Articles tagged with: politics
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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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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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The editor of the Vancouver Observer, veteran journalist Linda Solomon talks to Joseph Planta about her website, journalism, civic engagement, blogs and blogging, and the unique media landscape in Vancouver.
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The political strategist Jonathan Ross discusses his new website CivicScene.ca, the surfeit of political websites and blogs covering municipal affairs in Vancouver, how the current mayor Gregor Robertson and his council are doing, the HST debate in British Columbia, and the Liberal Party of Canada under Michael Ignatieff.
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For Thanksgiving, and with a baby on the way, Vancouver comedian Patrick Maliha talks to Joseph Planta about various subjects, including Bronson Pinchot and the old Perfect Strangers sitcom, stand up comedy in Vancouver, radio, and more.
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‘One of Canada’s top five political minds,’ the conservative commentator Gerry Nicholls, former vice president of the National Citizen’s Coalition, talks to Joseph Planta about Stephen Harper, the Harper government, conservatism in Canada, and the Libertas Post, which Nicholls is editing.
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The economist and commentator Brian Lee Crowley, president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, discusses his new book Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values (Key Porter, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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John Ibbitson, the Washington columnist and correspondent for The Globe and Mail, discusses his new book, Open and Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama, and Canada Has Stephen Harper (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta, as well as Ed Greenspon’s departure as editor, and Barack Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor.
