NBA player Jeremy Lin made a couple of high profile public appearances before he heads back to the east coast later this week. The Brooklyn Nets guard oversaw a basketball skills competition, gave his testimony and responded to questions before…
Shad will take over as the new host of Q on CBC Radio next week (April 20). His arrival is a good news story, both for him and for CBC. He is already a successful musician, winning a Juno Award for best…
A couple of weeks ago, we covered Nanaimo City Council’s unfortunate decision to restrict human rights for certain groups in their city. The good news is that council has seen the error of its ways and rescinded its original motion.…
Janet Epp Buckingham, author of Fighting Over God: A Legal and Political History of Religious Freedom in Canada, was on CBC’s Sunday Edition in a special public forum to discuss the role of religion in Canadian civic discourse and public policy. Listen here. I was…
They’re the darlings of CBC Radio. Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk are still celebrating their recent (May 8) win over 4,500 other contestants in CBC Music’s Searchlight competition, and next month they’ll open for the likes of Tegan…
Stuart McLean hosts The Vinyl Cafe on CBC Radio. His latest book – Time Now For the Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange – features his favourite stories from a decade of his show. And one of those stories is by…
Today, CBC’s The Current replayed an interview between host Anna Maria Tremonti and Vancouver homeless advocate Judy Graves on the day of her retirement, May 29. The interview is moving and informative; you won’t regret spending 23 minutes listening to the…
Deans of several law schools across Canada have maintained that Trinity Western University’s faith-based community covenant asking students to commit themselves to certain behavioural standards is discriminatory, particularly toward LGBT people. Janet Epp Buckingham, a lawyer and director of Trinity’s…