Out Front (Documentary)

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  • Outfront is radio stories about real life. It's all about your ideas, your experiences, your perspectives, your story. It's fifteen minutes of storytelling, experimental audio and new ways of making radio. Stories told from Canadian perspectives about the Canadian experience. You won't hear traditional storytelling, and you won't hear reporters or hosts. Outfront explores new ways of presenting stories which break the radio mold. At Outfront story means character, scenes, and action. It means insight, or even an epiphany or two. It means a movie without pictures, where your microphone is your camera. And, finally, it means taking us into your life, or the life of someone you know, as you live it today in this country.
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The Best of Outfront: Week of September 3, 2008

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Noises Off: Lakes and Loons - Waves and water, lakes and loons. What do these sounds evoke? Delight and wonder? Rest and relaxation? Fear and frustration? A family tragedy? Everyone has a story.

The Best of Outfront: Week of August 27, 2008

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Re:Thinking Pink - Pink ribbon fundraisers and and pink ribbon merchandise are everywhere. Tonight, breast cancer survivor Roseanne Cohen asks us to reconsider the colour and the campaign.

The Best of Outfront: Week of August 20, 2008

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Take Care of Your Pennies: Shirley Camia is obsessed with money. Not making it. In fact, she earns quite well. Shirley’s problem is that she can’t save any of it. Meanwhile, Shirley’s parents have worked at low-paying jobs their entire lives. Even so, they’ve never had any trouble paying the bills and socking money away in the bank. Shirley decides it’s time to get some financial advice from mom and dad.

The Best of Outfront: Week of August 13, 2008

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Today, the final episode of Outfront's series: "Return from Kandahar: One Soldier's War" Army engineer Mike McTeague went to Afghanistan hoping to "help the people". He came back in a wheelchair, with multiple leg wounds.

The Best of Outfront: Week of August 6, 2008

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Today, the second of Outfront's special series: "Return from Kandahar: One Soldier's War". Jody Mitic went to Afghanistan as an elite soldier, a professional sniper. All went well until, on a routine patrol, he stepped on a land mine.

The Best of Outfront: Week of July 30, 2008

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Today, the first of Outfront's series: "Return from Kandahar: One Soldier's War". Ryan Pagnacco took his regimental bagpipes to Afghanistan. Now he plays them in memory of fellow soldiers who were killed there.

The Best of Outfront: Week of July 23, 2008

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Don't Walk By: Some years ago Sheila Murray and Paul Hogarth worked at the same TV production house in Toronto. But when Sheila bumped into Paul on the street recently she discovered he was not well and was in danger of being evicted from his apartment. What happened next was an eye opener for both of them.

The Best of Outfront: Week of July 16, 2008

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Pictures Lost and Found: Outside a photolab Daya Lye found two huge yellow plastic bags thrown out in the garbage containing hundreds of envelopes of unclaimed photographs. She took them home and began phoning the people who's names were on the envelopes. If only someone could find some of her own treasured family photos.

The Best of Outfront: Week of July 9, 2008

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Runaway Clowns: Have you ever wanted to run away and join the circus? Meet a family that did. Dad is a stage manager, Mom is a clown and their young girls are growing up backstage and sometimes onstage. Elia Kirby explores the pit falls and prat falls of theatre life and wonders whether it is the best life for his daughters.

The Best of Outfront: Week of July 2, 2008

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Poetry of the Woods: Until they went on a hike in the woods, many of Julie Berry's grade six students in St. Thomas, Ontario, had never seen tadpoles or toads --nor had they written poetry about flowers, rickety bridges, "vicious frogs," and "birds that fly up to heaven".

The Best of Outfront: Week of June 25, 2008

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Soccer Girl: When Rahma Mohammed's mother brought her and her sister to Toronto from Kenya, it was to the promise of a better life. But does a 'good life' for a Muslim girl include 'Soccer Mania'??? Her mother doesn't think so.

The Best of Outfront: Week of June 18, 2008

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The Wienie Queen: With a university degree in her pocket and an acting career behind her, Marianne Moroney wasn't sure what she was getting into when she applied for a Street Vending Licence in Toronto. Serving hotdogs to the passing crowds outside Mount Sinai Hospital may involve hard work and long hours but many rewards are found in the richness of the community at street level.

The Best of Outfront: Week of June 11, 2008

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My Locs: Tamika Royes believes many black women feel pressure to chemically straighten their hair. She wanted a more natural hairstyle and decided to loc her hair. As Tamika prepares for her graduation pictures, she explains why her locs are much more than just a hairstyle.

The Best of Outfront: Week of June 4, 2008

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Tes Jolis Yeux (Your Beautiful Eyes): After graduating from University, Servane Phillips decided to move home to live with her mother and her youngest sister Monique - who has severe autism. Servane became Monique’s full time caregiver. But now, as she moves on to begin her own life, she worries about Monique’s place in it.

The Best of Outfront: Week of May 28, 2008

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Re:Thinking Pink - Pink ribbon fundraisers and and pink ribbon merchandise are everywhere. Tonight, breast cancer survivor Roseanne Cohen asks us to reconsider the colour and the campaign.

The Best of Outfront: Week of May 21, 2008

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Requiem For A Boxer: Three years ago Tristan Whiston stopped boxing, and never returned to the gym. He's never taken the time to say goodbye to the sport, and to the gym that was his second home for many years. This is his farewell. This piece was commissioned in collaboration with Deep Wireless, a festival of radio art taking place this month in Toronto.

The Best of Outfront: Week of May 14, 2008

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My Advice: East Royalty, P.E.I. is the most unlikely of training grounds to become a sex columnist. Amanda Jardine explains how it happened. This story was produced by Peter Anawati.

The Best of Outfront: Week of May 7, 2008

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The Teenage: A window into the world of a Francophone teenagers who attend CEGEP Regionale de Lanaudiere a L'Assomption, a junior college in L'Assomption, Quebec. In Big Brother, Gabriel Taillon wants to help his younger sister navigate her teenaged years -- much to her dismay. This piece was produced by Lindsay Michael.

The Best of Outfront: Week of April 30, 2008

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One Step, And Then Another: Ever since piKe krpan left her home in Alberta as a teenager, her mom Helen has written her special letters. Like a secret code, piKe always finds newspaper clippings about local bear attacks and sightings folded inside. After hiking in the Rockies with her mom for years, piKe finally begins to understand what the clippings might mean about long-distance mothering. This piece was produced by Lindsay Michael.

The Best of Outfront: Week of April 23, 2008

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The March of The Living: Orly Cohen is the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors. Rafi Mustafa is a Muslim from India. They are both journalism students in Toronto who decided to attend the March of the Living and visit the Holocaust sites in Poland. This piece was produced by Laurence Stevenson.

The Best of Outfront: Week of April 16, 2008

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The Dimming of The Day: After being together for 65 years, Michael Bundon and his wife Marie are being separated by the rigors of old age. When Danielle Dubois travels home to Saskatoon, her first task is to check in on her grandparents. This piece was produced by Laurence Stevenson.

The Best of Outfront: Week of April 9, 2008

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Silence of The Lambs - Things to Do: Check the mail, Feed the dogs...Help the sheep give birth. Iain Reid is house sitting by himself for a week at his parents hobby farm. But he may not be alone for long. It's lambing season and all of the ewes are due to give birth. Is Iain ready to be a farmer and a midwife? This piece was produced by Kent Hoffman.

The Best of Outfront: Week of April 2, 2008

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Quirky Q.W.E.R.T.Y.: A computer and a typewriter may share the same keyboard layout but for David Forbes of Medicine Hat a computer is silent and has no soul. Not so his beloved, noisy, temperamental Underwood 1934 which he bought as a boy of thirteen. This piece was produced by Steve Wadhams.

The Best of Outfront: Week of March 26, 2008

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Conspiracy of Two: Haig Balian was planning an April wedding in Texas when his fianc had second thoughts. They decided to cancel the wedding. What went wrong? Can Haig and Bethany save their 5 year relationship? This piece was produced by Lindsay Michael.

The Best of Outfront: Week of March 19, 2008

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My Mother's Birthday: Family birthdays are usually straightforward. You buy a present, you sing, you eat some cake. But for Jean Yoon it's complicated. She's Korean and her parents follow the lunar calendar which means their birthdays move around every year. And as far as the accuracy of their birth dates, well, because of superstitions around the Year of the Horse...a horse isn't always a horse. This piece was produced by Kent Hoffman.

The Best of Outfront: Week of March 12, 2006

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Yellow Rubber Boots: In 1967, Marie Beath Badian's mother came from the Philippines to work as a nurse in a small town in Saskatchewan. 40 years later Marie Beath takes her mother on a return trip to Prince Albert and Arborfield, Saskatchewan to get a sense of her mother's beginnings in Canada. In the process she gains a greater understanding of the sacrifices her mother made to help those around her.

The Best of Outfront: Week of March 5, 2008

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Travels With My Brother: Jordan Tannahill and his brother hit the road in search of their family history and stories of their great-grandmother, ‘The Oldest Woman in the Ottawa Valley’, who lived to the age of 107. This piece was produced by Laurence Stevenson.

The Best of Outfront: Week of February 27, 2008

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Today, the final episode of Outfront's series: "Return from Kandahar: One Soldier's War" Army engineer Mike McTeague went to Afghanistan hoping to "help the people". He came back in a wheelchair, with multiple leg wounds. This piece was produced by Dan Kerslake and Steve Wadhams.

The Best of Outfront: Week of February 20, 2008

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Today, the second of Outfront's special series: "Return from Kandahar: One Soldier's War". Jody Mitic went to Afghanistan as an elite soldier, a professional sniper. All went well until, on a routine patrol, he stepped on a land mine. This piece was produced by Dan Kerslake and Steve Wadhams.

The Best of Outfront: Week of February 13, 2008

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Today, the first of Outfront's special series: "Return from Kandahar: One Soldier's War". Ryan Pagnacco took his regimental bagpipes to Afghanistan. Now he plays them in memory of fellow soldiers who were killed there. This piece was produced by Dan Kerslake and Steve Wadhams.

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