May 11, 2012
Alert! Radio #214: Special May Day episode
On this episode, Clayton Thomas Muller on Indigenous resistance, Mae Burrows' quest for a living wage in B.C. and Noam Chomsky calls for more comprehensive activist goals.
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Apr 30, 2012 Alert! Radio # 213: Historical events in three provincesOn this edition of Alert! Radio: Why Wildrose lost, Quebec student strike still going strong and B.C. mayors against Harper on the Kinder Morgan pipeline. |
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Apr 21, 2012 Alert! Radio # 212: NAHO cuts, the Alberta election, free transit in HalifaxThis week on Alert! Radio: The roots of Wildrose. Harper terminates NAHO as part of his agenda to silence all dissent. Free public transit -- an idea whose time has come? |
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Apr 14, 2012 Alert! Radio # 211: Whither Syria? Budget adversely impacting women?Today's interviews on Alert! Radio focus on foreign intervention in Syria and the federal budget's impact on women. |
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Apr 9, 2012 Alert! Radio # 210: Federal budget impacts and de-growthWhat the federal budget tells us about Harper’s plans to reshape Canada. Why a special issue on de-growth in Canadian Dimension? |
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Apr 3, 2012 Alert! Radio #209: Murdered mining activist, Mulcair's victory and Quebec student strikeOn 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. |
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Mar 25, 2012 Alert! Radio #208: Tom Mulcair and the NDP, Greenpeace on the tar sandsThe 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! |
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Mar 15, 2012 Alert! #207: Occupy the System: Confronting Global Capitalism -- the 2012 Left ForumThis 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. |
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Mar 13, 2012 Alert! Radio #206: Israel Apartheid Week and International Women's Day 2012Tracking 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. |
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Mar 6, 2012 Alert! #205: Iran's nuclear threat is a mythThis 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. |
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Feb 28, 2012 Alert! Radio #204: Harper's online spying bill, the Drummond report and ChinaOpenMedia.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. |
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Feb 16, 2012 Alert! Radio #203: Who will make the best leader of the NDP? Some surprising answers from six left activists.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. |
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Feb 10, 2012 Alert! Radio #202: Canada's surveillance society and the campaign against unionsMicheal 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. |
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Feb 7, 2012 Alert! Radio #201: An Alert Special: What's Harper up to?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). |
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Feb 7, 2012 Alert! Radio #200: The global debt crisis, Rob Ford's cuts, and civic amalgamationSam 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. |
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Jan 23, 2012 Alert! #199: Northern Gateway pipeline hearings, EMD lockout and Iran's war prospectsIn this episode of Alert! Radio: Ben West on the Northern Gateway pipeline, Doug Nesbitt on the Electro-Motive Diesel lockout in London, Ont., and Alex Kane on Iran's war prospects. |
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Jan 12, 2012  ALERT! Radio #198: Expectations for 2012 from Judy Rebick, Clayton Thomas Muller, Matthew Brett, Saul Landau, Sam BahourExpectations for 2012: Judy Rebick on Canadian politics; Clayton Thomas Muller on Indian Country; Matthew Brett on the Occupation Movement; Saul Landau on US politics; Sam Bahour on the Middle East. |
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Dec 1, 2011 Alert! Radio #197Stephen Maher on Egyptian politics, Gerald Caplan on Iranian nukes, Peter Kulchyski on First Nations accountability legislation |
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Nov 24, 2011 Alert! Radio #196Alert! Radio #196 |
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Nov 17, 2011 Alert! Radio #195: Occupy movement, Keystone XL pipeline and most censored stories of 2011Organizer Matthew Brett addresses the current state of the Occupy movement, Gordon Laxer on the consequences of delaying the Keystone pipeline and Lesley Hughes on the most censored stories of 2011. |
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Nov 10, 2011 Alert! Radio #193: Quebec's construction industry and the Saskatchewan electionIn this episode: the consequences of alleged ties between the Mafia's involvement in Quebec's construction industry and provincial political parties, and Saskatchewan's provincial election. |
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Oct 20, 2011 Alert! Radio #191 from Canadian DimensionAlert! Radio #191 |
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Oct 13, 2011 Alert! Radio #190 from Canadian DimensionEpisode no. 190 from Alert! Radio, released October 13, 2011. |
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Oct 5, 2011 Alert! Radio #189 from Canadian Dimension magazine.Alert! Radio #189 from Canadian Dimension magazine. |