Documentary

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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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