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Archive of July, 2009
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tim
July 30, 2009
You may have noticed that we’re rapidly approaching the 100th episode of the CitizenShift podcast. It’s an exciting accomplishment for us: we’ve seen the podcast series change and evolve over the years – take pauses and restart. Of course, it would never have been possible without the support of you, our listeners. Or without the amazing content we’ve had submitted by dozens of contributors, whether activists, journalists or engaged citizens. A special thankks also to Matthew Forsythe and Dave Ron, past podcast coordinators here at CS.
To highlight the amazing content we’ve featured so far, we want to put together a ‘best of’ of the CitizenShift podcast, but for that we need your help. We want you to let us know your favorite, or favourites, from the CS podcast episode so far.
To kick things off, below we’ve listed 20 of our favourites. You don’t need to pick from that list – you can nominate any episode, or episodes, you’d like. We’ll post the top 10, with links, here on the blog when the 100th episode goes up.Voting starts now - either email us at citizen@nfb.ca or leave a message below - and goes until midnight, Wednesday Aug. 12th.
Here’s the list - happy voting!
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Category : New episode
Tags: contest, top 100
Written by
tim
July 30, 2009
Just a quick note, Episode 98 is now online. In Taking Toronto’s Streets, Dan Kellar interviews participants and organisers in Spring 2009’s protests by the Canadian Tamil community while the bloody civil war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam and the Sri Lankan government raged on.
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Tags: Human Rights, protests, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, Toronto
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tim
July 21, 2009
Episode 97 is up! Amy Miller brings us Canada’s National (In)Security 2009, an incisive round-up of ongoing controversies surrounding Canadian national security practices.
It was four years ago, in 2005, that CITIZENShift first began to explore the balance between national security measures and the protection of civil liberties, human rights and due process. At the time the debate around Canada national security measures had hit a fever pitch; it was in that context that we launched Measuring Security Measures.
MSM was a nation-wide tour aimed at digging deeper into gorwing concerns about government action following Sept. 11, 2001, and the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.While much has changed since then, a lot has remained the same, and we’re excited to bring Amy’s update to the CS podcast.
You can listen here, and of course, if you enjoy the piece, make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode!
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Category : New episode
Tags: civil liberties, Human Rights, measuring security measures, national security, war on terror
