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The novelist William Deverell talks about his latest novel, featuring Arthur Beauchamp, Q.C., Snow Job (McClelland and Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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The author and journalist Jane Christmas discusses her new memoir, Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy (Greystone, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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The broadcaster and actor David Berner discusses drug addiction treatment and his founding of the X-Kalay Foundation some forty years ago, which still exists helping people battling addictions in Winnipeg, with Joseph Planta.
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Michael Byers, UBC professor of global politics and international law and bestselling author (Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For?) discusses his new book Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009), with Joseph Planta; other than the politics and issues of Arctic sovereignty, they also discuss whether Byers will run federally again.
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Last week, Joseph Planta talked to CBC Radio host Eleanor Wachtel about interviewing and more. The host of Writers and Company, Wachtel hosts what is considered Canada’s foremost literary program. Podcasts of Writers and Company can be downloaded at here
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2007 National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Colin Angus and Julie Angus talk to Joseph Planta about their new book, Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria by Oar (Doubleday, 2009), which chronicles their boat, bike and foot travels to the homelands of their parents.
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Mark Garvey, the author of Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style (Touchstone, 2009), discusses the style guide, its history, its authors William Strunk Jr., and E.B. White, and who it’s influenced over fifty years now, with Joseph Planta.
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Food columnist at the Calgary Herald’s Swerve magazine, artist, and graduate from the French Culinary Institute, Pierre Lamielle talks food and his new book, Kitchen Scraps: A Humorous Illustrated Cookbook (Whitecap, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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The poet and writer Brian Brett discusses his new memoir Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone, 2009) with Joseph Planta.
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Dianne Whelan, an adventurer, filmmaker and author discusses her 2,000 kilometre journey in the Arctic, with Joseph Planta; she discusses what it’s like travelling with Canadian rangers charged with patrolling the Arctic, climate change, Arctic sovereignty, as well as her new book, This Vanishing Land: A Woman’s Journey to the Canadian Arctic (Caitlin Press, 2009), and her new film, This Land, which screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
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The award-winning Public Eye Online journalist Sean Holman, joins Joseph Planta from Victoria, to discuss investigative journalism, the HST, Jessica McDonald, and more.
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The director of communications for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former Newsweek correspondent Michael Meyer discusses his new book, The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Scribner, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they talk about the events in eastern Europe twenty years ago in Hungary and throughout the communist bloc that led to the fall of the Wall, Romania and the Ceausescu’s, and the lessons we can apply to today.
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Hal Wake, the artistic director of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival talks to Joseph Planta about the 22nd annual edition, what to expect the week of the 18th to 25th of October 2009, the writers who’ll be appearing, as well he discusses his former career in broadcasting and more.
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Political pundit (www.strategicthoughts.com) and former NDP advisor, David Schreck returns to the program to discuss, with Joseph Planta, BC politics, the HST, the leadership of Carole James and Gordon Campbell, and whether there’ll be a federal election.
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The co-editor of CityCaucus.com, Michael Klassen, returns to the program to talk to Joseph Planta about the future of Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association as the NPA meets for its annual general meeting today, as well he discusses the websites and blogs covering municipal and urban affairs in this area, as well as the eHealth controversy.
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