Wojtek, Lynn, and me, Marc are with you again this week looking at some of the interesting stories we’ve covered.
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We start out with a story about an information campaign launched by a group called Mercy For Animals.
This group is concerned with the treatment of farm animals. They sent members out to commercial poultry operations where they secretly filmed activities allegedly in two major egg-producing operations in Alberta.
The campaign is to make people aware of what they say are miserable conditions for battery hens in operations where tens of thousands of chickens are stacked several to a small cage in long rows on top of each other in huge low sheds.
While the Egg Producers Association says the claims made by the group are aberrations-if true- we hear from Stephane Perrais, Director of Operation for Mercy for Animals.
Lynn brings us her story about growing privacy concerns in Canada, after one of the three big telecom giants in the country, Bell, announced it was collecting data on users, and would be selling it to commercial interests for “targetted” advertising.
This could involve how Bell customers use the web and mobile devices, what they watch on TV, when they make phone calls and even track where they are physically through GPS technology.
While subscribers can “opt out” of targetted adverts, the only other option is “unfiltered random adverts” and they will still collect your user data.
we hear from University of Ottawa e-specialist Michael Geist about the privacy concerns.
And Wojtek brings us the story of an interesting concept that began in a classroom at Concordia University ten years ago.
It’s called Cinema Politica, and every Monday night it screens films to a large crowd in Montreal, and as it celebrates it’s tenth anniversary, it now has more than 100 chapters around the world.
The idea is to show independent films and videos on political subjects by Canadian and international filmmakers.
These groups are more like film clubs as the filmmakers or parties involved are often present for discussions which follow the screening
Wojtek spoke with Ezra Winton, one of the two original founders of Cinema Politica.
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