Download Episode The 2011 Place and Placelessness Virtual Graduate Conference featured a short film competition. EHTV is proud to present the three films submitted to the contest as a special series. The third film in this series is by Sinead Earley from Queen’s University and Patrick Earley from Langara College. […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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Episode 28 Winnipeg Beach: 22 February 2012 [audio: http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past28.mp3][34:28] In the late decades of the nineteenth century, urban North Americans sought refuge from congestion, noise, and pollution. As the environmental problems of industrial cities grew worse, city councils across the continent established urban parks while federal governments in both Canada […]
Last November, ahead of the House of Commons vote on the elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board purchasing monopsony, the federal Minister of Agriculture, Gerry Ritz, and his provincial cohorts from Alberta and Saskatchewan held a press conference to celebrate the achievement of the federal Conservative Party’s long-held policy objective. […]
For those of you not already familiar with Bill C-30, also known as the “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act” I highly recommend reading up on this legislation that is currently being debated in the House of Commons. In short, Bill C-30 would grant police the power to compel Internet […]
Public debate and media coverage of the Shafia family murder trial has obscured and misrepresented patriarchal violence against women in Canada. Following the guilty verdict last month, lead Crown prosecutor Gerard Laarhuis mistakenly proclaimed that, “[t]his verdict sends a very clear message about our Canadian values and the core principles […]
Download Episode The 2011 Place and Placelessness Virtual Graduate Conference featured a short film competition. EHTV is proud to present the three films submitted to the contest as a special series. The second film in this series is by Cristina Silaghi, a Ph.D. candidate in art history and theory at […]
Download Episode The 2011 Place and Placelessness Virtual Graduate Conference featured a short film competition. Â EHTV is proud to present the three films submitted to the contest as a special series. Â The first film comes from Amanda Hooykaas, PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the […]