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[24 Jan 2005]

The writer-director-actor Don McKellar spoke with The Commentary’s Joseph Planta about his new film, Childstar, which opens nationwide on Friday, January 28, 2005. McKellar also stars in the film along with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Rendall, Brendan Fehr, Kristin Adams, Dave Foley, Peter Paige, Gil Bellows, and Alan Thicke.

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[20 Jan 2005]

Gregor Robertson, the BC NDP candidate in Vancouver-Fairview for the upcoming provincial election, talks to Joseph Planta about why he’s entered the political arena, after years of success running Happy Planet Foods.

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[1 Dec 2004]

Kate Colley Lo of Tourism Vancouver discussed Dine Out 2005, the successful dining experience featuring many of Vancouver’s finest restaurants, as well as all things tourism in Vancouver this December with Joseph Planta.

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[1 Dec 2004]

Former MP Deborah Grey talked with Joseph Planta about her politics and her career in it, which is the subject of her new memoir, Never Retreat, Never Explain, Never Apologize: My Life, My Politics (Key Porter, 2004).

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[22 Nov 2004]

Legendary author and journalist, not to mention the fascinating, Peter C. Newman talked with Joseph Planta about his new memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power (McClelland and Stewart, $42.99 CDN).

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[18 Nov 2004]

The Hon. Sheila Copps, en route to give a speech in Kitchener, talked with Joseph Planta about her new book, Worth Fighting For (McClelland and Stewart, 2004), as well as the ouster of Carolyn Parrish from the Liberal caucus, and the current Prime Minister, Paul Martin.

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[17 Nov 2004]

Otto Langer, Director of the Marine Conservation Program at the David Suzuki Foundation is a former Department of Fisheries and Oceans biologist and a contributor to a new book, A Stain Upon the Sea (Harbour, 2004), a strident and robust case against salmon farming. He talked with Joseph Planta about the book, and gave an informative overview of the industry and its perils.

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[11 Nov 2004]

Bill Millerd, famed director and Artistic Managing Director of the Arts Club Theatre Company talked with Joseph Planta about their latest production at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver, Funny Girl.

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[10 Nov 2004]

Federal New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, and the MP for Toronto-Danforth talked with Joseph Planta about being a Member of Parliament, the NDP’s role in Canada’s minority government, as well as why he’s opposed to the “weaponisation of space.”

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[2 Nov 2004]

THECOMMENTARY’s Marlon Richmond came on the line LIVE with Joseph Planta, providing play-by-play Tuesday night, recapping the election and telling it like it is live . . .