Brent Holland Show: Recent Episodes
Brent Holland
The idea behind the show is to motivate and inspire university and college age students and listeners of all ages to excel in service to the global village...
What if we are on this side and suddenly we find ourselves or a loved incapacitated from brain injury. that is a what has been termed a vegetative state. That universal energy is still there. But has that person left us? What are the perimeters for knowing to let that person go or to continue to communicate as if nothing has happened. The situation is not cannot be defined as black or white, yes or no, positive nor negative. It is somewhere in between. We enter what our guest tonight neuroscientist Adrian Owen has titled his new book "Into The Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death"
"Physicians’ Untold Stories" Doctors' true stories of miracles, the afterlife, divine intervention, power of prayer Dr. Scott Kolbaba
National Geographic Documentary Film's: “Hell On Earth: The Fall of Syria and The Rise of ISIS”
Freedom of Speech under attack from the media to You Tube, Clintons, JFK new evidence, Benghazi, History Channel's "Hunting Hitler".
Tonight we are going to get to the bottom of what has been labeled "The You Tube Apocalypse" and what really happened and what is really going on. Eric Feinberg HIIT System Specialist, the man who allegedly took down You Tube
Roger Stone has been called "possibly the most dangerous man in politics" The Washington Post has called him Richard Nixon’s dirty trickster" He has been banned from CNN for a derogatory tweet and now Twitter has banned him as well. Others claim he is the "best dressed political insider".
High Noon: Hollywood Blacklist & an American Classic. Guest: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel.
It is my great pleasure to welcome The Amazing Kreskin to the show, but who's show is it lol!?.
Don Most. Don wears many hats as an artist among them his acting hat where is known for his role as Ralph Malph in the long running television series “Happy Days” working Ron Howard and Garry Marshall...
Rich Little on his true stories about Rich's new song he is writing for Willie Nelson (and he sings it as Willie), swearing in his US citizenship as John Wayne (complete with reenactment), doing Trump (build that wall and his hair), Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronald Reagan ("Rich you do me better than I do"), Rich does an impression of Ronald Reagan doing an impression of Truman Capote, Reagan's call to Rich while in the hospital during his recovery from the assassination attempt and Rich hung up on him thinking it was a bad impersonator, JFK tragedy, Rich's classic A Christmas Carol, playing Johnny Carson in the film "Night Shift", behind the scene stories, Dean Martin roasts, Ed Sullivan who introduced Rich as "Little Richard", a show in Ottawa with PM Pierre Trudeau and Frank Sinatra, more behind the scenes stories.
Director Rod Lurie joins the program to discuss his new film Killing Reagan. Killing Reagan charts the events that led to the attempted assassination of a president and its unexpected reverberations on history. Based on Best-Selling Book by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard and Produced by Scott Free Productions.
Tippi Hedren- Hollywood legend- "The Birds", Alfred Hitchcock's sexual advances, propositions and black mail harassment she endured; her love of working with Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Marlon Brando, Rod Taylor, haunted ghosts, the industry shaking movie about the making of The Birds exposing Hitchcock's sexual abuse of her in the 2012 film: "The Girl". On making her celebrated movie "Roar", on having a Barbie doll named after her, on fighting back and beating the odds, advising young women today when they find themselves in similar situations, a whole lot of inspiration, and more.
Dr. Laurie Berdahl and Dr. Brian Johnson join the program to discuss teen and young adult use of marijuana, and it's links to mental illness.
The Olympics in Munich 1972, Palestinian fanatical terrorists breach a security fence with the sole intent of carrying out a kidnapping plot of innocent Israeli athletes in order to make a splash on the global stage. This was their big chance for fame and if it meant cold blooded murder, well then so be it. They had already received the blessings of the grandfather of terrorism Yasser Arafat who told them "may god protect you". The current PLA today, president Mahmoud Abbas, thought it was a great idea and decided to finance the complete operation. The terrorist would end up murdering in cold blood eleven human beings whose only guilt in this story is that they were Jewish and wanted to represent at the global harmonious gathering of peoples we call the Olympics... Among those murdered was a 33 year old Wrestling Coach Moshe or Moses Weinberg. Our guest tonight is his son Guri Weinberg.
In May 2006, Lt. Col. Anthony Deane was given one simple order: "Take Back Ramadi... but don't make it another Fallujah." Lt Col Deane joins the program to discuss true stories of real heroism; friendship; and engaging the local populace of Ramadi to stand up for what's right
Jocko Marcellino (born 1950 Quincy, Massachusetts) is a singer, musician, songwriter, producer and actor best known as one of the founders of the American rock and roll group Sha Na Na. He performed with Sha Na Na at the original Woodstock Festival, in the movie Grease and in The Sha Na Na Show, their worldwide syndicated TV show.
Christine Weber VP, Development & Production, Specials, DISCOVERY CHANNEL Executive Producer & Senior Producer – NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Emmy Awards: Search for Battleship Bismarck; U-Boat: Terror on our Shores; Urban Elephant; Cine Golden Eagles: Search for Battleship Bismarck; Frozen Planet; Lost Kingdoms of the Maya; Who Betrayed Anne Frank; Berlin: A Tale of Two Cities Cable Ace Award: National Geographic EXPLORER Telly Award: Who Betrayed Anne Frank Houston Int’l Film Festival Awards: Search for Battleship Bismarck; Lost Cities of the Maya; NY Film Festival, World Medal: AFRICA American Film & Video Blue Ribbon: Search for Battleship Bismarck Entertainment Industries Council, S.E.T Award Description
Anna Porter book, Ghosts of Europe, chronicles the rise once again of intolerance and Anti-Semitism in Central Europe
As director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Jerusalem office, American-born Israeli historian Efraim Zuroff coordinates the center's worldwide effort to locate Nazi war criminals and bring them to justice
Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal, and a Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington
In 2006 Barbara Kay was criticized for a series of articles accusing Quebec politicians of supporting Hezbollah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
Established in 2003, Mukhtar Mai Women’s Organization (MMWO) is lead by Mukhtar Mai, internationally known for her struggle for the protection and promotion of women’s rights
Charles Evers. A no nonsense real life history lesson from someone who was there beside his brother Medgar, Bobby and Dr. King. What these men sacrificed to have an African American in the White House. Where the Black community has failed them and themselves because of rage and hate
Abraham Bolden was the 1st African American Secret Service Agent on White House detail, handpicked by President Kennedy himself. Bolden was not on duty that fateful day in Dallas and that haunts him to this day. He fully believes that had he only been there, that somehow, someway, he would have found away to keep the president alive, even if that meant taking that fatal bullet himself
A Governor General’s Award–winning author recounts the turbulent years during which a group of young Canadian painters went from obscurity to international renown
Tom Segev joins the program to discuss his biography of Simon Wiesenthal. This first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliant character study of a man whose life was part invention but wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten
Valerie Fortney book, Sunray, is the true story of Captain Nichola Goddard. "Sunray tells the story of a remarkable 21st-century soldier. It is an intriguing, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring look at the decision to serve, and at the costs."
Interviews with Canadian Governor General David Johnston and Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams
Six Million Crucifixions provides an overview of the historical background of key events in the history of antisemitism spanning the time between the death of Jesus up to the end of the Holocaust and beyond
Canadian and British airmen engaged in fierce and deadly battles in the skies over Europe during the Second World War. Those who survived often had to overcome incredible obstacles to do so -- dodging bullets and German troops, escaping from burning planes and enduring forced marches if they became prisoners. Amazing Airmen tells some of these stories
Romeo Dallaire was first confronted with child soldiers in unnamed villages on the tops of the thousand hills of Rwanda during the genocide of 1994. The dilemma of the adult soldier who faced them is beautifully expressed in his book's title: They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children. When children are shooting at you, they are soldiers, but as soon as they are wounded or killed they are children once again
Prime Minister Paul Martin joins the program. Among the topics discussed: The PMO; same sex marriage, Aboriginal rights, The Charter & Brownies
Shirin Ebadi, J.D., was awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote human rights, in particular, the rights of women, children, and political prisoners in Iran. She is the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and only the fifth Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in any field
Osheroff was selected to serve on the Space Shuttle Columbia investigation panel, serving much the same role as Richard Feynman did on the Space Shuttle Challenger panel.
Without Elliot Tiber, author of the true-story memoir Taking Woodstock, there would have been no Woodstock. Now that the acclaimed movie from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) is being shown all summer long on national cable channels, this is the perfect time for you to talk with the real-life Elliot Tiber about those amazing times back in 1969—and how, on the eve of the 41st anniversary of the Woodstock festival, things have changed (or not changed) since those times.
Chief Hazel Fox joins the program to discuss the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve.Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve (usually known as Wikwemikong or Wiky) is an Indian reserve in the north-eastern section of Manitoulin Island in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Wikwemikong is an unceded Indian reserve in Canada, which means that it has not "relinquished title to its land to the government by treaty or otherwise."
Trashed: How Political Garbage Made the United States Canada's Largest Dump. A botched billion-dollar contract, environmental terrorism, political cowardice ... This is the true story of how the Adams Mine landfill project, the most environmentally sound and cost-effective solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis, and a world class rail transportation opportunity was killed by political mismanagement by the City of Toronto and the Government of Ontario
Author Lawrence Hill joins the program to discuss his book The Book of Negros. Lawrence Hill is the son of American immigrants — a black father and a white mother who came to Canada the day after they married in 1953 in Washington, D.C. On his father's side, Hill's grandfather and great grandfather were university-educated, ordained ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother came from a Republican family in Oak Park, Illinois, graduated from Oberlin College and went on to become a civil rights activist in D.C....
Mark Lane represented the American Indian Movement at the historic Wounded Knee trial, which he won. Following the trial, the United States District Court judge who had tried the case said, "Mark Lane is the finest investigative lawyer in America."
Mark Lane is living history. Lane was present in Jonestown during the events of November 18, 1978, when more than 900 Peoples Temple members died in a murder-suicide by cyanide poisoning, and Congressman Leo Ryan and four others were murdered at a nearby airstrip
Dr. Francis S. Collins "The Leader of the Human Genome Project" joins the program to discuss his book The Language of Life.
For years Canada has lived in the shadow of the United States. No more. As the authors of The Canadian Century argue, while the United States was busy precipitating a global economic disaster, Canada was on a path that could lead it into an era of unprecedented prosperity. It won't be easy. We must be prepared to follow through on reforms enacted and complete the work already begun.
A forty-two-year-old Iranian mother, Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, has been convicted of adultery while being married and has been sentenced to death by stoning. As family members of Sakineh have reported, she was originally convicted of adultery in 2006 and received ninety-nine lashes as punishment. Then, recently, her case was reopened and the judge decided to sentence her to stoning.As a citizen of not only Canada but the world, I have signed the petition. These heinous and barbaric acts must end.
Our mission is to educate students and the public about the evolution of human rights, and to provide a process to draft an international framework for enforceable human rights that can be in place by the year 2048, the 100th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Welcome! The goal is to draft an international bill of rights that is enforceable in the courts of all countries. 2048 asks for input from people in all professions and all countries to draft this document
Lawrence M. Krauss boldly goes where Star Trek has gone-and beyond. From Newton to Hawking, from Einstein to Feynman, from Kirk to Picard, Krauss leads readers on a voyage to the world of physics as we now know it and as it might one day be
During the Great Famine of the 1840s, thousands of impoverished Irish immigrants, escaping from the potato crop failure, fled to Canada on what came to be known as “fever ships.” As the desperate arrivals landed at Quebec City or nearby Grosse Isle, families were often torn apart. Parents died of typhus and children were put up for adoption, while lucky survivors travelled on to other destinations. Many people made their way up the St. Lawrence to Montreal, where 6,000 more died in appalling conditions.Despite these terrible beginnings, a thriving Irish settlement called Griffintown was born and endured in Montreal for over a century
In 1996 Howard Galganov formed the Quebec Political Action Committee (QPAC) with which to take on Quebec’s Ethnocentric Nationalists who have made the UNRESTRICTED use of the English language ILLEGAL.QPAC drove the Quebec government to distraction, effectively ending any opportunity for Quebec to hold another referendum to secede from Canada. For Howard's troubles, his wife Anne endured countless death threats and were forced to live with armed bodyguards 24/7 for months at a time between 1996 and 1998
Ky-Mani Marley, is a Grammy nominated reggae-music artist, film actor and son to legendary reggae icon Bob Marley. Born in Falmouth, Jamaica in 1976, his road to the world stage was wrought with challenge and even poverty growing up on the streets of Miami, Florida. Estranged to his 10 other siblings and family fortune early in his life, Ky-Mani fatefully discovered his inherent musical talent and arose to record 4 critically acclaimed albums, including the mega-hit entitled "Dear Dad".
This afternoon a special edition of The Brent Holland Show. It's been one year since the Iranian Election uprising and those horrific images of Neda bleeding to death on the streets of Tehran shot from an Iranian sniper's bullet. Today, we bring you exclusive interviews from ordinary Iranian Canadians who have fled Iran and now find themselves with loved ones trapped inside the Iranian regime
In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed...
Harvey Cashore has been a senior producer for CBC’s flagship investigative program, the fifth estate for twenty years where has prepared news-breaking documentaries on government mismanagement, international fraud, and justice-related issues. His in-depth work on the Airbus scandal began in 1994, and he is considered the top expert on the story. Cashore is the recipient of numerous awards...
McGill Professor Irwin Cotler joins the program today. In 2003, Cotler was appointed the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. In 2010, Irwin Cotler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
Doug Clarke joins the program to discuss his book Thin Bruised Line. Lose respect and you lose the streets. That's the hard lesson American police learned as their cities burned in the 1960s. Today, Canadian police are scrambling to preserve public order from a new "perfect storm" looming over the horizon and under the political radar. Their vaunted thin blue line of front-line officers is greyed, frayed, and stretched to the breaking point...
An exhilarating, all-access rock memoir from someone who has seen and done it all, this telling recounts the many experiences of Sam Cutler, the former tour manager of the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead
John English joins the program to discuss the second volume in his biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. John English reveals how for Trudeau style was as important as substance, and how the controversial public figure intertwined with the charismatic private man and committed father. He traces Trudeau's deep friendships (with women especially, many of them talented artists, like Barbra Streisand) and bitter enmities; his marriage and family tragedy. He illuminates his strengths and weaknesses
A harrowing tale of survival and reconciliation by a Rwandan Tutsi who flees his homeland before the 1994 genocide and later returns to be elected speaker of the Rwandan parliament, only to be forced into exile once again. This memoir tells the story of Joseph Sebarenzi, whose parents, seven siblings, and countless other family members were among 800,000 Tutsi brutally murdered over the course of ninety days in 1994 by extremist Rwandan Hutu...
When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a UN peacekeeper in 1995, he had a premonition that this tour of duty would be different. He had been posted to Cyprus in the 1970s and 1980s, but the horrors of the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s were beyond imagining. Doucette takes us to the heart of the conflict...
Chris Wattie joins the program to discuss his book Contact Charlie. In the summer of 2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan''s Panjwayi region-a densely packed maze of villages, fields and vineyards west of Kandahar-surprised an unexpectedly large force of Taliban fighters. The soldiers of the Princess Patricia''s Canadian Light Infantry had stumbled into a hornet''s nest, the largest buildup of Taliban forces in the region since their regime had fallen in 2001. The Canadians found themselves up against opponents who were suicidally brave, cunning at planting mines and roadside bombs, and experienced at disappearing into the scenery whenever they chose. As their commanders threw more and more soldiers into what became a gruelling, drawn-out struggle, the troops of the battalion''s Charlie Company found themselves at the forefront of every firefight and ambush in what became a desperate, two-month pitched battle...
Swine flu. MRSA. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from algal blooms and flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacteria contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that can contaminate our air, land, and water supply
At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world''s most renowned scientists, brings us & inspiring news about the future of the animal kingdom. With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall-along with Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard-shares fascinating survival stories about the American Crocodile, the California Condor, the Black-Footed Ferret, and more; all formerly endangered species
David Finkel is a staff writer for The Washington Post, and is also the leader of the Post’s national reporting team. He won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen. Finkel lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two daughters.An eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War but of all wars, for all time
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet army.The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States. In September of 1980, Hosseini's family moved to San Jose, California...
The real life adventure of Tom Lipscomb to bring back Ché Guevara's diaries just after his murder in BoliviaEver wondered who and got a hold of Ché Guevara's diaries after Ché's murder in Bolivia October 1967 and how they found their way back to the States? Join us today for real living history and the real life adventure of our guest today, Tom Lipscomb, and how he coerced, bribed and schmoozed Bolivian Military officials to win them over and bring back Ché's diaries to the west
Theo Fleury, at 5'6" made a name for himself in a game played by giants. A star in junior hockey, he became an integral part of the Calgary Flames' Stanley Cup win in 1989. Fleury's talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off the ice, Wayne Gretzky believed in him. He became a key member of the gold medal-winning men's hockey team at the 2002 Olympics.The Colorado Avalanche picked up Fleury for the playoffs, and when he signed with the New York Rangers, he was a kid in a candy store. After one season of his next multi-million-dollar deal, this time with the Chicago Blackhawks, Fleury suddenly called it quits and wouldn't explain why.
Wade Davis is the bestselling author of several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow, Light at the Edge of the World, andd The Clouded Leopard. He is also an awardwinning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer, and his writing and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including thee Globe and Maill, Maclean'ss, Newsweekk, National Geographicc, thee Wall Street Journall, and thee Washington Postt. Davis divides his time between Washington, D.C. and northern British Columbia. Over the past decade, many of us have been alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating extinction of our planet's diverse flora and fauna. But how many of us know that our human cultural diversity is also going extinct at a shocking rate?
Andrea Mandel Campbell joins the program to discuss her book Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business from the Suds of Global Obscurity. Canada is a country notorious for its middle of the road, fence-sitting proclivities. It's time to take a stand and come up with a winning strategy for taking on the world. To do that, we’ll first need to ask ourselves some hard questions about what it means to be Canadian and what we want to achieve
Dr. David E. Guggenheim is a marine scientist, conservation policy specialist, submarine pilot and ocean explorer. He is president of 1planet1ocean, a project of The Ocean Foundation where he is a Senior Fellow and director of its Cuba Marine Research and Conservation Program. He is currently leading a major project to elevate collaboration in marine science and conservation among Cuba, Mexico and the U.S. to a new level and leading the first-ever comprehensive research and conservation program in Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico region, a joint effort with the University of Havana. Also known as the “Ocean Doctor” and host of the ExpeditionCasts podcast series, Dr. Guggenheim is currently engaged in a special “expedition” to all fifty U.S. states visiting schools and bringing special programs about ocean exploration and conservation to young students
The story of TV’s longest-running sitcom and the characters who created it, marking twenty years on the airThe Simpsons will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this fall. No other TV show has had the enduring popularity or cultural influence that The Simpsons has. When it premiered in 1989, the enthusiastic reaction to its subversive humor was instantaneous. It is one of the most astounding successes in TV history. John Ortved’s unauthorized history—the first ever to look behind the scenes of this pop culture phenomenon—tells how the series grew from a controversial cult favourite to a mainstream powerhouse thanks to a group of intense, thoughtful, and creative people who came together to make something unique in the history of American culture
Dr. David Suzuki tells us of his early childhood a part of his life many maybe unaware. A part of his life where his family was subjected to racism, oppression and blatant ethnic profiling. The families valuables sold off to pay for their forced internment in ethnic camps, no not in Japan or Germany, right here in British Columbia, Canada!Dr. David Suzuki is now a virtual international icon and has been voted one of the top ten Canadians of all time. Join us for an incredible story of fortitude and perseverance against entrenched bigoted racial Canadian government policy. There are many reasons Dr. Suzuki is admired on a global level; this is one of them
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is often the first to speak out on numerous issues that are germane to the world at large. The aim of the Campus Outreach division is to do this "in miniature" at colleges and universities by teaching about and confronting anti-semitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing with Israel, and celebrating diversity and tolerance. Our mission is to foster an awareness of contemporary human rights and ethic issues. We want to encourage participation in exploring Jewish spirit, culture and identity as human, personal and national character. We aim to educate about social justice, to learn to know who we are and what we stand for and how to navigate life fully and competently
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.”
Comedian and actor Alan Thicke joins the program to talk about his career and his work with the Alan Thicke Center for Juvenile Diabetes Research. Television audiences know Thicke best as psychiatrist and father Jason Seaver from ABC’s Growing Pains, now syndicated in over 65 countries. Last year’s Growing Pains: The Reunion was one of Disney’s highest-rated TV Movies. From 1980 to 1983, THE ALAN THICKE SHOW became (and remains) the biggest hit in the history of Canadian daytime television. The American late-night entry THICKE OF THE NIGHT followed. Alan is currently starring in CBC Television's monster comedy success J-POD. The Alan Thicke Centre for Juvenile Diabetes Research was established in 1989 at the Robarts Research Institute at the London Health Sciences Centre. The Centre was named for actor Alan Thicke because of his early connection to London while attending The University of Western Ontario, and his special interest in diabetes, as he had a son who developed diabetes as a child
Katie Callaway Hall joins the program today to share her frightening true story of survival at the hands of a monster. In 1976 Katie Callaway was kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido. Garrido was a sexual predator and every woman's darkest nightmare...
World Vision is on the ground right now in the Haitian city of Port-Au-Prince, helping families and children devastated by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Your donations are vital to the relief efforts and are needed today. Every dollar makes a difference and now if you give a donation to the Haiti Earthquake victims through World Vision, by February 12th, it will double in impact due to a generous contribution from the Canadian Government.
Ian Gill joins the program today to talk about his book All That We Say is Ours. The subtitle of the book: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation. Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is Canada’s Galapagos, a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty. It is also the ancient homeland of the Haida nation. In the 1970s, after decades of rapacious logging, the Haida joined forces with environmentalists in a high-profile struggle to save the islands. The battle found powerful expression through Giindajin Haawasti Guujaaw, the visionary artist, drummer and orator who would later become president of the Council of the Haida Nation.
A moving and often funny look at Native sexuality from some of Canada's best First Nations and Inuit writers. A sequel to the highly successful Me Funny, Me Sexy is an anthology containing thirteen contributions from leading members of North America's First Nations writing communities
Major Meagan McGrath was born in Toronto, in 1977, and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. She enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1995, and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 2000, with a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry). Upon completion of her Aerospace Engineering training, Major McGrath served for a short time as the Maintenance Support Officer at 19 Air Maintenance Squadron, CFB Comox. She was then posted to Ottawa in 2001, where she worked as an Imaging Radar System Engineer, a sub-project of the Aurora Incremental Modernization Project. On August 15, 2005 Major McGrath was posted to the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre Ottawa Detachment, the Air Force Experimentation Centre. Most recently, Maj McGrath has been working on the implementation of a Canadian Forces wide logistics tool.
Say the name Erin Brockovich and you think, strong, tough, stubborn and sexy. Erin is all that and definitely more. She is a modern-day "David" who loves a good brawl with today’s "Goliaths"
Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland-the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history.
Pulitzer Prize Nominee Tom Lipscomb joins the program to discuss his new play Last Man in Spandau. It is an epic and stunning play surrounding the mysterious flight and subsequent murder of Rudolf Hess- Hitler's number 2 man.
Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical expose of the World's largest energy project - the Alberta oil sands - that has made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders on earth. In Tar Sands, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands and argues forcefully for change.
Fans of Erin Merryn's heart-wrenching debut memoir Stolen Innocence were left wondering what would become of an emotionally fragile Erin after her confrontation with the reality of being a child of incest and molestation. In Living for Today, readers find that Erin cultivated the strength to face her abuser and eventually experienced relief from years of emotional restlessness, while also igniting the beginnings of a new fearless journey. Living for Today offers a roadmap for self-discovery, forgiveness, and empowerment to help readers rid the stigma they have attached to their trauma and live fully and fearlessly for today.
Marrie Wadden joins the program today to discuss her book Where the Pavement Ends. The Subtitle of the book is: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation. Marie Wadden began her journalism career in 1977 at CBC television in Newfoundland. The following year she took a boat trip along the Labrador coast for a holiday and saw the Innu community of Davis Inlet at the height of its addiction crisis. She's never lost sight of the needs of Aboriginal people since that time.
Marina Nemat joins the program to discuss her memoir Prisoner of Tehran. In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed. She survived only because one of the guards fell in love with her and threatened to harm her family if she refused to marry him. Soon after her forced conversion to Islam and marriage, her husband was assassinated by rival factions. Nemat was returned to prison but, ironically, it was her captor's family who eventually secured her release. An extraordinary tale of faith and survival, Prisoner of Tehran is a testament to the power of love in the face of evil and injustice.
Lydia Reich was just a young girl when she encountered Hitler’s “final solution”. In the interview she refers several times to a “wagon”, what she is referring to of course is a train box car. This isn’t a movie folks, this happened. For real.She grew up in the 1930s in Germany; she was ripped from the arms of her mother, virtually, and taken to a slave labour camp. Later, forced on a death march to Bergen-Belsen. It is winter as I write this in Canada. It is freezing outside. They only way to stay warm in the huts at night was for one girl to sleep on top of the other one night and the next night it would be the other’s turn. No blankets, no sanitation, no hope. How many of us would have the drive to live under those conditions. Lydia Reich told me during the interview the sole motivation for her staying alive was an inner voice that told her to survive in order to tell her story. Desperation: Surviving Hitler's Intention is that story.
In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. To the contrary, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to unwarranted Muslim terrorist aggression.Stark reviews the history of the seven major Crusades from 1095 to 1291, demonstrating that the Crusades were precipitated by Islamic provocations, centuries of bloody attempts to colonize the West, and sudden attacks on Christian pilgrims and holy places.
Anna Porters book, Katzner's Train, tells the true story of Rezso Kasztner. In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agreed to allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other maneuverings Kasztner may have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil." Prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Part political thriller, part love story and part legal drama, Porter's account explores the nature of Kasztner--the hero, the cool politician, the proud Zionist, the romantic lover, the man who believed that promises, even to diehard Nazis, had to be kept.
Major-General Lewis Mackenzie (ret’d) was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, and has served in trouble spots around the world.In 1992, he commanded the un Protection Force that opened Sarajevo airport to allow the arrival of humanitarian aid. He published the best-selling Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo after retiring from the Canadian Armed Forces in 1993; “A Soldier’s Peace,” a television documentary based on the book, won a New York Film Festival Award in 1996. His many honours include the Order of Canada and the United Nations Medal of Honour. Mackenzie is now a public affairs commentator on television and in the Globe and Mail and a sought-after lecturer on leadership and conflict resolution.
In the hundred days of genocide that ravaged Rwanda between April and July 1994, an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women and girls were raped. No one was spared. Grandmothers were raped in the presence of their grandchildren; young girls watched the massacre of their families before being taken as sex slaves. To a lesser extent, boys and men also fell victim to sexual violence.Fifteen years after the Rwandan genocide, The Men Who Killed Me features testimonials from seventeen survivors. Through their narratives and portraits, sixteen women and one man bear witness to the crimes committed against hundreds of thousands of others. In their strength and courage, they challenge the stigma of surviving sexual violence and living with HIV/AIDS (an astonishing 70 per cent of survivors are HIV positive).
Ray Wiss is a doctor on the front lines in Afghanistan. He joins the program to discuss his book FOB DOC