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Free Favourites at Four presents Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story
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In pre-WWII, the Asahi baseball team were heroes among the Japanese Canadians of Vancouver, winning the Pacific Northwest Championship for five straight years. Then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and everything changed.
Lessons from Japan's nuclear legacy
In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr) at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor's discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as high as the Geiger counters go. In other words, the radiation levels are literally off the charts. Exposure to 10,000 millisieverts for even a brief time would be fatal, with death occurring within weeks.
Japanese government underestimating risks facing Fukushima's nuclear plant
The nuclear security forum in Vienna begins, with the Japanese atomic crisis and international safety dominating the talks. A full report on the situation in the disaster-hit country is to be presented later today. It's expected to slam the Japanese government for underestimating risks facing Fukushima's nuclear plant, and for a slow response to the events. Russia Today's Sean Thomas visited a city just outside the no-go zone, where radiation levels are well above safety limits.
Rainbow Warrior samples waters off Fukushima
It has been a frustrating few days on the Rainbow Warrior. Until Sunday we were stopped outside of Tokyo bay, waiting out bad weather, trying to find a ship's agent to represent us and arrange entry into port to fix our broken gyro compass, and have had the much-needed independent marine radiation research we intended to do off the Fukushima coast severely limited by the authorities.
Toronto to Japan: Hope blossoms
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We at Toronto to Japan are thrilled to announce our big event – Hope Blossoms, a night of entertainment inspired by the grand tradition of the Japanese variety show. Canadian icons including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Jian Ghomeshi, Adrienne Clarkson, Bob Wiseman, Basia Bulat, Jim Cuddy and Oh Susanna will share the stage to bring Torontonians laughter, tears – and hope. Not only a fundraiser, this is a show of solidarity for the people of Japan.
Syndicalista TV reports on global protests from Libya to Toronto
Humberto DaSilva's Syndicalista TV reports on protests around the world: from Libya to Toronto, Canada. Including, protests against tuition hikes and privatization of education from London to Puerto Rico and the TTC workers losing the right to strike in Toronto...and more!