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This week: To celebrate our 100th episode, we present a retrospective on the most interesting moments of The Green Majority featuring many of our regular contributors, including: Incoming News Director Chris Berube Former Science Correspondent Sapna Sharma Theological Correspondent Simon Watson Green Life Correspondent Peter Stock Arts Correspondent Letitia Henville Political Correspondent Danny Leskiw Environmental Pundit Kevin Farmer The headlines in brief: Canada unilaterally extended [...]
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  Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:10:41 +0200
This week: Chris Severson-Baker, Policy Director for the Pembina Institute, speaks with Political correspondent Danny Leskiw about why his group decided to pull out of a tar sands regulatory process in Alberta. Lynn Harrison, an environmentally-minded Toronto musician and longtime contributor to the Take 5 morning show, shares recent compilations from her album Simplicity and discusses her [...]
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This week: We build on last week’s topic of wildlife conservation with Linda Stephenson, Atlantic VP of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, who discusses strategies her group is using to protect key widlife habitat from development. Political correspondent Danny Leskiw speaks with NDP leader Jack Layton about his party’s environmental platform and position on the Genuine Progress [...]
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This week: Conservation specialist Nigel Douglas speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about a planned highway expansion in Banff National Park and the competing priorities that are bringing wildlife preservation and economic development into conflict. Following up on last week’s episode about problems with municipal sewer overflow into rivers waterways, Riversides spokesperson JP Warren speaks with Jordan about [...]
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  Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:00:40 +0200
This week: Frank Zechner, Executive Director of the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association, speaks to host Jordan Poppenk about how the City of Ottawa’s sewer system came to spill into the Ottawa River for 15 consecutive days. Political correspondent Danny Leskiw speaks with Ontario Natural Resource Minister Donna Cansfield about the future of wind power in [...]
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  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:51 +0200
This week: MP Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale) speaks with political corespondent Danny Leskiw about the Liberal Green Shift Carbon Tax Proposal. Engineering correspondent Nicholas Wood interviews Professor David Keith, Director of the ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group at the University of Calgary, who speaks about the frightening last-resort measures scientists are cooking up “just in case” [...]
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In this show we feature excerpts from the first of a series of Toronto School of Theology’s Ecumenical Seminars on Religion and Public Policy. The panel, entitled “Ecology, Environment and Religion,” was held October 18, 2007, in Massey College’s Upper Library at the University of Toronto. The excerpts focus on panellists Dr. Christina Vanin, author [...]
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  Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:52 +0200
We dedicate this week’s program to a keynote lecture by Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada. May previously served as the Director of the Sierra Club of Canada and has been praised by many for her pragmatic approach to environmental change, straying beyond party lines when doing so promises what she believes [...]
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  Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:28:55 +0200
Students at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick will soon be able to tune into TGM. Sackville’s campus and community radio station, CHMA 106.9FM, will broadcast the program on Wednesdays at 3PM, AST. . CHMA is a community station in Sackville, N.B. with a radiated power of 50 watts. CHMA has been broadcasting as far back [...]
This week: We feature the 2008 Hart House Stages Panel held at the University of Toronto on the music industry and its environmental practices, hopefully titled, “Can music save the environment?” The panel was organized by Mitchell Wong, Julia Lo and Brett Winestock. This coming together of minds on music and environmental issues involved a unique [...]
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