- Canadian Voices
"Canadian Voices" is a public affairs radio series produced by
CJLY-FM (Kootenay Cooperative Radio), a volunteer-runnon-profit community radio station in Nelson,British Columbia ,Canada .Through a series of one-hour audio programmes, "Canadian Voices" presents
radio ,internet , andmedia player listeners with the opportunity to hear talks by Canadian authors, academics, activists, artists, and thought-provoking citizens who explore ideas and events that characterize the political left in Canada. Topics range fromhuman rights ,climate change , and media analysis, tofood security ,art ,education andspirituality .Canadian Voices is coordinated by Zoë Creighton, with input and assistance from volunteers across the country. The series is distinct from much public and current affairs radio programming, as each featured speakers is a Canadian, the series is produced in Canada, by Canadians, and it focuses on topics that are of interest to Canadians. [http://www.canadianvoices.org/about.php About Canadian Voices]
In addition to traditional radio broadcast on campus and community radio stations across
Canada , "Canadian Voices" alsopodcasts . As of July 2008, the program is aired on more than 35 stations across Canada and one station in theUnited States . [ [http://www.canadianvoices.org/ordering.php Canadian Voices website ] ]The format of "Canadian Voices" was inspired by
Alternative Radio , an established role model of progressive audio programming produced in Boulder,Colorado .election of Featured Speakers
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Stephen Lewis "Human Rights, Social Justice and Cultures of Peace"
*Jane Jacobs "An Evening With Jane Jacobs"
*Irshad Manji "Confession of a Muslim Dissident: Why I Fight for Women, Jews, Gays…and Allah"
*Romeo Dallaire "Child Soldiers in Africa: New Angles on this Instrument of War"
*Maude Barlow " The Inconvenient Truth about the Commodification of Water"
*Joy Kogawa "Musings from a Writer's Life"
*David Suzuki "Biotechnology:The Future"
*John Ralston Saul "Democracy, Citizenship and Sovereignty"
*Wade Davis "Death and Life in the Ethnosphere"
*Taiaiake Alfred " Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom"
*Percy Schmeiser "Genetic Contamination and Its Effects on Family Farms"
*Sheila Watt-Cloutier "The Right to Be Cold: The Arctic Environment, Climate Change, and Human Rights"
*Michael Geist "Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble with Copyright"
*Mark Kingwell "Boredom, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Life"
*Tzeporah Berman "Who Will Repair It?"
*Paul Watson "Saving Our Oceans"
*Naomi Klein "Becoming Shock Resistant: Confronting the Rise of Disaster Capitalism"
*Linda McQuaig "Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire"References
External links
* [http://www.canadianvoices.org/index.php "Canadian Voices"]
* [http://www.kootenaycoopradio.com/ "Kootenay Coop Radio"]
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