Alert! Radio

• Episode 52 (February 23rd 2007)

  In this show writer, film maker and TV producer Don Marks takes us through Pukatawagan, also called Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, a community of 2,600 people located 825 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. Marks recently led a group of ten on a tour through this troubled reserve. This is followed by an interview with leading aboriginal issues author/activist, Peter Kulchyski who comments on the recent media blitz targetting the horrific conditions on northern reserves. Download this episode (13.4 MB)

• Episode 51 (February 16th 2007)

  This week we talk with noted Canadian author James Laxer about his recently released report on Afghanistan Mission of Folly; and we talk with Bill Jeffery, National Coordinator of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest about the just revised Canada Food Guide. Download this episode (13.8 MB)

• Episode 50 (February 9th 2007)

  This week ALERT interviews Anthony Fenton about the current situation in Haiti and Canada’s role in that country since the coup; Grand Chief of the Dehcho Herb Norwegian about his call for a moratorium on tar sands development; and Abraham Weizfield about the formation of the Alliance of Concerned Canadian Jews, an oppositional voice within the Jewish community. Download this episode (13.3 MB)

• Episode 49 (February 2nd 2007)

  Today on Alert! we talk with Winnipeg Free Press aboriginal affairs columnist Colleen Simard about CFS Manitoba’s continuing practice of seizing children from native families. We are also joined by Ian Boyco, campaign co-ordinator of the Canadian Federation of Students, who talks to us about the CFS February 7 Day of Action against post secondary tuition increases. And Suzuki Foundation Climate Change specialist Ian Bruce discusses wether or not Canadian politicians’ rush to green themselves will translate into Environmental Action. Download this episode (13.5 MB)

• Episode 48 (January 26th 2007)

  Our show today features an interview with Steve Staples, director of the Rideau Institute about Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor’s recent statement that Canada’s combat forces are in Afghanistan as a matter of retribution against the Taliban for their alleged responsibility for 9/11. We also interview sports economist Ian Hudson about Canwest’s David Asper’s proposal to construct a new football stadium in Winnipeg and to take ownership of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, which for 77 years has been a community-owned team. Download this episode (12.8 MB)

• Episode 47 (January 19th 2007)

  The theme of this week’s show is media concentration. We begin with an interview with Scott Edmonds, vice president of the Canadian Media Guild concerning the purchase of Atlantis Alliance by Canwest. We hear excerpts from a speech by celebrated broadcaster Bill Moyers at last weekend’s National Conference on Media Reform held in Memphis Tennessee. We end the show with an interview with Duff Conacher, co-director of Democracy Watch. Download this episode (12.6 MB)

• Episode 46 (January 12th 2007)

  This week on ALERT, we talk to Mathew Behrens about Guantanamo North located at Milhaven penitentiary in Kingston Ontario where five Muslim men have been detained without charge under Canada’s security certificate provisions. Behrens is coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada. We also talked with acclaimed US film maker and regular ALERT correspondent Saul Landau who recently acted as guide for author, actor, and US presidential candidate, Gore Vidal undertaking his first trip to Cuba. Landau has traveled to Cuba many times and has made documentary films with Fidel Castro, among several other films. Download this episode (13.5 MB)

• Episode 45 (January 5th 2007)

  In our first show of 2007, we ask members of the Canadian Dimension collective to talk about their hopes for the new year and what can be done to realize them. Interviewed on the show are Dennis Pilon, Saul Landau, Richard Harding, Henry Heller and Andrea Levy. In the show, we recommended that listeners watch this amazing video giving the historical relationship between Saddam Hussein and the USA. Download this episode (13 MB)

• Episode 44 (December 22nd 2006)

  Final episode 2006. Finale to the search for “The most dangerous song in the world.” Download this episode (13.2 MB)

• Episode 43 (December 15th 2006)

  We talk with Aiden Enns of Buy Nothing Christmas about their 2006 campaign and with James Petras about the passing of Augusto Pinochet who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 after assassinating Salvadore Allende and leading a military coup there. Download this episode (13.4 MB)
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