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by C. L. Cook
 Joining us for the hour today are: In-studio, long-time radio and
television broadcaster and producer, and newspaper publisher, Jack
Etkin, (Jack hosted the Real News here at CFUV for many years, produces
and hosts the weekly local television news show, Face to Face, and he is
the publisher of The Bridge, an independent, alternative newspaper).
And, Mehdi Najari, environmental and political justice activist and the
host and producer of The Hidden News, aired alternating Tuesdays here at
CFUV;
And, Janine Bandcroft, Victoria Street Newz
newspaper publisher, and producer and host of CFUV's Winds of Change
program.
And, via telephone from beautiful Salt Spring Island, environmental activist, Ingmar Lee.
We'll leave the usual format today to discuss for the hour the prospects and probabilities presented to Canada by the fall of the Harper minority and dissolution of the 40th Parliament of Canada. Exactly one week from today, Canadians will go to the polls to elect the next federal government. At least, some 59% of eligible voters will, if the last election is any measure.
Last time around, rather than allow a minority coalition, the Governor General gave in to the Harper conservatives, allowing an early proroguing of the House, granting the government time to organize for a 2008 poll.
The 2008 election that followed proved yet again, Canadians do not sufficiently trust any of the contending parties enough to grant any one of them a clear majority.
After three consecutive minority governments, it seems the same holds true in 2011, with another minority predicted. But, the world has changed since 2008, and things in Canada have changed too.
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and
providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate
media.
Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan,
Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Mark and Rhoda Berenson, Diana
Beresford-Kroeger, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai
Briemberg, James J. Brittain, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam
Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David
Cromwell, Ezili Danto, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Yves Engler, Reese
Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie
Fogal, Glen Ford, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Robert
Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly
Hill, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana
Johnstone, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Brewster Kneen, Betty
Krawczyk, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys,
Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Stephen Marshall, Linda
McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo,
Ken O'Keefe, David Orchard, Riki Ott, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael
Parenti, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt,
Justin Podur, Lila Rajiva, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig
Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, David Rovics, Danny
Schechter, David Schindler, Vandana Shiva, Tim Shorrock, Norman Solomon,
Jean Saint-Vil, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Harvey Wasserman, Paul
Watson, Bernard Weiner, Andy Worthington, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and
many others.
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