Articles tagged with: Canada
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Stephen Hunt, the author (The White Guy) and journalist (Calgary Herald) talks about the Winter Olympic Games, movies, the Oscars, Alberta politics and Danielle Smith, and more, with Joseph Planta.
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The journalist and media critic, Professor Joe Cutbirth from UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism, joins Joseph Planta to discuss Stephen Colbert’s recent tapings in Vancouver, satire on television, and observations on the Winter Olympic Games.
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The writers and marketers Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo discuss their new book Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook (No Starch Press, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they also discuss the world of social media and how people and business can use it, their writing, their blogs, and more.
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Judi Tyabji returns to talk techonology, social networking, politics, Michael Ignatieff’s leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, dreaming of Stephen Harper, the HST, Christmas in Powell River, and more, with Joseph Planta.
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The Governor General’s Prize winning author William Gilkerson discusses his new book A Thousand Years of Pirates (Tundra Books, 2009), with Joseph Planta; as well as talking about pirates past and present (online and on the seas currently), they talk about Donald Sutherland, who is adapting one of the books for an animated series.
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Rafe Mair, author and environmentalist, former cabinet minister and broadcaster, returns to the program to talk issues political and environmental with Joseph Planta; also discussed are the Tiger Woods situation, and more.
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Anjan Chaklader talks to the author Wayne Norton about his new book Women On Ice: The Early Years of Women’s Hockey in Western Canada (Ronsdale Press, 2009).
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The historian and bestselling author John English discusses his second of two volumes on Pierre Trudeau, Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 (Knopf, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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UBC librarian emeritus Joseph Jones talks to Joseph Planta about the translation he’s just published of Hubert Aquin’s Les sables mouvants / Shifting Sands (Ronsdale Press, 2009); they also discuss Aquin’s life, his place in Quebec culture, and more.
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The Beaver magazine’s editor Mark Reid, has edited a collection, 100 Photos That Changed Canada (HarperCollins, 2009), and discusses it with Joseph Planta, and some of those notable moments in Canadian history so depicted.
