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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #209: Murdered mining activist, Mulcair's victory and Quebec student strike

April 3, 2012
| On Alert! Radio #209: another community leader murdered for protesting against a Canadian mining company, the historic Quebec students' strike and why Mulcair's victory is a setback.
Length: 58:05 minutes
Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension
Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #208: Tom Mulcair and the NDP, Greenpeace on the tar sands

March 25, 2012
| The NDP under a Mulcair leadership. How different would it be? The tar sands not so bad as coal and natural gas? Greenpeace begs to differ!
Length: 00:15 minutes
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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! #207: Occupy the System: Confronting Global Capitalism -- the 2012 Left Forum

March 15, 2012
| This episode of Alert! gives a taste of the Left Forum, a unique conference that convenes a broad spectrum of progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public.
Length: 53:23 minutes
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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #206: Israel Apartheid Week and International Women's Day 2012

March 13, 2012
| Tracking Israel Apartheid Week in Montreal, Halifax, Toronto, and Winnipeg, and Tess Tesalona describes a unique International Women's Day program sponsored by Women of Diverse Origins in Montreal.
Length: 56:32 minutes
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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! #205: Iran's nuclear threat is a myth

March 6, 2012
| This week, Alert! interviews Sara Flounders and Yves Engler, two of the presenters at a University of Toronto forum on the Geopolitics of Sanctions and War Against Iran.
Length: 59:19 minutes
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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #204: Harper's online spying bill, the Drummond report and China

February 28, 2012
| OpenMedia.ca's Lindsey Pinto on Harper's online spying bill, columnist Tom Walkom on Ontario's Drummond report and professor David McNally on the rise of Communist China as a state capitalist power.
Length: 00:42 minutes
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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #203: Who will make the best leader of the NDP? Some surprising answers from six left activists.

February 16, 2012
| Who will make the best leader of the NDP and does it matter? Some surprising answers from Murray Dobbin, Corvin Russell, Simon Tremblay Pepin, Josh Brandon, Herman Rosenfeld and Stefan Christoff.
Length: 00:32 minutes
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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #202: Canada's surveillance society and the campaign against unions

February 10, 2012
| Micheal Vonn discusses coming bills to expand police surveillance powers, Stephen Staples on the national security establishment and Herman Rosenfeld analyzes the co-ordinated campaign against unions.
Length: 00:02 minutes
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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #201: An Alert Special: What's Harper up to?

February 7, 2012
| With the federal budget to be tabled within weeks, this edition of Alert! Radio features analysis of the Harper agenda in three different policy areas: health care, pensions, and energy (tar sands).
Length: 56:05 minutes
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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #200: The global debt crisis, Rob Ford's cuts, and civic amalgamation

February 7, 2012
| Sam Gindin on what's ahead for the global economic crisis, Carlo Fanelli on the cuts at Toronto City Hall and Dennis Pilon asks if municipal amalgamation produces right-wing mayors like Rob Ford.
Length: 56:16 minutes
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