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[19 Dec 2018]

The author D’Arcy Jenish discusses his recent book The Making of the October Crisis: Canada’s Long Nightmare of Terrorism at the Hands of the FLQ (Doubleday, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

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[6 Dec 2018]

The acclaimed filmmaker and author Astra Taylor discusses her new documentary film What is Democracy? (NFB, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

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[4 Dec 2018]

The historian and author Francis Mansbridge discusses his new book Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver (Harbour Publishing, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

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[3 Dec 2018]

The pollster, president of Research Co. and commentator Mario Canseco discusses his work, polling, the proportional representation referendum, the recent municipal elections, American midterm elections, and other current political affairs, with Joseph Planta.

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[28 Nov 2018]

The history professor at St Thomas University, Michael Dawson, discusses the book he co-edited (with Catherine Gidney and Donald Wright), Symbols of Canada (Between the Lines, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

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[21 Nov 2018]

The history of two Vancouver waterfront communities on the fringe, Surrey’s Bridgeview and the North Shore’s Maplewood Mudflats are recounted in the new book by Jean Walton, Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver (New Star Books, 2018), which she discusses with Joseph Planta.

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[15 Nov 2018]

The former MP and MLA Ian Waddell, Q.C. discusses his life and career in and out of politics, and his new memoir Take the Torch (Nightwood Editions, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

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[10 Nov 2018]

The Artistic Producer of the Firehall Arts Centre Donna Spencer discusses her adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, that runs 10 November and runs to 01 December 2018, The Enemy, with Joseph Planta.

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[6 Nov 2018]

The director of programming at DOXA, the Documentary Film Festival Selina Crammond discusses this week’s inaugural Vancouver Podcast Festival (08, 09, 10 November 2018), with Joseph Planta.

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[31 Oct 2018]

P.W. Singer, a strategist at New America and consultant discusses LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), a book he co-wrote with Emerson T. Brooking, with Joseph Planta.