Heather Reisman; president and CEO of Indigo/Chapters
shes rich, shes powerful, she supports literacy…
40% of Canadian adults are functionally illiterate! Thats crazy. She’s helping to bring this to the government’s attention. However, why we would need a bookstore owner to bring this to the government’s attention says a lot about our government.
The Hour did a fantastic [...]
Read all about it! The Hour misses the mark with Reisman
One Million Acts of Green
This is brilliant. Kudos to The Hour for stepping it up. As George and David Suzuki said in their conversation today, its not about being perfect its about taking steps toward being more green. So go for it, make a decision, register it on the site and prove that people can affect change.
Here is the [...]
Get to the Point- Make Poverty History Ad
George Stroumboulopoulos is one of many famous Canadian faces that can be seen in a new Make Poverty History ad pleading to the governement to reach their target and fulfill their promise to give .7% of our national income as foreign aid. This amount is necessary in order for the world to make any real progress towards [...]
Bill C-10 – McVety on The Hour
From the Wednesday March 26th, 2008 Episode
Charles McVety’s arguments in favour of Bill C-10 were mind blowing – and not in a good way. He seemed to have a script and was sticking to it no matter what, essentially spewing rhetoric and dancing around George’s questions and observations. Who determines what is ‘grossly obscene’ content? [...]
The Cost of Canadian Oil and a Canadian Rock Star
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The Cold Opener was a silly and cute one shot in the UK. George was the fox in a reformed version of the hunt. Beagles chased him. I love beagles. My first dog was half beagle. Cannot resist them. Afterwards there was some more humour on the Eliot Spitzer situation (a little insight [...]
Fighting for Food and One Day at a Time
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The Cold Opener had a bit of school lesson in it. They explained our country’s history of democracy (or version of it anyway). Amusing an educational. I like.
Author Raj Patel was on the show talking about his book Stuffed and Starved. He spoke about who has control of food distribution (mainly corporations and [...]
Home & Garden – Sorta
First up was Michael Pollan author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and his latest book In Defense of Food. I was eagerly anticipating this interview. I am a bit of a foodie – especially real food. Sure, I enjoy the processed stuff from time to time, but on a day-to-day basis I aim to lessen the [...]
Elizabeth May, Michael Buble and Radiohead
First, I have to say that todays show was awesome. George’s intro off the top of the show was hilarious, watch it online while its still up.
Elizabeth May
Great conversation. I thought it was interesting how she was expressing that she would pick Dion over Harper in an election, just reinforcing the “voting strategies” in this country that tend [...]
Peter Mansbridge and Douglas Coupland
The Mansbridge interview was compelling. They touched on many topics, and i would like to rant about some of them…well, sort of.
American primary election..etc.- who cares? I do. I am interested in how quickly the election topics go from being discussed with substance, to being overshadowed by savvy political tactics and fancy phrases. Like how Kerry got [...]
The all-knowing Alan Cross, Sofia Milos and The fuck death foundation
Alan Cross
When it comes to Alan Cross, I am bias. I grew up listening to him on the edge, i already knew everything they stated in the bio (and more)… when the edge started airing “the ongoing history of new music” reruns from 10-noon on sunday mornings, I stopped going to church. His influence on my musical [...]
