Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet army.The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States. In Sept...
Apr 14, 2010•30 min
The real life adventure of Tom Lipscomb to bring back Ché Guevara's diaries just after his murder in BoliviaEver wondered who and got a hold of Ché Guevara's diaries after Ché's murder in Bolivia October 1967 and how they found their way back to the States? Join us today for real living history and the real life adventure of our guest today, Tom Lipscomb, and how he coerced, bribed and schmoozed Bolivian Military officials to win them over and bring back Ché's diaries to the west
Apr 07, 2010•30 min
Theo Fleury, at 5'6" made a name for himself in a game played by giants. A star in junior hockey, he became an integral part of the Calgary Flames' Stanley Cup win in 1989. Fleury's talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off the ice, Wayne Gretzky believed in him. He became a key member of the gold medal-winning men's hockey team at the 2002 Olympics.The Colorado Avalanche picked up Fleury for the playoffs, and when he signed with the New Yor...
Apr 07, 2010•29 min
Wade Davis is the bestselling author of several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow, Light at the Edge of the World, andd The Clouded Leopard. He is also an awardwinning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer, and his writing and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including thee Globe and Maill, Maclean'ss, Newsweekk, National Geographicc, thee Wall Street Journall, and thee Washington Postt. Davis divides his time between Washington, D.C. and northe...
Mar 31, 2010•30 min
Andrea Mandel Campbell joins the program to discuss her book Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business from the Suds of Global Obscurity. Canada is a country notorious for its middle of the road, fence-sitting proclivities. It's time to take a stand and come up with a winning strategy for taking on the world. To do that, we’ll first need to ask ourselves some hard questions about what it means to be Canadian and what we want to achieve
Mar 24, 2010•30 min
Dr. David E. Guggenheim is a marine scientist, conservation policy specialist, submarine pilot and ocean explorer. He is president of 1planet1ocean, a project of The Ocean Foundation where he is a Senior Fellow and director of its Cuba Marine Research and Conservation Program. He is currently leading a major project to elevate collaboration in marine science and conservation among Cuba, Mexico and the U.S. to a new level and leading the first-ever comprehensive research and conservation program ...
Mar 24, 2010•30 min
The story of TV’s longest-running sitcom and the characters who created it, marking twenty years on the airThe Simpsons will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this fall. No other TV show has had the enduring popularity or cultural influence that The Simpsons has. When it premiered in 1989, the enthusiastic reaction to its subversive humor was instantaneous. It is one of the most astounding successes in TV history. John Ortved’s unauthorized history—the first ever to look behind the scenes of t...
Mar 17, 2010•30 min
Dr. David Suzuki tells us of his early childhood a part of his life many maybe unaware. A part of his life where his family was subjected to racism, oppression and blatant ethnic profiling. The families valuables sold off to pay for their forced internment in ethnic camps, no not in Japan or Germany, right here in British Columbia, Canada!Dr. David Suzuki is now a virtual international icon and has been voted one of the top ten Canadians of all time. Join us for an incredible story of fortitude ...
Mar 17, 2010•30 min
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is often the first to speak out on numerous issues that are germane to the world at large. The aim of the Campus Outreach division is to do this "in miniature" at colleges and universities by teaching about and confronting anti-semitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing with Israel, and celebrating diversity and tolerance. Our mission is to foster an awareness of contemporary human rights and ethic issues. We want to encourage participa...
Mar 10, 2010•32 min
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.”
Mar 10, 2010•30 min
Comedian and actor Alan Thicke joins the program to talk about his career and his work with the Alan Thicke Center for Juvenile Diabetes Research. Television audiences know Thicke best as psychiatrist and father Jason Seaver from ABC’s Growing Pains, now syndicated in over 65 countries. Last year’s Growing Pains: The Reunion was one of Disney’s highest-rated TV Movies. From 1980 to 1983, THE ALAN THICKE SHOW became (and remains) the biggest hit in the history of Canadian daytime television. The ...
Mar 03, 2010•29 min
Katie Callaway Hall joins the program today to share her frightening true story of survival at the hands of a monster. In 1976 Katie Callaway was kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido. Garrido was a sexual predator and every woman's darkest nightmare...
Mar 03, 2010•30 min
World Vision is on the ground right now in the Haitian city of Port-Au-Prince, helping families and children devastated by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Your donations are vital to the relief efforts and are needed today. Every dollar makes a difference and now if you give a donation to the Haiti Earthquake victims through World Vision, by February 12th, it will double in impact due to a generous contribution from the Canadian Government.
Feb 24, 2010•30 min
Ian Gill joins the program today to talk about his book All That We Say is Ours. The subtitle of the book: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation. Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is Canada’s Galapagos, a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty. It is also the ancient homeland of the Haida nation. In the 1970s, after decades of rapacious logging, the Haida joined forces with environmentalists in a high-profile struggle to save the islands. The battle fou...
Feb 24, 2010•30 min
A moving and often funny look at Native sexuality from some of Canada's best First Nations and Inuit writers. A sequel to the highly successful Me Funny, Me Sexy is an anthology containing thirteen contributions from leading members of North America's First Nations writing communities
Feb 24, 2010•30 min
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham Part 01
Feb 10, 2010•30 min
Major Meagan McGrath was born in Toronto, in 1977, and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. She enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1995, and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 2000, with a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry). Upon completion of her Aerospace Engineering training, Major McGrath served for a short time as the Maintenance Support Officer at 19 Air Maintenance Squadron, CFB Comox. She was then posted to Ottawa in 2001, where she worked as an Imaging Radar System Engineer, a s...
Feb 10, 2010•30 min
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham Part 02
Feb 10, 2010•29 min
Say the name Erin Brockovich and you think, strong, tough, stubborn and sexy. Erin is all that and definitely more. She is a modern-day "David" who loves a good brawl with today’s "Goliaths"
Feb 07, 2010•30 min
Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest To Bring Nazi Criminals To Justice Part 01
Feb 03, 2010•30 min
Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest To Bring Nazi Criminals To Justice Part 02
Feb 03, 2010•29 min
Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland-the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history.
Jan 27, 2010•59 min
Little Rock Nine Part 01
Jan 27, 2010•30 min
Little Rock Nine Part 02
Jan 27, 2010•31 min
Pulitzer Prize Nominee Tom Lipscomb joins the program to discuss his new play Last Man in Spandau. It is an epic and stunning play surrounding the mysterious flight and subsequent murder of Rudolf Hess- Hitler's number 2 man.
Jan 13, 2010•1 hr
Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical expose of the World's largest energy project - the Alberta oil sands - that has made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders on earth. In Tar Sands, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands and argues forcefully for change.
Jan 06, 2010•1 hr
Fans of Erin Merryn's heart-wrenching debut memoir Stolen Innocence were left wondering what would become of an emotionally fragile Erin after her confrontation with the reality of being a child of incest and molestation. In Living for Today, readers find that Erin cultivated the strength to face her abuser and eventually experienced relief from years of emotional restlessness, while also igniting the beginnings of a new fearless journey. Living for Today offers a roadmap for self-discovery, for...
Dec 30, 2009•1 hr 1 min
Marrie Wadden joins the program today to discuss her book Where the Pavement Ends. The Subtitle of the book is: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation. Marie Wadden began her journalism career in 1977 at CBC television in Newfoundland. The following year she took a boat trip along the Labrador coast for a holiday and saw the Innu community of Davis Inlet at the height of its addiction crisis. She's never lost sight of the needs of Aboriginal people since tha...
Dec 23, 2009•1 hr 2 min
Marina Nemat joins the program to discuss her memoir Prisoner of Tehran. In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed. She survived only because one of the guards fell in love with her and threatened to harm her ...
Dec 16, 2009•1 hr
Lydia Reich was just a young girl when she encountered Hitler’s “final solution”. In the interview she refers several times to a “wagon”, what she is referring to of course is a train box car. This isn’t a movie folks, this happened. For real.She grew up in the 1930s in Germany; she was ripped from the arms of her mother, virtually, and taken to a slave labour camp. Later, forced on a death march to Bergen-Belsen. It is winter as I write this in Canada. It is freezing outside. They only way to s...
Dec 09, 2009•1 hr 1 min
