90.3 FM Friday Morning After.

22:29 minutes (30.89 MB)
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Saving Montreal's Main

April 13, 2012
| As bulldozers move in to demolish a remaining strip of the city's once notorious red light district, further up Montreal's Main, the Plateau borough council has forced a building to be restored.

16:25 minutes (22.57 MB)
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Citizen Lambert goes to city hall

April 20, 2012
| Montreal heritage preservation advocate Phyllis Lambert, the "Joan of architecture," takes her fight to save Griffintown and the Lower Main to Montreal city hall.

31:47 minutes (43.68 MB)
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Vanishing Montreal

April 27, 2012
| A southwest Montreal blogger's website called Vanishing Montreal is documenting a recent string of building demolitions, posting photographs of what he calls "the changing face of St-Henri."

19:53 minutes (27.35 MB)
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Montreal's mega-projects and mega-mistakes

May 2, 2012
| Montreal urban planner Jason Prince talks about highway mega-projects, super-hospitals and his upcoming Jane's Walk.

16:11 minutes (22.28 MB)
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Jane's Walks: Retracing Stop Spadina to the Turcot interchange

May 11, 2012
| Celebrating the legacy of Jane Jacobs at the Jane's Walks in Toronto and Montreal.

24:55 minutes (34.3 MB)
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#CityTalk: Downtown Projects

May 18, 2012
| #CityTalk on social housing and downtown projects.

21:56 minutes (30.19 MB)