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Turkey was in the world news earlier this week and now continues to be, but for two related but different reasons.
It began with a poorly organized coup attempt, but one which nevertheless caused the deaths of dozens of people.
Since then what has taken over as news is the reaction of the country’s leader. Recip Erdogan has arrested vast numbers of people closed schools, dismissed judges and more.
Carmel Kilkenny spoke to Sibel Kose, a Turkish-Canadian activist raising awareness of abuses of power under the Erdogan regime and who has just returned to Canada.
It’s billed as the “greatest outdoor show on Earth” and annually attracts around a million visitors from around the world.
The Calgary Stampede in the prairie province of Alberta is an international ten-day festival celebrating western culture and rodeo.
But it has also long been criticized for its treatment of animals, some of which have been killed over the years in such events as the chuckwagon race.
This year there were no animal deaths and Terry Haig spoke to Anna Pippus, and director of the group Animal Justice.
CANADIAN SONG- pseudo band created as the alter ego of Mike Ford and Murray Foster; album The Greatest Hits of the Cocksure Boys 1963-1968 (2010) song- You’re a Cocksure Lad.
Throughout history, the Arctic Sea at the top of the world has been completely covered by ice, and completely inaccessible to ships.
With global warming, that’s changing.
In summer now, vast areas are ice free, and Arctic nations are concerned that commercial fishing ships might start operating there.
The concern is that so very little is known about what species are there, their populations, what sustainable fishing levels might be, and so on.
The five-arctic nations, including Canada agreed to a moratorium and began talks this month with five other fishing nations towards developing international regulations.
But would a deal be binding, or non-binding on those nations. What is a non-binding deal worth, and if a binding agreement, then could it be monitored of enforced?
Marc Montgomery talked to Alex Speers-Roesch, the Arctic campaigner with Greenpeace Canada.
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