Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Radio for people who want to change the world!Weekly Canadian news and current affairs presenting diverse voices and topics missing from mainstream media. Feature Interviews, news from theback-burner to the front, upcoming events across the country, and Mitch Podoluk's Music is the Weapon spotlighting politically active artists. Alert! Radio is a production of Canadian Dimension magazine.
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Alert! Radio #214: Special May Day episode

May 11, 2012
| On this episode, Clayton Thomas Muller on Indigenous resistance, Mae Burrows' quest for a living wage in B.C. and Noam Chomsky calls for more comprehensive activist goals.
Length: 59:59
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Alert! Radio # 213: Historical events in three provinces

April 30, 2012
| On this edition of Alert! Radio: Why Wildrose lost, Quebec student strike still going strong and B.C. mayors against Harper on the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
Length: 59:27
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Alert! Radio # 212: NAHO cuts, the Alberta election, free transit in Halifax

April 21, 2012
| This week on Alert! Radio: The roots of Wildrose. Harper terminates NAHO as part of his agenda to silence all dissent. Free public transit -- an idea whose time has come?
Length: 59:40
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Alert! Radio # 211: Whither Syria? Budget adversely impacting women?

April 14, 2012
| Today's interviews on Alert! Radio focus on foreign intervention in Syria and the federal budget's impact on women.
Length: 1:00:02
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Alert! Radio # 210: Federal budget impacts and de-growth

April 9, 2012
| What the federal budget tells us about Harper’s plans to reshape Canada. Why a special issue on de-growth in Canadian Dimension?
Length: 58:44
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Alert! Radio #209: Murdered mining activist, Mulcair's victory and Quebec student strike

April 3, 2012
| On Alert! Radio #209: another community leader murdered for protesting against a Canadian mining company, the historic Quebec students' strike and why Mulcair's victory is a setback.
Length: 58:05
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Alert! Radio #208: Tom Mulcair and the NDP, Greenpeace on the tar sands

March 25, 2012
| The NDP under a Mulcair leadership. How different would it be? The tar sands not so bad as coal and natural gas? Greenpeace begs to differ!
Length: 1:00:15
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Alert! #207: Occupy the System: Confronting Global Capitalism -- the 2012 Left Forum

March 15, 2012
| This episode of Alert! gives a taste of the Left Forum, a unique conference that convenes a broad spectrum of progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public.
Length: 53:23
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Alert! Radio #206: Israel Apartheid Week and International Women's Day 2012

March 13, 2012
| Tracking Israel Apartheid Week in Montreal, Halifax, Toronto, and Winnipeg, and Tess Tesalona describes a unique International Women's Day program sponsored by Women of Diverse Origins in Montreal.
Length: 56:32
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Alert! #205: Iran's nuclear threat is a myth

March 6, 2012
| This week, Alert! interviews Sara Flounders and Yves Engler, two of the presenters at a University of Toronto forum on the Geopolitics of Sanctions and War Against Iran.
Length: 59:19