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Asia Pacific Currents

18 workers die in a fire in the Philippines

May 26, 2012
| Labour news from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Noel Colina, executive director of the Filipino OHS group IOHSAD, about a shopping centre fire that killed 18 workers in Mindanao, Philippines.

31:01 minutes (14.2 MB)
Street Cred

A conversation with the Conversationalist

May 25, 2012
| A conversation with globe-trotting conversationalist, Daniel Baylis, about his year-long travel experience.

22:11 minutes (30.54 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse

Azawad: Can this breakaway African state work?

May 24, 2012
| A Tuareg group declared the independence of northern Mali in April. Africafiles explores the implications and future of an independent Azawad.

19:50 minutes (18.17 MB)
Migrant Matters

Escalating migrant and refugee repression in Canada - Panel

May 24, 2012
| The wide impact that migration and Canada has on low-income racialized people from the Global South who are going to work and/or seeking refuge here.

63:26 minutes (145.19 MB)
The F Word

Redefining beauty by putting health first

May 23, 2012
| Lindsay Kite of Beauty Redefined speaks with The F Word about misleading women's fitness advertising, body-shaming, and whether being fit is entirely about how you look.

25:17 minutes (23.14 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents

Repression of Bersei protests in Malaysia

May 19, 2012
| Labour news from the Asia-Pacific region, followed by an interview about the recent Bersei demonstrations for clean and free elections in Malaysia, with Arul from the Socialist Party of Malaysia.

30:06 minutes (13.78 MB)
Street Cred

#CityTalk: Downtown Projects

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

21:56 minutes (30.19 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Refugee and Immigrant rights groups demand Bill C-31 be scrapped

May 17, 2012
| Members of No One is Illegal Toronto and Occupy Toronto protested outside Conservative MP Joe Oliver’s office on Wednesday morning, demanding that the Conservatives cancel Bill C-31.

16:07 minutes (14.76 MB)
Redeye

Movie: Big Boys Gone Bananas!

May 14, 2012
| Big Boys Gone Bananas! documents the campaign Dole waged against Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten to try to prevent him from showing his film Bananas! from being distributed in the United States.

13:55 minutes (12.75 MB)
Redeye

Mayday: A Graphic History of Protest

May 14, 2012
| Mayday: A Graphic History of Protest is a new comic produced by the Graphic History collective. It traces the history of Mayday from its beginning in the late 1800s to its expression in Canada today.

15:06 minutes (13.84 MB)
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