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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Social media and the election, the NDP surge in Quebec and the UN Conference on Climate Change

By Mitch Podolak Michael Welch Ashley Titterton
| April 29, 2011

Podcast




Artist: Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension
Title: Alert! Radio #183 - April 28th, 2011
Year: 2011
Genre: Current Affairs
Length: 0:59:00
Format: 22.05kHz, 64Kbps

Show Notes:

Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias reflects on how the social media has transformed public discourse and its likely impact on the federal election.  Quebec commentator Pierre Beaudet discusses the NDP surge in Quebec and the future of the Bloc Quebecois and the Liberal Party.  South African academic Patrick Bond talks about the upcoming UN Conference on Climate Change in Durban and some of the events being planned by oppositional forces.

Music is the Weapon playlist:
  1. Hazel Dickens, Fire in the Hole
  2. Hazel Dickens, Coal Tattoo
  3. Hazel Dickens, Coal Miner's Grave
  4. Hazel Dickens, Aragon Mill
Tags:
Climate Change music NDP social media Bloc Quebecois Durban II Conference Federal election 2011 ndp quebec UN Conference on Climate Change

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