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06/11/09: Pt 3 - Nuture Shock

Fri, Nov 6 Listen
Po Bronson, the co-author of a new book offers some new thinking about raising children and why so many parental instincts may be wrong.

06/11/09: Pt 2 - Brighton Bombing & Forgiveness

Fri, Nov 6 Listen
Twenty-five years ago, IRA activist Patrick Magee planted a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. We bring together the man who planted the bomb and the daughter of one of the people it killed, to talk about memory, forgiveness and peace.

06/11/09: Pt 1 - Fort Hood Shooting

Fri, Nov 6 Listen
It was the deadliest act of violence committed on a US military base in American history. We get an update on the tragic shooting in Fort Hood, Texas.

05/11/09: Pt 3 - Letters

Thu, Nov 5 Listen
It's mail day. We hear your thoughts on citizen justice, long-term disability insurance and the future of the family farm ... just to name a few topics in our mailbag today.

05/11/09: Pt 2 - Afghan Star

Thu, Nov 5 Listen
We talk to the host of Afghan Star, a controversial reality television program in Afghanistan. The show united much of the country across political, ethnic and gender lines. But it was also attacked for being immoral and un-Islamic.

05/11/09: Pt 1 - Job Quality Erosion

Thu, Nov 5 Listen
Canada's job numbers are rebounding. But according to Benjamin Tal, a Senior Economist with CIBC, the quality of those jobs is still lagging and more Canadians are having to settle for part-time work, self-employment or jobs that don't pay as much.

11/04/09: Pt 3 - War in the Country (Part Two)

Wed, Nov 4 Listen
We continue our conversation with Thomas Pawlick, we visit with a new breed of family farmer and get a response from the organization that represents all Canadian farmers.

11/04/09: Pt 2 - War in the Country (Part One)

Wed, Nov 4 Listen
The war in the country is a polemic on the destruction of the traditional family farm in rural Canada. The few remaining family farms now struggle to survive in the face of corporate backed factory farms, mining interests and tourist developments. At stake is the quality and sustainability of our food.

11/04/09: Pt 1 - Gun Registry

Wed, Nov 4 Listen
We've spent two-billion-dollars on a gun registry. The very same registry the Tories will try to kill in a private members bill today. If we had another two-billion-dollars to spend to fight violent crime where would we put that money?

11/03/09: Pt 3: Bill Clinton

Tue, Nov 3 Listen
His was a presidency marked by triumph and brought low by scandal. Bill Clinton continues to demand our attention. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Taylor Branch takes us behind White House walls in his new book about the Clinton presidency.

11/03/09: Pt 2: Military Recruitment

Tue, Nov 3 Listen
Even as the US considers troop increases in Afghanistan, our own military has acknowledged it needs more recruits. But a coalition of teachers and students in Quebec is up in arms over Canadian Forces booths at education fairs in their schools. It wants them banned. The military says it is offering a legitimate and noble career choice.

11/03/09: Pt 1: Troops in Afghanistan

Tue, Nov 3 Listen
The Afghanistan election commission has cancelled this Saturday's vote and has now proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the winner, now the attention will shift to whether the Obama administration plans to increase it's troop presence in that country.

11/02/09: Pt 3: Nortel LTD Benefits

Mon, Nov 2 Listen
Nortel employees on long-term disability may lose their benefits because the plan was "self-insured" by the company ... a company that is now going through bankruptcy proceedings.

11/02/09: Pt 2: The Salish Sea

Mon, Nov 2 Listen
There could be a new name on the map for the body of water that runs between the mainland coast and Vancouver island. What is now Georgia Straight, The straight of Juan de Fuca and Puget sound could become The Salish sea. Some say the new name acknowledges the waters are one ecosystem and pays homage to the First nations who have lived in the area for thousands of years. Others say it ignores the history of settlement that brought western civilization to the region.

11/02/09: Pt 1: H1N1 - Stress

Mon, Nov 2 Listen
The lineups for the H1N1 flu vaccine, along with the concern, confusion and continuing misinformation about the virus, have created another health problem - huge levels of stress, especially among health care workers.

30/10/09: Pt 3 - Scientology

Fri, Oct 30 Listen
The Church of Scientology has had a very bad week. First, Canadian director Paul Hagis quit over the church's refusal to denounce an anti-gay marriage bill in California. Then a French court found some of the Church's French leaders guilty of fraud. We're asking how all this will affect the church.

30/10/09: Pt 2 - Cold Case: A Garden of Tears

Fri, Oct 30 Listen
We kick-start a new series of documentaries on Canadian cold cases. And we begin with the unsolved murder of 11-year-old Kathryn-Mary Herbert. Check out the website on this series at cbc.ca/coldcase.

30/10/09: Pt 1 - Aid in Ethiopia

Fri, Oct 30 Listen
It's been 25 years since the images of starving, emaciated Ethiopian children captured the world's attention and led to an out-pouring of food aid to the country. This fall, Ethiopia is once-again relying on food aid. And some activists say that food aid is actually hurting the country in the long-run.

29/10/09: Pt 3 - The Crash of 1929

Thu, Oct 29 Listen
Eighty years ago the American stock market collapsed, marking the start of The Great Depression. Now, as the world emerges from an economic downturn brought on by another market meltdown, we talk to one of the world's leading economists about what lessons we have - and should have - learned from both events.

29/10/09: Pt 2 - Letters

Thu, Oct 29 Listen
It's mail day. We get your thoughts on what you've been hearing on the program. And, we hear from the Ugandan MP behind the country's anti-homosexuality bill.

29/10/09: Pt 1 - H1N1 & Bacteria

Thu, Oct 29 Listen
Governments around the world are stocking up on vaccines to fight the H1N1 flu virus. But according to a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, we should also be stockpiling antibiotics and working on a plan to fight bacteria. The study says that the real killer during the 1918 flu pandemic was the bacteria, not the virus and that the combination of the two is connected to several of the most severe cases in the current outbreak.

28/10/09: Pt 3 - Hacking Work

Wed, Oct 28 Listen
Today in our ongoing series, Work in Progress, we infiltrate the cubicle farms and investigate the clandestine world of hacking.

28/10/09: Pt 2 - Citizen Arrest - Shopkeeper

Wed, Oct 28 Listen
We delve into the case of David Chen. He's a store-owner in Toronto. In May, he chased down a shoplifter, tied him up and called the police. The police charged the shoplifter. But they also charged David Chen with assault, kidnapping, forced confinement and carrying a concealed weapon-- a box-cutter. Some say the charges are inappropriate and unjust. But others say that allowing this kind of behaviour would open the door to uncontrollable vigilantism.

28/10/09: Pt 1 - Paul Pritchard

Wed, Oct 28 Listen
Paul Pritchard is the man who shot the video that eventually led to the Braidwood inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski. He has kept out of the public eye but now he has been given a citizen's journalism award by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. CBC's Curt Petrovitch talks about what shooting that video has done to him.

27/10/09 Pt 3 - Gays in Uganda

Tue, Oct 27 Listen
A proposed new law would require Ugandans to report gays and lesbians to police. The proposed law has left the LGBT community outraged but also afraid.

27/10/09 Pt 2 - Andrew Sorkin

Tue, Oct 27 Listen
Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin has written a behind-the-scenes account of the worst financial crisis in half-a-century. In his new book, "Too Big to Fail", he describes how decisions made more than ten years ago, sowed the seeds of the current debacle.

27/10/09 Pt 1 - Jagdish Grewal

Tue, Oct 27 Listen
The attack last Friday night on Jagdish Grewal was not the first time that a Canadian journalist, covering the Sikh comunity has been a target of violence. We speak with Mr Grewal and Rupinder Hayer Bains, the daughter of Tara Singh Hayer, who was shot dead in November 1998.

26/10/09: Pt 2 - Lasers & Planes

Mon, Oct 26 Listen
Pilots around the world say they're running into more and more cases in which people on the ground are shining powerful laser pointers right into their cockpits. We hear from pilots and a company that makes the lasers.

26/10/09: Pt 2 - H1N1 Vaccine Fears

Mon, Oct 26 Listen
Despite a sweeping public health campaign, there's still a lot of confusion and even fear about the safety of the H1N1 flu vaccine. We talk to an infectious disease specialist and a psychologist who are trying to set the record straight.

26/10/09: Pt 1 - General Hillier

Mon, Oct 26 Listen
A conversation with Retired General Rick Hillier, Canada's former Chief of Defence Staff, about his new memoir, the obstacles he faced trying to overcome years of funding cutbacks and bureaucratic infighting and Canada's on-going role in Afghanistan.

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