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[24 Feb 2010]

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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[23 Feb 2010]

Jeremy Rifkin, an adviser to a number of heads of state and the European Union, discusses his new book The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (Tarcher, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

The Commentary »

[29 Dec 2009]

A few weeks ago, Sean Holman, the talented and prodigious editor of Public Eye Online was on the program to discuss the year that was and the year to come in provincial politics. We got to talking movies, when I’d asked him if he’d seen State of Play, the fine American film based on the British miniseries of the same name. This got me thinking about what films had the best depictions of politics, media, journalism and the writing process. I came up with a few, and limited myself to twenty which seemed a workable number. Twenty favourites, as it were.

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[14 Dec 2009]

The Vancouver Courier columnist Mark Hasiuk discusses his work in the paper, livability in Vancouver, the Olympics, prostitution and human trafficking, and the sort of mail he gets from his readers, with Joseph Planta.

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[11 Dec 2009]

Public Eye Online’s Sean Holman talks BC politics and favourite movies with Joseph Planta; they look back at the recent session in the Legislature, insight on covering Victoria, the recent NDP convention, and what to expect in 2010, what with the Olympics and all.

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[11 Dec 2009]

Vancouver politics is discussed with CityCaucus.com co-editor Michael Klassen and Joseph Planta; they discuss the first anniversary party at City Caucus, the budget hearings at City Hall, the recent provincial NDP convention, the forthcoming Olympics, and more.

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[10 Dec 2009]

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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[3 Dec 2009]

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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[2 Dec 2009]

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.

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[27 Nov 2009]

The Olympic Gold medalist Ross Rebagliati discusses his new book, Off the Chain: An Insider’s History of Snowboarding (Greystone, 2009), with Joseph Planta; also discussed is the drug controversy that at first cost him his gold medal in 1998 and its subsequent reinstatement, as well as his recent foray into federal politics as he will be running as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla.